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As the first chills of autumn begin to consign our long, hot summer to the memory banks, many of us will be planning a September ritual that can send...
This year marks my sixth year out of secondary school education - I was six years in, and now I’m six years out - and I’m still undecided as to...
Walking slowly along the path, looking at all the names, all the Irish surnames, was a strange experience. I could have been at home in practically...
When he ditched his plans for a career in the pharmaceutical industry to work in a pizza fast food restaurant, Ola Azeez admits: “My friends thought...
Seriously? Is it asinine arrogance, obliviousness, or just a case of the most appalling stupidity? At a time when we need them most – the absolute...
Culture Night 2026 takes place on Friday, September 18, inviting people to come together for a night of free cultural discovery, creativity and...
Usain Bolt’s 100m speed record of 9.58 seconds, set in Berlin 17 years ago, was broken last week in Beijing at the World Humanoid Robot Games. A...
A Free Travel Public Services Card may be used to travel free of charge on cross-border journeys between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland,...
I wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago about the poor standard of driving in this country. It was published in The Echo on Monday morning, the day...
One of my warmest childhood memories is of hearing the letterbox clank early of a Saturday morning, jumping out of bed, and racing to the front door...
The response to Cork City Council’s initial consultation on proposed changes to speed limits has shown just how much people care about the future of...
Can you really put a curse on someone, or on a family or a parish, a team or a whole county? Good question that, especially now in the after-glow of...
Every year, we convince ourselves this will finally be the September we have it all together… and every September has other plans. It is the middle...
So, I got through the hot spell when half the country couldn’t sleep. I got through years of every imaginable kind of ups and downs, crises and...
Budget 2027 will happen on October 6. There is no sense that anybody in the struggling 50% is talking about it or believes that anything much will...
As a child, I owned a VHS copy of The Sound Of Music and watched it repeatedly. The Rodgers and Hammerstein lyrics and tunes are engraved on my brain...
“I got an alert on my watch.” It’s a phrase I hear increasingly often in the clinic. Sometimes it’s a notification about a high heart rate....
It’s not a paper I read every day, but according to the Asia Times, India has the fourth-largest railway network in the world, after the United...
Every cloud, and all that. It’s been a glorious summer, and Cork has basked in sunshine and warmth for months on end. The bad news is that this is...
With the Leaving Certificate results being released on Friday at 10am, it can be a nerve-wracking time for students and parents who have waited...
I’m not sure where I first heard of or read the Irish phrase ‘áit iargúlta’ - maybe it was in Seadna by An t-Athair Peadar. Anyhow, is cuma,...
In June, I posted on social media about the uncertainty hanging over more than 500 Ukrainian residents in Trabolgan in East Cork. I wrote about...
The mirror in the lift was big and highly magnified and brightly lit and, unwisely, I leaned in. Immediately I learned something I’d have been far...
It is blatantly clear that the manosphere is by no means a niche corner of the internet any more. Figures such as Andrew Tate have amassed enormous...
Katie O’Regan’s love for The Lough runs deep. She grew up in the area, as did her dad. The Lough has been there through all her life stages, and...
In the lead-up to this year’s August bank holiday weekend, An Garda Síochána launched a road safety crackdown amid a rise in road deaths. They...
The story goes that one day in the 1940s, a few soldiers on Spike Island off Cobh decided to fire the 6-inch guns lying idle in their fort. I guess...
As cities across Europe broiled under repeated heatwaves and devastating wildfires this summer, it is now blatantly obvious that they need...
This Saturday, for one day only, Cork’s most unique and historic buildings and spaces will once again open their doors and invite us in to hear the...
‘How do you mean -taking books to school? Did ye actually have real books made of paper in the house and went to a real school building-like we saw...
Seriously? In less than a week? Background: We’d had some work done to the house. Serious work, sensible work, dirty, dusty, noisy work that was...
A stoma is a surgically created opening on the surface of the abdomen that connects the digestive or urinary tract to the outside of the body,...
Last week, a wetsuit-clad team of ace swimmers emerged from the water at the Port of Cork having completed a nine-day, 81km-long water odyssey from...
Earlier this year, my mother was invited to work in Paris for a few months. It was a lucky coincidence as it was my Transition Year - so I decided to...
The Premier League football season is almost upon us so it’s time to get ready for a lot of bad acting. Players rolling around the ground feigning...
I’m not saying that Ireland has endured some perishingly cold summers in the past - but I do recall one chilly day on a beach in Sligo where I...
Cancer continues to be one of Ireland’s most significant public health challenges. As the demand for cancer services grows and medical innovation...
I was only ten when the train to Fermoy from Mallow and on to Waterford ceased to operate. So ’twill be 60 years next March since the last train...
My home in Cork is more than 500km from the home of Sinn Féin MLA Caoimhe Archibald in Coleraine, Co. Derry. Driving to Derry from Cork means you see...
Wow, I thought, tentatively toeing what was left of the lawn, I’d forgotten what wet grass felt like. I’d even half-forgotten what green grass...
We spend weeks looking forward to our holidays, yet for many people the first couple of days are accompanied by bloating, constipation, diarrhoea ,or...
Last week, I found myself sitting in a bright orange rib, packed hip to hip with neoprene-wrapped strangers. The excitement was high. Half of the...
I know some people will find it hard to believe, but I wasn’t always a cantankerous old fart. There was a time when I was actually young and...
I lived in Cork city for almost a decade in the early 2000s, and was a feature writer with the then Evening Echo for four years. During that time, I...
‘Doing Pana’ is still a major part of the Cork lexicon, but is it even a thing any more? Do people, young or old, still meet up with a friend (or...
The controversy over the future of the site of the former mother and baby home in Bessborough is a reminder of the cosy collusion between Church and...
At about a quarter to two last Sunday, I had a few words with Jarlath Burns in Croke Park. In the Hogan Stand, he was deep in conversation with...
Em Egan Reeve is co-founder and co-host of Litreacha , a popular queer open mic event held monthly in queer-friendly bar Nudes on Lavitt’s Quay in...
First off, I should say that I’ve had dogs all my life. I love dogs, and dogs usually like me. In fact, a lot of the time I tend to like and trust...
A decade ago, an old friend worked as a vet in Al Ain Zoo in Abu Dhabi. Tales of caring for tigers and cheetahs made the job sound exotic and exciting...
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