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Evening Echo

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John Arnold: Fond memories of Jim... who answered SOS when I was born

Now in my 70th year, every now and then I try to remember what I first remember! That may sound strange, and maybe it is; but it’s hard sometimes to...

28.05.2026 30

Evening Echo

John Arnold

Dick’s ashes brought home to Cork, to be scattered by his parents’ graves

There’s a famous story told about Daniel O’Connell and a man breaking stones by the roadside in 1829. The Liberator was heading home to Derrynane...

19.09.2025 30

Evening Echo

John Arnold

70 years a Brother... Dan has served God and the people well

There was a huge crowd at the Dungourney versus Lisgoold hurling game in Castlelyons last Sunday. After a rip-roaring match, the men from Jamesey...

12.09.2025 30

Evening Echo

John Arnold

Down the generations, locals long had a beef with our bull!

I find it hard to imagine that Tom Scanlan is dead over 30 years. Tom was 75 when he died suddenly in June, 1994 - at the time I was 37. Though close...

05.09.2025 30

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John Arnold

I wept at Croker, not for Cork’s loss, but for Tipp’s ‘16th man’

Well, people are just great, aren’t they? Ah yes, I cried in Croke Park last Sunday. My tears were not for the Cork team -they came to Dublin to win...

25.07.2025 20

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John Arnold

As the bells tolled for Durcan, I toiled with the hay, recalling his wonderful poem

We were turning the hay last Thursday at high noon, no panic and no rain, until Friday at least - it never came Friday, nor Saturday either, just a...

30.05.2025 20

Evening Echo

John Arnold