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Kerry Author Releases Serialised Story This Friday

Kerry Author Releases Serialised Story This Friday

April 23, 2020 at 10:46 am Comments are Disabled

‘DUPLICITY’, a fictional serialised story by first-time author Zoe O’Connor, will be released online this Friday 24th of April on www.the-dots.eu. Over 12 weeks, it tells the cautionary tale of a modern dating dystopia. A Kerry native, Zoe O’Connor (21), is a third year English student in Trinity College Dublin. […]

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TraleeToday.ie Columnist Wins European Web Award

TraleeToday.ie Columnist Wins European Web Award

November 17, 2016 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

A LOCAL student and TraleeToday.ie columnist has won an award at the prestigious .eu Web Awards for her website. Founder of teentimes.eu, Zoe O’Connor, is a leaving certificate student in Brookfield College in Tralee, a well known blogger and YouTuber and also writes a weekly column for TraleeToday.ie. Continued below… Teentimes.eu […]

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Zoe’s World: You Can’t Control How People Define You

Zoe’s World: You Can’t Control How People Define You

October 5, 2016 at 4:21 pm 1 comment

WHEN you were born, your parents gave you a name. Something that you will be known as for the rest of your life. However, although this may be your official title, as you go through life a little tagline or slogan usually gets added on. This is what people consider to […]

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Zoe O Connor, who is a finalist in the .eu Web Awards 2016

Zoe’s ‘TeenTimes’ Nominated For Prestigious European Award

October 4, 2016 at 10:50 am 1 comment

A LOCAL student’s website has been announced as a finalist in the prestigious .eu Web Awards. Founder of teentimes.eu, Zoe O’Connor, is a leaving certificate student in Brookfield College in Tralee. She is a well known blogger and YouTuber and also writes a weekly column for TraleeToday.ie. The winners of the awards will […]

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TraleeToday.ie’s Teen Columnist Gets A Page Feature In Image Magazine

TraleeToday.ie’s Teen Columnist Gets A Page Feature In Image Magazine

April 15, 2016 at 3:13 pm Comments are Disabled

A FAMILIAR face from this website features prominently in the latest edition of Image Magazine. Zoe O’Connor from Ballyfinnane, who writes a column on TraleeToday.ie, is in the popular fashion magazine in a feature on ‘Millennials’ who are young social influencers in Ireland today. The 17-year-old, who is a fifth year in […]

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Zoe’s World: Let’s Preserve The Art Of Handwriting

Zoe’s World: Let’s Preserve The Art Of Handwriting

April 8, 2016 at 4:18 pm Comments are Disabled

I HAVE always been a little sketchy on the term ‘tradition’. It’s not that I don’t understand its value in a lot of circumstances, it’s just that in many ways, I have learned to associate it with something negative. Maybe that is just me getting the idea of tradition and old […]

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Zoe’s World: Keep Your Real Friends Close And Lose The Ones Who Make You Unhappy

Zoe’s World: Keep Your Real Friends Close And Lose The Ones Who Make You Unhappy

December 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm Comments are Disabled

LESS than ten days until Santa comes knocking and I, along with a lot of others, am thinking about New Year’s. I have said it before and I will say it again, I don’t see the hype around New Year’s. This whole “New Year, New You” idea is nothing more than […]

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Zoe’s World: We Can All Make Our Mark In The World

Zoe’s World: We Can All Make Our Mark In The World

November 5, 2015 at 11:59 am Comments are Disabled

  HAVE you ever seen that video that begins with an image of the earth and then it slowly zooms further and further back through all the galaxies, until it finishes with us just a tiny speck in a larger star stored away in a different galaxy? It’s harrowing and oddly enlightening. […]

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Zoe’s World: It’s Summer So I’m Gonna Make The Most Of It

Zoe’s World: It’s Summer So I’m Gonna Make The Most Of It

July 15, 2015 at 9:50 am Comments are Disabled

ALRIGHT. Let’s just call a spade a spade here and address the fact that the weather has been far from pleasant around here recently. I know what you’re thinking, “no surprise there, it is Ireland after all”. But the fact of the matter is that it’s the middle of July […]

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Zoe O’Connor: “We Are Treated Like Children, But Expected To Act Like Adults”

Zoe O’Connor: “We Are Treated Like Children, But Expected To Act Like Adults”

May 6, 2015 at 10:15 am Comments are Disabled

  I KNOW that I am only half way through my schooling years, but I would like to believe that I have learned a lot. When I say this, I am not referring to all the maths equations that I have learned to solve (or not learned to solve as the […]

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Zoe’s World: Why You Should Cherish Your Mom

Zoe’s World: Why You Should Cherish Your Mom

March 18, 2015 at 10:20 am Comments are Disabled

I KNOW that I am a little late on the whole dedication to my mom, as mother’s day has been and gone, but I feel like we should be just as mushy with our moms on a daily basis, so I am just going to go with it. A girl said […]

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Zoe’s World: I Can’t Believe KFW Is All Over For Another Year

Zoe’s World: I Can’t Believe KFW Is All Over For Another Year

March 8, 2015 at 12:56 pm Comments are Disabled

  CAN you believe that KFW is over for another year? I am personally in some sort of exhausted daze, I am still adjusting to the fact that after months of planning and preparation that the actual event itself is over (it was an amazing event though, so that is helping […]

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Zoe’s World: Life Is For Living You Know?

