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John Dolan: What a newshound... meet the assistance dog called ‘Echo’!

Here at The Echo, we love a newshound with a nose for a good story who can chase up a lead... and this young pup is now the leader of our pack. Yes,...

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'I'm developing a 3D-printed powered prosthetic hand...here's my advice to students with an idea'

'I'm developing a 3D-printed powered prosthetic hand...here's my advice to students with an idea'

My interest in 3D printing started long before ReAble Labs existed. Back around 2008 or 2009, my father bought a 3D printer. It cost about €30,000...

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John Arnold: 100 years after his death, Cork will remember Sam Maguire

John Arnold: 100 years after his death, Cork will remember Sam Maguire

The town of Dunmanway wasn’t overcrowded on Tuesday, February 8, 1927. Despite ‘discouragement’ from Church and State, ‘Old’ IRA men - most...

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John Arnold

Cork Views: Solutions to local social challenges are on our doorstep

Cork Views: Solutions to local social challenges are on our doorstep

When we talk about tackling Ireland’s most complex social challenges, there can be a temptation to look for a single, top-down solution. But...

wednesday 10

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Women like Nikita are the true trail-blazers for future Ireland

Áilín Quinlan: Women like Nikita are the true trail-blazers for future Ireland

Isn’t it strange the way things happen? I switched off Flack. Fast. I’d browsed Netflix looking to power down after a tiring day and decided to...

wednesday 10

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Áilín Quinlan

Simple advice to help gardeners protect plant health

Simple advice to help gardeners protect plant health

Whether we are tending a window box, working on a farm, walking through a woodland, or choosing plants at a garden centre, we all depend on healthy...

22.09.2026 10

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Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux: We need to add some comforts to our emergency preparedness list

Kathriona Devereux: We need to add some comforts to our emergency preparedness list

Roy Keane famously used the phrase ‘Fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ during the 2002 Saipan World Cup controversy. It’s a motto I forever...

22.09.2026 10

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Kathriona Devereux

Cork Views: My experience led me to create inclusive dance programme

Cork Views: My experience led me to create inclusive dance programme

When I was a teenager, a dance teacher came to my school and invited my classmates to take part in a performance. I was the only student with a...

21.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: My friend’s still a painter at 80 - he vows he will never retire

Trevor Laffan: My friend’s still a painter at 80 - he vows he will never retire

You know how sometimes a smell can take you back in time? You can’t identify exactly what the smell is, but it just reminds you of something from...

21.09.2026 10

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Trevor Laffan

John Dolan: Traitors cast are so judgy about jobs...

John Dolan: Traitors cast are so judgy about jobs...

We live in an age when being judgmental is viewed as a sin. In fact, we’ve even come up with a snappy word for it - ‘judgy’. It’s a wholly...

18.09.2026 20

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John Dolan

Cork Views: I was in a dark place: here’s how I rebuilt my life

Cork Views: I was in a dark place: here’s how I rebuilt my life

There was a time I was full of confidence. I was outgoing, positive, and the kind of person who could walk into a room and make friends with anyone....

17.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: A day at the races... but using AI to select bets lost me €60!

John Arnold: A day at the races... but using AI to select bets lost me €60!

Ye all know that I know very little about this new AI (Artificial Intelligence) thing, but apparently it can be used in several beneficial ways like...

17.09.2026 20

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John Arnold

8 steps to cut risk of stroke or a heart attack

8 steps to cut risk of stroke or a heart attack

People in Cork have been urged to take small steps to reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. Around 16 people have a heart attack in Ireland...

16.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: So many women have helped the GAA... they deserve better

Áilín Quinlan: So many women have helped the GAA... they deserve better

I had my wooden spoon sunk deep into a mixing bowl – I was making porridge bread for somebody who cannot tolerate gluten – when Mary McAleese came...

16.09.2026 10

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Áilín Quinlan

Cork Views: Why give e-scooter users such a rough ride?

Cork Views: Why give e-scooter users such a rough ride?

Under new regulations, the government now requires e-scooter riders to wear high-viz vests. Think about this: The fine for riding an e-scooter without...

15.09.2026 10

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Oliver Moran

Kathriona Devereux: Our soccer heroes must take a stand and boycott Israel games

Kathriona Devereux: Our soccer heroes must take a stand and boycott Israel games

‘Come on you boys in our green army This one’s for humanity Stand up strong and toe the line Side by side with Palestine And boycott the Israeli...

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Kathriona Devereux

Thinking about getting a dog? Here's what you need to think about first

Dogs are increasingly seen as part of the family in Ireland, and that has shaped the way we think about responsible dog ownership. Bringing a dog home...

