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John Dolan: That’s my girl... strutting her stuff on the Opera House stage

John Dolan: That’s my girl... strutting her stuff on the Opera House stage

Many moons ago, when I was a teenage cub reporter, the manager of the local bingo hall on my patch asked me to come along and judge an Easter bonnet...

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Cork Views: Festival shows Cork is a great place to learn

Cork Views: Festival shows Cork is a great place to learn

Sometimes, to really see your city you need to see it through the eyes of others – strangers, visitors, people who are new to the city. Over the...

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John Arnold: The joys on my farm as spring unfolds

John Arnold: The joys on my farm as spring unfolds

It was the Cork ‘Young Irelander’ Denny Lane that wrote The Lament Of The Irish Maiden – better known as Carrigdhoun, a song many regard as our...

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Áilín Quinlan: Pardon my smugness, but I do grow my own herbs, you know

Áilín Quinlan: Pardon my smugness, but I do grow my own herbs, you know

It started with Diarmuid Gavin and a very old, second-hand book. Well, it didn’t. But, actually, it kind of did. I’m starting to sound a bit like...

17.04.2025 10

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Cork Views: Light rail project is central to Cork’s future

Cork Views: Light rail project is central to Cork’s future

Cork Chamber, the voice of business in Cork, is delighted to welcome the publication of the emerging preferred route for the light rail network in...

17.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: It’s time to teach our children how to paint and fix and repair

Cork Views: It’s time to teach our children how to paint and fix and repair

I grew up in a household where nothing was ever thrown out. My father was a genius when it came to fixing things. Washing machines were turned upside...

16.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: Our mission to eliminate cervical cancer

Cork Views: Our mission to eliminate cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease, with screening playing a key role in its early detection. In 2008, cervical screening was introduced across...

16.04.2025 9

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Cork Views: Time for parents to take lead in digital world

Cork Views: Time for parents to take lead in digital world

There are two places I am completely free from my phone – in my bed and in the swimming pool. Since my children have left home and are no longer...

15.04.2025 30

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Trevor Laffan: Rowdy, drunken passengers should be barred from flying

Trevor Laffan: Rowdy, drunken passengers should be barred from flying

An irate Ryanair passenger recently told a newspaper that she will never fly with the budget airline again after being ‘forced’ to pay £62...

15.04.2025 10

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John Dolan: Tariffs war means end of good times? Er, what good times?!

John Dolan: Tariffs war means end of good times? Er, what good times?!

As Ireland careered into an existential economic crisis in 2010, after a decade of the roaring Celtic Tiger, then Finance Minister Brian Lenihan tried...

13.04.2025 9

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'Dependency is our greatest strength': Cork teacher to release debut poetry collection 

'Dependency is our greatest strength': Cork teacher to release debut poetry collection 

My parents didn’t know what to do with me when I started writing poetry as a child. It wasn’t an interest of theirs, but that didn’t stop them...

12.04.2025 10

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A love letter to home: 'Cork does not suit sun, it’s a rainy city!'

A love letter to home: 'Cork does not suit sun, it’s a rainy city!'

The rain always uproots ghosts from the bedrock of this city. Memories are laid on thicker in the wetness of the river’s floodplains. In sunshine,...

11.04.2025 30

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Farewell to Cork priest and All-Ireland winner Canon Colie

Farewell to Cork priest and All-Ireland winner Canon Colie

Back in 2023, when he was celebrating his 70 years as a priest, Canon Colman (Colie) O’Donovan of Midleton was interviewed by many different...

11.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: ‘It shouldn’t fall on parents to build our playgrounds’

Cork Views: ‘It shouldn’t fall on parents to build our playgrounds’

Around the country, there are groups of parents volunteering their time and energy to upgrade their local playgrounds. In Cork, a playground committee...

11.04.2025 20

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: I need to balance my chakras, hubby thinks I’m unbalanced!

Áilín Quinlan: I need to balance my chakras, hubby thinks I’m unbalanced!

He didn’t see the point of hanging a doily on the wall, he said. But it isn’t a doily, I argued; it’s a mandala. “It looks like a doily to...

10.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Supports available if you buy a derelict property

Supports available if you buy a derelict property

What is the Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan? The Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan (LAPR) is a government-backed mortgage and...

