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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

I'd like to see Kick the Can remade as a TV show. It has to be better than The Floor is Lava

I'd like to see Kick the Can remade as a TV show. It has to be better than The Floor is Lava

It was a slightly confusing game we played in Deerpark CBS where you kicked the empty coke can on the ground and then got the shite kicked out of you

Sat, 14 Jan, 2023

Colm O'Regan: I don’t need my veg to win prizes at the Tate. Sometimes I just want peas

Colm O'Regan: I don’t need my veg to win prizes at the Tate. Sometimes I just want peas

Pretty please, give peas a chance, pleads Colm O'Regan

Mon, 09 Jan, 2023

Predictions for the New Year: Conor McGregor challenges John Creedon to a fight

Predictions for the New Year: Conor McGregor challenges John Creedon to a fight

The year that will be - Colm O'Regan's predications for 2023

Sat, 31 Dec, 2022

Colm O'Regan: My plan is to write a TV drama using characters that swank home for Stephenses' Night

Colm O'Regan: My plan is to write a TV drama using characters that swank home for Stephenses' Night

"There will of course be the down-to-earth checky-shirt-wearing Local Ride who teaches the High-Flying-Impatient Lawyer woman about what’s really important in life: Planning Permission."

Mon, 26 Dec, 2022

Colm O'Regan: I'm fond of the humble QR code

Colm O'Regan: I'm fond of the humble QR code

How do you get people to go to a place with an address when they simply can’t or won’t type the address? They’re like a postcode for people who don’t want to type a postcode.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Twitter's gone sour — where to next?

Colm O'Regan: Twitter's gone sour — where to next?

Mastodon might be the next big thing, but I'll always thank Facebook for the memories

Sat, 10 Dec, 2022

Colm O'Regan: I'm in Dublin as long as I'm in Cork — I worry my Corkness will fade

Colm O'Regan: I'm in Dublin as long as I'm in Cork — I worry my Corkness will fade

'...like Marty McFly in Back to the Future when he starts to fade from the family photo when it looks like there’s a danger his own mother might want to shift him?'

Sat, 03 Dec, 2022

Colm O'Regan: I haven't settled on our Christmas sweets strategy yet

Colm O'Regan: I haven't settled on our Christmas sweets strategy yet

For me, the signifier of Christmas goodies was two bottles of Tanora

Sat, 26 Nov, 2022

Colm O'Regan: How can we trust Elon Musk when his laptop is so manky?

Colm O'Regan: How can we trust Elon Musk when his laptop is so manky?

“Long hours at high-intensity” a lot of the time just creates a load of shite that you have to spend other long hours at high-intensity fixing.

Sat, 19 Nov, 2022

Colm O'Regan: In praise of The Long Song - and Nick Cave's Jubilee Street

Colm O'Regan: In praise of The Long Song - and Nick Cave's Jubilee Street

"Nick Cave prowls, the band tootle, but they’re all one organism so something is building. This song is long and it’s going somewhere..."

Mon, 14 Nov, 2022