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Leaving Cert 2025: Getting the basics right for exam success

Leaving Cert 2025: Getting the basics right for exam success

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,...

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Cork Views: Shhh! Noisy pubs are a pain in the ear-hole

Cork Views: Shhh! Noisy pubs are a pain in the ear-hole

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...

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YouTube is 20 years old, meet first Cork stars to go viral on it

YouTube is 20 years old, meet first Cork stars to go viral on it

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...

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Mirin Mooney: ‘Self-love is essential for mental health and happiness’

Mirin Mooney: ‘Self-love is essential for mental health and happiness’

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...

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The amazing life and puzzling death of Cork wit John Philpot Curran

The amazing life and puzzling death of Cork wit John Philpot Curran

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?...

07.02.2025 9

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Evening Echo

Explainer: Changes to Cork County Council's housing grants for people with a disability and older people

Explainer: Changes to Cork County Council's housing grants for people with a disability and older people

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...

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Evening Echo

It’s never too late to plan for your pension

It’s never too late to plan for your pension

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...

06.02.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Me, make my very own scented candles? Well, I did try, honest

Me, make my very own scented candles? Well, I did try, honest

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...

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Evening Echo

In a climate-changing world, we all need to be ‘preppers’

In a climate-changing world, we all need to be ‘preppers’

‘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....

05.02.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Do you qualify for the Seniors Alert Scheme?

Do you qualify for the Seniors Alert Scheme?

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...

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Trevor Laffan: My friend Pablo who was an eyewitness to bloody history

Trevor Laffan: My friend Pablo who was an eyewitness to bloody history

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...

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Latest advice on minimum wage changes

Latest advice on minimum wage changes

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....

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John Dolan: No power for a week and not a cent in compo

John Dolan: No power for a week and not a cent in compo

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...

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Evening Echo

John Dolan: Your hour-by-hour armchair guide to a great day of TV sport

John Dolan: Your hour-by-hour armchair guide to a great day of TV sport

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...

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Evening Echo

‘Rush hours worse than ever’... Echo column prompts big debate on Dunkettle traffic

‘Rush hours worse than ever’... Echo column prompts big debate on Dunkettle traffic

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...

01.02.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: We must ensure that Cork TDs work for Cork

Cork Views: We must ensure that Cork TDs work for Cork

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...

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: 'We can’t deny Holocaust, nor can we deny Cromwell’s evil'

John Arnold: 'We can’t deny Holocaust, nor can we deny Cromwell’s evil'

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...

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Evening Echo

Explainer: What is the Treatment Benefit Scheme?

Explainer: What is the Treatment Benefit Scheme?

Treatment Benefit is a scheme run by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to provide a limited financial contribution towards dental, optical and...

31.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Dáil outbursts just a reflection of our angry and rude society

Áilín Quinlan: Dáil outbursts just a reflection of our angry and rude society

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...

30.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Know your consumer rights: what to do if things go wrong with a product you purchased 

Know your consumer rights: what to do if things go wrong with a product you purchased 

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...

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Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux: 'We live in an age of disruption, at home and across the world'

Disruption - it’s everywhere. From weather and travel chaos to electricity outages and contentious scenes in the Dáil. It’s become a staple of...

29.01.2025 30

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Evening Echo

How to check your tax affairs and see if you are due a refund 

How to check your tax affairs and see if you are due a refund 

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...

29.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

How to avoid being scammed

How to avoid being scammed

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...

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: Major flaw in €215m Dunkettle project that means jams today

Trevor Laffan: Major flaw in €215m Dunkettle project that means jams today

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...

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Evening Echo

With Healy Raes in power, we might get an event centre now

With Healy Raes in power, we might get an event centre now

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...

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Evening Echo

Advice on the ‘Living Alone’ payment

Advice on the ‘Living Alone’ payment

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...

25.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: I headed for the sun... but still talked slurry with Irish farmers

John Arnold: I headed for the sun... but still talked slurry with Irish farmers

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....

24.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Farewell, Milo, our best friend for 12 years

Farewell, Milo, our best friend for 12 years

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...

24.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Letter to the Editor: Sad last pilgrimage to Mount Melleray

Letter to the Editor: Sad last pilgrimage to Mount Melleray

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...

24.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

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...

23.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

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...

23.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Kathriona Devereux: We need a wind of change in attitude to renewable energy

Kathriona Devereux: We need a wind of change in attitude to renewable energy

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...

22.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Hearing issue? Now’s the time to address it

Hearing issue? Now’s the time to address it

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...

22.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: An island where everyone is happy, smiling, and pleasant

Trevor Laffan: An island where everyone is happy, smiling, and pleasant

They call Bali the Island of the Gods. There are statues and images of strange-looking creatures everywhere, usually partially covered with black and...

21.01.2025 8

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: 'We've turned living into a full-time job'

Cork Views: 'We've turned living into a full-time job'

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,...

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Evening Echo

Murder most foul? The mystery of the Cork shipwreck from 100 years ago

“’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...

19.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Annual leave: What are workers’ rights regarding holidays?

What are employees’ entitlements in relation to Public Holidays? Most employees are entitled to paid leave on public holidays. There is an...

18.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

A final silence set to descend on esteemed Mount Melleray

“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...

17.01.2025 30

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: Do your weekly shop in reverse - it will be healthier and cheaper

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...

17.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

From Alexa to car safety, even pianos, it’s still a man’s world

“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...

16.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: We must design a city where everyone can thrive

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...

16.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Trip to LA left me with burning questions about city’s future

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...

15.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: Disability services must improve in Ireland

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...

15.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: A flight from hell and mozzies - the price of seeing my family in Oz

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...

14.01.2025 20

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Evening Echo

Why not consider a career as an engineer?

Growing up on a farm near Crookstown, and with a dad who taught woodwork and mechanical drawing, there was always some type of ‘engineering’...

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Evening Echo

'We have won the war on smoking, but I draw the line at outdoor ban'

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...

12.01.2025 9

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Evening Echo

'It was all a bit surreal': Cork doctor recalls day she won BT Young Scientist prize 

The BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition is much more than a competition. It is an unforgettable lifetime experience that was one of the...

11.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

A White Little Christmas, and I made jam with grandchildren!

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 -...

10.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

'It's never too soon to plan for your financial future'

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,...

10.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: Cork is not pedestrian-friendly - just read my own experience

“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...

09.01.2025 8

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Evening Echo