From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony

Driving to San Francisco with Ray Renati 01.09.2024 45:02 ↓

#omaniontheroad

YOU NEED FRIENDS 16.05.2024 10:43 ↓

TOASTMASTERS,  "You need friends" - a speech given by Paul O'Mahony to the Anglo-Irish meeting at the annual conference of District 71 (Ireland & UK north) in Portlaoise on Thursday 9th May 2024. 

Cursed Be Thy Name 01.05.2024 4:56 ↓

The pen is always heavy, when it’s months since you lifted it. The weight of the space left behind undressed, unaddressed. Time without colour, days without commas, seconds stripped asunder, drunk on the spirit of everlasting  full stops. ——— This pen has a cough, the sign of an infected life lived as if there was no editor round the corner waiting. No publisher  cracking teeth,  chewing toenails,...

"60 Hours of Hell: The Story of the Barkley Marathons" with Roger Overall 20.03.2024 35:18 ↓

Photo Credit : Welcome to Hell. (Photo: Howie Stern)

SLUGGISH DAWN 06.03.2024 0:58 ↓

Sluggish Dawn  Waking is such sweet joy, my friend, Crumpled sheets and well-worn pillows The body warm and snug. A gentle lift-off with a push  A right-hand palm, the door to a well-known pit, into the landscape of a fragile core.  Nostalgia for the sweet touch of night Gone the face of slumbered satisfaction.  Welcome back marauded morn  Enough, enough Oh bloody hell, Myalgia,  It’s way past tim...

The Children of the Poor King & the Mean Queen 23.03.2023 9:28 ↓

A story for grandchildren 

In honour of Chinua Achebe - 21.03.2023 5:22 ↓

Reading from "Things Fall Apart" (1958) - with big thanks to my friend Ken Essien.

WALKING CHURCH HILL 25.01.2023 10:17 ↓

Recorded while Paul O'Mahony walks down & up the steep Church Hill in an effort to recover from winter vomiting bug.  You also hear cars passing - and a brief exchange of sounds with a passer-by. 

I will remember 2022 31.12.2022 5:09 ↓

I will remember the year. Ukraine survived Rasputin's curse. Moscow central: tanks, troops, terror into houses, homes, hospitals into schools, shops, ships amputating the land obeying the command of Grendel's cabal. I will never forget my ignorance - how my faith led me to trust Mother Russia, Gorbachov's legacy, seduction by MacDonalds, and the gas. Shame on me, mea culpa. I failed to believe the...

DOG WALKING IN CORK ADVENTURE IN DECEMBER 08.12.2022 11:30 ↓

Paul O'Mahony talks as he walks with his English Setter Louis.  They meet herons, a cormorant, a Schnauzer and a human or three ...

IRELAND BEAT WEST INDIES AT CRICKET 21.10.2022 14:57 ↓

Roger Overall & Paul O'Mahony talk about how Ireland beat West Indies.  This was recorded in Cafe Beva in Glanmire Cork Ireland. 

HOW DO YOU FEEL AFTER #AudioMo ? (Warning : may not be entirely suitable for especially young ears) 05.07.2021 23:13 ↓

#Audio365

#AudioMo Day 22 : STROLLING OR AMBLING IN MOANBAUN WOOD 22.06.2021 17:07 ↓

Paul O'Mahony talks while walking in his favourite wood in East Cork - you hear his dog Louis panting and you hear them meet some people who had a dog 

#AudioMo Day 16 - James Joyce's Day - Bloomsday - Ulysses 16.06.2021 6:11 ↓

Paul O'Mahony reads from Ulysses.

#AudioMo Day 10 : ATTENTION WITHIN MARRIAGE 10.06.2021 6:57 ↓

Paul O'Mahony offers thoughts about how easy it is to pay attention to your other half.

#AudioMo Day 7 - WARNING - don't love your job 07.06.2021 5:12 ↓

Paul O'Mahony thinks about the others who are making #AudioMo happen.  He offers a piece of advice to those who love their job too much.