Pathfinder Carlow-Kilkenny marks One Year
Pathfinder is a collaborative HSE initiative between St Luke’s General Hospital Carlow/Kilkenny and the National Ambulance Service. The Pathfinder team recently celebrated one year of providing care in people’s homes across the region. Sinéad Prendergast, Senior Occupational Therapist with the Pathfinder Service shared the following “We’re delighted to mark this significant milestone and to be …
IN THE NAME OF THE DOG IS PLAYWRITING COMPETITION WINNER
Carlow Little Theatre Society were delighted to announce the winners of their fourth annual International One-Act Playwriting Competition recently, which, once again attracted a large number of submissions from Ireland and all around the world. After an exhaustive shortlisting exercise and another extremely close contest this year, three independent adjudicators reviewed all of the entries …
Tips to de-stress for a better nights’ sleep
BY CLAIR WHITTY Is stress holding you back from getting a good nights’ sleep? Lack of sleep can have a dramatic effect on your health. Magnesium is one of the most sought-after supplements to help get you to nod off. Many of you find it brilliant. The main reason that magnesium helps so well is …
SHANE FOLEY
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY With the flat season underway, Shane Foley will be very busy in the months ahead as he will be looking to add to the great success he has had over the past 5 years when he became stable jockey to Jessica Harrington in 2019. The Graiguenamanagh native began his career almost 20 …
REBECCA STORM JOINS KILKENNY MUSICAL ‘LETTERS FROM THE FRONT’ AT CARLOW
West End Superstar Rebecca Storm takes to the Carlow stage next month in the new Irish musical “Letters from the Front”. Rebecca will reprise her role as Frau Breitner in the poignant drama which has already been presented to great acclaim in both Kilkenny and Dublin. Fresh from yet another much-lauded performance in her recent …
The Thomastown based Berkeley Wolves Under 15 Boys Basketball Team Secures Spot in Top Four of South East Boys Basketball League
The Berkeley Wolves Under 15 Basketball Team has clinched a spot in the top four of the very competitive South East Under 15 Basketball League. Having finished up 3rd overall in the league and a recent win over the Waterford Vikings, the Berkeley Wolves have been preparing for their first appearance in the top four …
Why we don’t care enough about our carers
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON The resounding defeat by 74% of the care amendment to the Constitution must tell us something about our feelings about how carers are treated. There is another litmus test on care in the Supreme Court since April 11, which could have systemic importance for those caring full-time at …
Our Amazing Joints
A chartered physiotherapist’s view By Paul Bolger. Nano Physiotherapy www.nanophysio.ie We have all heard the term ‘wear & tear’. This term should, in my opinion (and the opinion of some world-leading physiotherapists), be replaced with ‘Wear & Repair’. Why? Because this better reflects the reality of what occurs as we go through our lives. Yes, things …
Homing in on seniors no way to solve housing
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS We might like to think in the autumn of our years we have never had it so good. Thanks to advancements in nutrition and medicine, not to mention those (no thanks!) elective cosmetic treatments, our picture of ageing has changed radically in the past decades. In my …
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office are excited to announce The Art of Change
The Art of Change – a new Youth Arts initiative which aims to empower young people in exploring environmental and climate action topics through different artforms. By igniting and fueling young people’s interest in environmental and climate issues the project hopes to provide them with another way of approaching big issues while also giving them …
