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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...
It was, in fairness, a good idea. Dinner and a movie for Valentine’s. We hadn’t done it in years, don’t ask me why, but you know how life goes....
I recently helped to organise a trip to Bulgaria for 14 Cork teenagers from Cloyne Diocesan Youth Services (CYDS). The visit was part of the Erasmus ...
“Please put me through to a human being.” “I’m sorry I cannot connect you unless you are an account holder. Please input your account number...
I was watching the Masters Snooker event recently on the television. It’s a tournament for the top 16 players in the world. It takes place over the...
Will you be aiming Cupid’s arrow at a loved one on St Valentine’s Day? Or will the ‘cost of loving’ crisis - hotels, restaurants, bubbles, and...
I’m sitting in one of my favourite haunts, drinking a large frothy cappuccino, on Oliver Plunkett Street. On my table sits said beverage, my book...
On Monday, April 3, in the year 1820, a marriage was ‘solemnised’ at Gretna Green in Scotland. The picturesque little village came to fame in the...
Like so many significant life events, this one crashed in without warning. A relaxed Saturday morning; the air in the kitchen pungent with the...
Next week, the Commission on the Future of Ireland will be hosting our first People’s Assembly in Cork. It will take place at 7pm in the Rochestown...
Cork is a growing city, but it is also a city of neighbourhoods. The streets where we live are not just routes for traffic; they are places where...
“Water always wins.” It’s the phrase that kept coming back to me as I watched the latest floods unfold on the news. It’s also the title of a...
Let the good times roll, as Cork Cocktail Week is set to make its debut in the city, bringing you the dreamiest cocktails, inclusive mocktails, and...
During my service in An Garda Síochána, I came across Donald Trump-like figures of authority from time to time, both inside and outside of the...
There will be some foot-stomping going on when the Savoy reopens in Cork city next week with an array of musical acts. But to an older generation of...
I don’t think I ever before saw a bag of cement in a funeral home, but on the day before New Year’s Eve the Irish Cement bag stood guard by a...
Mná Feasa - the Irish for ‘Wise Women’ - is the name of a centre that supports women in Cork affected by domestic abuse. When I started studying...
I felt like kicking myself. Why did I rush, I thought, when I actually wasn’t in all that much of a hurry? Strange, isn’t it, how some of us get...
As we move into midlife, issues such as joint pain, osteoporosis, and stress fractures become increasingly common, making this a crucial time to take...
Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the ‘birth’ of television. As with most scientific achievements, the development of television happened...
Hot school meals have been the subject of heated debate since their introduction in 2019 and the subject of a recent Oireachtas committee meeting....
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