Appreciating our impermanent treasures
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm:...
Dedicated time for special needs kids at playground needed
Castlelyons Community Council has appealed to Cork County Council to permit kids with special needs to access the playground in the village at a...
The presidential campaign: Ireland’s most vicious and bitter form of politics
One week into the hustings, the going is already rough and about to get a lot rougher, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
Sayre’s Law, as quoted...
Short tempered exchanges in Dail over Lynch Camp questions
There have been short tempered exchanges between the Minister for responsibility for defence and a Cork TD over the future of Kilworth’s Lynch Camp.
The...
“That’s not scaremongering, that’s telling the truth.” – Cllr Tobin
When Cllr James Tobin first raised a question about the proposed wind farm in Knockanore at a Dungarvan/Lismore District Council meeting a number of...
Request for Skateboard Park in Mitchelstown
A request for Cork County Council to build a Skateboard Park in Mitchelstown has been backed by members of the Fermoy Municipal District.
In a...
Vincent Browne sparks lively political debate in Mitchelstown
The circus was in town on Monday night, as Vincent Browne rolled his People’s Debate into the Firgrove Hotel in Mitchelstown for the Cork...
What politician cares for our past, let alone our future?
It’s that time in the five-year cycle when local and European candidates suddenly remember the electorate. In Fermoy, voters should ask politicians how they...
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...
‘Sherlock’ proves that how we get to Art is not the...
‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important,’ said Holmes. Sometimes, writes Donal O'Keeffe, the...
