Person: Bunny Carr

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<p>Children with polio being treated at St Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital in Cork in 1956 during the city's polio outbreak. The HSE is alerting medics to the possibility of its return. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive</p>

columnists

Terry Prone: We thought we’d consigned it to history but beware — polio is back

We have all but forgotten how polio devastated lives in the 1950s and must heed warnings from New York, London, and the HSE

general

Scene and Heard: A fiendishly fun family entertainment quiz

columnists

Terry Prone: Remotely doing everything but regretting to call back Revenue

comment-analysis

Gay Byrne: A native speaker of television with the courage of a lion

Readers Blog: Prone loses run of herself in column on Brian Cowen

general

New book reveals 101 items to remind us of the way we were

What makes us tick — and thick

From mammies to moving statues, spuds to Tayto sandwiches, two new books reveal what it means to be Irish, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Wed, 24 Oct, 2012

RTÉ television was a catalyst for change in the development of modern Ireland

DON’T mention RTÉ’s 50th anniversary to Terry Wogan.

Mon, 09 Jan, 2012

Stars come out to celebrate 50 years of RTÉ

“RTÉ was in total chaos at the time. It opened long before it should have.”

Tue, 27 Dec, 2011

In the wake of People of the Year Awards, three bodies earn praise

IF I TELL the truth about being a judge for this weekend’s People of the Year Awards, they’ll never invite me again.

Mon, 12 Sep, 2011

High prices another way of protecting the social elite

LIKE Steve Staunton at the start of an ill-fated stint in charge of the Boys in Green, Mary Coughlan can — for the foreseeable future — tell teachers, their unions and their schools: “I’m the gaffer…”

Thu, 26 Aug, 2010

Kenny at risk of Late Late no show

HANDS up everyone who is looking forward to Pat Kenny hosting another Late Late Show this autumn.

Thu, 21 Aug, 2008

There’s no business like show business...just ask Bertie

ASK an actor about the difference between a Monday night audience and a Saturday night audience.

Mon, 13 Oct, 2003

Stop the lights and go back to the Victorians

DOES anyone else subscribe to the belief that the new lights being erected on Patrick Street in Cork are an absolute abomination and totally out of character with the architectural heritage of the city?

Sat, 15 Feb, 2003