Emma Connolly Deputy Editor
  • Cork
  • The Southern Star

Emma is deputy editor of The Southern Star. Emma has been working as Life & Community editor in recent years, having come to The Southern Star from the Evening Echo in Cork city, part of the Irish Examiner stable, where she was news editor.

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454 Articles
3 days ago
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EMMA CONNOLLY: My passenger seat antics are driving my husband potty

Taking care on the roads is vital but this week our columnist is coming to terms with the fact she may have developed...

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7 days ago
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Irish pine brought back to life at Bantry House

ENDANGERED Irish pine trees, thought to have died out here around 1,500 years ago, have been planted in a new innovat...

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9 days ago
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Bambie Thug ‘a pro-Palestinian voice’ at upcoming Eurovision

MACROOM native Bambie Thug has rejected calls that Ireland should boycott the Eurovision, over Israel’s inclusion in ...

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11 days ago
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‘This is about survival’ – West Cork spearheads campaign to reduce vat rate

Cafés and restaurants in West Cork have come together to launch a national campaign in a bid to get the lower 9% vat ...

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14 days ago
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Refugees to be moved on from Darrara college

The temporary accommodation centre for Ukrainian refugees at the Teagasc-run Clonakilty Agricultural College is to cl...

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20 days ago
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Our trip to Aladdin was a work of genie-us to break up those rain-soaked holidays!

The school break dragged a little bit in your columnist’s household and a musical trip to the capital proved the perf...

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22 days ago
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West Cork's farming future: what's in store?

Agriculture is a rapidly changing industry – perhaps now more than ever. EMMA CONNOLLY asked local stakeholders for p...

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24 days ago
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Results revealed: Great West Cork Farming Survey 2024

The Southern Star’s 2024 survey of West Cork’s farming community offers up a comprehensive and fascinating snapshot o...

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28 days ago
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Pat takes the wheel for Kielty’s great great show

Pat O’Sullivan had the task of driving grand marshal Patrick Kielty around the route in his 1934 Rolls Royce Open Tou...

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28 days ago
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WOMAN ON THE VERGE: Why are people taking the Good out of Friday?

There’s a very different attitude in some quarters to Good Friday these days. Your columnist likes an Easter egg as m...

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29 days ago
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Former agri president to run in local elections

Former president of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) Dermot Kelleher is to run as a candidate for Indepe...

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29 days ago
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WATCH: ‘Tea’ cheers for Lisavaird pupils

Why do we scald the pot when we’re making tea?

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