10.04.2025 9

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'I never noticed that before': Kathriona Devereux joins fossil walk in Cork city

'I never noticed that before': Kathriona Devereux joins fossil walk in Cork city

Normally, when entering a church like St Mary’s on Pope’s Quay, your eye is drawn upwards. The large limestone columns urge you to look to the...

09.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Dr Catherine Conlon: Teens need a place to hang out in Cork city

Dr Catherine Conlon: Teens need a place to hang out in Cork city

A restored landmark in Cork city is being considered as the site for a city library. Cork City Council is reportedly examining the feasibility of...

09.04.2025 9

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Me on skis? I’d fall over, and it would be downhill from there

Me on skis? I’d fall over, and it would be downhill from there

The former UK tennis star Andy Murray had to be rescued by a snowmobile from a ski slope recently during his first attempt at the sport. Videos posted...

08.04.2025 10

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Cork Views: 'Places like Murphy’s Rock are becoming rarer...the road plans should be rejected'

Cork Views: 'Places like Murphy’s Rock are becoming rarer...the road plans should be rejected'

The recent publication of the ‘emerging’ preferred route for the new Cork Northern Distributor Road has generated relatively little public debate....

08.04.2025 10

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John Dolan: My €9.57 tip for Grand National - and strange theory behind it!

John Dolan: My €9.57 tip for Grand National - and strange theory behind it!

Ah, Aintree Grand National day. Like the TV close-ups of azaleas at the U.S Masters, it’s one of the sporting signs that spring has arrived, along...

06.04.2025 9

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Evening Echo

Cork food: 'Fast Al’s and Hillbilly’s are a rite of passage for every Corkonian'

Cork food: 'Fast Al’s and Hillbilly’s are a rite of passage for every Corkonian'

The U.S burger and fries chain, Wendy’s, has chosen Cork as the first place to plant its flag in Ireland. People are, generally, not happy about it....

05.04.2025 10

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How easy is it to navigate Cork city on crutches? Adrienne Acton found out

How easy is it to navigate Cork city on crutches? Adrienne Acton found out

Having had two surgeries back-to-back, I recently found myself manoeuvring around with the aid of two crutches. Wonderful things once you get the hang...

05.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

'We're not here to reinvent the wheel': Project puts Cork's transport systems in focus 

'We're not here to reinvent the wheel': Project puts Cork's transport systems in focus 

We all have places we need to be and people we’d like to see. For most of us, travel is about everyday life - getting to work, visiting friends,...

04.04.2025 20

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Cork Views: Centuries of life and history... now this house will be no more

Cork Views: Centuries of life and history... now this house will be no more

It happened on a sunny, summer Sunday morning. My neighbour, the late Jim Ahern of Hightown, remembered it well and reckoned it might have been around...

04.04.2025 8

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: Dispelling common autism myths

Cork Views: Dispelling common autism myths

April 2 is Autism Awareness Day, a time to recognise just how much our understanding of autism has evolved in the last 20 years. It is estimated that...

03.04.2025 30

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Áilín Quinlan: 'How much...now my jaw crashed to the floor'

Áilín Quinlan: 'How much...now my jaw crashed to the floor'

“You’re kidding me,” I said to the butcher. He wasn’t. See, the thing is, I’d a mind for a bit of lamb. Maybe it was simply association –...

03.04.2025 20

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Kathriona Devereux: Forget the Swiss Army knife - how will you feed the baby in a disaster? 

Kathriona Devereux: Forget the Swiss Army knife - how will you feed the baby in a disaster? 

In the aftermath of Storm Éowyn, I wrote about how we all need to become preppers in a climate changed world. Someone high up in the EU must be an...

02.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: 'I have no desire to get naked in public'

Trevor Laffan: 'I have no desire to get naked in public'

The media in the UK has been warning British tourists holidaying on the Algarve this summer that they could face £1,250 fines if they are caught...

01.04.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork art exhibition inspired by children of Gaza

Cork art exhibition inspired by children of Gaza

When friends Féile Butler, of Sligo, and Mohammed Timraz, of Gaza, began swapping images of children’s art over WhatsApp in June last year, they...

01.04.2025 20

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John Dolan: Should a Cork city teacher be paid more than a county one?

