By JOHN ELLIS Financial Advisor   THE money you earn pays for almost everything you have, mortgage, gas, electric, phone, food, children’s education, car, holidays, insurance, pension, home repairs, the list goes on. You probably don’t think twice about insuring your home, car or healthcare but what about your income? Thirty-six percent of those recently …

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HERE are some wine and spaghetti pairings that will leave everyone happy enough to sing Puccini around the dinner table. Spaghetti Bolognese (Spaghetti and Meatballs) Wine pairing: Chianti Why it works: There is absolutely no reason to get too complicated when it comes to spaghetti and meatballs. It’s a quintessential Italian dish, so go with …

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Prep: 5 mins Cook: 15 mins Serves 4 Pasta, sauce, and sausages, what could be a better combination? The sausage meat adds great flavour to a simple dish Ingredients 6 good-quality sausages , skins removed 1 tsp fennel seed 250g pack mushroom, sliced 150ml red wine (optional) 660g jar tomato pasta sauce (we used Loyd …

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Prep: 10 mins Cook: 40 mins plus marinating Serves 4 Flavoured with honey, hoisin sauce and Chinese five-spice, this one-pan chicken dish makes a cheap and easy midweek family meal Ingredients 8 chicken thighs, skin on and bone in 4 tbsp hoisin sauce 2 tsp sesame oil 2 tbsp clear honey 1 ½ tsp Chinese …

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“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” Edited and compiled by: Gerry Cody All photos: jbs photos Kilkenny These words are from the pen of poet Robert …

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OBESITY, which could have fatal consequences if one gets Covid-19, would have been a hard concept for our ancestors to understand. There was little opportunity for it to emerge. Advancements in food preservation and storage, such as processed foods and fridges, opened up an entirely new means of existence. But we have paid for those …

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GIVEN the size of our universe, not to mention other universes, it would make you wonder, where are all the aliens? We can’t be the only ones who made it out onto a cosmic rock alive. There might be many reasons we have not encountered aliens yet, from lack of technology to the aliens not …

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Teaspoon of Ukele, Sean Nolan Adam Nolan playing saxaphone on a lovely evening on John’s quay Maurice Kirwan, PJ O’Neill and Michael Dwyer Grit Metsch busking Steve Kir, Teresa, Fergal and Maeve Byrne Patrica Kiely Murphy Nad Kate Murphy Councillor Andrew McGuiness Peter and Oscar Gibson Skinner Brennan Ger and Marie out for an evening ...
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Great to see the future stars of O’Loughlin’s and Kilkenny back up in the club enjoying their hurling O’Loughlin’s Juvenile U6 team

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SPAIN hopes to reopen to overseas holidaymakers from next month under the Covid digital health certificate scheme, the country’s secretary of state for tourism has said. Fernando Valdés told the recent World Travel & Tourism Council summit in Mexico that the programme – under which tourists could show they have been vaccinated, tested negative or …

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