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How many of us wake up in the morning, and immediately reach for our phone? Checking the news, social media, the weather, crosswords, games? Before we...
Fifty years ago this week, three Yanks were toiling away in a garage in California on a vision that would shake the world of business to its core......
Every family knows the joy and bizarrely terrifying concern of watching a child take their first unaccompanied steps down a street, hands swinging,...
I listened to a lot of radio coverage about the late, great Ronnie Delany since his death recently – sadly, his wife Joan, or ‘my beautiful wife,...
On a Friday recently, I found I had it completely to myself. No school runs, no after-school activities, no immediate responsibilities, just a whole...
I met a charming Norwegian on a sunny, wave-licked Spanish beach; one thing led to another, and the next morning I woke up with a sore head. There...
For the past six years, people across Cork have been using social prescribing to reconnect with their communities, try new activities, and improve...
Do you think you are a good driver? Do you ever break the speed limit? Do you think it’s OK to speed “a little”? An RTÉ radio discussion with a...
Before moving to Cork in 2009, I first fell in love with traditional music in America about 25 years ago. Growing up around the Boston area, there was...
I have always been an avid reader. As a child, I walked to the library on Saturday mornings to change my books and looked forward to going to bed at...
It was the week that saw 60,000 people throng the streets of Cork city for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade, to cheer on a record 3,600 partying...
I’ve always had a fascination with headstones in cemeteries and graveyards, not in a morbid or sinister manner - no, but these stones with...
If you take God out of the equation, does life have any real meaning? The three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam -...
There, I thought, but for the grace of God. The letter to the newspaper agony aunt brought a rush of gratitude. What the letter-writer described could...
Ireland has committed to one of the most ambitious home retrofit programmes in Europe, with targets to retrofit 500,000 homes and install 400,000 heat...
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit. I hope you are reading an páipéar whilst wearing an Aran geansaí, drinking a cupán tae, and eating arán sóda....
When I started secondary school, I thought that by the time the Leaving Certificate came around, I would know exactly what I wanted to do with my...
Have you ever been in a situation where you met someone you knew well, but were afraid to talk to them because they had dementia? Afraid in case you...
Last year, I introduced my Rang 5 class at Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin to the Our World Awards. This is a national programme that helps children...
At the Cheltenham racing festival this week, there was much talk of horses that were a ‘banker’, a ‘dead cert’, or a ‘surefire’ winner....
March 17 marks the beginning of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, and while awareness is growing, many continue to experience stigma and...
When one thinks about child trafficking and child brides, the name of John B. Keane mightn’t come readily to mind. Yet at the West Waterford Drama...
Growing up in rural Kerry in the 1960s, it was always my dream to become a journalist. Reading newspapers such as The Kerryman and listening to RTÉ...
St Patrick’s Day was only a fortnight away when I got the SOS from the friend studying theology in the USA. She was looking for my expertise on the...
Bereavement can be overwhelming and it can be a confusing time for people as there are a lot of things to consider. For one, you may need financial...
International Women’s Day is not doing it for me anymore. Every March, we are treated to a familiar programme: inspirational speakers, fireside...
Sixty years ago, on Thursday, March 10, 1966, Michael O’Donovan, better-known by his pen-name as an author, Frank O’Connor, died at the age of 62....
I came across a story in a UK newspaper recently that struck a chord with me. It concerned a man called Bob Maddams who agreed to be an executor for...
Where there’s blame, there’s a claim... Some elements of the legal industry have been known to adopt that slogan as a promise to potential...
I admit it, no problem - I do love food. Maybe ’tis because I don’t drink, smoke, vape, do drugs, dance, or meditate much that I have a great...
Not long ago, someone asked me a simple question on a walk through Ballincollig: “What’s that? And pointed towards what I now know is the lime...
Measles vaccination was introduced nationwide in Ireland in 1985, when around 10,000 cases of it were reported. Two years later, the number dropped...
Could be something, could be nothing. But there was, most definitely, the possibility of weird. It was raining. Again. I was unpacking a carful of...
Getting married is one of the most significant events in someone’s life. Anyone planning to get married in Ireland must give a minimum of three...
Endo. A small, four-letter word that causes a world of pain. An innocuous-sounding abbreviation for the chronic inflammatory disease - endometriosis....
Youghal has always been a town shaped by tides - of trade, of industry, of people coming and going. Its medieval walls, its Victorian seaside charm,...
John O’Connor is a retired garda sergeant who was involved in community policing in Cork city until he retired in 2016. We worked together for...
In the space of a generation, the Ireland of Father Ted has been transformed into the Ireland of Derry Girls. Or so we are led to believe. Religion...
Most couples get engaged before they get married. However, if the engagement is broken off and there is a dispute between the couple over property or...
Wine, women, and song can be great in moderation, but imbibing and frolicking to excess can have woeful consequences! Walter Buter, of Kilcash Castle...
As Cork accelerates its ambitions as a visitor and business events destination, its leaders are drawing on global knowledge exchange, industry...
All this fandangle over hot school meals. It’s giving me a pain. There were always going to be problems with the Hot School Meals Programme. The...
I noted your report last week (‘Cork expected to receive around €140m funds for national road works’, Feb 17), on the extra funding to allow yet...
The message was loud and clear - ‘Don’t Knock Me Down’. Yesterday morning, the school communities of Glasheen Boys’ and Glasheen Girls’...
How can you have a traffic accident on a straight stretch of road, one where there are no junctions or intersections, no traffic lights, and no...
Hygiene Hub was established by Ciára Dalton, Sorcha Killian, and Rosie McDonagh, three women with diverse backgrounds in human rights, start-ups, and...
For all his faults - and his political rivals would list many - few would doubt that Micheál Martin is a diplomat par excellence. You don’t stay...
As a city, Cork has never been short of strong opinions. That’s what makes Cork, well, Cork. What is worrying now though is how quickly our public...
Childhood Saturdays always bring back memories to me of the Walton’s-sponsored programme on Radio Éireann. Apparently, the afternoon show,...
With the rising awareness of both eating disorders and neurodiversity, it’s important to acknowledge that autistic and ADHD individuals are four...
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