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Cork County Council Chief Executive: ‘We are committed to improving services in Cork’

2025 was a busy one as Cork County Council continued to deliver vital services for the people we serve. Our mission is clear: to foster vibrant and...

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Evening Echo

Could a cable car be the answer to Cork's traffic woes? 

Happy New Year! The selection boxes have been decimated, the Christmas pudding devoured, and I don’t want to see another Christmas sambo for 12...

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Evening Echo

Trevor Laffan: I really don’t need a new car... but I can easily be led astray!

This is the time of year when many of you will be thinking about changing the car, and good luck to you if you are. For some, it might be out of...

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Evening Echo

CBA President: ‘Cork is emerging with renewed belief in its potential as a modern European city’

As we wrapped up 2025, I was proud to reflect on a year defined by collaboration, resilience and real progress for Cork’s business community. While...

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Evening Echo

John Dolan: 24 years and a Saipan film later ... I still think Roy was in wrong

There is a scene at the end of the new film Saipan - about the infamous bust-up between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup -...

03.01.2026 10

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Evening Echo

My Cork panto days with iconic TV ad star 'Sally O'Brien'

When I recently visited the Cork City Library and viewed the exhibition of Cork Opera House memorabilia currently on display there, my eye was...

02.01.2026 7

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Evening Echo

'I passed my driving test, and tootled off to see Pearl Jam at Millstreet'

It was perhaps a sign of the changes going on in music in the mid-1990s when you consider that Pearl Jam played their first Cork gig, at the Green...

31.12.2025 8

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Evening Echo

Áilín Quinlan: Let Them...a revelation just in time to ring in the New Year

Teetering on the edge of the New Year, a revelation. I generally don’t do self-help books and I certainly try to avoid making them the potential...

31.12.2025 9

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Evening Echo