Colm O'Regan

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Colm O'Regan: Saturday Night Live UK and how to do a not terrible Irish accent

We are often mistaken for being offended by terrible Irish accents, but personally speaking, it’s not that I’m fragile or hurt by them. I’m just annoyed to see something we do well being done badly

Watching a child get into a tune is beautiful but what is this ‘cursive singing’ trend about?

Colm O'Regan: Don't go cold shouldering fun stuff just because it's winter

Colm O'Regan: Once upon a time... there was violence, cruelty and murder

Colm O'Regan: Let's hear it for all the DJs bringing us together

Colm O'Regan: Sometimes things are found in translation

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

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

Colm O'Regan: Marking life's milestones in my car

I don’t think I can get across to my family how important this moment is... I need to take a photo of the car’s odometer at 299,999, and again further down the road at 300,000

Fri, 12 Dec, 2025

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Colm O'Regan: You simply won't believe these 10 things about clickbait headlines

And don't forget about deathbait and anxietybait — this stuff is happening because the system is broken. We’ve never had so much ‘content’, we’ve never paid less for it and we’ve never been more discontented

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025

Troy Parrott celebrates with Jayson Molumby after scoring the winning goal of the match 16/11/2025

Colm O'Regan: It was a super satisfying result for Irish football, but now we're hungry for stats and analysis

After a match like that, janey, you’d go to an extra Confession to see what the priest thought about Hungary’s time-wasting

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025

Colm O'Regan: A super satisfying result for Irish football, but now we're hungry for stats and analysis

After a match like that, janey, you’d go to an extra Confession to see what the priest thought about Hungary’s time-wasting

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025

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Colm O'Regan: Remembrance of things past even when they're barely past

How dare things happen so quickly! Ten years since the marriage equality referendum, 20 years since Brokeback Mountain, 25 since the Nokia 3310. 30 years since Naff-Naff jackets, 40 years since Cork 800

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Some stars are the molar opposite of bland or forgettable

For years, a winning smile has been a sign of health, wealth, success, and discipline. Crooked, discoloured teeth seem associated with bad living and untrustworthiness on TV

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Have you heard... slow news is good news

Research — by someone, somewhere — suggests that good news is good for mental health, improves mood, counters our amygdala’s assumption the world is full of bears, inspires you to take action, gives hope

Fri, 18 Jul, 2025

Colm O'Regan: You know about crisp sandwiches, but what about 'work biscuits'?

Regardless of what they are, I will eat my village's entire winter stores of biscuit while standing at the sink, without any memory of ever having eaten them

Fri, 13 Jun, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Cleaning the house can both spark joy and cause a panic

Every so often, a cold wind of change sweeps through the house, when you declutter and nothing is safe

Fri, 06 Jun, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Why I love horsing around with my kids

You’ll never forget your daddy dangling you from the back of the sofa

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025

Colm O'Regan: Let’s bring the horror back to safety ads

Colm O'Regan: There are different types of heckles - and this is the worst one

Heckling is like someone putting in a claim for fake whiplash. They are taking money away from the group.

Fri, 21 Feb, 2025

Large orange metal skip container in front house, full of rubbish from household reconstruction

Colm O'Regan: Timber from the neighbour's skip? Or the crooked timber of humanity?

You can’t underestimate the power of free stuff, especially free fuel, and especially free fuel that would have been thrown out

Sat, 30 Nov, 2024

Colm O'Regan: Why Old Town areas in Europe make me mad at Ireland

Colm O'Regan: Looking out for my namesakes... they’re still making O’Regans but Colms are on the wane

Us Colms are being pushed out of our habitats by Calum — or constantly mispronounced as Colin, Cullen, or Colon (always a pain in the hole when I hear that)

Sat, 11 Nov, 2023

Colm O'Regan: Can we stop the battering of our poor hedges?

Colm O'Regan: Will I dye another day — or embrace my 50 shades of grey?

"I understand why anyone would hang onto 'their' hair colour for as long as possible. To do the Liberace, with the hair of a 22-year-old and the face of a cliff face."

