November’s US election is the topic that got Ireland Googling most...
2020 is a year that will never be forgotten and the annual Google Year in Search results give us an insight into what’s been...
Sinn Féin’s good violence laundry
Brian Stanley TD’s misfortunes are only the latest example of Sinn Féin’s tortuous balancing act, rewriting history, laundering the past, and keeping the hard...
James O’Connor TD announces 48 bed block for Mallow General Hospital
Fianna Fáil Cork East TD James O’Connor has announced the news of a new 48-bed block extension for Mallow General Hospital, which on Friday received funding...
Make it a ‘Real Cork Christmas’ – Mayor Linehan Foley
“One thing that has sustained us throughout a difficult year has been our sense of community. We applauded our frontline workers, we kept apart...
Our hatred of Travellers is Ireland’s last acceptable racism
In 2015, a fire tore through a temporary halting site in Carrickmines, Co Dublin, killing five adults, five children, and an unborn baby. Five...
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...
“I have yet to meet a homeless woman who hasn’t been...
Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s promise to help homeless victims of rape and sexual violence is significant. Those to whom he made that pledge say he...
The bully Trump clings to the White House pulpit
When Teddy Roosevelt referred to the US presidency as “a bully pulpit”, he didn’t mean the word bully as we use it now. These...
We care more about burying the past than we ever did...
With the bodies and burial records of more than 800 babies missing at Bessborough, the sealing for thirty years of survivor testimony reveals the...
Frederick Douglass and Father Mathew
There’s a lovely piece of street art on Cork’s Grand Parade, on the electrical box outside Lloyd’s Pharmacy, featuring a striking portrait in blue...
