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Colm O'Regan

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Colm O'Regan: I’d like to bring some mini-subjects to the Leaving Cert — how about Cop On and Driver Etiquette?
Colm O'Regan: I’d like to bring some mini-subjects to the Leaving Cert — how about Cop On and Driver Etiquette?
There would be modules on driver etiquette, how not to drive up my hole, acknowledging when someone lets you out. Indicators

Fri, 30 May, 2025

Colm O'Regan:  AI scraped my novels, but why?
Colm O'Regan:  AI scraped my novels, but why?
Finding my novels scraped by AI, at first I couldn’t possibly figure out what use it would have to build up the large language models ability to describe the inner workings of an imaginary Tidy Towns group

Fri, 23 May, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Using an app to count insects has allowed me to be more mindful and still
Colm O'Regan: Using an app to count insects has allowed me to be more mindful and still
FIT is Flower Insect Timed Count. You just spend 10 minutes looking at a flower or flowers and the 50cm x 50cm square around it and count the insects that visit it and put them into categories on an app or on a piece of paper

Fri, 16 May, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Of course the word gymnastics comes from the Greek words ‘to exercise naked’
Colm O'Regan: Of course the word gymnastics comes from the Greek words ‘to exercise naked’
I’m sure people were somersaulting all through history but the Greeks seem to be the first to put a word on it

Fri, 09 May, 2025

Colm O'Regan: I’ve dreamt up the ultimate TV mash-up, an apocalyptic muppet show
Colm O'Regan: I’ve dreamt up the ultimate TV mash-up, an apocalyptic muppet show
There’s a pHD to be written about the symbiotic relationship between the Doozers and the Fraggles. But I don’t have time for that because I need to work on getting Apple TV to pay for my new show.

Fri, 02 May, 2025

Colm O'Regan: A shortcut to the past — a Facebook group of iconic covers from the Ladybird archive
Colm O'Regan: A shortcut to the past — a Facebook group of iconic covers from the Ladybird archive
Fly Away Home is the online base of Helen Day, who collects, curates and minds hundreds of old Ladybird books. They might be fairy tales, Peter and Jane, history, wildlife, How Stuff Works (or at least How Stuff Used To Work)

Fri, 25 Apr, 2025

Colm O'Regan: The weather is my fault — I put away the Big Coat
Colm O'Regan: The weather is my fault — I put away the Big Coat
If you’re wondering where the really nice weather went, I may have something to do with it. I put away the Big Coat. Into the attic. A direct two fingers to the gods

Fri, 18 Apr, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Your J1 could get you a job with Trump
Colm O'Regan: Your J1 could get you a job with Trump
The J1 visa is infamous for enabling Irish 21-year-olds to shortcut the American dream and get great jobs. Seriously, a friend of a friend came back from a J1 having got a job managing an airfield. His qualification? Being a cousin of someone

Fri, 11 Apr, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Why reusing makes more sense than recycling
Colm O'Regan: Why reusing makes more sense than recycling
Re-turn, the operator of Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme, is celebrating a major milestone: one billion drinks containers returned by the Irish public. That’s enough bottles and cans to circle the globe 4.7 times.

Fri, 04 Apr, 2025

Colm O'Regan: 'You have not seen a happier man than a man perched on top of a 1966 Massey'
Colm O'Regan: 'You have not seen a happier man than a man perched on top of a 1966 Massey'
I thought of Battlestar Galactica while at sundry mid-Cork St Patrick’s Day parades. To be clear, it wasn’t the first thing I thought of. The first was yet another pang of realisation about time passing

Fri, 28 Mar, 2025

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