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Áilín Quinlan

Áilín Quinlan

Evening Echo

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Stress, anxiety, confusion as we navigate new Cork intersections

THE lady in the snappy purple boots sighed. She was dreading the drive back to North Cork, she said. We were standing, shivering, in a long queue...

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Áilín Quinlan

Drone problem is not new... it’s been on the radar since 2017

WHEN the Minister for Transport is spending his time making the burning of turf a hanging offence, badgering rural dwellers without easy access to...

13.03.2023 4

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Áilín Quinlan

Something has to give in ‘This Land of Saints and Scholars’

HERE’S the ironic thing about Ireland. This Land of Saints and Scholars has - rightly - welcomed thousands of war-refugees and asylum-seekers of all...

25.02.2023 10

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Think you know a narcissist? Here’s what they’re really like

IS it just me or does this word suddenly seem to be popping up everywhere? Someone complained to me about a difficult and unpleasant relative....

19.02.2023 8

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Nurses’ dossier of violence lifts lid on our angry, selfish society

ARE we proud of ourselves now? Ten times a day we assault a nurse in our hospitals. Our misogyny, impatience, rage and sense of entitlement has...

11.02.2023 9

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Áilín Quinlan

We stepped up, but government has bit off more than it can chew

‘TO bite off more than you can chew’. It’s a familiar aphorism, but in the interests of accuracy, I ran a quick check with the Collins English...

04.02.2023 9

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I’m not rushing out to buy an electric car just yet, here’s why...

SO here’s the thing. The little people never win. I’m not talking about leprechauns or pots of gold under rainbows, because there never are any...

22.01.2023 5

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In modern life, an invasion of privacy is just a click away...

“LOOK,” the man said, “it’s over, there’s no point going on about it. New year, new start, look ahead and march on. “Enjoy the crocuses....

14.01.2023 5

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Áilín Quinlan

Steeped in my family lore, my gran’s recipe for fab Bean Pie

ONE morning more than 100 years ago, a young man called Johnny Fortune mounted his penny-farthing bicycle on a Dublin street and set off to visit his...

07.01.2023 7

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Buy my own Christmas card? What a load of old humbug...

“THE party’s on, the feeling’s here, that only comes one time a year,” sang Paul McCartney as I stood in front of the rack of Christmas cards,...

11.12.2022 7

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Sea swimming is my salvation in my battle with Long Covid

IT’S not just the camaraderie of the other women laughing around me, their wet hair streaming with sea-water as they towel themselves down; it’s...

03.12.2022 10

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Áilín Quinlan

A leak that took seven years to fix - no wonder I hit the roof!

IT’S an undeniable truth that we all tend to see things through our own, rather narrow lens, but sometimes life treats you to the odd flash of...

27.11.2022 10

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Áilín Quinlan

Has Covid changed society for the worse... made it colder and less kind?

I WAS frantically looking for birthday presents for a man who doesn’t want anything. I’m sure you know this sort of male. Over the years, a...

20.11.2022 4

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Áilín Quinlan

At last! Proof Long Covid is not a figment of my imagination

SO, here we are. At last. An Irish report. Real-time Irish-based research into the domestic experience of Long Covid by the renowned APC Microbiome...

12.11.2022 10

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There’s gratitude! Ukraine’s Ambassador lacks diplomacy

WAS it being racist, the old woman inquired, to say that she thought the Ukrainian Ambassador had been downright ungrateful? Complaining that a group...

05.11.2022 4

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Áilín Quinlan

I wouldn’t be stressing about that song, ladies, here’s why...

AMIDST the outrage, the disapproval, the condemnation, a threatened police investigation, some fulsome apologising and the serious “talking...

24.10.2022 4

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The Irish were just a bunch of followers really... weren’t they?

SHE was unremarkable-looking; an American tourist. It was her voice, and more specifically, what she was saying that left me standing with my mouth...

02.10.2022 5

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Áilín Quinlan

Time to wash in the stream... and bring dirty dishes and laundry with me

“WOULD it be preferable,” I eventually inquired in chilly tones, “to just wash the dishes, the laundry and myself in the stream below?” The...

24.09.2022 6

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Once a pleasant way to travel ... trains are gone ‘off the rails’

WHEN a friend of mine, a bird-sized lady in her sixties, mentioned she was planning to travel alone by train to Dublin from Cork and back again –...

05.09.2022 7

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Áilín Quinlan

Here is my experience of the menopause: I hope it helps you

WELL, now, I have to say, Gráinne Seoige has a point. We don’t talk about menopause nearly enough. Lots of newspaper articles are written about it...

28.08.2022 6

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Áilín Quinlan

Did someone possibly buy their rich-kid a dinosaur skeleton?

MY immediate thought was: now there’s the birthday present of birthday presents for the serious child who loves dinosaurs and has everything...

14.08.2022 4

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Áilín Quinlan

We’ve become too complacent in finding real value for money

WHEN I was small, I used to stay with my grandparents quite often in a bustling little town on the east coast. Maybe it was on a Friday, but it could...

07.08.2022 4

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Áilín Quinlan

Who’s to blame for scavenging greedy gulls? It’s us humans...

WE’RE on holiday. It’s beautifully warm and sunny. I have just laid out a lovely picnic salad lunch on the wooden table on the patio and gone back...

31.07.2022 5

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Áilín Quinlan

A cynic’s view: Ireland will be a haven for elites while Europe burns

HIS theory, the man said, was that Ireland was set to become the most popular residential destination in the world. It was all about the climate,...

24.07.2022 10

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