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How to avoid being scammed

How to avoid being scammed

A scam is an illegal or dishonest scheme that aims to steal from or defraud people. They target people of all ages and backgrounds via various...

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Trevor Laffan: Major flaw in €215m Dunkettle project that means jams today

Trevor Laffan: Major flaw in €215m Dunkettle project that means jams today

I’m a little confused, which isn’t all that strange. I don’t have an engineering degree either, which probably accounts for some of it. Maybe...

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With Healy Raes in power, we might get an event centre now

With Healy Raes in power, we might get an event centre now

English people who move to Ireland often arrive with preconceived ideas of what the locals are like. The Irish are quick to try to dispel any such...

25.01.2025 2

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Evening Echo

Advice on the ‘Living Alone’ payment

Advice on the ‘Living Alone’ payment

Q: Can you tell me if there is an extra payment for people on social welfare payments who are living alone? Yes, there is a payment called the...

24.01.2025 10

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Evening Echo

Farewell, Milo, our best friend for 12 years

Farewell, Milo, our best friend for 12 years

We said goodbye to Milo this week. Our half horse/half dog had been with us since my youngest was in first year and the eldest in Leaving Cert....

23.01.2025 7

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Evening Echo

Letter to the Editor: Sad last pilgrimage to Mount Melleray

Letter to the Editor: Sad last pilgrimage to Mount Melleray

Last Saturday, my wife Helena and myself set off on a day trip to Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford. It was with a heavy heart we made this...

23.01.2025 3

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Evening Echo

John Arnold: I headed for the sun... but still talked slurry with Irish farmers

John Arnold: I headed for the sun... but still talked slurry with Irish farmers

We were in Lanzarote for a week lately, and it was just mighty. Growing up in the last century, I was endowed with a fine map of foxy curly hair....

23.01.2025 3

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Evening Echo

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

Cork Views: 'Us ladies want our own public toilets - not the unisex option'

I’d never really given the issue much thought, but suddenly I knew exactly where I stood. You can’t really avoid unisex toilets on airplanes or...

22.01.2025 4

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Evening Echo

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

Lord Mayor: ‘Let’s make a better Cork now’

The future Cork city will be a city with a lot of more people. We currently have a population of 225,000 people. We will have passed quarter of a...

22.01.2025 2

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Evening Echo