14.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: The moral dilemmas prompted by the issue of assisted dying

I heard a discussion recently on the radio about a guy who was in a dilemma. I came into it halfway through, so I missed a lot of the conversation....

14.09.2026 20

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Trevor Laffan

John Dolan: The day Cork gave a mighty snub to a visiting US President

When U.S President Donald Trump sets foot in Ireland on Saturday for a two-day visit, a few million people would love to send him packing with a flea...

11.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Cork TD: 'I don't want my story to be about 'beating' epilepsy..I haven't beaten anything'

I never planned to talk publicly about my epilepsy. Now I know why I should. For most of my life, I was never sick. I genuinely don’t think I missed...

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: Mystery of life and death of a Cork emigrant is finally solved

I’d never heard of the Western Sydney University until a few days ago when I was going back over bits and pieces I had written over the last...

10.09.2026 20

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John Arnold

150 free events taking place in towns and villages in Cork for Culture Night

Cork County Council will present more than 150 free events across towns, villages and islands throughout the county as part of Culture Night 2026....

10.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: A tale of 2 cars, 2 scratches... and a domestic battle of the sexes

A life lesson if ever there was one. Some weeks previously, I had a need to drive my husband’s car. I was only running down to Centra for a few...

09.09.2026 20

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Áilín Quinlan

Cork Views: We must prioritise homeless children in State

Today, there are parents distressed at the thought of how they will tell their child they are losing their home. How do you explain to your little one...

08.09.2026 30

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Sharon Lambert

Kathriona Devereux: I weep at our climate change failures... but I won’t give up

A news headline made me cry. It wasn’t about a million euro’s worth of cocaine seized in Cork Airport, or a life sentence for a senseless murder,...

08.09.2026 20

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Kathriona Devereux

ISCP Chief: Physiotherapy must be central to stroke care

As Ireland marks World Physiotherapy Day on Tuesday, a growing body of Irish research into stroke recovery shows why physiotherapy must be recognised...

07.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: From phone booths to calls to our grandson, aged 12, in Oz

My wife was trying to contact our daughter in Australia, but she wasn’t answering her phone, so she rang Cooper, my grandson, instead. He’s 12 and...

07.09.2026 20

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Trevor Laffan

John Dolan: My home heating bill is huge, thanks to Trump... and Harris

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...

04.09.2026 20

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John Dolan

Cork Views: Nobody told me this about life in your twenties

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...

03.09.2026 30

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Jessica Anne Rose

John Arnold: Dave was buried in England... but his home was always Cork

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...

03.09.2026 20

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John Arnold

Cork Views: Why I ditched my master’s career path to work at pizza joint

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...

03.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Find your own room? What an insult to gardaí at Trump event

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...

02.09.2026 30

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Áilín Quinlan

'Tour the city and see something new': Culture Night returns to Cork city

Culture Night 2026 takes place on Friday, September 18, inviting people to come together for a night of free cultural discovery, creativity and...

01.09.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux: Robot athletes? Nah... but I’d love to see one washing Pana!

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...

01.09.2026 30

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Kathriona Devereux

Explainer: How you can get free travel to the North

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,...

31.08.2026 20

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: I was involved in car chases -the gardaí need reassurances

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...

31.08.2026 20

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Trevor Laffan

John Dolan: If you wear smart glasses, I’ll just assume you’re a wrong un

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...

28.08.2026 30

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John Dolan

Cork Views: Have your say on Cork city speed limits

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...

27.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: Can you really put a curse on someone or a place?

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...

27.08.2026 30

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John Arnold

Cork Views: Every September, those three famous words appear in the chat....Just a reminder

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...

26.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Wide awake at 3am, a spooky audiobook cured my insomnia

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...

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: We must prioritise the frustrated 50% in our society in Budget 2027

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...

25.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux: I was among 38,000 who thrilled to The Sound Of Music in Cork..bravo!

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...

25.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

Cork cardiologist: Beware of using a watch to monitor your heart

“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....

24.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: A rail security force would be great, but I’ll still avoid trains

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...

24.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

John Dolan: This has to be the finest café view in Cork... and all Ireland

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...

21.08.2026 30

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John Dolan

What students in Cork need to know ahead of Leaving Cert results day

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...

20.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: At an ancient Cork well, I took a moment to ponder and reflect

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,...

20.08.2026 30

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John Arnold

Cork Views: We need political leadership to combat racism

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...

20.08.2026 30

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: The mirror showed an abundance of wrinkles...did I want Botox?

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...

19.08.2026 20

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Áilín Quinlan