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.Brexit crisis: More time gentleman, please
Britain will be asking for an extension, and the speed at which Theresa May’s ‘We will leave the EU on March 29’ mantra was cast aside speaks volumes about the desperation and confusion at play even among diehard Brexiteers
Left holding Brexit baby with nowhere else to turn
An isolated Theresa May heads into a vital week of Brexit votes, surrounded by a small coterie of advisers and confidants who want her to put fear into her MPs to swing a deal on the exit from EU
'Tariff man' fails to cut ballooning US trade deficit
Trump had made deficit reduction one of his central promises during his election campaign and he committed specifically and repeatedly to a deficit reduction plan
Defamation ruling a victory for freedom of the press
Even when journalists are sure of their facts, they take a risk once they tangle with power, a risk worth taking because it’s important for journalism and democracy
May’s three votes hold key to Brexit salvation
An obstacle course of three crucial votes next week could leave the Irish government broadly content with the outcome, but the path to a partial Brexit salvation looks fraught
No EU rush to follow British to the exits
A survey asked EU citizens if they, like the British, would like to leave the EU. The answer was a resounding no
May refuses to abandon the sinking ship
Despite the denials, extending Article 50 now represents the only viable lifeboat that can carry Theresa May to safety
Dressed-up Papal summit won't resolve child abuse scandal
Leopards do not change their spots, and the cultivation of centuries of secrecy will not be wiped out by a bit of chat in Rome
Europe needs to wake up to the rise of the right
The success of the Brexit referendum campaign has created a growing sense that the European Parliament could be ‘completely overturned’ in the May elections, as populist groups take inspiration from London
Tóibín's Aontú faces a political Everest
Peadar Tóibín has tangible living proof of the trauma and the challenge involved in pulling a new party into existence
A border community living on a knife edge
It’s the only road trip in Ireland that passes the Ballroom of Romance and the traffic line used by IRA snipers as a guide for targeting British soldiers. Susan O’Keeffe travels from Sligo to Enniskillen to find out what locals feel about the threat of a hard border
Trump not feeling the heat on climate change
By the time he mounts his re-election campaign, Trump’s supporters will not have bothered to move their position on climate change. And neither will he
Dial B for Backstop
From ZOPA to ‘Max Fac’, Susan O’Keeffe flicks through an A to Z of Brexit terminology that negotiators will draw on in the coming weeks
Boris Johnson described the result last Tuesday evening as ‘a victory’. That’s the language of war, not reason
Former journalist and first vice-president of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness switches off from the stress of Brexit on her family’s farm in Co Meath
Corbyn's tea with May could be a turning point
Theresa May still has the wriggle room of a gnat to try to upend the backstop in the face of cohesive opposition from the EU – but she may be heading for a softer family-type Brexit deal, with a Corbynista touch
The group of death
It operates in the shadows of British politics, it has no website and no apparent structure, and its membership includes many of the most hardline Eurosceptics in the House of Commons. Meet the European Research Group
The Brexit crunch is no Bond movie
Last week, the prospect of Britain crashing out of the EU loomed into view like a screen villain. Let’s hope the no-dealers wake up to reality before the credits roll
Neither Pelosi nor Trump can afford to blink first
The Democrats' decision to block the annual presidential address to the country’s 325 million citizens is rare, but is it wise?
May’s ‘government will listen’, but there’s nothing new to hear
While admitting a no-deal Brexit might be ‘a bit bumpy’, Brexiteers in Westminster remained defiant as they and others spoke to Susan O’Keeffe in London during a tumultuous week
Corbyn drops the ball again
Jeremy Corbyn has failed to capitalise on the Tories’ wretched incompetence. Now he thinks he can lead Britain to sunlit socialist uplands after Brexit