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Laundering the Magdalene Past

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“They took my hair, they took my human rights, they took my clothes, they took my name, but they never took my spirit” -...

Lavinia Kerwick – still changing Ireland for the better

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Last month Taoiseach Micheál Martin committed to addressing a spate of sexual assaults against homeless people on the streets of Cork. The woman who secured that commitment,...

The Boy in the Stinging Rebuke from Auschwitz

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“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe. Boy did John Boyne get his...

The very least we can do for survivors like Sheila is...

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Sheila was 19 when she was imprisoned in 1976 for the crime of 'falling pregnant'. She was enslaved and subjected to appalling cruelty, and...

Listen to Bob Dylan’s Granny: Everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting...

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This world can be a cruel and lonesome place sometimes, writes Donal O’Keeffe. Maybe there are worse things we might try than kindness now...

The ordinary extraordinary women who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal

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Bridget Dolan was 26 years old when she entered the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. It was 1946, and Bridget was pregnant, alone, and...

Tinder accused got a fair trial. If only the same could...

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by Donal O’Keeffe “You stitch-up scumbag!” roared the acquitted man at the prosecuting Garda. “You stitch-up bastard! I’ll get you again, you stitch-up c***”!” At the...

Honest to God, Leo, have you never seen Philomena?

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I kept wondering last week if I was the only person in Ireland who had seen Stephen Frears’ 2013 Oscar-nominated comedy-drama  'Philomena', writes Donal...

The wren women on the edge of every garrison town

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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...

The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion

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The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion. That might seem a strange thing to say in the only country in the democratic world...

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