From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony

You hear Paul O’Mahony stringing words together - imagining a poem that plays golf & plays a poem

You hear Paul O’Mahony making tea as he looks forward to meeting @RogerOverall.  Arsenal v PSV - England v New Zealand may come up over coffee in Chaard.  

You hear Paul O’Mahony introducing himself to a group of Toastmasters at OneCountryOneWorld club. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony confess he’s not an artificial intelligence - even though he might be in future.  He also doesn’t think that Ernie isn’t yet artificial. Meanwhile, Paul is looking forward to connecting with old friends and acquaintances during June via #audiomo

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking from an armchair in his garden - next to a banana skin, a rake, and coloured flowers. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony hurrying an electric Hyundai Inster to Cobh Golf Club on Friday morning - for a 9.15am tee time.  His mind jumps from topic to topic. Just like his game.

You hear the talk Paul O’Mahony gave at Blarney Toastmasters on 26th May. All against war. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony putting on his Google socks - the ones he bought at Google headquarters in August 2024.  

You hear Paul O’Mahony reporting on his best round in nine months.  Thursday, yesterday, on Cobh golf course.  Sitting on a sofa, thinking ahead to the prospect of playing more golf on Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday.  

You hear Paul O’Mahony welcoming the arrival of the collection of haiku edited by Gabriela Marie Milton, published by Literary Revelations (ISBN 9798999732576). Paul reads the group of his five haiku included in the collection, on page 73. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony revealing his communication “Style”.   This is the very first draft of a speech that Paul gave to Toastmasters4Golf Club members on Monday..

You hear Paul O’Mahony reporting on the labour it took to remove thatch & moss from his ‘lawn’.  Halfway through the job, Paul started wishing he paid somebody else to do it. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony celebrating a decision by Toastmasters International.  The international convention of Toastmasters International will be held in Paris in August 2027.  Paul heard all about it on Saturday evening on Facebook. He went straight to the kitchen for a bottle of champagne.

You hear Paul O’Mahony getting ready to scarify on Saturday morning

You hear Paul O’Mahony driving to the supermarket.  Complaining. Being a real miseryguts.

You hear Paul O’Mahony back from the Conference in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. A Toastmasters international annual conference. Surely Paul’s DNA cannot have been changed in three days by “Building Foundational Friendships”.

You hear Paul O’Mahony with Louis.  You also hear Paul making tea - mentioning that he buys the cheapest tea in SuperValu, his local supermarket. 

You hear sounds of Dublin city centre - plus commentary by Paul O’Mahony as he walks the streets.  

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about a time when everything seemed to be going quite nicely.  Until he got a surprise invitation to do something quite nerve racking

You hear Paul O’Mahony very upset.  He was caught speeding. A big fine & three points on his licence 

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about how he was pissed off by the way the day began. You also hear him talking about why it’s getting better and better.  Paul loves Dublin.

You hear Paul O’Mahony feeling the effects of interviewing & editing.   It’s taken more out of him than he realised

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about the highlight of his Saturday. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony falling asleep on Saturday morning - after a day away playing golf. An experience to remember. 

You hear Paul O’Mahony asking listeners if they would like to go to a an unusual meeting. A meeting at which you hadn’t a clue what role you were to play until you got to the meeting.   Paul went to that type of meeting yesterday. He’d like to know how are you would feel about that.