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For genealogists, historians, nosy parkers, and anyone interested in local history and their family roots, next Saturday will be like Christmas Day....
A few years back, there used to be great music and singing ‘sessions’ of a Monday night in the Adair Hall in Fermoy. Under the auspices of the...
An engagement ring is a beautiful reminder of romance, and yet, for couples planning a lifetime together, the most meaningful commitment may not fit...
Apart from reminding me of the time one of my brothers bounced down the stairs on a space-hopper and crashed into the glass panel of the front door,...
Anxiety has become incredibly prevalent. So many people say they suffer from it, yet very few people really understand how it works, what causes it,...
Since his first presidency, Donald Trump has said he usually gets between four and five hours sleep per night. In an interview with Fox News in 2017,...
We’re very good at saving the nicest words for when people aren’t around to hear them. Give us an obituary, a funeral, or a quiet moment after...
Whether it is to support career progression, explore a new direction, or return to the workforce, there is a growing recognition across Ireland of the...
Is Cyprus a safe holiday destination right now? That’s a question many people are asking lately, and my answer is that I don’t know for certain. I...
When you’re watching a TV series or film, and hear the unmistakable Leeside burr, do you react like me? Do you point at the screen in delight and...
This is a strange week - Holy Week. The time changed and in an instant, all’s changed, utterly changed, with daylight shoving away the evening...
Many people mistakenly believe that the boardroom of a charity is a closed space, reserved for well-connected, highly experienced professionals or...
Preserving culture and heritage is not just about safeguarding old buildings - it is about protecting the heartbeat of our communities In Cork, few...
I’d no sooner unwrapped my bar of posh, hand-made peanut nougat and taken a bite, than the air hostess was on the intercom. A passenger on board had...
I put down my phone for a day. Big mistake. It’s not as if I’m on it all the time. I don’t scroll Instagram watching other people’s perfect...
A recent outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in Kent in the UK prompted a campaign to vaccinate thousands of young people. The UK Health Security...
Some people are good at taking advice, and some aren’t. There is also good advice and bad advice, and sometimes it’s difficult to know whether to...
1. Fota Wildlife Park A trip to Fota Wildlife Park is always a special treat. I have fond memories of my own childhood visits there; of the lemurs...
How many of us wake up in the morning, and immediately reach for our phone? Checking the news, social media, the weather, crosswords, games? Before we...
Fifty years ago this week, three Yanks were toiling away in a garage in California on a vision that would shake the world of business to its core......
Every family knows the joy and bizarrely terrifying concern of watching a child take their first unaccompanied steps down a street, hands swinging,...
I listened to a lot of radio coverage about the late, great Ronnie Delany since his death recently – sadly, his wife Joan, or ‘my beautiful wife,...
On a Friday recently, I found I had it completely to myself. No school runs, no after-school activities, no immediate responsibilities, just a whole...
I met a charming Norwegian on a sunny, wave-licked Spanish beach; one thing led to another, and the next morning I woke up with a sore head. There...
For the past six years, people across Cork have been using social prescribing to reconnect with their communities, try new activities, and improve...
Do you think you are a good driver? Do you ever break the speed limit? Do you think it’s OK to speed “a little”? An RTÉ radio discussion with a...
Before moving to Cork in 2009, I first fell in love with traditional music in America about 25 years ago. Growing up around the Boston area, there was...
I have always been an avid reader. As a child, I walked to the library on Saturday mornings to change my books and looked forward to going to bed at...
It was the week that saw 60,000 people throng the streets of Cork city for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade, to cheer on a record 3,600 partying...
I’ve always had a fascination with headstones in cemeteries and graveyards, not in a morbid or sinister manner - no, but these stones with...
If you take God out of the equation, does life have any real meaning? The three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam -...
There, I thought, but for the grace of God. The letter to the newspaper agony aunt brought a rush of gratitude. What the letter-writer described could...
Ireland has committed to one of the most ambitious home retrofit programmes in Europe, with targets to retrofit 500,000 homes and install 400,000 heat...
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit. I hope you are reading an páipéar whilst wearing an Aran geansaí, drinking a cupán tae, and eating arán sóda....
When I started secondary school, I thought that by the time the Leaving Certificate came around, I would know exactly what I wanted to do with my...
Have you ever been in a situation where you met someone you knew well, but were afraid to talk to them because they had dementia? Afraid in case you...
Last year, I introduced my Rang 5 class at Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin to the Our World Awards. This is a national programme that helps children...
At the Cheltenham racing festival this week, there was much talk of horses that were a ‘banker’, a ‘dead cert’, or a ‘surefire’ winner....
March 17 marks the beginning of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, and while awareness is growing, many continue to experience stigma and...
When one thinks about child trafficking and child brides, the name of John B. Keane mightn’t come readily to mind. Yet at the West Waterford Drama...
Growing up in rural Kerry in the 1960s, it was always my dream to become a journalist. Reading newspapers such as The Kerryman and listening to RTÉ...
St Patrick’s Day was only a fortnight away when I got the SOS from the friend studying theology in the USA. She was looking for my expertise on the...
Bereavement can be overwhelming and it can be a confusing time for people as there are a lot of things to consider. For one, you may need financial...
International Women’s Day is not doing it for me anymore. Every March, we are treated to a familiar programme: inspirational speakers, fireside...
Sixty years ago, on Thursday, March 10, 1966, Michael O’Donovan, better-known by his pen-name as an author, Frank O’Connor, died at the age of 62....
I came across a story in a UK newspaper recently that struck a chord with me. It concerned a man called Bob Maddams who agreed to be an executor for...
Where there’s blame, there’s a claim... Some elements of the legal industry have been known to adopt that slogan as a promise to potential...
I admit it, no problem - I do love food. Maybe ’tis because I don’t drink, smoke, vape, do drugs, dance, or meditate much that I have a great...
Not long ago, someone asked me a simple question on a walk through Ballincollig: “What’s that? And pointed towards what I now know is the lime...
Measles vaccination was introduced nationwide in Ireland in 1985, when around 10,000 cases of it were reported. Two years later, the number dropped...
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