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Trevor Laffan: I really don’t need a new car... but I can easily be led astray!

This is the time of year when many of you will be thinking about changing the car, and good luck to you if you are. For some, it might be out of...

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CBA President: ‘Cork is emerging with renewed belief in its potential as a modern European city’

As we wrapped up 2025, I was proud to reflect on a year defined by collaboration, resilience and real progress for Cork’s business community. While...

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John Dolan: 24 years and a Saipan film later ... I still think Roy was in wrong

There is a scene at the end of the new film Saipan - about the infamous bust-up between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup -...

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My Cork panto days with iconic TV ad star 'Sally O'Brien'

When I recently visited the Cork City Library and viewed the exhibition of Cork Opera House memorabilia currently on display there, my eye was...

02.01.2026 7

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'I passed my driving test, and tootled off to see Pearl Jam at Millstreet'

It was perhaps a sign of the changes going on in music in the mid-1990s when you consider that Pearl Jam played their first Cork gig, at the Green...

31.12.2025 8

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Let Them...a revelation just in time to ring in the New Year

Teetering on the edge of the New Year, a revelation. I generally don’t do self-help books and I certainly try to avoid making them the potential...

31.12.2025 9

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Kathriona Devereux: Amidst the doom and gloom, 3 reasons to be cheerful in 2025

Kathriona Devereux: Amidst the doom and gloom, 3 reasons to be cheerful in 2025

Are we in agreement that 2025 has been a horrendous one for the history books? The ongoing genocides and suffering in Gaza and Sudan. Growing...

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Jimmy Crowley: Marking a century of Amhrán na bhFiann

Jimmy Crowley: Marking a century of Amhrán na bhFiann

The Soldiers’ Song was composed by Brendan Behan’s uncle, Peadar Kearney, in 1907, working in collaboration with Patrick Heeney, who was mainly...

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