The next UK PM may well be the last UK PM
The majority of Conservative Party members would break up the United Kingdom for Brexit, a poll revealed last week. That’s not surprising, says Donal...
A powerful new voice on the abusive relationship that is Direct...
“Direct provision is like being in an abusive relationship,” writes Melatu Uche Okorie. “Abuse in itself is homogenous, no matter what race, class, or...
Scientology? The last thing Ireland needs is another dangerous, manipulative religious...
I confess I got a genuine belly-laugh from the front page of the Irish Examiner on Stephen Zuss Day.
The second lead story -...
Tuam: The dead can never rest so long as the living...
I don’t live on top of a mass grave.
I don’t know what it’s like to look out at my lawn and think that under...
Direct Provision and the profits of human misery
Private firms have profited in the hundreds of millions of Euro from keeping human beings in misery, and you and I are paying dearly...
Roche takes 6th seat at Murphy’s expense in Fermoy LEA
While Noel McCarthy of Fine Gael took the first seat in the Fermoy Electoral Area (FEA) Local Elections with plenty to spare (1,116 over...
The people of Tuam are owed an apology
Like many, I bought into the notion that public opinion in Tuam is divided about the Tuam Babies. I was very wrong, says Donal...
Is going to Mass really so important, if it means you...
Despite the high-blown rhetoric of some on the Catholic right and the populist fringes of political life, presumably nobody actually wishes to reunite the...
The very least we can do is remember Cork’s Magdalene women
Last week I did something I’ve never done before.
I lodged a planning objection.
The development to which I objected is proposed for a dangerously-derelict property,...
The way is long but the end is near…
Join me for a pint, hopefully not so far in the future, as you step in from the night air, past the smokers at...
