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We never went on family holidays back in the days of my youth. I’m not saying that in any ‘poor mouth’ manner - no, back in the 1960s and early...
I DO wonder sometimes do people take life too seriously? Don’t get me wrong now, I know this world can well and truly be described as a ‘vale of...
Next Sunday there will be in excess of 80,000 people in Croke Park for the All-Ireland Hurling semi-final between Limerick and Cork. Most of the crowd...
DO you know we lit the fire in the room a few nights last week! I know, it’s crazy, the middle of June and the fire lighting in the grate. As Yeats...
‘TELL me John why isn’t there a statue of Bernadette anywhere near the Grotto?’ I was asked that question in Lourdes last week! We are all...
‘ARNOLD, John - Vote No.1’. Well, that has a nice ring to it alright, and with a name beginning with A, I’d be guaranteed to appear ‘early’...
THERE was an audible intake of breath and a gasp when Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Kieran McCarthy spoke last Friday night of the chain he was wearing. He...
I LEFT early for Thurles last Sunday. After Bartlemy Mass, I came home to do a few jobs - feed a stubborn calf and the two pigs - and I was on the...
WHATEVER happened to John Arnold? Well it’s a story - no... a mystery really - that I’ve tried to solve over the years without success, and still...
SOMETIMES, I wonder am I too conservative. People seem to think that clinging to long-held beliefs and principles is symptomatic of, as they say,...
BACK in the 1990s, major renovations and improvements were undertaken on the churches and schools in this parish. A Committee was formed to oversee...
WRITING lately of my more than half a century as a GAA member, I quoted the first two lines of a famous song, I’ve been to a great many places /And...
DID ye ever see the play The Kings Of Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy? Set in London in the 1990s, the play is all about six young Irishmen who...
“AND tell me, is the Turf House still standing?” Well, I was taken aback by the question. It was back in the summer of 2016 when Paddy Murphy was...
“YUDDY, yuddy, yuddy, yup, yup, yup, who’s goin to win the Harty Cup?” That’s what the ‘cheer leader’ sang and we’d all answer back...
AH, lads, what a week we’ve had with ‘moving’ pictures, amateur drama and the Oscars! You know, if fate hadn’t decreed that I pursued farming...
PAGE 3 of the Boston Irish/American newspaper The Pilot carried the following item under ‘News From Cork’ on Saturday, October 31, 1899. ‘Cork;...
I’M sorry to say I never actually met Christy Ring. After the Cork hurling team homecoming in the South Mall in September, 1978, I remember Christy...
EVERYONE is familiar with that oft-used reading from the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, ‘For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose...
THERE’S a lovely phrase in the Irish language, a kind of seanfhocail you could call it, I suppose - ‘Is ait an mac an saol’, which is generally...
How time flies - this time 20 years ago we were busy, busy here getting ready for a school reunion. The year 2004 was 100 years on from the opening of...
I’VE no idea if Patrick Kavanagh and Luke Kelly were good friends or not. They certainly met in The Bailey public house in Dublin. The Monaghan poet...
FIRSTLY, let me put my hand up and say, yes, I have ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to the naming rights of the main GAA Stadium in Cork. It...
I THINK Dianne McLauren was the only anthropologist I’ve ever met, and that meeting must be 25 or 30 years ago. She came from America and I don’t...
IT must be over a decade ago that I saw the ‘trailer’ on RTÉ television of a new series called Love/Hate. I never watched a single episode of it...
THE last day of 2023 started quietly enough. A cold and misty morning it was as I did a few jobs around the yard before mass. We had put in plenty...
“I’LL be making no New Year’s Resolutions this year! I’m determined that, as the coming year of 2024 moves along, I won’t be throwing...
I ALWAYS associate Christmas time with the beginning of my acting career - well, maybe using the word ‘career’ might sound a little bit...
“And while we were talking of days that have gone, The woes of the world for a time they were gone” Pardon me as I paraphrase the words of Percy...
IT was way back in 1952 that Gene Kelly made the song Singing In The Rain famous. I felt a bit like that this past week as I spent some wet, wet days...