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John Dolan: My first presidential election - but I reckon I’ll spoil my vote

John Dolan: My first presidential election - but I reckon I’ll spoil my vote

Next January will mark the 25th anniversary of my emigration to Ireland, on a Ryanair plane from England alongside my wife-to-be, and with our two...

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No, it is not weird to be scared of clowns!

No, it is not weird to be scared of clowns!

Not long ago, a client sat across from me, visibly embarrassed. She said: “I know it sounds silly, but I’m terrified of clowns.” Then she...

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The facts and the myths about ADHD

The facts and the myths about ADHD

For many people, ADHD still conjures up the image of a little boy bouncing around a classroom, unable to sit still, and causing trouble. But ADHD is...

17.10.2025 9

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John Arnold: Fair is fair... Macbeth play for Cork students has killer lines!

John Arnold: Fair is fair... Macbeth play for Cork students has killer lines!

I always thought I’d get Honours in English in the Leaving Cert in 1974 - yes, and in History and geography and Irish too! But it was all ‘vanity...

17.10.2025 10

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A chance for Cork youth to speak out on issues

A chance for Cork youth to speak out on issues

I am a student at Le Chéile Ballincollig and I’m a member of the local youth council Cork City Comhairle na nÓg. Comhairle na nÓg is a network of...

16.10.2025 10

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Áilín Quinlan: My husband suggests maybe I’m not a housework type of person

Áilín Quinlan: My husband suggests maybe I’m not a housework type of person

“Our house,” I declared to my mother, “must have been really manky when the kids were young.” “Never!” she replied loyally. “You always...

16.10.2025 10

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Cork Views: Celebrating the arts at Cork's Blarney Street School

Cork Views: Celebrating the arts at Cork's Blarney Street School

Sometimes, I forget that I’m walking the halls of an inner-city DEIS primary school when I hear the distant fanfares of our Music Generation Brass...

15.10.2025 10

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Kathriona Devereux: My alternative to a smartphone, a ‘retro’ landline for my child

Kathriona Devereux: My alternative to a smartphone, a ‘retro’ landline for my child

“Mai has closed the chat session, you can now close this window.” No!!! Don’t cut me off! It’s the second time my chat has been abruptly...

15.10.2025 10

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Cork Views: Looking back on 30 years of SECAD

Cork Views: Looking back on 30 years of SECAD

When SECAD Partnership was first established in 1995, we had little more than a technical grant, a volunteer board, and myself as its first employee....

14.10.2025 20

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Trevor Laffan: Cremations on rise, but are we burying a vital Irish tradition?

Trevor Laffan: Cremations on rise, but are we burying a vital Irish tradition?

As times change, we often move away from some of our older traditions. Take funerals, for example. More and more people are choosing cremation instead...

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He died at 112... was Billy the oldest Corkonian to ever live?

Is there something in the water out in Kilnamartyra? The village between Macroom and Ballyvourney has an unusual claim to fame - one of its sons...

12.10.2025 10

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Cork Views: Let’s start a bike bus scheme here in Cork city

Cork Views: Let’s start a bike bus scheme here in Cork city

As soon as kids return to school in September, the evidence on the roads is plain for all to see – grid-lock. In cities across Ireland, heavy...

11.10.2025 10

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Cork Views: VAT cut may be bad news for diet of nation

Cork Views: VAT cut may be bad news for diet of nation

The hospitality industry will benefit from a VAT cut next year after Budget 2026, with a reduction from 13.5% to 9% due for eligible businesses in...

10.10.2025 10

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John Arnold: At the home of the Greek gods, I prayed for my Bride Rovers!

John Arnold: At the home of the Greek gods, I prayed for my Bride Rovers!

Do you know the way you might be of a Friday morning, after reading The Echo the night before and hanging around for the next edition? I often let my...

10.10.2025 8

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Supports available to you if you’re a farmer

Supports available to you if you’re a farmer

If you’re a farmer, but are finding it hard to manage on the income you take in, what social welfare schemes can help? You may be eligible for Farm...

09.10.2025 10

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Áilín Quinlan: Fights, a boyfriend, death: my old diary from when I was 10

Áilín Quinlan: Fights, a boyfriend, death: my old diary from when I was 10

Now there was something I wasn’t expecting to find. Cleaning out my office in preparation for the big refresh – out with the stacks of old files,...

09.10.2025 10

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Cork student: A message of hope for a better world

Cork student: A message of hope for a better world

I was overjoyed, though shocked, to receive my invitation letter in July for the Youth Vision Conference 2025. I was selected to be a Fully-Funded...

08.10.2025 7

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Kathriona Devereux: A Cork city farm that’s driving a revolution in how we eat

Kathriona Devereux: A Cork city farm that’s driving a revolution in how we eat

There are few farms that can claim to be ten minutes from Shandon Street. Glenbrook Farm, just beyond Ballyvolane, is one of them. Home to free-range...

08.10.2025 10

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Trevor Laffan: So much confidence, so little sense: what a world we live in

Trevor Laffan: So much confidence, so little sense: what a world we live in

When I was a kid, there was no shortage of older people willing and able to put manners on young fellas. At least that was the case in my neck of the...

07.10.2025 9

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Breaking down the stigma of mental illness

Breaking down the stigma of mental illness

According to Mental Health Ireland, one in four people will experience mental health difficulties in their lifetime. Anxiety and depression are the...

