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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

Sometimes life just imitates art
Sometimes life just imitates art

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

Since children came along, Black Bin day has been more important than ever
Since children came along, Black Bin day has been more important than ever

I heard the roar outside of the engine and ancient instincts were reawoken.

Mon, 03 Sep, 2018

Are you busy? We all ask one another all the time - and we all are
Are you busy? We all ask one another all the time - and we all are

Well that’s good news. Maybe I can relax a little. You see they reckon slacking can be evolutionarily advantageous.

Mon, 27 Aug, 2018

Opening Lines: In digital and analogue, spam is brief hope, then disappointment, then fury
Opening Lines: In digital and analogue, spam is brief hope, then disappointment, then fury

Spam: the disappointment in your inbox. The notification that turns out to be nothing. It is angrily disposed of.

Mon, 20 Aug, 2018

Opening Lines: It’s been a while since I’ve been in a nightclub queue
Opening Lines: It’s been a while since I’ve been in a nightclub queue

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

There's something bugging me and it needs to fly
There's something bugging me and it needs to fly

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

Our relationship with our photos had become unhealthy
Our relationship with our photos had become unhealthy

IT has been a surprising hit in the house: the screensaver, writes Colm O'Regan. 

Mon, 30 Jul, 2018

Opening Lines: Slacks... represent the beginning of the end of summer
Opening Lines: Slacks... represent the beginning of the end of summer

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

'This is the first England team I would not have been dreading going on a stag with'
'This is the first England team I would not have been dreading going on a stag with'

I felt it slightly. Did you? Maybe not happiness when they were winning. But definitely disappointment when they lost.

Mon, 16 Jul, 2018

The heat has turned the world on its head
The heat has turned the world on its head

THIS heat! The world is on its head, writes Colm O’Regan.

Mon, 09 Jul, 2018

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