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Colm O'Regan

Colm O'Regan is a comedian, best-selling author, broadcaster and podcaster from Cork.

Book of proverbs
Colm O'Regan: For all their faults, we still cleave to sayings that have lasted hundreds of years
You would wonder about the so-called bardic geniuses who came up with these seanfhocail. It feels like it was just lads sitting on ditches watching everyone go by

Fri, 20 Feb, 2026

University College Cork views
Colm O'Regan: Goddesses, Celtic kings, and magical musicians to name your kids after
It's all in a name, and the more Irish, the better

Fri, 13 Feb, 2026

Colm O'Regan: Don't go cold shouldering fun stuff just because it's winter
Colm O'Regan: Don't go cold shouldering fun stuff just because it's winter
The people who put A Thing On In January, who light a candle rather than curse the darkness are to be lauded. In fact, they should be accorded the highest informal honour possible in Ireland — 'Fair F*cks to Them'

Fri, 06 Feb, 2026

Colm O'Regan: Once upon a time... there was violence, cruelty and murder
Colm O'Regan: Once upon a time... there was violence, cruelty and murder
Do you remember Stories for Eight Year Olds — and its companions, stories for under-fives, five-year-olds, six, going all the way up to the over-10s

Fri, 30 Jan, 2026

Mixing console is played by DJ and couples dancing on the dance floor in the background
Colm O'Regan: Let's hear it for all the DJs bringing us together
I know about as much about house music as a dog knows about a modem, but I know what I like

Fri, 23 Jan, 2026

Colm O'Regan: Time to recognise good tech and show dodgy AI the red card
Colm O'Regan: Time to recognise good tech and show dodgy AI the red card
The good podcasts are great. The shit ones you can just avoid. The algorithm hasn’t found a way of going into your ear yet...

Fri, 16 Jan, 2026

Colm O'Regan: Sometimes things are found in translation 
Colm O'Regan: Sometimes things are found in translation 
I did an event a few years ago where one panel discussion was 100% in beautiful native spoken Irish. But 90% of the room hadn’t a clue what was going on. And felt bad about it and left out. Wouldn’t it be great if those 300 people all learned one new word each?

Fri, 09 Jan, 2026

Cabin getaway. Man relaxes in log cabin.
Colm O'Regan: Why is the right path always an uphill climb?
Modern psychology theory says now that willpower is more like a muscle, it can get tired, cramped. You can tear it when reaching for a biscuit. And when willpower is injured or depleted, we reach for comfort... and another biscuit

Fri, 02 Jan, 2026

US Ukraine War
Colm O'Regan: A font of knowledge when it comes to typography
In a bid to be taken more serif-ously US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to ditch the Calibri typeface and use Times New Roman

Fri, 26 Dec, 2025

Man is Looking For Something in Old Books
Colm O'Regan: Solving a minor family mystery thanks to a Ballyhoura writer
A small word links a book about Ballyhoura, broth bits in Croom, and a scribble on the inside cover of a 70-year-old dictionary — and I couldn't be more pleased to find this connection

Fri, 19 Dec, 2025

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