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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

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

Nobody makes stirring speeches any more

DOUBT stalks the land. Irish people are using sterling to blow their nose. There’s talk of Britain’s corporation tax being lowered to a level where it could cause foreign multinationals to disregard the ABSOLUTE CRAIC they have here.

Mon, 11 Jul, 2016

Missing the opportunity to become a prodigy in any field

I could have been inventing the internet. Or a Dyson, (or an O’Regan as it would be called), writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 04 Jul, 2016

We Irish don't really understand the British

THEY sit there in the ‘foreign money’ jar, along with four dollars, €3.40 worth of South African rand and whatever they have in Hungary: My small collection of sterling notes.

Mon, 27 Jun, 2016

Going to the chipper brings so many tiny joys

WHEN you’ve been with someone a long time, you just know. You don’t have to say anything. It’s in the eyes. We exchange glances and giggle. With easy familiarity, I make my move — out the door and down to the chipper, says Colm O’Regan.

Mon, 20 Jun, 2016

Qualifying for the Euros means something other than Ireland meeting bailout conditions

HERE it is. The Big One. Or, as the French say, Le Gros Wan. Ireland’s opening bow at the Euros. Our recent economic turnaround, as a country, can be traced to our progress at major footballing events.

Mon, 13 Jun, 2016