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Oh daahlings, I’m going to be an Oscars.. sorry, Oskars star!

FUNDRAISING for voluntary organisations and sports clubs has always been problematic. From the year dot, ingenuity has had to be used as treasurers...

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Ancient words and stones that connect us to dearly departed

MAYBE it’s not a very Catholic ‘thing’, but growing up as a child and in National School, I can never really recollect seeing the Bible. At...

23.03.2023 5

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We Irish have gift of the gab... here’s some great examples!

I NEVER knew my father’s father Batt Arnold as he died in 1951 - six years before I was born. I’ve never seen a picture of him - no wedding...

16.03.2023 3

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John Arnold: Long may our native tongue survive, it’s part of our soul

BHIOS ag caint le Brenain O Dunshleibhe cupla oiche o shin - a retired teacher, Brendan Dunlea has ‘treaded the boards’ in amateur drama circles...

09.03.2023 5

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Shame on the GAA for enforcing this no-cash, card-only policy

THE other day, I was rummaging through bits and pieces I’d written over the years. I must have been remembering the time, in the last century, when...

02.03.2023 4

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John Arnold: Tears of sadness for pal Paddy - then tears of joy for Jarlath

IN the early hours of last Saturday morning, as I laid my weary head to rest in a hotel bedroom in Dublin, I cried. To be honest, I cried an awful lot...

23.02.2023 4

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John Arnold: One of the things that keeps me in love with the land is variety

I think ‘twas my Granny Twomey used always be looking forward to the spring each year with a great old saying; “Once we pass Little Christmas sure...

16.02.2023 4

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Tale of emigration that reunited American with his Cork roots

I SANG Noreen Bawn in a cemetery in the rural Cork countryside last Friday. There, amongst the countless rows of memorials to dead generations, just...

09.02.2023 6

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Precious time with my heroes - John Spillane and Joe Duffy

I MET two of my heroes in the last ten days. Heroes; what, who are they? I suppose as a young teenager the great Christy Ring was one of my heroes....

02.02.2023 8

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A small stone on my Cork farm that tells a lot about local history

IT’S just a small piece of cut limestone - only about a quarter of the original is in my possession, or should I say ‘visibly’ in my possession!...

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Movie hits give me hope our Irish language can be saved

I SUPPOSE my chance of being nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy or other such award this year are limited enough, but hope springs eternal. Yet who...

19.01.2023 10

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Christmas in the Canaries, and isle was awash with Cork folk

HOME was never like this! Where else would you get Dancing at the Crossroads at midnight and coming out of ‘Christmas Day’ Mass to 26C of heat? Oh...

12.01.2023 9

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John Arnold: Don’t mock, but I’ve begun the 100-Day exercise challenge...

A VERY Happy New Year to all readers at home and abroad. The closing of any year and the dawning of a new one marks the passage of time, and that...

05.01.2023 10

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My addiction to the ‘wireless’... and why it’s always with me

THOSE that know me are well aware of my addiction - radio. The radio upstairs is never turned off and if the power went during the night and the...

29.12.2022 8

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John Arnold: Farewell to a special person who faced adversity with faith and hope

DENIS Barry was nearly seven years old in January, 1956, when John F. Kennedy published his famous book, Profiles In Courage. He was born in March,...

22.12.2022 10

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We’re in Bartlemy 150 years... so are we still blow-ins then?

I THINK ‘twas the late Eugene Turpin of Glanmire first told me the story of the Arnolds of Coolgreen. Eugene was a lovely, wise man, a farmer, and...

15.12.2022 9

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Yee-hah! I’m off to Colorado to meet my newly-found cousin

WE have one of them external hard drive yokes for the computer. Now, I’m not very well up on technology but can manage the computer fairly well. The...

08.12.2022 8

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I walked 6 miles a day with a sore hip, Lourdes was worth it

IT’S surely a miracle I didn’t get double pneumonia in Lourdes last week, while I spent five days in the town at the foot of the Pyrenees. Years...

01.12.2022 8

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Bardic tradition for poetry is still alive and kicking in Cork

POETRY readings are events I love, but oft times they attract small gatherings. For some reason unknown to me, poetry is regarded by many as a kind of...

24.11.2022 10

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I read old headstones by moon light, ghosts don’t scare me...

I DONT know which Pope it was that made the change, but he has a lot to answer for! For centuries - nay for nearly 2,000 years - people, especially...

17.11.2022 10

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Ireland has a drink problem... now we make it easier to buy?

DESPITE the fact I absolutely love Irish pubs, it saddens me to see what abuse of alcohol does in this fair country of ours. The atmosphere, the...

03.11.2022 10

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John Arnold: Born 100 years ago tomorrow, Con Murphy... a giant of GAA

IT must have been around 1972 that I first met Con Murphy. That year was when I first started going to East Cork GAA Board meetings in Midleton. Still...

27.10.2022 6

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A century on, a bitter farmers’ strike still resonates in song

PASSING through Ballinascarthy recently, I thought of Henry Ford, the car manufacturer, whose ancestors came from there. I know the bould Henry is...

20.10.2022 10

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John Arnold: A GAA day for the ages in Cork heartland

THE moon shone brightly last Sunday night as I travelled the roads of East Cork. It was close to midnight as I started on my homeward journey. From...

13.10.2022 6

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John Arnold: Why I’m seriously pondering the organic route on my farm

I NEVER fail to marvel at the glory and awe of nature. A month ago, we were in a bad state here on our farm because of the drought. While everyone...

06.10.2022 6

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Annie Moynihan, local sage and weather forecaster ahead of her time

WELL, lads, let me tell ye, I didn’t sleep much last Thursday or Friday nights - hardly a wink, to be truthful! We were playing a County hurling...

29.09.2022 5

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John Arnold: A stream dry for first time in my life... climate change is now

THERE we were last Thursday, two of us, wearing clean wellingtons, standing in a river, and ag caint Gaeilge an t-am ar fad. On the river bank was a...

22.09.2022 5

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