‘I won’t survive another winter on the street’ – Kathleen O’Sullivan...
“I won’t survive another winter on the streets,” Kathleen O’Sullivan told me, as she lay in the doorway in which she would die a...
“Friendship is not about skin colour, or clothes, or religion. It...
Donal O’Keeffe travelled to Longford to meet Aaram and Meryam, a Muslim couple subjected recently to anti-immigrant abuse, who are delighted that so many...
Trying to nail smoke to a wall: George Soros and conspiracy...
Fool that I am, I got into an argument with some Nazis recently.
It was in the wake of a cancelled right-wing rally in Cork,...
What does a United Ireland even look like?
Imagine the Union Flag flying proudly again atop buildings in Ireland, north and south, below the new flag of a United Ireland, a United...
Just what the abortion debate needs: another middle-aged man dictating women’s...
I'm a middle-aged man, writes Donal O'Keeffe. I'm not even sure I have any right to talk about women's reproductive rights.
I'm so old I...
The Eighth Amendment is a minefield planted during a war long...
The Eighth Amendment was never really about abortion, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
That might seem a very odd thing to say, in the only country in...
With Ireland’s shameful past, symbolism cannot beat the power of testimony
There is much symbolism to the way the Magdalene dead have been mistreated in Cork’s Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry (also an orphanage and industrial...
Tell the truth and shame the Devil, Sisters. Where are the...
By Donal O’Keeffe
Carmel Cantwell posted a beautiful photo last week. Wild barley and clover decorate the foreground, and in the middle of an overgrown...
The Catholic Church thinks in centuries. There’s a reason Pope Francis...
The Catholic Church is simply not serious about confronting its shameful history of abuse. That’s why media-savvy Pope Francis isn’t stopping here long enough...
When exactly did the IRA go away?
Gerry Adams famously said “They haven’t gone away, you know”. Mary Lou McDonald now insists the Provisional IRA actually has gone away. When, exactly,...
