Jo Kerrigan

Mar 30, 2025 | irishexaminer.com | Jo Kerrigan

It’s the big break in your year, the time you get away from the everyday and rediscover your energy, explore new places, find new experiences, create wonderful memories. And, of course, capture those marvellous pictures which will remind you of happy days, and be the envy of all your friends during the darker days of next winter!You really should know by now what calls most strongly to you, the place that somehow, instinctively, seems the right place to be.

Mar 26, 2025 | irishexaminer.com | Jo Kerrigan

For many reasons, life does seem more challenging than ever these days. From work issues to home worries, from intimidating headlines in the newspapers to a distinct lack of optimism on television and radio, it’s hard to maintain that positive outlook. What you probably yearn for more than anything else right now is to be rejuvenated, given a new outlook on things, yes, even spoiled a little. Has everyday existence become too predictable, humdrum?

Nov 29, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Jo Kerrigan

When we think of old roads, tracks, byways, we naturally tend to visualize solid ground. Yet there are far earlier roads, known and followed by travelers since prehistoric times. The great river roads connecting Ireland’s interior to the sea were easier to navigate and often safer. No need to beat through thick forests where enemies or wild animals might lurk, no danger of losing your way. Jo Kerrigan takes us along the Shannon River Road.

Oct 30, 2024 | echolive.ie | Jo Kerrigan

All too often these days, you hear someone described as a ‘legend’ when they have done very little to deserve such a title. However, there is no question about that applying to the man who appears at the Opera House tonight. Phil Coulter is truly a legend, and one of the greats of the music world, with a life-long run of hits that have themselves passed into legend.

Oct 16, 2024 | echolive.ie | Jo Kerrigan

At the newly-reopened Briery Gap Theatre in Macroom Friday morning, October 18, there is a special schools performance of at 10am. The play, by Cork playwright and actor Mary-Lou McCarthy, tackles themes of migration and displacement, and explores why people are sometimes forced to travel across the globe in search of a new home. Students who attend receive a digital educational resource pack and video. We look forward to hearing about future programmes coming up at the Briery Gap.