Person: Yerra

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Why are election candidates all so happy and content?
Why are election candidates all so happy and content?

A woman begged my pardon the other night, while I was out, enjoying a quiet pint.

Mon, 06 May, 2019

Ask Audrey: We went to bed, 20 seconds later wasn’t herself complaining about my ability to stay the course.
Ask Audrey: We went to bed, 20 seconds later wasn’t herself complaining about my ability to stay the course.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

Fri, 08 Jun, 2018

Knocknagree take ‘once in a lifetime’ shot at glory
Knocknagree take ‘once in a lifetime’ shot at glory

Sunday morning in Knocknagree. Two women, one in a pink dressing gown pulling gingerly on a cigarette, stand nattering at a front door. All else is quiet.

Sat, 03 Feb, 2018

Ask Audrey: 'He turned his jocks inside out to get another month out of them'
Ask Audrey: 'He turned his jocks inside out to get another month out of them'

Ask Audrey has been sorting out the people of Cork for years.

Fri, 02 Jun, 2017

Denis Lehane: Off to the bank for Creed’s money
Denis Lehane: Off to the bank for Creed’s money
Farmers will be joining the queues in the banks, following Agriculture Minister Michael Creed’s recent launch of the Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme.

Thu, 09 Feb, 2017

Denis Lehane: Good advice for my 18-year-old self
Denis Lehane: Good advice for my 18-year-old self
You will all agree that there is a big difference between myself and Victoria Beckham. Yerra, we are poles apart, really.

Thu, 12 Jan, 2017

Denis Lehane: Santa knows the whole story
Denis Lehane: Santa knows the whole story
I met Santa the other evening and he was very cross.

Thu, 22 Dec, 2016

Denis Lehane: Have yourselves a tuneful Christmas
Denis Lehane: Have yourselves a tuneful Christmas
There is nothing worse than listening to a lousy guitar player, particularly at Christmas time. For he is the fellow who can ruin any gathering of sweet sounding carol singers.

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

Denis Lehane: Minister for Agriculture, my backside - he’s more like the Minister for Trouble
Denis Lehane: Minister for Agriculture, my backside - he’s more like the Minister for Trouble
It’s not often I lose the rag, I’m supposed to be a humorous old devil, after all.

Thu, 27 Oct, 2016

Gemma O’Connor: ‘I’ll know when it’s time to go’
Gemma O’Connor: ‘I’ll know when it’s time to go’

“Yerra, something like that,” replies Gemma O’Connor, gingerly at that, when asked if tomorrow does in fact represent her 12th All-Ireland senior final appearance.

Sat, 10 Sep, 2016

Denis Lehane: Holiday tales from man and beast
Denis Lehane: Holiday tales from man and beast

I must be the only man in the parish who hasn’t gone on holidays this summer.

Thu, 28 Jul, 2016

Denis Lehane: The nightmare of cattle shooting
Denis Lehane: The nightmare of cattle shooting

I had a terrible dream after coming home from the pub last Saturday night. 

Thu, 21 Jul, 2016

My Toyota Helix would make a great Ministerial Jeep
My Toyota Helix would make a great Ministerial Jeep

Earlier this week, I bumped into none other than the Minister for Agriculture.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2016

Denis Lehane: I’m the right man in the wrong place
Denis Lehane: I’m the right man in the wrong place

“How is the Department of Agriculture managing to keep afloat?” farmers might well ask, with our man Coveney locked into government talks with the likes of the Healy-Rae brothers.

Thu, 05 May, 2016

Denis Lehane: Snakes, off-licences and other legends
Denis Lehane: Snakes, off-licences and other legends

St Patrick was a great man when it came to ridding Ireland of snakes.

Thu, 17 Mar, 2016

Denis Lehane: More money in cattle than oil now
Denis Lehane: More money in cattle than oil now

I ordered some tractor diesel the other day, and when JR Ewing himself came out to deliver it, I had to laugh. 

Thu, 10 Mar, 2016

Support your local carol singers as they spread some much needed Christmas cheer
Support your local carol singers as they spread some much needed Christmas cheer
The man above has certainly blessed us all with an abundance of gifts and talents.

Thu, 17 Dec, 2015

Sinking Sunday feeling saved by dreams of Kate Winslet and Basic Farm Payment
Sinking Sunday feeling saved by dreams of Kate Winslet and Basic Farm Payment
Denis Lehane provides a humorous glimpse into the complicated workings of the farming brain.  

Thu, 10 Dec, 2015

Donal Óg will continue to stir debate in Cork
Donal Óg will continue to stir debate in Cork
We don’t live in a utopian society in Ireland, but there is much for which we should be grateful. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are brilliant bonuses here — look at North Korea and other ‘closed’ and oppressive countries.

Thu, 29 Oct, 2015

Denis Lehane: Going thirsty for sake of the calves
Denis Lehane: Going thirsty for sake of the calves
Fellows often ask me, “How do you survive in farming at all, for you seem to be the greatest fool that ever put a foot on the land.”

Thu, 08 Oct, 2015

Denis Lehane: Nothing special for the birthday VIP
Denis Lehane: Nothing special for the birthday VIP
Yesterday evening as I left the ploughing fields of Laois, there could surely have been no sadder man in Ireland.

