Coilin O'Connor

This week people around the world marked the 35th anniversary of the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 on July 20th, 1969. Czechs were behind the Iron Curtain at the time…

Greece, like many poorer countries, has a huge diaspora of emigrants living and working abroad. It's estimated that over five and a half million people of Greek origin…

Hundreds of lace makers from around the world descended on Prague at the weekend for the 11th World Lace Congress. The congress displays the work of lace makers from…

The annual Auto-Stangl vintage car rally was held in Prague at the weekend. Since it began five years ago, this prestigious rally has become one of the biggest events of…

The Czech football team's excellent run at Euro 2004 has been good for the pub trade here as many Czechs go to bars to watch the matches and cheer their team on. One Czech…

The sound of billiard balls colliding is something you would normally associate with smoky bars and beer halls. Now, however, in the Moravian city of Olomouc, billiards…

Hundreds of Czechs spent Saturday afternoon watching an elaborate, realistic re-enactment of a Civil War Battle in Branik in the south of Prague. The battle was staged by…

When Josef Fronek began working on his Czech-English dictionary in the late 1970s, he embarked on a journey spanning four decades, which still continues to this day. His…

Although the European Parliamentary elections don't seem to have generated much interest among the Czech electorate, Radio Prague went to a polling booth in the Czech…

Gunther Verheugen, who played a key role in negotiating the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union as EU commissioner for Enlargement, paid a flying visit to the…