07.10.2025 10

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John Dolan: Saluting Cork’s Michelangelo, whose genius lives on in city

John Dolan: Saluting Cork’s Michelangelo, whose genius lives on in city

How much of a legacy will you have left behind 50 years after you die? Perhaps a few grandchildren will remember you, or your career or sporting...

05.10.2025 10

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'Unless pay issues are addressed, early years settings in Cork will lose more staff'

'Unless pay issues are addressed, early years settings in Cork will lose more staff'

Every child deserves the best start in life, yet staff shortages in Early Years and School Age Care settings across Cork result in children missing...

04.10.2025 10

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Wellness event in Cork with Gaza at its heart

Wellness event in Cork with Gaza at its heart

This Sunday, October 5, Orka Gym at Crawford Business Park by The Lough will host the inaugural Cork Rebel Wellness Festival. This is a day-long...

03.10.2025 9

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John Arnold: Clan return to Cork to recall an ancestor put to death in 1720

John Arnold: Clan return to Cork to recall an ancestor put to death in 1720

You often heard the phrase ‘Like father, like son’ - so well used down the years. I suppose the feminine version is equally applicable, ‘Like...

03.10.2025 10

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Cork Views: Stand with me and protest on housing issue

Cork Views: Stand with me and protest on housing issue

Housing is a human right. We will take to the streets of Cork on October 4 to say loud and clear that we do not accept the current situation where...

02.10.2025 20

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Áilín Quinlan: Decent Ireland has been lost, to horde of keyboard warriors

Áilín Quinlan: Decent Ireland has been lost, to horde of keyboard warriors

Have we been innately nasty all along, and just done a bloody good job of hiding it - or are we just plain cowardly, ignorant, and stupid? I mean us....

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Kathriona Devereux: Hitting on a winning formula to help breastfeeding mums

Kathriona Devereux: Hitting on a winning formula to help breastfeeding mums

Every week across the island, women walk into community centres, parish halls, and coffee shops, lugging bags of pamphlets, toys, and small children,...

01.10.2025 10

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Shine a light event in Cork to highlight plight of homeless children

Shine a light event in Cork to highlight plight of homeless children

Every day, Focus Ireland teams meet families who are experiencing something no-one should have to endure - homelessness. Right now, more than 660...

01.10.2025 10

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Vital talk for people who are suffering with IBD

Vital talk for people who are suffering with IBD

There are about 50,000 people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Ireland - Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis are the most common. To mark...

30.09.2025 10

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Vital steps to ensure equality for Deaf in community

An exciting new initiative was announced at the Cork Deaf Association HQ on MacCurtain Street on Monday, promoting the use of Irish Sign Language in...

26.09.2025 10

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John Arnold: 'After 51 years, I wept as I milked my last cow on my Cork farm'

I have never actually read The Last September, the novel written by Elizabeth Bowen. I know it was set in Ireland during the War of Independence when...

26.09.2025 10

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Cork Views: Active play has a key role for Irish children

Walk through any schoolyard at lunchtime and you’ll see something profound in action: children negotiating rules for a game of tag, daring one...

25.09.2025 10

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A Kenyan chef’s cure for flu that is not to be sneezed at...

“I don’t quite follow you,” my friend said. “What’s new,” I responded irritably, blowing my nose. I’d been trying to explain to her...

25.09.2025 9

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Kathriona Devereux: Put the children first when you plan Budget 2026, ministers

Kite-flying season is upon us. Not the childhood pursuit of galloping across a green with a kite held aloft, hoping to catch the wind. Rather, the...

24.09.2025 10

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Explainer: Supports to help alleviate heating costs

Fuel Allowance is a payment to help with the cost of heating your home in the winter months. It is paid to one person in a household. The allowance...

24.09.2025 20

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Do you qualify for a free energy upgrade?

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) provides free home energy upgrades to homeowners who get certain social welfare payments. These...

19.09.2025 10

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Geldof could be first Cork President... thanks to his Rebel mammy!

The defeat of Billy Kelleher in the vote for Fianna Fáil’s nominee as President this week has left just a handful of potential Cork candidates...

14.09.2025 10

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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...

13.09.2025 20

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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...

12.09.2025 10

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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...

11.09.2025 10

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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 –...

11.09.2025 20

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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....

10.09.2025 10

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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...

10.09.2025 10

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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, helping...

09.09.2025 10

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What are your rights regarding rent rises in private housing sector?

Who do rent increase rules apply to? You and your landlord agree the amount of rent you pay for a property at the start of your tenancy. Your landlord...

05.09.2025 20

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How Cork firms can thrive in difficult landscape

The latest economic forecast from Bank of Ireland painted a positive picture for the Irish economy in 2025. It reported that we outperformed...

04.09.2025 10

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'I changed my view on legacy of Dev, TV doc may sway you too'

Dev - a three-letter word that encapsulates one of the most consequential figures in Irish history. Admire or abhor him, there are few people who have...

03.09.2025 10

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My quest to get kids off gadgets... and reading more books

TV presenter Kirstie Allsop criticised how a five-year old ate his breakfast in front of an iPad – and got hammered by thousands of messages online...

03.09.2025 10

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A course in Cork where students turn ideas into action

For most students, the end of exams is a time to relax and forget about university for a few months. But for those who secure a place on the Student...

02.09.2025 20

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Trevor Laffan: The framed punt note that will always remind me of my father

It’s funny how sometimes a sound or a smell can trigger a memory from the distant past, and in many cases, you can’t even identify that sound or...

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