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Áilín Quinlan

Áilín Quinlan

Evening Echo

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As Election Day looms, here are some ‘unresolved’ issues

Yet another election day looms. And still, things that are so screamingly obvious to those of us at the frontline of living in Ireland today...

27.11.2024 4

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Áilín Quinlan

How to stop fly-tippers: Do we put a levy on food takeaways?

“Oh, my God,” my friend said. “The sheer nerve of it.” We stood at the side of the little country road and contemplated the jumble of wood,...

13.11.2024 5

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Áilín Quinlan

I finally gave in and got an air fryer - but I refuse to use it!

You know the kind of person who gets every new gadget the very minute they hit the market? I’m not that person. But I am surrounded by people who...

06.11.2024 60

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Áilín Quinlan

Listen up, Yanks... here’s why Halloween belongs to the Irish

Tomorrow millions of people will watch horror films. Towns and villages will be plastered with orange pumpkins and light-up decorations. In the USA...

30.10.2024 4

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Áilín Quinlan

I refuse to warn other drivers of speed patrols - nor should you

I did a bold thing. Since Irish roads turned into the Wild West a few years ago, I’ve been honked at, tailgated, passed out on hairpin bends, and...

23.10.2024 3

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Áilín Quinlan

So many questions over issue of reactions to Covid vaccine

Did you see this, somebody said, holding up the front page of a newspaper. We were sitting around a café table. The waitress was standing beside...

16.10.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

Are men less demanding, more easygoing? Or more self-centred?

Oh God, I thought, am I imagining things? I checked again. I wasn’t imagining it. Over the past few days I had received WhatsApp messages from five...

09.10.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

Can’t you see how toxic devices really are? It’s ok to be bored...

What is this terrible anxiety we seem to have around children getting bored? As we sat in a restaurant waiting for our meal to arrive, my friend and...

25.09.2024 10

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Áilín Quinlan

Women beaten, raped, tortured, murdered, at the hands of men with notions

Ah, Saturdays. You gotta love ’em. But last Saturday was a bit different. Last Saturday was a momentous day. Last Saturday reminded us about what...

18.09.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

€415 for an Oasis ticket, while fears for our economy grow...

“I don’t get it,” I said. My friend and I were talking about the Oasis ticket fiasco, where the price of admission was advertised for between...

04.09.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

€120 to see Ireland v England, but Oasis tickets were rip-off?

Early this week, I carried out a little experiment. I logged onto the Ticketmaster website (it was working perfectly at 10am on Monday!) and...

04.09.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

11 nuggets of wisdom to help steer you towards a better life

Who is this guy, I thought. I did a google. Former star baseball player. Former top gilt-edged, go-getter in the world of high finance. Now owns...

28.08.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

The value of a mealtime and a kitchen table in modern world

“But”, I said, more than a little taken aback – “the table’s where everything happened!” See, there’s been a lot of talk in this house...

21.08.2024 3

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Áilín Quinlan

A zero-tolerance campaign to target rogue drivers is needed

I was feeling unaccountably cheerful. For the first time in more months than I can remember, I’d completed a car journey without a single scary...

07.08.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

My hubby has 70 shirts, and he refuses to throw any out!

He wasn’t throwing out any shirts, he said. He needed old shirts for doing work around the house. He needed work-shirts for his shed, for...

31.07.2024 2

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Áilín Quinlan

Our sleepy rural idyll invaded by loud, dangerous boy racers

My eyes snap open. I look at the clock. It’s just after midnight. The noise of revving and screeching on the road outside is deafening. It sounds,...

24.07.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan

Is this why young adults are tense, stressed, and anxious?

Mice and men. Well, there’s the John Steinbeck novel. And then, even more interestingly, there’s John B Calhoun. John B Calhoun was an ethnologist...

17.07.2024 1

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Áilín Quinlan