Hello there Seán. It’s been a while since I wrote to you, but that’s only because, as a wounded healer, I thought you might need time to get over the […]

Mary Raftery, investigative journalist, has died at 54. Raftery’s States of Fear documentaries exposed the violence, both emotional and physical, as well as the sexual abuse inflicted on children in the industrial […]

There was a time when Planet Ireland orbited its own smug, self-satisfied star, held on course by a mysterious force known as certainty.  That was an era when Irish missionaries […]

What do the Holy See and East Timor have in common? That’s right — the Irish government doesn’t give a flying toss about either of them.  Both embassies are to […]

I can think of nothing to add to the Irish government’s statement on the Holy See’s legalistic, dishonest and self-serving comments last week.  It signals clearly that the time has […]

Clergy avoiding reality

Legate legs it

Still spinning despite everything

Lifting the lid a little further on failures of bishops

Police prevent disabled man and daughter of victim from entering church