Four more years of Donald Trump? The weird sh*t is only...
Donald Trump will probably go down in history not just as only the third US president to be impeached, but also as the first...
Exposing the living legacy of Ireland’s shame-industrial complex
Caelainn Hogan’s extraordinary debut book, Republic of Shame, gives a voice to the survivors of Ireland’s interconnected web of Magdalene Laundries, mother and baby...
2020 vision
Only a fool would attempt to predict the future. Hear me out, says Donal O’Keeffe.
Well thank God that’s over.
Horace Rumpole once said of Christmas:...
Bridget: “We need to find the Bessborough Babies, and we need...
Bridget Walsh’s baby William was born in the Bessborough mother and baby home, in 1960. He died at six weeks, and Bridget nearly died...
“This is going to be my first Christmas on the streets”
‘Paul’ is a homeless man who spoke last week with Donal O’Keeffe about heroin addiction and Christmas on the streets of Cork.
“This is going...
We’re paying Dara Murphy €2,810 a week, Leo. His EU foxer...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calling Dara Murphy’s European nixxer his 'main job' betrays a breath-taking contempt for the people who pay their wages, says Donal O’Keeffe.
So....
The wren women on the edge of every garrison town
The Wrens of the Curragh are only the best-known example of outcast women on the outskirts of Irish garrison towns, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
For over...
Boris Johnson simply cannot be trusted on Brexit
Rambling, incoherent, and disingenuous, Boris Johnson’s North of Ireland Brexit speech is proof – not that proof is needed - that he is completely...
How often does Ireland blame Europe for our own vanity projects?
The EU has already agreed that a simple repair of Fermoy Weir would satisfy Ireland’s obligations under the EU Habitats Directive. Everything else is...
Former TDs fail to return IT equipment to Oireachtas
A former Labour senator who earlier this year was found guilty of assaulting three gardai following his arrest outside the Indiependence Music Festival in...
