An Irishman’s Diary

Make politicians aware of safety measures and generate awareness that harassing TDs in their homes is intolerable

There is a need to challenge the increasingly toxic and coarsened culture of politics in the UK and beyond

Billy Fox shot dead by armed gang close to fianceé’s home in border region almost 50 years ago

‘Returning to stardust, he will be bathed in the light of Jupiter’s rare marriage with Saturn’

Giacobbe ‘Jake’ LaMotta, boxer: born, July 10th, 1921; died, September 19th, 2017

What Manning did was to help shine a light on how wars like that in Iraq help fuel fundamentalism

Leinster House in the 1970s sounds like great fun

‘The crux of my story is memory and truth, and how people play around with both, often out of fear, or guilt, or simply pain’