‘Connie Dodgers’ took the biscuit in Cork…
It might not be so now, but Lent was a very serious event in the Ireland of days…
Meet the collectors who have amassed 100,000 match programmes, coins and thimbles
Mitchelstown native David O’Donoghue might be Ireland’s biggest penny pincher. Luckily, for the effervescent history and English teacher,…
Golden memories of a popular Cork band
Well, that story on the Ardmanning Bar last week in Throwback Thursday really got a lot of response…
Taking a stroll down memory lane
My Dad, Seamus White, and his lifelong friend and fellow barman, Tony O’Sullivan, had both worked in a…
Life at Cork’s now obsolete Queen’s Place
Consisting of four elegant town houses fronting the south channel of the River Lee, Queen’s Place was built…
My happy childhood in city’s Moores Hotel
Throwback Thursday reader Declan Groeger has written concerning a former Cork city landmark, Moores Hotel on Morrison’s Island.…