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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

I get maudlin about how much has been forgotten

Out of nowhere, the name popped into my head. It was of someone I went to school with. Let’s call them Name McNameFace.

Mon, 19 Sep, 2016

If the world as a whole becomes more short-termist then 'too long, don't read' becomes a mantra

Occasionally the financial world throws up headlines that just don’t make sense. I mean they don’t make sense to the likes of us. 

Mon, 12 Sep, 2016

Only over a number of years can you say whether someone is a ‘waster’ or a ‘legend’

Around the early 2000s, I was at a few Ireland matches in Lansdowne Road. 

Mon, 05 Sep, 2016

Dad, Daddy, Dada: What will my baby call me?

I’VE often wondered what it would be like to have a new name.

Mon, 29 Aug, 2016

Internet speak will soon be our language

Resistance is futile. Internet-speak is going to take over your lives, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 22 Aug, 2016

Colm O'Regan discovered a lot he didn't know during a staycation in Cork

Ogham is a ancient writing that uses a system of ticks on a vertical line. Either that or it was an ancient advertisement for clothes pegs, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 15 Aug, 2016

Getting to know the finer points of grammar and punctuation

The jig is up. I have a confession to make. I have been a total spoofer in these columns.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2016

What happens when your car breaks down on the motorway

The cars were going by so fast, they created little pulses of air that buffeted my car. It looked almost bullied. As if they were boys in a secondary school corridor and my little car has just dropped all its study notes on the ground. Just looking for an understanding glance from another pupil.

Mon, 01 Aug, 2016

Tour de France makes me wish I had a telly again

It’s six years since we had a telly in the house now., writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 25 Jul, 2016

Where does the time go when you're lost in a good book?

It hadn’t happened in ages. By ages, I mean years. I looked up and there was the time, and it gone. And I don’t know where it had gone.

Mon, 18 Jul, 2016