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.Tory king of pinstripes delivers lesson in spin
Jacob Rees-Mogg is hardly driven by a passion for Northern Ireland's welfare. His business is to position himself as the man with the answers, the man who has done the work, the man who will not sell out to the EU
May's last chance - or last dance?
The Novichok story will evaporate by the weekend and Theresa May will be back in the wretched Brexit trench
Post office closures are the last full stop on 20th century living
Let’s be practical: romantic Irish notions of cailíns at the crossroads, donkeys in every field and a post office in every village do not exist, because we no longer live our lives in this way
'Barnier has the bit between his teeth'
The EU's chief negotiator is sick and tired of the shambolic negotiations being advanced by the Brexit team and has put his foot down – even insisting on increased contact time between negotiators
Between the lines - The Catholic Church’s wall of silence
As Ireland prepares for a visit from Pope Francis, Susan O'Keefe
Paisley petition 'is a waste of time'
If Ian Paisley Junior is rejected by Recall, there is nothing to stop him standing once again for his own ‘vacant seat’. Indeed, he has already said he will stand in such a by-election
Áras scramble could turn into three-month soap opera
Why is it that the highest office in the land can produce such an unseemly response, a kind of sensationalism that would barely be appropriate for a beauty contest, let alone Uachtarán na hÉireann?
Welfare of thousands at stake in health workers' pay row
The work of ‘section 39’ workers, who provide a vast array of services in the community and to people with disability, mental health challenges and patients in hospices, is often ignored or overlooked in the general conversation about the health service
Irish electoral watchdog's teeth must be sharp
Understanding what just happened in the last few days in Britain must mean that those who want to help create a meaningful Electoral Commission here are then able to build a tighter and more efficient rule book for Ireland’s version
May's Brexit sticking plaster will be pulled apart
Not only can Theresa May not morph into Gareth Southgate; she can’t even shelter under the glow of his World Cup trophy
There could be political blood on the Chequers carpets
Theresa May has backed herself into this corner by promising weeks ago that the weekend Brexit lock-in would be productive and useful
Governing and leadership have disappeared in Brexit fog
In the madness that is Brexit now, the idea of returning to the people to ask whether they still want to leave, given all the obstacles that have now emerged, has been ruled out as a sign of weakness and a failure of democracy
Long, rocky road ahead for Catholic Church
Priests and bishops know that many of those who regularly attend in their churches put an X by the word ‘Yes’, disregarding everything said at the many pulpits across the land during the campaign
Campaign's bitter tone will take time to disperse
There has been an outpouring of extraordinary stories from women who had sought terminations for crisis pregnancies where their mental health was at risk, writes Susan O'Keeffe
Low transparency scores should jolt local authorities into action
A report by Transparency International Ireland shows that there is a lack of urgency among local authorities about systems to account for the spending of substantial sums of taxpayers’ money
8th ads ban owes more to PR than interest in transparency
The bigger question raised by Google and Facebook centres on the notion that we can run any referendum free of the influence of organisations or individuals outside the state
'Governance left the room a very long time ago'
For the last seven days, the country has watched the unravelling of what appeared to be one of the good pieces of the Irish public health system
Brexit vision no clearer after Davis border viewing
What was more interesting than the Brexit Secretary's speedy inspection of the border was the deliberate decision to ensure a complete media blackout for the trip
Zuckerberg's US appearances an exercise in futility
While the Facebook chief sat through hours of questioning over two days, the share price of his great invention was soaring, making investors happy and adding to his own personal net worth
Write like nobody’s watching
It might have been easier to protect sources and other sensitive information in the pre-data age, but we have to keep journalism safe, regardless of technology - democracy depends on it