I went to Auschwitz to honour the memory of two men, both of them European  Jews whose families were murdered in that killing factory. One was a friend, who taught [...]

The Murphy Report was published in 2009, following an investigation into child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin.  At the time of its publication, certain material [...]

It would be a crime to waste this fine weather, so there was nothing for it but to get out on the water.  Living here in Limerick, we have so [...]

There’s so much flawed and downright dishonest thinking out there that it’s hard to know where to start.  This site has experienced its fair share of people trying to pull [...]

With the #anglotapes this week it seemed to me a good time to recall those heady days of August 2010 when we had spent only €25 billion on Anglo.  At that [...]

Like everyone else in Ireland,  I was driven to rage by the recordings of three senior executives in Anglo-Irish bank discussing how to blackmail our government into handing over public [...]

The Magdalene survivors are to be paid something by the State to compensate them for their time imprisoned and enslaved by the religious orders.  This is only right and proper, [...]

Did you, like me, feel nauseated listening to the Anglo tapes? What made you sickest? Was it the fact that our country was being set up for one of the [...]

You might remember my exposé of Mister Big, last year after I probed the murky underworld of Limerick inter-pub football. Here it is. This year, 2013, an intrepid reporter infiltrated [...]

Bock, says Siobhán, will you come down to Dolans and do a video of the album launch? What?  No point asking me.  What the fuck would I know about videos? [...]