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Columnist with the Irish Examiner.
Sometimes life just imitates art. The art was the Tea Master episode of Father Ted when Ted gives Mrs Doyle an automated tea-maker.
Mon, 10 Sep, 2018
I heard the roar outside of the engine and ancient instincts were reawoken.
Mon, 03 Sep, 2018
Well that’s good news. Maybe I can relax a little. You see they reckon slacking can be evolutionarily advantageous.
Mon, 27 Aug, 2018
Spam: the disappointment in your inbox. The notification that turns out to be nothing. It is angrily disposed of.
Mon, 20 Aug, 2018
Walking up the street after a night-out, home at a reasonable hour to let the babysitter go home, we saw it. A nightclub queue. One that was of proper Celtic Tiger length.
Mon, 13 Aug, 2018
I swear they’re doing it just to spite me. They know it’ll drive me mad. One more insult. There is nothing more galling than two — no wait there’s another one — THREE FLIES at it hammer on tongs in the corner of the telly screen as you’re trying to catch up on episodes of a dark psychological Victorian thriller.
Mon, 06 Aug, 2018
IT has been a surprising hit in the house: the screensaver, writes Colm O'Regan.
Mon, 30 Jul, 2018
You'll notice it as you go into the big clothes shops from now on: signs done in blackboard chalk-style, and a smell of thousands of sensible shoes, which are Fabrique en Vietnam or Laos or Myanmar. (Wherever labour laws are most lax).
Mon, 23 Jul, 2018
I felt it slightly. Did you? Maybe not happiness when they were winning. But definitely disappointment when they lost.
Mon, 16 Jul, 2018
THIS heat! The world is on its head, writes Colm O’Regan.
Mon, 09 Jul, 2018