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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

Colm O'Regan: putting on the 'game face' - or not

Many mini-genres of social media bulls**t have blossomed like dandelions in this crisis. One of the more rage-inducing is ‘productivity shaming’.

Sun, 03 May, 2020

Colm O'Regan: 'It goes against everything I believe in to isolate my opinions from other people'

We are doing our darnedest to flatten the coronavirus curve. But, elsewhere, there are other curves growing exponentially.

Sun, 26 Apr, 2020

Colm O'Regan: Some things are un-Google-able

“I don’t know and I don’t think I’ll ever know. And that’s fine.” That’s my new mantra for sanity.

Sun, 19 Apr, 2020

Colm O'Regan: old films, old fairytales

Disney Plus? Another subscription? Surely now is not the time. Surely you can get the stuff from the libr...

Sun, 12 Apr, 2020

Colm O'Regan: The lockdown does strange things to folk

We are everyone now. Reluctantly admitting we are as basic as David Gray’s White Ladder being your first CD, writes Colm O'Regan

Sun, 05 Apr, 2020

There is a new threat from social media. It’s videos of super hero parents

Our daughter has finally been ensnared by The Force. 

Mon, 12 Nov, 2018

Reasons why going to the beach in winter is better

I’m sure it’s not an underrated experience, but just in case it is, let me rate it so highly, that its average rating goes well above four stars on Amazon.

Mon, 05 Nov, 2018

As Meghan Markle entered the chapel, there should have been one guest, mad late, finishing a fag

IT is said they are the most down-to-earth royals, the most accessible, the least stiff-upper-lippy. That’s Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Wherever the Second Grandson inherits, writes Colm O’Regan.

Mon, 29 Oct, 2018

From Reaganomics to Kilkenomics

I think I might have reached Peak Nomics. I’m in Stavanger in Norway hosting shows at a festival called KaKanomics which is about economics, writes Colm O’Regan.

Mon, 22 Oct, 2018

Nearly every Irish budget day has one surprise

THE surprise was that people were surprised. Nearly every Irish budget day has one surprise. One sting in the tale. A surprise they didn’t think people would make a fuss about.

Mon, 15 Oct, 2018