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Colm O'Regan

Columnist with the Irish Examiner.

The search for the next Irish president of America has yet to begin

WE’RE running out of time. With only six months to the US presidential election, one task, worryingly, has not begun: Finding Irish links to the next American president.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

It looks like Eircode here to stay

I hope Eircode doesn’t mean the placenames fall out of use, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 14 Mar, 2016

A new baby in the house makes bargaining pointless

The effect of a new baby in a house is like the presence of the troika in the country. There is no bargaining power, writes Colm O’Regan

Mon, 07 Mar, 2016

The Monday after the election you lost is the worst Monday of all

There are are Mondays and there are Mondays, writes Colm O’Regan.

Mon, 29 Feb, 2016

Online feedback forms bring a new feeling to buying and selling

The phone beeps. I’m excited anyway because there’s a notification. There was a time that notification meant a card in the post from the ESB saying the power would be off. Now notifications are little tabs of uppers, or rather Updates, that gets some of us through the day.

Mon, 22 Feb, 2016

The restraint of science correspondents is to be admired

Colm O’Regan was impressed by science reporters this week

Mon, 15 Feb, 2016

It might nearly be Lent, but Sundays are sweet

ALREADY?! Shrove Tuesday has snuck up on us. Usually around now, time slows. There’s no bank holiday to look forward to. It feels like St Patrick’s Day and New Year’s Day are a year apart. New Year’s Day is a complete waste of a bank holiday, anyway.

Mon, 08 Feb, 2016

MUST SEES AND DYING TO DOS: We spend our lives dodging spoilers

Hold on a second — how far are you in it?

Mon, 01 Feb, 2016

Are we repeating the mistakes we made during the Celtic Tiger?

IS ANYONE else getting uneasy?

Mon, 25 Jan, 2016

You need to learn lots of songs if you're expecting a baby

Are ye all sorted?” people asked us before the birth. We thought we had it all sorted: The clothes, the nappies, the various baby-shaped containers. But what we didn’t have was enough songs.

Mon, 18 Jan, 2016