Donal O’Keeffe
@donalokeeffe.bsky.social
Reporter with The Echo, but opinions very much my own.
“Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.”
-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.”
-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
The Taoiseach greeted the new President in the name of the nation, and said, ‘We greet you as the successor of our rightful princes, and in your accession we hail the closing of the breach that existed since the undoing of our nation at Kinsale’ www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
How we covered Ireland's first presidential election in 1945
With Ireland due to elect its 10th president on Friday, October 24, Donal O’Keeffe looks back 80 years to 1945 and how the then Evening Echo covered ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Taoiseach greeted the new President in the name of the nation, and said, ‘We greet you as the successor of our rightful princes, and in your accession we hail the closing of the breach that existed since the undoing of our nation at Kinsale’ www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
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him (a man of wealth and taste): please allow me to introduce myself.
me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo
me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo
May 6, 2023 at 1:54 AM
him (a man of wealth and taste): please allow me to introduce myself.
me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo
me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo
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So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition.
Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.
www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge
Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.
www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge
fridge
To fridge a (usually female) character in a movie, television show, comic book, etc., is to kill them off or seriously harm/abuse/violate them in some way (as a writer) for the purposes of motivating ...
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June 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition.
Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.
www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge
Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.
www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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This is like a nature documentary about the battle for supremacy between two magnificent lions, except instead of magnificent lions, it's half-bald rats and one of the rats is off its tits on ketamine.
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is like a nature documentary about the battle for supremacy between two magnificent lions, except instead of magnificent lions, it's half-bald rats and one of the rats is off its tits on ketamine.
I put it to you, Mr Zimmerman, that if you did indeed hear that hoot-owl singing as they were taking down the tents, then the stars above the barren trees could not have been his only audience.
June 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I put it to you, Mr Zimmerman, that if you did indeed hear that hoot-owl singing as they were taking down the tents, then the stars above the barren trees could not have been his only audience.
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This ad aired in 2002….they have been trying to warn us and we weren’t paying attention
May 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This ad aired in 2002….they have been trying to warn us and we weren’t paying attention
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date: can you take off your work gloves
Jim Henson: they have names
Jim Henson: they have names
May 1, 2023 at 12:01 PM
date: can you take off your work gloves
Jim Henson: they have names
Jim Henson: they have names
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Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.
April 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.
@hanszomer.bsky.social Hey Hans! Good to see you.
April 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
@hanszomer.bsky.social Hey Hans! Good to see you.
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This is what happens when a man with six bankruptcies runs a global economy.
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is what happens when a man with six bankruptcies runs a global economy.
Portrait of Rory Gallagher by Togher artist John Doolan. John works in Deaf Enterprises in Ballinlough. An exhibition of his work is upstairs in Bishopstown Library during April.
April 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Portrait of Rory Gallagher by Togher artist John Doolan. John works in Deaf Enterprises in Ballinlough. An exhibition of his work is upstairs in Bishopstown Library during April.
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Most Viagra is produced in Ireland, we could end tariffs and, indeed, Musk's presidency simply by shutting off supplies to the old, rich men that run the USA.
April 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Most Viagra is produced in Ireland, we could end tariffs and, indeed, Musk's presidency simply by shutting off supplies to the old, rich men that run the USA.
He's like the world's shittest supervillain.
"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"
But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!
"TARIFFS!"
"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"
But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!
"TARIFFS!"
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
He's like the world's shittest supervillain.
"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"
But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!
"TARIFFS!"
"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"
But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!
"TARIFFS!"
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The KKK: “In our schools and libraries are books that create hatred and dislike among the people of different sections of America. The Klan is pledged to true history.” (1922)
Trump accused the Smithsonian of "ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."
‘Full-on Soviet’: Trump’s ‘improper ideology’ purge blasted as ‘fascist thuggery’
President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, mandating the removal of what he calls “improper ideology,” is being described as “chilling,” amid warnings of fascism. ...
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March 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The KKK: “In our schools and libraries are books that create hatred and dislike among the people of different sections of America. The Klan is pledged to true history.” (1922)
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Putting a sticker on my Volkswagen to let people know I bought it BEFORE I knew Hitler was a Nazi.
March 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Putting a sticker on my Volkswagen to let people know I bought it BEFORE I knew Hitler was a Nazi.
Bearing a grudge since being fired from "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), Joan Crawford said of director Robert Aldrich, "He is a man who loves evil, horrendous, vile things."
Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."
Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."
March 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Bearing a grudge since being fired from "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), Joan Crawford said of director Robert Aldrich, "He is a man who loves evil, horrendous, vile things."
Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."
Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."
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They learned something from their first term.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.
So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.
So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.
February 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
They learned something from their first term.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.
So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.
So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.
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Trump isn’t going to end the war in Ukraine. He’s going to make it easier for Russia to keep what it stole and greenlight Putin to go after other countries.
February 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump isn’t going to end the war in Ukraine. He’s going to make it easier for Russia to keep what it stole and greenlight Putin to go after other countries.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech at the Munich Security Conference ends with prolonged applause👏
February 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech at the Munich Security Conference ends with prolonged applause👏
"For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire" www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire" www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...