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The house I grew up in was sold recently after an eight-year-long probate battle. It had been unoccupied since my mother died in 2017. It was a bit of...
Over the last few months, I’ve spent far more time than I ever expected reviewing planning policy. The National Planning Framework. The Regional...
Happy 100th birthday to Amhrán na bhFiann. A hundred years ago, the head of the Irish government, WT Cosgrave, adopted it as the National Anthem....
“You’d probably know it as the place that The Young Offenders was filmed in’’ It’s the go-to line any young Cork Northsider has learned to...
Talking to children lately about money and cash, and notes and coins, you know, I felt as though they thought I was living close to Stone Age times....
I’m issuing a challenge to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Transport. See for yourselves. The shouting. The fighting. The visible drug use on...
One week into the summer holidays and I’ve already reached a conclusion. This isn’t going to be about keeping my children entertained. It’s...
As a heat dome hovered over Europe last month, it reportedly caused dozens of deaths, disruption of power supplies and public transport, closure of...
I fly with Ryanair several times a year, and I don’t have an issue with them. They’re a budget airline and what you see with budget airlines is...
Three months ago, in the staffroom at work, someone casually mentioned they had swapped houses for a holiday. “It was brilliant,” they said....
We in Ireland are a nation of storytellers. Everyone loves a good yarn, and we are the very best at sharing them. Yet, we often forget to tell our own...
A 14-year-old girl walks through the fields on the farm with the sheepdog. She knows that these same fields and this farm could one day be hers. She...
I came out of the Stéphane Grappelli concert at the Cork Jazz Festival feeling his music was almost too good to be true. That was my first taste of...
She flew in from Massachusetts just as the temperatures shot into the late twenties. My friend spent her first week in Cork being roundly...
Out of the thousands of news stories you read in the past year, I wonder how many allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter...
“Well, Jess,” my Grandad suddenly concludes one Friday as I hand him a mug. “If this journalism thing doesn’t work out, you’d be a great...
The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA) is a payment to help families with the cost of school uniforms and shoes. Many families get...
By now, most of you will be aware that TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has announced he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. He said he has been...
When I was in my twenties, I shared an apartment with two college buddies who were obsessed with football. They bought multiple newspapers a day to...
Work-outs can sometimes feel repetitive or uninspiring, and many people are turning to martial arts to reignite their motivation and transform their...
Cobh Trad Fest returns this summer from July 23-26, and we think it’s shaping up to be our best year yet. We have a fantastic headline line-up at...
There was a time when, if you wanted to drive to a place you had never been to before, you had two choices. Either drive in the general direction and...
“It’s a chance for the people of Cork to pay tribute to my brother, and a wonderful man.” Those are the words of Darby Crowley, brother of Cork...
It’s a parenting shift that dad-of-two Kevin Maguire began to notice more and more. It led him to start writing The New Fatherhood newsletter about...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times -the first line from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Published in 1859, the book was all...
For many children growing up in Cork city today, the connection between the food on the table and the farm it came from can feel more distant than it...
Phew. Dodged a bullet there, I thought. Two bullets, even. We’d switched on Netflix to watch Apex, starring Charlize Theron. Theron plays the part...
Why is it that my friends in their twenties, and my parents in their fifties, and my gran in her eighties can’t dislodge the guilt of taking time...
The N71 is my road to heaven. It’s the road I drove to countless happy holidays, bracing swims, island adventures, beautiful meals, mountain...
Sport is amazing. Not everyone loves it, but many do, and I really feel it is an incredible outlet for people of all ages. I feel like Ireland is a...
I wrote a piece a few weeks ago about the importance of being positive in our daily lives. This is the case especially as we get older because...
As a man who is not unaccustomed to doing the weekly grocery shop (a standing ovation? Oh, go on then), there are certain products where you notice...
It was Aine Roche of Wexford who wrote the beautiful song I Light A Candle For You - its words explain just exactly what it truly means when one hears...
The banks of the Lee are set to ‘rock for Rory’ again this summer as Cork City Council hosts a free open-air concert celebrating the music and...
I realised that I would never be able to keep up with the world in early 2020. I was prepping to sit my Leaving Cert, and just before my pre’s, my...
When someone first mentioned to me that girls in their mid-teens were getting Botox injections in a bid to pre-empt ‘ageing’, I didn’t believe...
The school yearis drawing to a close – for many parents this is a relief. No more getting kids out of bed for school, rushed breakfasts, traffic...
“You don’t know how lucky you are”. I find myself saying that to my kids repeatedly. “It was raining at lunchtime so we watched a movie”....
There are people who go to Disneyland Paris with spreadsheets. I used to admire them from a distance. Now, I understand they’re not intense....
I could hardly be described as a party animal. Maybe it’s an age thing, but late nights spent in noisy atmospheres with everyone stretching their...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off next week, and once again Irish fans are left pressing their noses to the sweet shop window, wishing they were on...
I live in Blarney with Brenda, my wife, and we have two children, Kate and Simon. It’s a busy house, made busier by me being a local councillor on...
I meet up with two good friends, Tommy and Jim, every five or six weeks - for a leisurely breakfast and a hurling chat. In fairness to us three wise...
I was recently selected to participate in the European Student Assembly 2026 on behalf of University College Cork and UNIC, an alliance of ten...
I could report on her experience, the mother said, if I kept it anonymous. Fair enough, I said, intrigued. It was the phrase “dish pig,” that had...
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