Susan O'Keeffe
Susan O'Keeffe is an investigative journalist. She is a former member of Seanad Eireann (2011-2016). She worked for many years with BBC Current Affairs as a producer/director in Manchester and London and with Granada TV's World in Action. Her programme Money for Nothing resulted in the Beef Tribunal and with her arrest and trial for not revealing her sources to that Tribunal. She also made the programme Sins of the Fathers, the first to reveal abuse of children by Catholic priests. Dublin born, she holds a BSc(Dairy&Food) from UCC and a diploma in marketing. She has written a book The Candidate, a contemporaneous account of her 2009 European election campaign.Susan O’Keeffe: Gardaí and teachers are on the frontline and deserve early vaccines
Both groups put themselves at risk every day to keep society functioning, but they have received little by way of appreciation
Susan O’Keeffe: Public wants clarity, not false promises, from government
Stephen Donnelly may be pledging more than he can deliver on vaccines while the new Living with Covid plan is short on detail and has brought more confusion. We deserve better
Susan O’Keeffe: A self-appointed saviour is not the answer to climate change
With his energy, ideas and financial clout, Bill Gates has lots to offer but this complex problem will need a vast array of responses led by democratic routes
Susan O’Keeffe: If we want health service reform, we must listen to frontline workers
The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare the many shortcomings in our health service, but it’s those at the coalface who understand best what is needed to fix it
Susan O’Keeffe: Nursing home residents have been failed again in vaccine rollout
Within the first three weeks of Covid-19 vaccines arriving, just 10 per cent found their way to nursing homes, while residents accounted for 37 per cent of all January deaths
Susan O’Keeffe: Within weeks of Brexit, we face life-or-death consequences
Decades of trust are being wiped away in the row over critical vaccine supplies
Susan O’Keeffe: We must work to turn Biden’s love of Ireland into tangible benefit
With the new US president one of the last Irish-American political heavyweights, we must ensure that our relationship with the US is ready for the future, not stuck in the past
Susan O’Keeffe: Vaccination programme needs to be treated as a national emergency
Poor planning has beset Ireland’s fight against Covid-19 from the start, and we are still lacking
Comment: Vaccination numbers don’t add up – we’ll be living and dying with Covid-19 until 2022
Ireland needs to be vaccinating upwards of 100,000 people a week but we show no signs of getting close to that figure
Susan O’Keeffe: Vaccination rates far too low to offer respite to health workers or public
Medical professionals under intolerable strain as cases and hospitalisations soar
Susan O’Keeffe: Lack of national vaccine ICT system an inconceivable blunder
Somebody didn’t get the finger out in 2020 to make this happen — they better be working 24/7 now to right this wrong
Susan O’Keeffe: Governments must enforce public health, not wish for it
More consistent policing of Covid-19 regulations is needed to control this lethal, mutating virus
Susan O’Keeffe: Brexit saga obscures grim warning from Climate Ambition Summit
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres’ statement that the world is still going in the wrong direction environmentally, despite the commitments made in Paris, evaporated on delivery
Susan O’Keeffe: Boris Johnson’s heart is not in doing a Brexit deal
The UK Prime Minister continues to ignore all the damage that has already been done – to the Union, to the business community, to his country’s standing in the world and especially to Northern Ireland, which he and his government have treated with contempt
Susan O’Keeffe: Missed cancer diagnoses hint at true toll of fight against Covid-19
Stark figures act as a flag for every other medical condition that has been ignored, downplayed, downgraded and sidestepped since the pandemic was declared
Susan O’Keeffe: Mink variant a stark concern amid vaccine optimism
Scientists know that all new Covid-19 mutations have the potential to transmit even more readily than the existing strain — or may prove resistant to emerging vaccines
Comment: Brexit remains the most pressing issue for Ireland
We may be weary of the protracted soap opera that is the UK’s exit from the European Union, yet this is the most crucial hour of an act that will shape our economic future
Comment: Biden’s challenges are many and complex
The president-elect will have to draw on his half-century of political experience to deal with issues such as climate change, the economy and Covid-19
Comment: Trumpism will endure regardless of election outcome
The legacy of this US presidency will be felt across the world for years to come
Comment: Learning to live with Covid will replace cycle of lockdowns in 2021
As governments introduce tighter restrictions in the hope of salvaging Christmas, it is becoming ever more apparent that the current approach has a shelf life