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Áilín QuinlanEvening Echo |
You know who you are, you beast. Saturday July 11. A quiet, warm, sunny evening shortly before 8pm. On our way to see Donovan at the Everyman Theatre,...
At the end of the day, this is about taking responsibility. So let’s stop all the begging and pleading with parents who insist on buying e-scooters...
She flew in from Massachusetts just as the temperatures shot into the late twenties. My friend spent her first week in Cork being roundly...
Phew. Dodged a bullet there, I thought. Two bullets, even. We’d switched on Netflix to watch Apex, starring Charlize Theron. Theron plays the part...
When someone first mentioned to me that girls in their mid-teens were getting Botox injections in a bid to pre-empt ‘ageing’, I didn’t believe...
I could report on her experience, the mother said, if I kept it anonymous. Fair enough, I said, intrigued. It was the phrase “dish pig,” that had...
There’s change in the air. Don’t you just love that comforting roar of the lawnmower; a sound that’s always signalled the arrival of summer?...
Everybody groaned. Everybody had a horror story. As we sat at the café table, our festively patterned Christmas shopping bags piled up around us, the...
Well, hasn’t life a way of taking you down (in your own view, at least) a completely unnecessary peg or two. You return from an awards ceremony...
Whether or not it’s stepped up to the plate by now and done the decent thing for school secretaries and caretakers, the fact that this strike even...
Sometimes, it’s hard to figure out what’s really going on behind the scenes. On the one hand, there’s all this sound and fury over the Occupied...
And so, after about five weeks – socks. I couldn’t believe it. They felt so strange on my feet. And unnecessary - ’til I took them off again......