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Our readers’ verdict: Make Brendan O'Connor the Late Late host

WHILE our neighbours across the water are gearing up for the Coronation of King Charles, we have our own succession drama going on in Ireland. Who...

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Political religion: It hasn’t gone away you know

WE’RE living in a world that is becoming more and more secular, as societies and politicians drift further away from religious beliefs and God....

27.03.2023 3

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Late Late Show needs an odd couple pairing as hosts: Here’s my four options

THE problem with finding a new host of The Late Late Show is that, frankly, it’s an impossible job. For a start, it isn’t, in truth, one job at...

25.03.2023 4

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The Boss, Lizzo, Peter Kay: Cork could host them all... IF we had that event centre

DO you fancy watching Bruce Springsteen, Lizzo, Duran Duran, Michael Bublé, Ozzy Osbourne, Ludovico Einaudi - the most-streamed classical artist of...

18.03.2023 3

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Give us proper alternatives to the car before you punish us again, Mr Ryan

THE other Friday, at 8pm, I drove my lad into Macroom for one of his sporting activities. As I have written here recently, the town doesn’t know...

11.03.2023 6

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Corkman's play is set for Abbey Theatre Dublin stage... in Ohio!

FOR any Irish playwright, having their work performed on stage at the prestigious Abbey Theatre in Dublin is a dream come true. And that is exactly...

06.03.2023 5

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6 tips if you are planning spring break in London

WHEN French writer Jean-Paul Sartre said that hell was other people, he wasn’t, as many people think, talking about vast crowds of them elbowing you...

25.02.2023 8

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Why do I rarely watch movies any more? Is it them... or me?!

NEVER mind the ‘golden age of Hollywood’ - this is a golden age for Irish film. We have been nominated for a record 14 Oscars in the annual...

18.02.2023 3

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Ireland won’t win Eurovision - but entry IS good enough to make the final

WHEN it comes to Ireland and the Eurovision Song Contest, it’s long been a case of ‘how the mighty have fallen’. A generation ago, this country...

11.02.2023 5

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Why can’t we have our bank holidays on a Friday instead of a Monday?

WELL, what are your plans for the new bank holiday on Monday? That’s right, in case you forgot amidst the daily grind of the 70 days of January (OK,...

04.02.2023 8

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Drugs wreck lives, so when will society stop treating them as cool?

I IMAGINE if a middle-aged Queen Elizabeth II had confessed in the 1960s to snorting cocaine as a teenager, there would have been uproar and...

28.01.2023 8

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Rip-off republic: £50 goes further in UK than €100 does in Ireland...

AS a frequent visitor to the UK, I have developed an innate sense of how far the pound stretches. And, believe me, in recent times I have noticed that...

21.01.2023 7

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Listen: Drum roll... I recorded a woodpecker here in Cork!

THERE are said to have been five mass extinction events throughout history, caused by pesky natural phenomena such as volcanoes and asteroids. The...

14.01.2023 8

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What a car crash: NCT test system beset by delays of up to SIX months

I ALWAYS think an NCT testing centre waiting room is a bit like the old maternity hospitals, in the days before fellas were allowed into the inner...

07.01.2023 9

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Calling all Cork people in Kansas, Croatia, Bristol, er, North Korea - the Holly Bough needs you!

THE other day, I received a beautiful video by email, showing a grave at Kilcully Cemetery. It was taken during that freezing snap, and a robin was...

24.12.2022 10

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It’s really not a good time for €100k a year TDs to be complaining

IN the coming days, newspapers and broadcasters will start to give their take on 2022, and how it will go down in posterity. It’s certainly been a...

17.12.2022 10

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Just who will rid him of this tiresome prince - man up, Charles, and give Harry the flick

HISTORY buffs in England - the ones who might even be aware that Ireland is a separate country - will be familiar with one of the most famous lines...

10.12.2022 10

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Consumers are constantly treated like dirt, so why don’t we complain more?

IT may have been made almost half a century ago, but the classic TV series Fawlty Towers can still teach us a thing or two about the type of people we...

26.11.2022 8

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Bypass cannot be endgame for Macroom, but the dawn of a new era

THE great historian, Professor John A Murphy, was a proud Macrompian - the living embodiment of that old saying that Macroom is a town that never...

19.11.2022 10

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I might be a lone voice... but I can’t wait for the World Cup!

THE first ever soccer World Cup took place in 1930 in Uruguay - but I think I’ve uncovered a few issues surrounding it that may make it, in modern...

13.11.2022 4

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Our EU neighbours have acted to cut energy output... why not Ireland?

WHEN I first heard it was now illegal in France to leave the door of a shop open when the heating is on, my first reaction was to send every teenager...

06.11.2022 5

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It's a big winter ahead for us custodians of the thermostat...

HUSBANDS - have you had ‘The Conversation’ with your better half yet? Ah, you must have done by now. The clocks are going back tonight after all....

29.10.2022 3

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It looks scary, but the lynx is just a pussy cat - should we rewild them here in Cork?

A FEW years back, the publishing industry was gripped by a new phenomenon which became known as ‘misery memoirs’. These were first-hand accounts...

22.10.2022 20

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The Strictly ethos - men who can’t dance are fools, women who can’t are ‘inspirational’

HAVING lived in Ireland for 20 years, and not being averse to a bit of the aul nostalgia, I am fully aware of the courtship rituals up and down this...

15.10.2022 3

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Clock timers for showers! Another sign of how we’re now obsessed by the energy we use

BROWSING the middle aisle of Aldi this week, as you do, I spotted an item that reminded me of Victor Hugo’s famous quote: “Nothing is more...

08.10.2022 4

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Budget 2023: I appreciate that times are tough - but my, what a bunch of whiny moaners we are

THE final words by Finance Minster Paschal Donohoe on Budget 2023 had barely stopped echoing around the Dáil Chamber, concluding the biggest giveaway...

01.10.2022 8

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How I saved €125 off my weekly food shopping bill for a family of six

THERE are times in life when you learn something so gob-smackingly shocking, your jaw drops to the floor. That sums up my reaction this week when I...

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