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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

It’s logically better to do something about climate change than not

OK sh*t’s getting real now. The Arctic ice is knackered. As in, you could have gone there on holiday this autumn without your Big Coat. Something is seriously wrong with the climate.

Mon, 05 Dec, 2016

We're all fascinated by the weirdness of the human body

The fascination with what the body can do, or how it looks, or how it can go a bit different to the manuals, is always there, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 28 Nov, 2016

The world has changed utterly in the last fortnight

I would rather quick oblivion rather than humourless survival, lectured by Bear Grylls types about how I’d be dead if they hadn’t rescued me from being caught on the door handle by my belt-loop, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 21 Nov, 2016

Being stopped on the motorway is the most cruel and unnatural of things

IT WAS one of those inexplicable traffic jams. A traffic jam coming out of Dublin, writes Colm O’Regan. 

Mon, 14 Nov, 2016

Is it time to revise your irrational dislikes?

WHAT’S your one? I bet some of you have one. A thing or a person you’ve taken a dislike to. A dislike not backed up by any facts or evidence. Mine was Macnas — the Galway street theatre group. And I was wrong. Fierce wrong, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 07 Nov, 2016

The IMF have become more like a mother-in-law after the bailout

During the boom, we heard a couple of warnings from the IMF but we took no notice, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 31 Oct, 2016

Now the euro carries a bit of weight against sterling

It must make you feel a slight pang if you live in Iran knowing your 100,000 riyal note wouldn’t buy you a burger in Nenagh, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 24 Oct, 2016

DoneDeal 'Stag' story a prime example of overused term 'banter'

If anything ever qualified for use of the overused term banter, it was this, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 17 Oct, 2016

The Budget: It’s not what it used to be, in more ways than one

Back in the days when there was nothing on television and nothing else to do except watch television, even the Budget was a televisual event. 

Mon, 10 Oct, 2016

I should just enjoy the nice thing on holidays instead of using it as a stick to beat Ireland with

THERE comes a time on every holiday — usually about two or three days — and sometimes hours — in, where my wife will have to just issue a gentle warning: “Now Colm. Just be happy for the nice thing that’s here and stop feeling bad because it’s better than Ireland.”

Mon, 03 Oct, 2016