Zoe’s World: Life Is For Living You Know?

February 25, 2015 at 11:47 am Comments are Disabled

  YOU know that feeling when you reach the end of a week and you have absolutely no idea what you actually did? Your life just kind blends into one until you are left with vast periods of your life gone. You can’t just hit rewind. When you eventually reach […]

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Zoe’s World: The Grief Of Losing A Family Pet

Zoe’s World: The Grief Of Losing A Family Pet

February 11, 2015 at 9:44 am Comments are Disabled

LAST week my household lost a family member. Our beautiful doberman of 10 years, Jessie, passed away. Our dog was not just a pet, she was family. Some people may not understand the hurt that results from the loss of a pet, if you have never experienced this loss yourself. […]

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Zoe’s World: Female Friendships? It’s Complicated!

Zoe’s World: Female Friendships? It’s Complicated!

October 15, 2014 at 5:39 am Comments are Disabled

EVERYONE has seen those clichéd Hollywood movies where the “High School” is divided into all the different groups. Each group carries the title of “Jocks”, “Geeks” or “Freaks”, depending on just how clichéd the movie actually is. These titles don’t actually fit any of the groups in the real world. […]

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Zoe’s World: Support Your Local Boutiques!

Zoe’s World: Support Your Local Boutiques!

September 17, 2014 at 10:16 am Comments are Disabled

IF you look through my wardrobe, you will see a whole pile of clothes gathered from a multitude of high street stores. However, if you look through my mom’s wardrobe, you will see a whole pile of clothes from all the different boutiques in town. So who do you think […]

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Zoe’s World: Why I’ve Been Dreading ‘Results Night’

Zoe’s World: Why I’ve Been Dreading ‘Results Night’

September 10, 2014 at 9:34 am Comments are Disabled

RIGHT now, as you are reading this, I am probably being handed a little white envelope containing my results from my Junior Certificate. Contrary to popular belief, I am actually not nervous about the results themselves. What can I do about them now anyway? I am actually quite excited about […]

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Zoe’s World: Don’t Be So Quick To Judge

Zoe’s World: Don’t Be So Quick To Judge

September 3, 2014 at 9:30 am Comments are Disabled

Everyone rushes to judgement on people and it isn’t right says our teen columnist Zoë O’Connor… Something hit me the other day. It wasn’t a bus or a car, but a Lulu Guinness iPad cover. This was not my own purchase but a gift from the amazing Orlagh Winters. Not only […]

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Zoe’s World: My Transition Time Will Be Well Spent

Zoe’s World: My Transition Time Will Be Well Spent

August 27, 2014 at 9:38 am Comments are Disabled

Our teen columnist, Zoë O’Connor, wants to use her time in transition year to jumpstart her career… TRANSITION year can be seen in many different ways. It can be seen as a doss year, a year of work or a year to grow. I don’t see the point of wasting […]

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Zoe’s World: Backstage Pass To A Fashion Masterclass

Zoe’s World: Backstage Pass To A Fashion Masterclass

August 20, 2014 at 9:16 am Comments are Disabled

THE Rose of Tralee Fashion Show was amazing. Did I watch it? No, but I got one better, I worked at it. Everyone knows that I am a Team Upfront girl and don’t worry, that hasn’t changed. But I moved from my role of Backstage Manager and Boss’s Girl to […]

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Zoe’s World: Put Away The Phone And Have Some Fun

Zoe’s World: Put Away The Phone And Have Some Fun

August 13, 2014 at 2:55 pm Comments are Disabled

WE are all living in the 21st century, the technology age. Everything that we do is surrounded by phones or computers. We are no longer just living; we are telling people how we live. Whether it be an innocent instagram photo or a full spiel about how you spent your […]

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Zoe’s World: Rebel With A Cause

Zoe’s World: Rebel With A Cause

August 6, 2014 at 9:29 am Comments are Disabled

Zoë O’Connor on how teenagers have to go through a “rebel phase”… YOU may or may not realise that I am a teenager, (if you didn’t know, no I am not just using an amazing anti-aging cream) and obviously teenagers are known for being rebellious. Well, often when adults refer […]

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Zoe’s World: Stop Being Snobbish About My Creative Aspirations

Zoe’s World: Stop Being Snobbish About My Creative Aspirations

July 30, 2014 at 9:34 am Comments are Disabled

Click on above for more info AS many of you are aware by now, I want to become a fashion journalist. Well that is what I am aiming for before I become the editor of Vogue! As well laid out as I hope my future career is, I find that […]

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Zoe’s World: The Frightening ‘Thinspiration’ Fad

Zoe’s World: The Frightening ‘Thinspiration’ Fad

July 24, 2014 at 8:27 am Comments are Disabled

Click on above ad for more BEING a part of the teenage world, I experience a lot of teenager issues. A lot of people know about these issues from either experiencing them in their own childhood or from experiencing them today. Drinking, drugs and peer pressure all seem to rank […]

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Zoe’s World: Meet Our New Columnist

Zoe’s World: Meet Our New Columnist

July 16, 2014 at 10:56 am Comments are Disabled

Click on above ad to enter a great competition Meet TraleeToday.ie’s new columnist, Zoë O’Connor, who will give a worldview from a teenager’s perspective…  Hi everyone, Zoë O’Connor here. I am a 15 year old blogger with the hopes to become a successful fashion journalist in the future (I know dad, it’s […]

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