Person: MacConnell

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Get cremated; or the whole place goes up in smoke

The organic truth this week for you hardy band of faithful readers is that I’ve at last decided to discard a lifelong desire for a traditional chapel funeral (in the hopefully quite distant future), with clansmen staggering under the weight of my ornate casket. with bright brass handles and suchlike.

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Beards: OK for saints but not for sinners

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Cormac MacConnell: Time to build a wall to keep out the Dubliners

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Cormac MacConnell: Sharpen your swords for season of goodwill

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When farm disputes led to death penalty

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Cormac MacConnell: Nightmare end for Cormac’s castaways

Cormac MacConnell: The secret ingredient to Olympic success

None of you will be one bit surprised that I am about to exclusively reveal here in this special space exactly how our generally shocking show at the Olympics in Rio can be totally transformed for the next outing in Tokyo in four years time.

Thu, 25 Aug, 2016

Cormac MacConnell: Here’s hoping you’re all Owen Kelly today

Are ye all OK today, despite all the pressures being imposed by staying up half the night to watch the Olympics, and keeping up with all the rest of the home sport of every kind, on about every front?

Thu, 11 Aug, 2016

Cormac MacConnell: Birthday words of wisdom to Orla (11)

Dear Orla MacConnell (11),

Thu, 07 Jul, 2016

Cormac MacConnell: Affairs of state not for the bearded among us

There was a mirror behind the Tipperary bar where O’Dowd and I were relishing a weekend pint. and talking about the weather and politics. like everybody else around us along the bar.

Thu, 14 Apr, 2016

Cormac MacConnell: Legal tender, love me tender, send me home

Hola y buenos días!

Thu, 31 Mar, 2016

Realising I was falsely accused of being blind as a bat from wildlife facts

I got a lovely pass from our Killesher midfielder, Paul Corrigan, a lifetime ago, when I was a teenage forward on a Sunday game in March, against neighbours Kinawley.

Thu, 14 Jan, 2016

Being inspired by Dan Dare

Steady yourselves now.

Thu, 29 Oct, 2015

Cormac MacConnell: Looking for a smell or a taste of a cure

Here is a shot in the dark from an unusual quadrant, which may be of interest to a mere handful of you out there but, I suspect, may strike a chord with many.

Thu, 20 Aug, 2015

Cormac MacConnell: This manopausal virus has dogged me

Do not be too shocked by my honest confession to you all today that I have suffered all my adult life from a virtually unreported and totally incurable manopausal virus, now identified as the lethal SJ Syndrome.

Thu, 06 Aug, 2015

Cormac MacConnell: Check your garden for tasty organic treat

I was stopped in my tracks earlier this week, when I spied what was being offered for sale in the fruit and vegetable aisle of a Co Clare supermarket.

Thu, 09 Jul, 2015

Cormac MacConnell: Of hares, free drink and two types of cat

There have been just two establishments in Co Clare in which I have never been allowed to put my hand in my pocket to pay my way.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2015

Call from Edinburgh left me distracted

Since the long gone time of my ancestor Stuttering Mickie, who had the power to billet rats on farms which were not his own, and Lepping Larry, about whose morals even I cannot speak in a family newspaper today, there is a slew of hard evidence that all the MacConnell clan are as cracked as a cheap boarding house egg.

Thu, 04 Jun, 2015

Black and white and best read all over

I am prepared to bet that many of you readers who have shelled out €2 for this splendid newspaper today, and every day of the week, indeed, have not the foggiest notion of how to read a newspaper properly.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2014

Play your sing-song part, tourists love it

Before you start reading, I command you to lay hands on a pair of scissors. 

Thu, 28 Aug, 2014

Memorable tales from heart of the Kingdom

I won’t tell ye the significance of the Kerryman Van at all. And I won’t utter any further praise of any kind for a book which kept me turning pages all night.

Thu, 22 May, 2014

Tributes paid following death of farming journalism stalwart

Tributes came in from the worlds of politics and agriculture following the unexpected death of one of the country’s best-known farming journalists.

Thu, 05 Sep, 2013

Former Irish Times journalist dies suddenly

The former Irish Times journalist Sean MacConnell has died suddenly in Dublin.

Wed, 04 Sep, 2013

The Rooster is all wise, a sharp operator and winner

The one they call The Rooster left Connemara for the English building sites in Birmingham when he was 18.

Thu, 15 Aug, 2013

Wildlife key part of heritage

I’M loathe to rise to Cormac MacConnell’s bait (Farming, September 1), but as Ireland’s largest wildlife conservation charity we cannot allow his comments to go unchecked.

Sat, 03 Sep, 2011

We cannot afford not to support our flora and fauna

WHEN I read Cormac MacConnell’s article (Farming, Sept 1) my shoulders dropped. Do people really still think like this? I had to check it wasn’t April 1.

Sat, 03 Sep, 2011