Sure, there are wars taking place, and there is much talk about tariffs, there’s global instability, and of course climate change. But few topics...

30.03.2025 10

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'Retaining talent requires more than competitive salaries and standard benefits'

In today’s highly competitive job market, retaining and attracting top talent requires more than just competitive salaries and standard benefits....

29.03.2025 5

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John Arnold: Day I got my stool sample and Winning Streak ticket mixed up

Tomorrow, March 28, is Daffodil Day. Started under the guidance of Dr Austin Darragh, then President of the Irish Cancer Society, it was first...

28.03.2025 7

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Áilín Quinlan: Adolescence series is a warning siren for parents, the government and gardaí

It’s caused a tsunami of concern in the UK. And it should be doing the same here. Ireland has the same toxic childhood culture as the UK, driven by...

27.03.2025 40

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Cork Views: 'Being bored for a moment has become the enemy'

Having to wait for a reward is something that has been confined to the past. Those of us of a certain age had to wait patiently for a new item of...

27.03.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: In another few weeks the garden will be the 'balm to the soul' 

Once St Patrick’s Day has passed, it is time to get back into the garden. Growing up in the suburbs in Dublin, I hadn’t much interest in gardening...

26.03.2025 8

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Cork Views: Just one woman among headliners announced so far for Live at the Marquee gig series

It’s not a good look. So far, the only female headliner announced in the entire Live at the Marquee summer series of headline acts is Róisín...

26.03.2025 7

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: Stranded in Oz... lost, with no cash or phone, feeling an eejit

My daughter, Vicki, her husband Ian, and their three children are currently living on the outskirts of Brisbane city in Australia. They were living in...

25.03.2025 20

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What are your rights if you’re off sick from work?

What is Illness Benefit? It is a weekly payment you may get if you cannot work because you are sick or ill. To get Illness Benefit, you must meet the...

25.03.2025 10

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A ‘few’ good men: Saluting the courageous Cork pilots of WWII

It was the day World War II began, and Corkman William Murphy was right in the thick of it. The 23-year-old son of William and Katherine Murphy, from...

23.03.2025 7

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Cork Views: Taking time to celebrate and to understand neurodiversity

What is all this talk about neurodiversity? The term neurodivergent is an umbrella term that describes individuals whose brain functions, cognitive...

22.03.2025 10

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John Arnold: History is embedded into the names of our lands and fields

The surname Arnold is not a very common one in these parts. Yes, there are families in the greater Cork city area who bear the name, but as far as I...

21.03.2025 10

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Supports for the victims of domestic violence

If a partner or an ex makes you feel scared, controlled or intimidated, you may be experiencing domestic abuse. There are many different forms of...

21.03.2025 10

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Áilín Quinlan: €1.23 a litre fuel? My husband almost leapt out the window

“How much did you say a litre of petrol cost again, over there in Gran Canaria?” I asked. The price of petrol is the kind of thing my husband...

20.03.2025 20

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Breathing exercises to help you to reduce stress levels 

Stress triggers our body’s primal fight or flight response, overseen by the sympathetic nervous system, which prepares us to respond to perceived...

20.03.2025 10

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Cork Views: Empower yourself, and learn about periods

I frequently have women attending my surgery complaining of feeling TATT (tired all the time). There are many causes of this -juggling work, home...

19.03.2025 20

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Cork Views: Time to spend, spend, spend on new light railway for Cork

Mention of Cork’s light rail plans is often met with a tut and an eye roll. Many are cynical that ‘the crowd up in Dublin’ that is the...

19.03.2025 10

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Trevor Laffan: Sleep disorders must be the stuff of nightmares

I love my sleep. For me, there is nothing nicer than heading off to bed at night and getting my head down on a comfortable pillow. Thankfully I...

18.03.2025 30

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'We ate, we drank, we played games': The Patrick’s Day in Seoul I’ll treasure forever

The moment I showed up for my first day on the job in Seoul, South Korea, I knew that I was going to enjoy working with the team in SEV. It was a...

18.03.2025 10

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Forget towing... here’s how to clampdown on illegal parking

How desperate, or - perhaps more pertinently - how arrogant and selfish would you have to be, to park your car illegally on MacCurtain Street? I...

16.03.2025 10

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