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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

Colm O'Regan: Sometimes all you want is a biscuit

Colm O'Regan: Sometimes all you want is a biscuit

Surely an institution like a biscuit, the defence of which was a key element of the 1916 Rising, deserves a course all by itself.

Mon, 23 Aug, 2021

Colm O'Regan: the people working hard to find this sneak of a virus are working their holes off

Colm O'Regan: 'I desperately want someone to make The Hounds of The Morrigan into a film'

HOTM was a book you didn’t want to end. Written for children, re-read by them as adults.

Sun, 15 Aug, 2021

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

Colm O'Regan: Eating out was a welcome return to something I realised I hadn’t been doing in a while: people watching

"Eavesdropping in Ireland has always been difficult — we can be very cagey here, with built-in mechanisms to say nothing at all while still making a noise."

Mon, 09 Aug, 2021

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

Colm O'Regan: As I get older I'm slowly taking on some of my father's habits

These days, every now and then, it’s picking up other people’s rubbish.

Sun, 01 Aug, 2021

Colm O'Regan: the people working hard to find this sneak of a virus are working their holes off

Colm O'Regan: An IKEA expedition when you are filling an empty house is the toughest

Before you know it, you’re asking ‘how are we for tea-lights?’ and you’re horsing the candle-slabs into the trolley.

Sun, 25 Jul, 2021

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

Colm O'Regan: Forget mindfulness, searching Saorview can help your mood

You’re not missing anything. You have checked. Now you can get on with other things

Sun, 18 Jul, 2021

Colm O'Regan: We need to normalise growing a bit of food ourselves

Colm O'Regan: We need to normalise growing a bit of food ourselves

For such a supposedly agricultural country, we have a weird relationship with the idea of ordinary people growing food for their own table

Mon, 12 Jul, 2021

Euro 2020 Trophy Tour - London

Colm O'Regan: If Ireland was at Euro 2020 we would have been bate out the door

'Ireland at a tournament is like family. You have to love them but that doesn’t mean you always enjoy their company'

Sun, 11 Jul, 2021

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

Colm O'Regan: 'I never saw so many men looking shook by the arrival of that early stage bald patch'

This week Colm got his vaccine in Dublin: "Obviously I’ll get a Cork shot for my booster. A bit like having the church wedding after the registry office."

Sun, 27 Jun, 2021

Colm O'Regan: 'Curiously, there are no museums dedicated solely to what happens if the potato crop does not fail'

Colm O'Regan: 'Curiously, there are no museums dedicated solely to what happens if the potato crop does not fail'

"I love small museums. Because you can finish them. There is no anxiety about all the bits you don’t have time to see."

Sun, 20 Jun, 2021