Brendan O’ReganAbortion reigns as the main topic of media controversy with Ray D’Arcy playing a central figure in last week’s viewing, writes Brendan O’Regan
Another example of contempt for impartiality
Category: Reviews
The World of Books: A Muslim legend of dogs and Heaven
The relationship between faith and man’s best friend
White flags over Dublin’s streets
1916 Surrenders: Captain H. E. de Courcy-Wheeler’s Eye-Witness Account by Alex Findlater (Edited by A & A Farmar) Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, €11.99)
Recent books in brief
New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
Each one of us is called
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)
Murder, suicide and disability rights
New series ‘Unforgotten’ hits all the right notes while ‘Wallander’ and ‘Right Hook’ deals with “heavier stuff”
Do depressed people have the right to die?
Aubrey Malone
The meanings behind the film ‘Me Before You’ (12A)
Real life at the local level
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)
Feeding the rage of the Catholic blogosphere
Conspiracy-minded Catholics are up in arms online after claims that Pope Francis’ long awaited post-synodal exhortation was ghost-written by an old Argentinian friend. Writing at chiesa.expressonline.it, long-time Vaticanista Sandro Magister, whose press credentials were withdrawn by the Holy See last year after his involvement in publishing in advance a leaked version of the Pope’s environmental…
Comic book sleuths dice with death in ‘retro’ romp
The Nice Guys (15A)