Thu, 24 Sep, 2015

Denis Lehane: Red alert at marts threatens holiday
Denis Lehane: Red alert at marts threatens holiday
I had to get my missus to top my egg on Friday morning, so distraught was I at the news I was reading from the paper.

Thu, 18 Jun, 2015

Mike Quirke: ‘Yerra’ platitudes have been part of build-ups for Kerry
Mike Quirke: ‘Yerra’ platitudes have been part of build-ups for Kerry

Let me put it out there from the throw-in, I’m not soft-soaping you here and I do believe Kerry will beat Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final.

Wed, 10 Jun, 2015

Denis Lehane: Washed up after disaster at the ATM
Denis Lehane: Washed up after disaster at the ATM
I thought the farm was going to sink on Saturday, with the height of rain.

Thu, 07 May, 2015

Denis Lehane: Graze-on mowers on the lawn
Denis Lehane: Graze-on mowers on the lawn
Sheep make the best lawn-mowers, writes Denis Lehane.

Thu, 16 Apr, 2015

Denis Lehane: Mr Magoo goes milking on April 1
Denis Lehane: Mr Magoo goes milking on April 1
“Denny, if you don’t stop, you’ll go blind,” warned Mrs Creedon, principal of the local school, on Friday. 

Thu, 26 Mar, 2015

Denis Lehane: A year on and the euro calf is valuable
Denis Lehane: A year on and the euro calf is valuable
At mass on Sunday morning, the readings were all focused on farming.

Thu, 12 Mar, 2015

Denis Lehane: Turbine talk the stuff of nightmares
Denis Lehane: Turbine talk the stuff of nightmares
The wind turbines were restless again last night, so restless that I could not sleep.

Thu, 05 Mar, 2015

Did he or didn’t he? Ram is suspect
Did he or didn’t he? Ram is suspect
LIGHTEN UP!

Thu, 26 Feb, 2015

Denis Lehane: Valentine’s landing plan still up in air
Denis Lehane: Valentine’s landing plan still up in air
Well, you can’t get away with anything these days. My plans of Russian love are at an end. The plight of single, rural men continues.

Thu, 12 Feb, 2015

Denis Lehane: Sounds of little feet a distant memory
Denis Lehane: Sounds of little feet a distant memory
I’ve been writing these columns for the past 10 years, says Denis Lehane.

Thu, 05 Feb, 2015

Good ol’ Santa rolls into town
Good ol’ Santa rolls into town
We took the children to see old Santa a few evenings back, and as usual, the big man worked wonders.

Thu, 18 Dec, 2014

Have farmers gone off their trolleys?
Have farmers gone off their trolleys?
“Would you ever please go to the supermarket and collect a few messages for me?” my missus asked the other day.

Thu, 04 Sep, 2014

Talking grass could be the last straw
Talking grass could be the last straw
I heard a frightening story emanating from Italy during the past week.

Thu, 12 Jun, 2014

Poster boys and girls for a new Ireland
Poster boys and girls for a new Ireland
It was because of how the April winds were blowing yesterday that I was able to eavesdrop on the intriguing conversation between the two, seasoned old election posters shivering on a local telegraph pole.

Thu, 01 May, 2014

O’Donoghue a born leader
O’Donoghue a born leader

It wasn’t the All Star that capped James O’Donoghue’s marvellous 2013 season but the wink that greeted it.

Sat, 15 Mar, 2014

Walsh would consider dual Cork role
Walsh would consider dual Cork role

Aidan Walsh has dropped a major hint that he may be prepared to line out for both Cork’s senior footballers and hurlers next year.

Fri, 25 Oct, 2013

Hard hits are what fans want, says Walsh
Hard hits are what fans want, says Walsh

INTERNATIONAL RULES SERIES, SECOND TEST:

Fri, 25 Oct, 2013

We must make a stand against, not divide

When we are divided we are well on the way to being conquered.

Sat, 11 May, 2013

Tomás Ó Sé – 80 not out By John Fogarty
Tomás Ó Sé – 80 not out By John Fogarty
“Personal pride is a good thing. The team is number one but you’re out there on the field and you’ve a job to do. I’ve to mark a fella and he’s my business. Sometimes when we win games and I play terribly I feel like it’s a loss. You go out the next day and try to buck up your performance.” — Tomás Ó Sé, 2008

Fri, 20 Jul, 2012

As solid as a tree trunk

The Noel O’Leary you see on the field is not the man you get away from the raging tempest of Championship football. And the Cork defender is working on closing the gap between the perception and the reality. He spoke to Tony Leen.

Sat, 22 Aug, 2009

O'Sé eases into captaincy role

Very little seems to phase Tomas O'Sé. A four-time GAA All-Ireland SFC winner with Kerry, the holder of three All-Star awards and another player off that famous O'Sé footballing conveyor belt.

Wed, 06 Aug, 2008

Old friends, new targets for O’Mahony
IF YOU’RE a Kerry footballer, this week has been about keeping the head down and the ear cocked.

Sat, 30 Jun, 2007

Not men, but giants

Pat McGrath of Waterford (father of current stars Ken and Eoin) and Johnny Crowley of Cork, five-times All-Ireland winner, met many times on the field of play. They were reunited again this week ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final between Cork and Waterford, in the company of Diarmuid O’Flynn.

Sat, 05 Aug, 2006

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