Young guns shoot down Laois
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Opportunity knocks for ‘new look’ cats side Walsh Cup Kilkenny 1-27 Laois 0-24 Sunday 16th January 2022, John Locke Park, Callan Kilkenny senior hurlers got their season off to a winning start with a 6-point victory over Laois at John Locke Park, Callan last Sunday. Seamus …
Coogan’s bunch are ready to bloom!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Mooncoin out to prove a thorn in Connacht champ’s side AIB All-Ireland JHC Semi-Final Mooncoin vs Salthill-Knocknacarra (Galway) Sunday, January 23rd, LIT Gaelic Grounds, Limerick, 1:30pm All roads lead to the LIT Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Sunday, as Kilkenny and Leinster junior champions, Mooncoin …
Donall Mac Amhlaigh – the man behind the Irish Navy
This week, The Kilkenny Observer teams up with The Saturday Walkers group and we learn about the author of ‘An Irish Navvy-The diary of an exile’ Donall Mac Amhlaigh was born in Galway and grew up there and in Kilkenny. He left school at fifteen, and worked in various jobs before joining the Irish speaking …
When is a choice not a choice?
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR ACCORDING to Active Retirement Ireland, the country’s largest representative body for older people, Christmas – a time of supposedly peacefulness and joy – was for many older people living on the state pension a time of difficult decisions: heating or groceries, gifts for the family or taking part in Christmas …
Letting go what you can’t control
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST EVENTS which are bigger than us, that we have no way of controlling, are responsible for a great deal of anxiety. Whether bad news stories, and there are plenty of those, things which are happening to loved ones over which we have no influence, or even details about our own lives …
Support for Veganaury
BY CLAIR WHITTY Have you decided to take the 31-day challenge and go vegan for the month of the January? You might be wondering if there are any supplements you should be taking. In the short term you should be OK but if you plan to stick with it for longer then you could run …
Why we need a piazza culture here
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON This is the time of year, festivities over when holiday brochures normally grab our attention. Those technicolour pictures hold the promise of golden sunshine, azure sea and a cultural shot-in-the-arm offered by somewhere abroad. Not yet though, given the rampant Omicron. Sometimes there were things you enjoyed on …
When women in fear live every day with a plan
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS Four years ago when she was 15, Helen’s friend, a year older, enticed her into his house, when his parents were out. After some small talk he pounced on her and attempted to remove her clothing. Helen, thankfully, managed to fend off her attacker and flee. Her mother, …
Over the moon!!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Hey diddle diddle – Walsh hits a TREBLE!! AIB Leinster Club Junior Hurling Championship Final UPMC Nowlan Park Mooncoin 4-13 Shamrocks (Offaly) 0-15 Mooncoin were crowned provincial champions last Saturday; following a comprehensive victory over Offaly challengers Shamrocks. The raising of the green flag proved the …
