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John DolanEvening Echo |
THEIR sight and sound have been an integral part of Cork city’s streetscape for so long, that they are indelibly ingrained in the culture of Cork...
DID you notice how ridiculously expensive Easter eggs were this year? Sure, I spotted a few tiny ones in the supermarkets for a couple of euro, but...
THE phrase ‘the customer is king’ is so universal in business that there are versions of it in multiple languages. In German, der Kunde ist König...
“MEET the new boss, same as the old boss,” goes the lyric to the 1970s hit by The Who. Ironically, the song is a critique of power and, even more...
WELL, it’s been quite the week. What, with Cillian Murphy landing an Oscar for Cork, and all kinds of rumours flying around about Britain’s Royal...
BACK in the era when fathers-to-be were kept well away from all matters pertaining to labour and birth, a worried husband in Cork left his home at 3am...
MOST parents have been there. It’s the middle of the night or the weekend, and your child has taken a turn for the worse. Their temperature is...
I SHOULD be in a state of heightened excitement about the forthcoming referendum. I should be counting down the 20 days between now and the moment I...
THE environmental issues facing our planet are now viewed as an undeniable fact of life in the worlds of science, politics, and the media. But despite...
“SO my record is broken!” I am on the phone to Cathal Dunne in the USA, to date the only Cork singer ever to represent Ireland at the Eurovision...
YOU know the drill when you head out for the weekly ‘big shop’ by now... Car keys? Check. Bank card or cash? Check. Plenty of bags so you don’t...
AFTER years of dismal failures for Ireland on the Eurovision stage, a Cork performer is promising to shake up the annual song contest this year....
LAST Saturday night, these three Cork city women did something they have done every January 6 for 40 years. Catherine Scannell, Josephine Reidy, and...
IT was late December, and the WhatsApp group that connects me to my buddies in my home town in northern England was lighting up like a Christmas tree....
THIS may make you feel antiquated, but 50 years ago this month, a song was recorded that would drill its way into the eardrums of generations of...
WHEN you’re 14 years old, and your beloved big brother suddenly and inexplicably dies, how do you begin to deal with the grief and pain that...
IF you saw someone falling into the River Lee in Cork city, how would you respond? Would you spring into action and try to rescue them? Unless you are...
LET me start off by stressing that I am most definitely not a member of the so-called Boomer Generation. Those folks were born between 1946 and 1964,...
WE live in an age where facts and stats are constantly at our fingertips, brought out and used as ammunition whenever we put forth arguments and...
ON a visit to England last weekend, I visited (read: ‘Was dragged along to’) the Trafford Centre in Manchester. It’s a vast temple of shopping...
I HAVE to confess, I don’t have a dog in the fight as the latest in a long and tragic line of horrors unfolds before our eyes in the Middle East. I...
AS the winter of 1897 descended on Cork, a new Christmas publication hit the streets, aimed at giving local people a mighty read during the festive...
THE people of Midleton will forever remember where they were when they heard about their town suffering devastating flooding just over a fortnight...
A YEAR or so ago, a neighbour’s tree blew over down the road from our home, blocking the way for traffic. I was alerted to the situation by the...
ARE ya nervous yet? Will you have any finger-nails left by 8pm tonight? For those people who have been living in a cave (well, there still may be a...
WE are fierce fond of declaring national emergencies about all manner of things these days. The housing crisis, naturally, is a ‘national...
SOMETIMES, a chance remark can leave you gobsmacked. A friend’s 16-year-old son casually informed me the other day that “nearly all” of his...
FOR years now, a group of men have met up for a weekly coffee in Cork, and to shoot the breeze. The usual topics of conversation are on the agenda:...
FOR those of us old enough to recoil at the mere mention of place names like Enniskillen, Omagh, and (my home town) Warrington, the spectacle of young...
IF you’re the type who likes to plan ahead and you keep a diary, better circle Saturday, October 28, 2023. It could be a memorable day. Yes, it’s...