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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...
WHAT fortuitous timing for this year’s Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations that the hottest actor in Tinseltown, Paul Mescal, unofficially launched...
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...
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...
I FOUND myself at the Royal Society of Medicine in London last week talking about crying babies. Not British politicians bracing themselves for the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
ONE hundred years ago, the last of the British troops were leaving Ireland in December, 1922 - but instead of celebrating the longed for liberation...
“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...
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...
“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,...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GRANARD, Carrickmines, Omagh - there are some places that have the misfortune to be synonymous with a tragedy that stops people in their tracks. The...
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...
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...
LAST week, the World Meteorological Organisation published another stark report outlining how countries’ pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
AS everyone buckles up for an expensive winter ahead, with extortionate energy prices, Oxfam’s annual awareness campaign, ‘Secondhand...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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,...
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...