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I’m proud of dad for opening up on prostate cancer

I’m proud of dad for opening up on prostate cancer

When my dad, Gerry Kelly, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021, my world turned upside down. Cancer is one of those words that lands with a...

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Evening Echo

Evening Echo

Cork Views: Give the northside a park for its young people

Cork Views: Give the northside a park for its young people

Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin recently outlined how more than a quarter of adolescents described their...

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Evening Echo

70 years a Brother... Dan has served God and the people well

70 years a Brother... Dan has served God and the people well

There was a huge crowd at the Dungourney versus Lisgoold hurling game in Castlelyons last Sunday. After a rip-roaring match, the men from Jamesey...

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John Arnold

My nightmare encounters with SUVs... slap a big tax on them

My nightmare encounters with SUVs... slap a big tax on them

Nearly everybody seems to own one. And, it seems, everybody else believes they should have one. Two weeks ago, shortly after my car – and me – were...

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Evening Echo

Explainer - changes to organ donation laws

Explainer - changes to organ donation laws

Organ donation is when you give healthy organs and tissue from your body for transplantation into another person’s body, to replace their organs...

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Evening Echo

Youghal patriot to be remembered in his home town 

Youghal patriot to be remembered in his home town 

It’s hard to imagine now, how a Sinn Féin rebel - an elected member of Youghal Urban Disrict Council - defied capture by the British authorities...

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Evening Echo

10 things to know about Dev... including his commute to Cork

10 things to know about Dev... including his commute to Cork

Éamon de Valera retired from public life and vacated Áras an Uachtaráin in the summer of 1972 and moved, with his wife Sinéad, to a nursing home....

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Evening Echo

Carve out a career in the wind energy sector

Carve out a career in the wind energy sector

Ireland stands on the cusp of energy transformation. Offshore wind will soon be at the heart of our transition to a cleaner, greener economy,...

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Evening Echo

Gardaí must now get back to basics to be a force for good

Gardaí must now get back to basics to be a force for good

A new piece of technology is being considered for the Roads Policing Unit (RPU) in An Garda Síochána, and it’s upsetting the gardaí. Rank and file...

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Trevor Laffan