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Colette Sheridan

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Sep 10, 2026
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Jul 26, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Colette Sheridan

    When pirates ruled the waves: recalling the golden era of radio in Cork (opens the original)

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    “Anything happen last night?” I’d ask the garda who answered my call on the Bakelite phone in the newsroom of ERI (Eastcoast Radio Ireland) pirate radio station in Cork. With a cigarette lighting in an ashtray and pen poised to write down the news, I’d hope for something juicy. Sometimes you’d get a garda who would jest, saying officiously that there was a broken flower pot found in the Bishopstown area and that inquiries were ongoing. The gardaí could be co-operative though, despite

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Colette Sheridan

    Cork’s Kilmainham: ‘It’s a 1916 site because Thomas Kent was executed there’ (opens the original)

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    “Cork’s Kilmainham” is how teacher, history podcaster and former Sinn Féin councillor in Cork city, Eolan Ryng describes Cork’s Military Detention Barracks (also known as the old Cork prison). Ryng is campaigning against Department of Justice plans to demolish the Rathmore Road building. There are plans to construct an expanded prison facility opposite the current Cork Prison, on the site of the barracks which opened in 1806 and became a civilian prison in 1972. But Ryng believes that t

  3. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Colette Sheridan

    Latest Gaza flotilla sets sail from Kinsale with ‘trepidation’ (opens the original)

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    A new flotilla bound for Gaza departed Kinsale on Sunday.* American activist Frank Romano said he has a certain amount of “trepidation” about his latest voyage. Romano, one of 10 activists from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition boat Kate, was speaking in Kinsale a couple of hours before leaving the Cork seaside town where the ship was berthed since last Tuesday. Local solidarity groups, including Kinsale for Palestine, hosted fundraising events. Romano (74) has been imprisoned four times by Isr

  4. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Colette Sheridan

    You Langer: Colette Sheridan on a wonderful new book of Cork’s slang words (opens the original)

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    A self-described blow-in from Mayo who has only been living in Cork for more than 50 years, Des MacHale, author of joke books and emeritus professor of mathematics at University College Cork, recently had his latest book launched at the Kerryman’s bar, Cork. Langers & Lashes: A Compendium of Cork Slang claims to be the most comprehensive collection of Cork slang published. The title describes utter fools or arrogant types and attractive women. (“Langer” is also a Cork word for the male app

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