Mon, 14 Aug, 2023

Colm O'Regan: For a blissful couple of days, your children are out ambling in the middle of the road

It’s like it was during the Emergency. But with bananas and clothes, that fit

Sat, 17 Jun, 2023

Colm O'Regan: Instagram is teaching me how to dance

Colm O'Regan: My wife and I agree on most things - except how clean the children’s clothes need to be

I had school trousers that simply had to wait for a long enough school break before being washed

Sat, 10 Jun, 2023

Colm O'Regan: No wow and drama, I just want a shed — and maybe a water park for dollies

I love Cheap Irish Homes... some of those prices are at 1998 or ‘Currently Owned By The Criminal Assets Bureau’ levels

Sat, 04 Mar, 2023

Tuesday TV Tips: The search for our missing children — and the truth about what happened

Plus controlled mayhem as science fact is separated from science fiction on Future Island

Tue, 09 Nov, 2021

Colm O'Regan: The miracle of the supply chain - it's Beijing talking to Bweeng

"We had it too good for so long. Clicking on a deal for three euro and getting a piece of plastic on Ali Express. "

Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Colm O'Regan: Even after the announcement of a vaccine, things are still meh

Colm O'Regan: Here’s how to escape the ‘creeping Americanisation’ of Halloween

Listen, there was no one going on about carving turnips until they started seeing pumpkins for tuppence halfpenny in Lidl

Sun, 24 Oct, 2021

Colm O'Regan: We need proper funny Irish programming, so why was The Den cancelled?

Funny is hard. So when a program just effortlessly makes a lot of people laugh… Well you just need to be aware that it’s very hard to replace.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2021

Colm O'Regan: My wife wrote 'traces of pain' - instead of 'paint' - while selling our old headboard

Colm O'Regan: Here's my pitch for the new Bank Holiday - Hump Monday

"I’m nominating the 8th Monday of the year. Hump Monday. The first Monday after St Valentine's day but despite the name, nothing to do with romance. A day to nudge you into the Spring."

Sun, 03 Oct, 2021

Colm O'Regan: My wife wrote 'traces of pain' - instead of 'paint' - while selling our old headboard

Sometimes you have to just stop and think: isn’t life astounding? The infinite complexity, the multiplicity of things happening at the same time all of which can combine to influence you.

Sun, 19 Sep, 2021

Colm O'Regan: Porridge is an essential part of my morning smugness routine

One of my earliest memories is sitting at the table, not wanting to eat it, and heaping sugar onto a rapidly cooling bowl of porridge watching it caramelise

Sun, 12 Sep, 2021

Colm O'Regan: Jingles jangle in our brains, let's create more of them

"The eighties seem to have been a golden age for jingles. Long before fast fashion, Penneys had a whole lot of things for Christmas."

Mon, 05 Apr, 2021

Colm O'Regan: Grammar Nazis! Don't bother reading this

I’m chilling out about mispronunciation.

Mon, 22 Mar, 2021

Colm O'Regan: Don't reveal your remote work dossing when all of this is over

Your motivation for working from home mightn’t be very high right now. Perhaps you’ve had a tough weekend. Maybe you were struck from a wedding guest list so the couple could ‘bring it under the 100’, writes Colm O'Regan

Mon, 16 Mar, 2020

Colm O'Regan: Maths - What do you think of when you see the word?

Maths: what do you think when you see the word?, asks Colm O'Regan.

Mon, 14 Oct, 2019

Opening Lines: Spotify is up in the cloud and when you want a song it comes down via tiny devils who don't pay tax

Warning: this may contain traces of someone talking about vinyl. May cause eyerolling if dose is exceeded. We got a record player. So for the first time in maybe 15 years, I’m playing records. It’s all starting to come back to me.

Sun, 06 Oct, 2019

Opening Lines: Amongst us stupid people, I think finally weeds are having a moment

I’ve always had a certain respect for weeds. They have been worthy adversaries.

Mon, 08 Apr, 2019

I feel sorry for the dogs. Even they have a sense of shame about having to poo in public

The small dark shape flutters in the breeze. From a distance it looks like it could be an offering to the spirits of ancestors or pagan gods hung in the tree. It swings there a little, as if urging the little buds to break free and announce the spring.

Mon, 18 Feb, 2019

Micro-goals: 'I am now, for the first time in my life, drinking enough water'