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Kathriona Devereux

Kathriona Devereux

Evening Echo

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St Patrick’s Day is a global hit because of our migrant history

ARE you proud to be Irish? Will you be donning green, buying shamrock, and sporting a St Patrick’s Day badge to celebrate our national holiday? Will...

14.03.2023 10

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A million of us speaking fluent Irish by 2040? We can do it...

WHAT fortuitous timing for this year’s Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations that the hottest actor in Tinseltown, Paul Mescal, unofficially launched...

07.03.2023 10

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The chatbot is amazing and a menace (and I DID write this myself!)

WHEN I sit down to write this column, I try to explore a topic that I care about or really interests me. Perhaps something that has come up in...

28.02.2023 4

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Mum’s attic clear out stirred up a lifetime of memories...

IT was a scene straight out of 1987. My kids at the kitchen table, one colouring while listening to a Sony Walkman, the other playing a strangely...

21.02.2023 4

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Women and children have been let down for decades...

I FOUND myself at the Royal Society of Medicine in London last week talking about crying babies. Not British politicians bracing themselves for the...

14.02.2023 20

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Girl power! A timely salute to St Brigid - Irish feminist icon

LORDY, it’s the first of February tomorrow and with it comes the promise of warmer days, new beginnings, green shoots, and all the good things that...

31.01.2023 10

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Polished and perfect - not a hint of jadedness after 65 pantos...

AS the curtains come down on the 2022/23 panto season let me salute the panto teams who made the magic happen and created memories that will last a...

24.01.2023 8

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Dirty old town: how do we stop littering in Cork city black-spots?

REPETITION seems to be a big part of parenting. Common refrains in our house are “close the door”, “put on your slippers” and “put your bowl...

17.01.2023 5

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Yes, I’ve joined a gym... but it seems such a waste of energy

THERE are consequences to eating a mince pie with whipped cream almost every day for the month of December. Sluggishness and a general sense of...

10.01.2023 4

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Thanks to those who carry the load of making Christmas magic

WE have a box of Christmas themed books that are kept with the decorations in the attic and make an appearance in December when we put up the tree....

27.12.2022 10

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All I want for Christmas for Cork is: trams, houses, tidal barriers

I DON’T know if Santa can fit these larger items in his sack on Saturday night, but I’m dreaming of gifts that would make Corkonians very happy,...

20.12.2022 10

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If this were 1922, which side in the Civil War would you be on?

ONE hundred years ago, the last of the British troops were leaving Ireland in December, 1922 - but instead of celebrating the longed for liberation...

13.12.2022 30

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Owners have to take the lead and be responsible for dogs

“HE won’t hurt her”, “He loves kids”, “He’s just being friendly” These are all common statements you will hear from dog owners as...

06.12.2022 9

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Vulnerable must not be afraid to switch on heating in winter

ANOTHER cold and rainy November morning, another flick of the switch for the kettle to fill yet another hot water bottle. The hot water bottle is my...

29.11.2022 10

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Good COP, bad COP... Climate conference such a mixed bag

“IF you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”. The universe served up this proverb to me three times during the week,...

22.11.2022 8

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Fossils, skin microbes, rockets - all the fun of Science Week!

“IF you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself,” is a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein. Whether the...

15.11.2022 7

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Insects could be our future diet - and that’s no bushtucker trial

IT’S 20 years since the first series of I’m A Celebrity (Get Me Out Of Here) made eating insects a form of entertainment. I don’t watch the...

08.11.2022 5

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Jams today... traffic is making Cork cranky, so what’s the fix?

THE city of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the fourth largest in the world, has a unique solution to its chronic traffic problem. Helicopters! The city of 22...

01.11.2022 8

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Tragedy on an epic scale: can you help save the people of Somalia?

WHEN President Mary Robinson visited war-and famine-stricken Somalia 30 years ago, she was “shamed and outraged” by the world’s slow reaction to...

25.10.2022 5

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Microplastics in breastmilk? This scourge has to be halted

LAST week, the news was awash with stories of pollution. Almost half of Ireland’s water in rivers, lakes and estuaries is polluted due, mainly, to...

18.10.2022 5

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Creeslough: We’re all hugging our own a little tighter today

GRANARD, Carrickmines, Omagh - there are some places that have the misfortune to be synonymous with a tragedy that stops people in their tracks. The...

11.10.2022 30

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Breast is best, but mums need to milk all the help out there

LIKE many first time mothers, my primary concern when pregnant was to grow the baby safely for nine months and then get the baby out safely when those...

04.10.2022 5

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The clown who turned frowns upside down on Culture Night

IT’S a special type of human that can keep hundreds of people of all ages and stages of life enthralled without uttering a word, using just...

27.09.2022 5

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Don’t despair, we DO have the solutions to climate change

LAST week, the World Meteorological Organisation published another stark report outlining how countries’ pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

20.09.2022 7

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I snapped up a €3,000 Dolce & Gabbana suit - for just €100!

AS everyone buckles up for an expensive winter ahead, with extortionate energy prices, Oxfam’s annual awareness campaign, ‘Secondhand...

13.09.2022 8

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The crazy, amazing world of aphids... in my back garden!

I’VE turned into an aphid aficionado. It’s a very niche kind of nerdom but for some reason this year aphids keep popping up as a topic of...

06.09.2022 30

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We can see the future now in Pakistan... we have to react

THERE are 230 million people living in Pakistan and about 1 in 7 of the population, 33 million, have been affected by the recent catastrophic monsoon...

30.08.2022 4

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A modern take on the century old tragedy of Michael Collins

THIS day 100 years ago, word that Michael Collins had been shot the evening before in an ambush at Béal na Blath near Crookstown started to filter...

23.08.2022 9

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After a lifetime of living in Cork, it’s nice to still discover new places...

“I’VE never been to Blarney Castle,” a good friend informed me recently. I was completely incredulous that a proud Cork man could have avoided...

16.08.2022 4

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She’s electric! My cargo bike is the future of city transport

IF you happen to see a blue flash zipping by at 30km with two whooping kids in the back and a smiling driver, it might be me cycling past you on my...

09.08.2022 10

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As world heats up, our farmers can be brave climate leaders

REMEMBER when a “good summer” in Ireland meant enough sunshine to get to the beach a few times, a handful of barbecues that weren’t rained on,...

26.07.2022 6

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La isla bonita! 3 great reasons to see Bere Island this summer

I HAVE been known to spontaneously launch into a burst of the Cork classic Beautiful City when I’m met with a striking vista of Leeside. It’s...

19.07.2022 3

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