Major assets for older people
HAVING family and friends, an inner resilience and a garden are coming through as major assets for older people these days, according to SeniorLine. Ireland’s national confidential telephone service for older people has analysed data over the past three months and concluded that social, personal and environmental factors combine to play a crucial role in …
Crochet or knit to help children
KILKENNY County Council Arts Office has initiated a blanket project to help you use up of all that extra wool you have lying around your house and to help improve the lives of children in South Africa. What better a time to get back to knitting, crocheting or indeed take it up for the first …
Master Your Mind
By Clair Whitty, Natural Health Store, Market Cross CONCENTRATION, are you ready, If so let’s go. What was the name of that game we played as children? I can’t remember, but it will come to me. How many times a day do you say, “it will come to me” or forget where you put something, someone’s …
Newpark Hotel Competition
TO celebrate new special offers of two courses for two people or two mains and a bottle of house wine for €35 Newpark Hotel would like to offer one lucky couple a choice of either of the above. All you have to do is like, share and tell us which option you would prefer. Competition …
Early attack on elderly by power brokers
By Jimmy Rhatigan OUR AGED, infirm and ill have been battered and bruised in their nursing home confinements and eventually buried as they were treated as second class citizens not by nurses, doctors and carers but by the powers that be. Despite pleas from the Nursing Homes’ Association of Ireland and a warning that the …
Teens: Scorn Not Their complicity
By Jimmy Rhatigan IT WAS talented Derry-born entertainer Phil Coulter who penned a beautiful song called Scorn Not His Simplicity. We have a suggestion for the highly respected musician, songwriter and record producer. Why not consider a post-Pandemic called Scorn Not Their Complicity? And at the same time we ask the question: Where are the …
Library Services opens a new page
OUR County Council Library Service will offer a new model of service delivery from June 8 as part of Phase 2 of the Government’s Roadmap for Re-opening Society and Business. While library buildings have been closed to the public, staff has been busy developing new models of service delivery behind the scenes. Users will not …
Local hopes planning for July opening
WITH Summer fast approaching and foreign holidays off the cards, hotels all over Kilkenny are gearing up to reopen on July 20. As properties all over the county start taking bookings, behind the scenes management and staff are busy implementing Health & Safety protocols in line with HSE and Irish Hotel Federation guidelines/ Kilkenny hotels …
