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O Searcaigh confronted by student at recital

Friday November 13 2009

A rare public appearance by controversial Irish language poet Cathal O Searcaigh turned into a farce last night when he was confronted as he tried to leave a theatre.

Next stop Shangri-La for meandering mystic Ryan

Sunday October 25 2009

Who does he think he is? Fidel Castro? The Dali Lama?

mine is a road less travelled

Sunday October 18 2009

It is with genuine sadness that I say goodbye to the Himalayas and my trusty guide Kumar. He has been with me for every minute of my gruelling nine-day solo trek on K2, carrying my flimsy survival kit of tent, provisions, video camera, laptop, tripods, 42in plasma TV, espresso machine, tumble dryer, Portaloo and diesel generator on his wiry 75-year-old shoulders, with an unrelenting cheerfulness that gradually ceased to amaze me.

O Searcaigh's moral maze

Sunday September 20 2009

'Ihave got my strength back and for the first time I am telling my side of the story," says Cathal O Searcaigh. The Donegal-born poet is bursting with life. He has come a long way from the traumatised man he had been. In March 2008, Neasa Ni Chianain's documentary film about him -- Fairytale of Kathmandu -- was shown on RTE. That was when all the trouble began.

Pharmacists, feminists and peering at the peer groupies

Eoghan Harris Sunday August 16 2009

The book-review pages of the Irish Times and the Irish Independent are coded guides to current academic fashions. Consider the review by Conor McCarthy (who teaches English at Maynooth) of Diarmaid Whelan's study Conor Cruise O'Brien: Violent Notions.

I'm no sex tourist, says poet O Searcaigh

Thursday August 13 2009

CONTROVERSIAL Irish language poet Cathal O Searcaigh has rejected claims that he acted like a "sex tourist" when he had relationships with young men in Nepal.

Fury as men offered lump sum to marry Nepalese widows

Tuesday August 11 2009

Women protesters have marched in the streets of Kathmandu after the government announced a "humiliating" scheme to offer financial incentives for men to marry widows.