Person: Sean de Paor

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Why Ray D’Arcy is taking his show on the road

Ray D’Arcy can’t do without his morning jog – and now he’s on a mission to get his listeners running too. ‘Run With Ray’ comes to Cork on Monday, the first of five live radio shows the radio presenter is hosting across the country. Try it and you’ll be hooked, he tells

Chariot must roll again

Friel’s work will reward those who cherish it for generations to come

No drug scandal at the World Cup

We need to halt Isis quickly or religious hatred will spread further

Changing our anthem would be an ideal legacy of 1916 anniversary

The rental crisis in Dublin highlights the inherent dangers of capitalism

Soaring rents in Dublin are just another expression of the principle that underpins capitalism — the ownership of capital, or of a particular resource, puts you in a position to service, or exploit, those people who do not have the means to provide that resource for themselves.

Sat, 28 Mar, 2015

Losing faith in Mullen

Senator Rónán Mullen dismisses many of the arguments advanced in the abortion debate, because “there is no scientific evidence for them”.

Tue, 23 Apr, 2013

New faces needed

Many commentators decry the exodus of senior civil servants from their posts. Their experience, we are told, will be a great loss.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2012

Irish youth do care

IN response to Sean de Paor (Letters, July 26), I would like to point out that Young Fine Gael held its national conference in Charleville, Co Cork, last November, with 500 young people from all over Ireland in attendance.

Mon, 01 Aug, 2011

A country that works

COULD any of our political parties have assembled so many committed young people as the Norwegian Labour party did on Utoya?

Tue, 26 Jul, 2011

Cheers to Sean Óg

CONGRATULATIONS to Sean Óg Ó hAilpín on being awarded the Freedom of Cork.

Fri, 06 May, 2011

Man in the know

WELL Bertie, what’s the difference between a bailout and a digout?

Wed, 17 Nov, 2010

Pregnant pause

WHAT was probably the first discussion of the Pope’s letter on RTÉ — Marian Finucane’s radio programme on Saturday morning — was curtailed to facilitate the broadcasting of the angelus.

Tue, 23 Mar, 2010

New order

THE solution seems obvious. Make Michael O’Leary the Archbishop of Armagh – admittedly, he’d be the first married one in a while – and let the Catholic Church run the country like they used to.

Fri, 19 Feb, 2010

Ministers helpless to stop farcical ESB pay hikes

ENERGY Minister Eamon Ryan, on our behalf, is the sole shareholder of the ESB. Hence, the owner and presumably the boss.

Fri, 06 Feb, 2009

Reversal of fortune

HOW confused Stalin and Roosevelt would be if they returned to see how their successors were getting on, to see if they had made the best of the opportunities given to them.

Wed, 24 Sep, 2008

Goodbye Mary Lou

MARY LOU must be appalled — they’re now thinking of going ahead without us.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2008

Ireland’s call

THE only thing I can see wrong with Denis O’Brien giving the FAI a few bob to make sure they could employ a manager who might help us win something is that he did not offer the same facility to the IRFU.

Sat, 23 Feb, 2008

Crime and politics

AN opportunity for splendid coincidence was missed last night when the return of the Sopranos was deferred to facilitate the “leaders’ debate.”

Fri, 18 May, 2007

Par for the course

HOW ironic that Ryder Cup tickets, once purchased, cannot be sold or even transferred. Indeed, it seems you may need your passport to get on the park-and-ride buses at the extravaganza. No cameras or ‘big’ bags either.

Mon, 21 Aug, 2006

Added value

ON the radio last Thursday morning a sweet lady from Brown Thomas described a €5,500 handbag as “an investment item” while your Puck Fair correspondent tells us that you could buy the whole horse for around €2,000.

Sat, 12 Aug, 2006

Italian job

GIVEN the recent history of Italian football, is it too far-fetched to suggest the World Cup was fixed?

Thu, 13 Jul, 2006

Farmer critic ignored real pollution culprits

I AM amazed you would allow Seán de Paor (Irish Examiner letters, August 13) make a sweeping statement accusing farmers of being the main contributors to waterway pollution.

Sat, 20 Aug, 2005

Blame local councils

I WONDER what planet Seán de Paor is from or maybe, like Rip van Winkle, he is waking from a 20-year slumber (Irish Examiner letters, August 13)?

Sat, 20 Aug, 2005

What’s their beef?

IT’S got to be the guffaw of the week, IFA protestors at meat plants with placards about supermarkets and rainforests.

Sat, 13 Aug, 2005

Galway question marks — Mayo by four points

Ray Silke

Sat, 09 Jul, 2005

On your own, Bob

FORTY years ago Bob Dylan released Like A Rolling Stone.

Mon, 20 Jun, 2005

Pensioner mum gives birth to right-wing theory

NOW that a woman in her 60s has given birth it can only be a matter of time before IBEC, or maybe even the PDs, suggest that women defer childbirth until they retire.

Sat, 22 Jan, 2005

Seamless pattern

IF current fashion trends survive until, say June, teenage girls will look just like their mothers did 25 years ago.

Fri, 07 Jan, 2005

Collector's item

ON Tuesday last I passed five SHARE collectors in Cork's Academy Street, which is less than 100 metres long.

Thu, 23 Dec, 2004

Things are better since the decline of religion

I REFER to Seán de Paor’s cryptic comment on religion and the Olympics headlined ’How to get folks to turn to religion’ (Irish Examiner letters, August 27).

Tue, 07 Sep, 2004

Power scramble

RABBIT, Smith, headlights, Michael.

Sat, 04 Sep, 2004

How to get folks to turn to religion

IF the victory celebrations performed by Russian and other former Soviet bloc athletes in Athens are anything to go by, all the Catholic Church needs to do to recover its position of pre-eminence in Ireland is organise 80 years of communist tyranny.

Fri, 27 Aug, 2004

Gripping draw as Galway and champions slug it out

Tyrone 1-16 Galway 1-16 (aet)

Mon, 19 Apr, 2004

Different strokes

IS it to our Playstation society's credit or otherwise that it is impossible absolutely to believe that Christy Ring, were he born today, would foreswear the alternatives and play hurling?

Sat, 17 Apr, 2004

Heady brew on radio

LAST Saturday night RTÉ radio hosted a conversation between a politician and a reporter.

Thu, 08 Apr, 2004

Galway forwards outscore Armagh

Galway 0-16 Armagh 0-08

Sun, 08 Feb, 2004

Tax for the haciendas

A SERIOUS property tax on holiday houses — private or commercial — is overdue.

Sat, 29 Nov, 2003

Class caps it for Tribesmen

Galway1-14

Mon, 07 Jul, 2003