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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

Colm O'Regan: Even after the announcement of a vaccine, things are still meh

Colm O'Regan: Once you know a small child, it changes the way you watch television

Thanks for ruining telly for me, kids

Mon, 28 Feb, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Bread and circumstances — and keeping the mould away!

Colm O'Regan: Bread and circumstances — and keeping the mould away!

Only a slice that actively tries to escape behind the glacé cherries or other seasonal goods might make for enough days to acquire a bit of Rhizopus stolonifer

Mon, 21 Feb, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Across the nine Star Wars films there is a great deal of shite

Colm O'Regan: Jessie Buckley deliberately had herself born in Kerry, but the UK still claims her

Is it ignorance? Or are there any reasonable explanations? Do they never really accept when former colonies go their own way?

Mon, 14 Feb, 2022

Colm O'Regan: 'What will 22.2.2222 be like?'

Colm O'Regan: 'What will 22.2.2222 be like?'

It’s a big year for Star Trek fans - 2222 is the year Montgomery Scott will be born.

Sun, 06 Feb, 2022

Colm O'Regan: I love the mindlessness of five-a-side football

Colm O'Regan: I love the mindlessness of five-a-side football

It’s hard to describe this. Friends? Some of these people I may never know their name. Football? I’m not sure if you’d call what I play football

Mon, 31 Jan, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Even after the announcement of a vaccine, things are still meh

Colm O'Regan: 'When will time end Daddy?' Kids these days, eh?

Colm O'Regan gets caught up in mathematical existentialism putting the kids to bed

Sun, 23 Jan, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Even after the announcement of a vaccine, things are still meh

Colm O'Regan: Wordle is not what a Dubliner calls the planet

Colm O'Regan gets obsessed with five-letter words

Sun, 16 Jan, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Even after the announcement of a vaccine, things are still meh

Colm O'Regan: January days out to make you feel like you're in a Scandi drama

The day was on the slippery slope. There was no plan.

Mon, 10 Jan, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Across the nine Star Wars films there is a great deal of shite

Colm O'Regan: My New Year's resolution is to quit while I'm ahead

Colm O'Regan explains the Sunk Cost Fallacy and wonders why we're obsessed with completion

Sun, 02 Jan, 2022

Colm O'Regan: Why you should read Dr Seuss to your children

Colm O'Regan: Why you should read Dr Seuss to your children

"Did you ever just catch yourself having an argument with your children on some minor rule that you just made up?"

Sun, 26 Dec, 2021