Malachi O'Doherty

Belfast

Columnist at Belfast Telegraph

Author, journalist, photographer, irritant. Pronouns: I and Me.

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We tell pollsters health is a priority but nobody votes Sinn Fein or DUP because they are going to reduce our waiting lists

1 week ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

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Fault-lines, fanatics and a fragile peace

2 weeks ago | irishpost.com | Malachi O'Doherty

THE great historian ATQ Stewart, in The Narrow Ground, compared the violence in Belfast in 1970 to the 19th century crashing up through the cobbles. Andrew Boyd wrote Holy War In Belfast before the violence started and it was published to meet huge enthusiastic demand, just as we were getting familiar with the sound of gunfire in the night. What both books reminded us of was that sectarian division, such as was destroying the city, had torn Belfast apart before, indeed before most of us were born.
Malachi O'Doherty: Infinite punishment for finite sins can be problematic, especially with youths who still have so much learning to do

2 weeks ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

Young people labelled by society as criminals and delinquents will tend to live out what others expect of them, feeling other options closed to them because of their profilesI don’t believe the crimes and sins of young people should follow them through life. Here’s what a probation officer once told me: if a young man can get through his teens without being arrested, killed in a car crash or kneecapped, then there is a chance for him. Most of them wise up in their 20s.
People become war ready when they’ve no notion it’s in prospect... and are then shaken out of complacency by atrocity

3 weeks ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

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The danger of forgetting - and the risk of remembering

4 weeks ago | irishpost.com | Malachi O'Doherty

IF YOU travel around some areas of Belfast you’ll see wall murals celebrating the IRA and other paramilitary groups. They provide one of the simplest ways of letting you know whether you are in a nationalist or a loyalist area. You may feel safer in one than the other. Clearly some people are concerned to preserve a memory of the troubled period, basically the last thirty years of the last century, the destruction and the thousands killed.
Criminals can complain about type of justice meted out against them, even if they’re as bad as those doing the shooting

1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

One night, in a house in Twinbrook, I was with two teenage boys who were expecting to be kneecapped when the IRA caught up with them. There was a discussion about whether or not it was a good idea to get drunk before being shot so that you would be oblivious to what was going on. A counter-argument was that alcohol would thin the blood, lead to heavier bleeding and also complicate surgery.
Malachi O'Doherty: Kneecap want you to be appalled and yet insist they should be taken seriously - but only some of the time

1 month ago | independent.ie | Malachi O'Doherty

Malachi O'Doherty: Kneecap want you to be appalled, yet insist they should be taken seriously - but only some of the timeKneecap performing at the SSE Arena in Belfast (PA)The smear campaign which the band Kneecap say they are faced with is not something they should be complaining about. For a band so provocative in intent, the appalled reaction to their populist sloganeering is surely a mark of success.
Kneecap want you to be appalled and yet insist they should be taken seriously - but only some of the time

1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

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Language wars erupt on platform one in Belfast

1 month ago | irishpost.com | Malachi O'Doherty

PEOPLE from outside Northern Ireland tend to marvel at the pettiness of the disputes that divide society here. Indeed many here and in the Republic are as bewildered. The current cause of division between partners in government, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, concerns the signage in the big bright new bus and train station in Belfast. In Dublin, the main railway station is named after James Connolly one of the revolutionaries of the Easter Rising of 1916.
Pope Francis’s death now sets in motion the conclave drama of choosing a successor

1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty

A pope is dead and one of the great dramas of Catholic liturgy is about to unfold — the selection of a successor. Ostensibly this will be a democratic vote among the cardinals, many of whom were appointed by the late Pope Francis himself. But Catholic teaching has it that the pope is selected by the Holy Ghost, who will guide those old men in red towards a decision approved by God.

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Articles

We tell pollsters health is a priority but nobody votes Sinn Fein or DUP because they are going to reduce our waiting lists

Fault-lines, fanatics and a fragile peace