Opinion |
Written by: Staff Reporter
( Opinion )
...Bring back Bertie!
Last week I predicted the "bring back Bertie" calls and then the Sunday papers were full of them.
Wish I could predict the lotto numbers as accurately. Even that would make no di...
20-11-2008
Word count: 889 |
Written by: Staff Reporter
( Opinion )
...Drink driving
It came as little surprise to me to hear on air recently that nearly half of all positive drink driving charges and motoring offences are thrown out of court. One of the main reasons...
13-11-2008
Word count: 847 |
Written by: Staff Reporter
( Opinion )
...In the past three weeks, for any those of you who may be interested, I have lost over one and a half stone in weight and while it may sound great it certainly wasn´t easy! It has involved int...
23-10-2008
Word count: 810 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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It was inevitable that we would all be hit with a tax increase, it was coming, as were fags, wine, petrol and car tax. The old reliables.
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16-10-2008
Word count: 1024 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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When was nine years old I collected the World Cup soccer stickers for the 1970 World cup in Mexico city.
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09-10-2008
Word count: 876 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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Kate Perry singing about Kissing girls is, in my opinion an insult to women.
While some may just see it as a harmless ditty it does nothing to further the cause of women in a mans world. It's anot...
02-10-2008
Word count: 962 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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The last time I experienced the negativity and panic of the last year was back in 2001, after 9/11 to be precise.
I remember at the time giving away gas masks on the air! I actually had constructi...
25-09-2008
Word count: 859 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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What's the first thing this government decided to do this week when we hit rock bottom and they all gathered in Galway for a chin wag?
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18-09-2008
Word count: 891 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...The headline in the Mirror this week read “Justice at last for Katy”, it said that gardai were about to arrest the man who provided her with the cocaine that supposedly killed her.
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11-09-2008
Word count: 914 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...I am reminded at this time every year just how much families are ripped off by the education system in this country because August is the month that we all shell out vast amounts of money on uniform...
28-08-2008
Word count: 905 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...I have been spending quite an amount of time watching the Olympic games from Beijing. Well, what else are ya gonna do if your on holidays in Ireland and the rain keeps bucketing down?
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21-08-2008
Word count: 932 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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The fitness of the Kerry footballers has always been marvelled at and I had first hand opportunity to marvel at it myself last Sunday as I returned by train from Dublin to Cork.
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14-08-2008
Word count: 1019 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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The Beijing Olympics signifying man's endeavour to conquer the odds and win, against the toughest competition in the world. Limerick man Ger McDonnell reached out and grabbed his own Olympic medal b...
07-08-2008
Word count: 884 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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What a week for getting my goat up! I have to say I despair at the service Cork people put up with and I have to wonder if bosses and owners actually know how their staff behave behind their back. ...
24-07-2008
Word count: 994 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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I have just returned from the plastic wannabe capital of Europe, if not the world; Puerto Banus. I was over for a long weekend with RSVP magazine at the annual Marbella Ball, a right posh affair, wi...
17-07-2008
Word count: 1104 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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We had a CoCo's nightclub reunion on Saturday night at the Victoria hotel, it sold out and how great it was to see all the old heads again and play all the old hits. CoCo's was the cool eighties clu...
10-07-2008
Word count: 955 |
Written by: Staff Reporter
( Opinion )
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The 96FM Radiothon was a resounding success, beyond everyone's dreams. There was an unofficial hope that we would reach €100,000 so to treble it was fantastic. As I write we are fast approachin...
03-07-2008
Word count: 881 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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Comets or the creation of heaven? This is a question I've been asking myself all week. It all manifested itself from two incidents that happened to me recently.
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26-06-2008
Word count: 822 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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Management of both the Cork school of music and the CIT should hang their collective heads in shame, to deny even one Cork child a chance to learn a musical instrument is a dereliction of duty, to s...
19-06-2008
Word count: 872 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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We Corkonians take a lot for granted living down here on the south coast. Take Dubliners and non Dubliners living in Dublin for example, by and large they dislike living in the capital. Some of them...
12-06-2008
Word count: 879 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...Bertie Ahern was the smart man to get out when he did, just as the deck of cards was about to come tumbling down. He leaves a sorry mess behind him that’s for sure.
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05-06-2008
Word count: 933 |
Written by: Staff Reporter
( Opinion )
...The powers that be conspired against the Munster fans at the weekend, at least those travelling into Cork Airport.
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29-05-2008
Word count: 943 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...The Dublin driven national media is telling us that Brian Cowen needs a make over. They’re used to Bertie with his foundation, powder, lip gloss and mascara.
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22-05-2008
Word count: 972 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
...John O’Brien was found not guilty of murdering his wife, Meg Walsh. Someone killed her but 12 of his peers decided on the evidence provided to the central criminal court that it was not he.
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15-05-2008
Word count: 906 |
Written by: Neil Prendeville
( Opinion )
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A Cork Judge recently released with a suspended sentence a Corkman found in possession of drugs with the sole purpose of sale and supply. He was a drug dealer, caught by the guards.
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08-05-2008
Word count: 998 |
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