Episodes
May 16, 2024
S202405 Ep13: YOU NEED FRIENDS
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.
May 1, 2024
S202402 Ep12: Cursed Be Thy Name
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...
March 20, 2024
S202401 Ep10: "60 Hours of Hell: The Story of the Barkley Marathons" with Roger Overall
Photo Credit : Welcome to Hell. (Photo: Howie Stern)
March 6, 2024
S202401 Ep9: SLUGGISH DAWN
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 c...
March 23, 2023
S202303 Ep8: The Children of the Poor King & the Mean Queen
A story for grandchildren
March 21, 2023
S202303 Ep7: In honour of Chinua Achebe -
Reading from "Things Fall Apart" (1958) - with big thanks to my friend Ken Essien.
Jan. 25, 2023
S202212 Ep6: WALKING CHURCH HILL
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.
Dec. 31, 2022
S202212 Ep5: I will remember 2022
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 ne...
Dec. 8, 2022
S202211 Ep1: DOG WALKING IN CORK ADVENTURE IN DECEMBER
Paul O'Mahony talks as he walks with his English Setter Louis. They meet herons, a cormorant, a Schnauzer and a human or three ...
Oct. 21, 2022
S202210 Ep1: IRELAND BEAT WEST INDIES AT CRICKET
Roger Overall & Paul O'Mahony talk about how Ireland beat West Indies. This was recorded in Cafe Beva in Glanmire Cork Ireland.
June 22, 2021
S202106 Ep9: #AudioMo Day 22 : STROLLING OR AMBLING IN MOANBAUN WOOD
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
June 16, 2021
S202106 Ep8: #AudioMo Day 16 - James Joyce's Day - Bloomsday - Ulysses
Paul O'Mahony reads from Ulysses.
June 10, 2021
S202106 Ep7: #AudioMo Day 10 : ATTENTION WITHIN MARRIAGE
Paul O'Mahony offers thoughts about how easy it is to pay attention to your other half.