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Thousands of students in Cork, and indeed all over the country, are beginning to feel the mounting pressure of Leaving Cert 2025. For many students,...
I’m not a fan of noise. By that I mean unnecessary noise. If someone nearby is using a jack hammer or a JCB to carry out maintenance work, that’s...
When you’re 22 years old and a happy-go-lucky student, being filmed running around Cork city in just red trunks seems like a gas idea. Nineteen...
Everyone knows that February 14 is Valentine’s Day, but did you know that February 13 is Self-Love Day? There is a common saying in the self-help...
God knows, it’s strange the things people ask me alright! Years ago, someone enquired of me as to whether I had ever written anything about dung?...
On December 1, 2024, the rules for several of the housing grants provided by Cork County Council changed. The changes included increases of 30% in the...
Time has a way of slipping by. One moment you’re starting your career, the next you’re juggling mortgages, the expense of raising children, and...
One of the nicest gifts I got for Christmas was a home-made, soy-wax scented candle in an antique china teacup and saucer. My sister-in-law had made...
‘Preppers’ are people who prepare for an apocalypse by stockpiling canned food, and who know how to trap, kill, and cook a rabbit in the wild....
The Seniors Alert Scheme provides funding for a free personal monitored alarm for people aged 65 and older and of limited means. The scheme is...
Pablo is a friend of mine in Cyprus. He is over 80 years of age now and comes from a little village called Liopetri, which is in the Famagusta...
Generally, the amount of pay you get for working is agreed between you and your employer. Pay negotiations usually happen when you get a job offer....
If you’re reading this by torch or candlelight after spending more than a week with no power, then you have my deepest sympathy. I speak from...
The sporting world is cursed by hyperbole. So, when I say this is shaping up to be a brilliant Saturday of TV sport, you might be forgiven for...
Here on Facebook Feedback, we have found that our readers are not averse to a rant about Cork traffic. An opinion piece penned by our regular...
The shakiest of starts, and having to immediately face up to new challenges both home and abroad, means there is no honeymoon period for a new...
The silence and the smell are the two things I remember most about the concentration camp in Dachau. It was a fine day in September 1986, that I...
Treatment Benefit is a scheme run by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to provide a limited financial contribution towards dental, optical and...
This might sound a bit OTT, but I’m getting a bit scared at the way so many individuals appear to feel so incredibly entitled to blame other people...
When you buy something in Ireland or the EU, you have strong rights. The laws are designed to make you feel confident when shopping in stores or...
Disruption - it’s everywhere. From weather and travel chaos to electricity outages and contentious scenes in the Dáil. It’s become a staple of...
You can check your income and the tax you paid in previous years and whether you paid the correct amount. You can check: In 2020, there was a change...
A scam is an illegal or dishonest scheme that aims to steal from or defraud people. They target people of all ages and backgrounds via various...
I’m a little confused, which isn’t all that strange. I don’t have an engineering degree either, which probably accounts for some of it. Maybe...
English people who move to Ireland often arrive with preconceived ideas of what the locals are like. The Irish are quick to try to dispel any such...
Q: Can you tell me if there is an extra payment for people on social welfare payments who are living alone? Yes, there is a payment called the Living...
We were in Lanzarote for a week lately, and it was just mighty. Growing up in the last century, I was endowed with a fine map of foxy curly hair....
We said goodbye to Milo this week. Our half horse/half dog had been with us since my youngest was in first year and the eldest in Leaving Cert. Four...
Last Saturday, my wife Helena and myself set off on a day trip to Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford. It was with a heavy heart we made this...
I’d never really given the issue much thought, but suddenly I knew exactly where I stood. You can’t really avoid unisex toilets on airplanes or...
The future Cork city will be a city with a lot of more people. We currently have a population of 225,000 people. We will have passed quarter of a...
Twenty years ago, I hopped on board a boat to film the Arklow Bank Wind Farm 13km off the coast of Wicklow It was a beautiful, sunny, windy day, ideal...
This is a month when the soundbite of ‘New Year, new me’ can often be heard. But if you suffer from mild to severe hearing loss, perhaps it could...
They call Bali the Island of the Gods. There are statues and images of strange-looking creatures everywhere, usually partially covered with black and...
In our obsession to live longer, we’ve forgotten how to live better and the power of connection. An aunt of mine, a sister in a community of nuns,...
“’Tis as bad as the night of the Cardiff Hall.” There may still be a few old salts living along the West Cork coastline who will recall that...
What are employees’ entitlements in relation to Public Holidays? Most employees are entitled to paid leave on public holidays. There is an...
“I left Mount Melleray with feelings of deep regret. You leave men who live in a truer world than ours. You drive through the beautiful avenue and...
If you think the fruit and vegetables are positioned at the front of the supermarket so that you don’t forget to put your five-a-day into the...
“Ah, g’wan outta dat,” they said. “You’re imagining things.” We had a gang in over the Christmas. Sitting around a blazing fire, drinks in...
As I used a lift with a friend recently, he remarked on how low the buttons were positioned. “This design is silly,” he said, assuming it was an...
My first impression of Los Angeles in the summer of 2006 was, “Woah, there are a lot of cars”. Driving from the airport to our three-star hotel in...
Disability services must be at the top of the next government’s agenda. We cannot have another five years of neglect for some of the most vulnerable...
My wife and I travelled to Australia recently to see our daughter, her husband, and our three grandchildren. I wasn’t looking forward to the...
Growing up on a farm near Crookstown, and with a dad who taught woodwork and mechanical drawing, there was always some type of ‘engineering’...
I’ve reached a stage in life where I am prone to loudly and proudly regale young people about stories of the olden days, and how different things...
The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition is much more than a competition. It is an unforgettable lifetime experience that was one of the...
Well, we had the much sung-about ‘White Christmas’ this year - not, as might be expected, on December 25, but a dozen days later on January 6 -...
When you’re in your twenties or thirties, it’s easy to feel like you have all the time in the world. With careers to build, adventures to plan,...
“I don’t give a sh**e what you say,” the man on the e-scooter told us. He zipped across the road to the opposite pavement, mounted it, and...