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Trevor LaffanEvening Echo |
WE are very lenient in this country when it comes to dealing with serial offenders. Anyone can mess up, and fair enough, if it’s your first offence...
NEARLY 30 road safety advocacy bodies have reportedly declared they have no confidence in the Road Safety Authority (RSA), after a spate of deaths in...
ONCE we pass the age of 60, I reckon most of us can expect to become more involved in the world of medicine. That’s often the time when various bits...
I DON’T like going to the dentist. I have this dread that during the drilling process, he will hit a nerve and send me through the ceiling. I...
MORE than 1,800 police officers in the UK recruited under Boris Johnson’s manifesto pledge to increase numbers, resigned last year, it was reported...
WE’VE reached that time of the year when people start making preparations for summer holidays. For some, that will mean long haul flights. The kind...
VERA Hartland was a well-known local councillor in Cobh, back in the days when we had an Urban District Council. She lived in St Patricks Square at...
I GO swimming early in the morning several times a week in our local Coral Leisure Centre. It was recommended to me by my surgeon following back...
I WROTE a piece not so long ago about an experience my wife had in the emergency department of the Mercy University Hospital in Cork. She ended up...
WORLD Sleep Day this year takes place on March 15, so get ready. If you didn’t already know, the idea behind it is to highlight the plight of those...
I ARRIVED in Paphos Airport in Cyprus at half past midnight. I had been travelling all day, but I wasn’t finished yet. I still had to collect my...
A TOTAL of 184 people died in road accidents last year, according to provisional statistics released by the Road Safety Authority (RSA). This compared...
MY daughter Vicki headed off to Australia on New Year’s Day this year with her husband and their three sons. Family members from both sides went to...
GANGSTERS involved in organised crime in Ireland seem to be getting more violent. They’re also becoming more daring. Gunmen no longer lurk in the...
MOST of us, I suspect, are probably glad by now that Christmas is over. We can get back to normal. Back to eating regular portions too. Turkey and ham...
THE Minister for Justice Helen McEntee recently launched a ‘safety plan’ for Dublin’s north inner city, involving the deployment of ‘community...
LIKE most of us, I consider myself to be an ordinary Joe Soap. I’m quite content with life and I have no ambition to be rich and famous. Being...
I CAME across a story last week in the Irish Newspaper Archives. It was published more than 60 years ago in the then Cork Examiner. At Clonakilty...
TRISH Browne comes from the seaside town of Youghal in Co. Cork. She is the youngest of a family of 14 - ten boys and four girls - and her early life...
WHEN I retired from An Garda Siochana after 25 years, I did so with an unblemished record. I know this to be a fact because they gave me a piece of...
THE ghost city of Varosha lies in the Famagusta District on the eastern part of the island of Cyprus. It has been unoccupied since it was abandoned in...
IF I saw a TV show depicting a guy breaking out of a modern prison by clinging to the underside of a delivery van, I would immediately switch...
I SAW a cartoon recently somewhere which depicted Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly filling a bucket with water. The bucket was full of holes, so...
JEREMY Clarkson, the former Top Gear presenter, once claimed that everyone who bought a bicycle during the Covid-19 pandemic was an idiot. He...
FLYING isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Many people have a fear of being sealed in a tin can flying at 30,000 feet at speeds of several hundred miles...
AS I sat at my laptop one Sunday morning recently, I received a message from Blarney that an old colleague of mine had passed away. John Finnerty,...
I’VE come to the conclusion, after 65 years on this planet, that life is not supposed to be enjoyed. We all have to deal with the ups and downs of...
THIS time five years ago, I was in the Mater Hospital in Dublin parting company with a dodgy prostate. It doesn’t seem that long ago, but I’m a...
JACK Chambers, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, has a plan to reduce fatalities on our roads. He wants to lower the speed limits on...
I HEARD a lady being interviewed on the radio recently who was selling her home in Cyprus and moving to Ireland permanently because of the weather. I...