Customer feedback
BY CLAIR WHITTY We get fantastic feedback from you, our customers, about the products we sell. This helps keep us on our toes to ensure that we keep stocking products that work and could help you feel good. Here are some of your favourites. For joint pain and discomfort our top selling supplement was Solgar …
Why there’s no present like time at Christmas
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON That traditional post-feast question, Howd’ya get over the Christmas?, Covers a multitude of possibilities. It allows for different answers all the way from full blown joyful celebrations to ‘Bah humbug’ Scrooge-like replies. And there’s that other cover-all response, Sure you know yourself. Christmas, or the Winter Festival, if you …
At sixes and sevens over the Christmas tree!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Picking a Christmas tree, I often think, is like picking a partner. Some people like their partners tall and thin, others like them short and plump while more like them in between. I’m an in-between man myself. I like my Christmas tree, not too tall and not too small, but with …
The Christmas that left me with years of guilt
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS The week before the Christmas of my 17th year school was breaking up. On my walk to my bus home I was joined by Micheál, a boy in the same year as me but not the same class. He lived in a neighbouring estate. Although at 17 I …
Battle of the Bally’s as Shamrocks seek revenge on ‘Gunner!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Croker clash could be very, very tasty AIB GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Semi-Final Shamrocks Ballyhale vs Ballygunner Sunday 18th December, Croke Park (Throw-in 3:30pm) It’s the clash that everyone was hoping for, a repeat of last season’s All-Ireland Club Hurling Final, Leinster’s finest, Shamrocks Ballyhale and Munster’s big …
What’s on this week at Yulefest Kilkenny
Take a look at what’s happening in Kilkenny before Christmas! Yulefest, Kilkenny’s Christmas Festival offers a packed programme of Christmas activities for visitors across the city and county right up until Christmas Eve! Pick up the perfects gifts at the Yulefest Market, open again this weekend from 10am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday and …
Finn and the Banshee of the park
In our ‘Countdown to Christmas’, The Kilkenny Observer is delighted to welcome Catherine Cronin as our second contributor in our Christmas short story section. Enjoy By Catherine Cronin “How can we possibly top last year’s Christmas?”, asked Mrs. O’Mahony. “It was the best Christmas of my life… and death.” The other ghosts nodded in agreement …
Choirs to perform Carol Service at St Mary’s Cathedral with special guest Tanya Sewell
A very special evening of music and carols will take place on Sunday 18th at 7.30pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. After a break of almost three years due to the Covid Pandemic, the much loved event returns and promises to be bigger and better. This year there is an outstanding line up of performers …
Windgap – its history and heritage
A new book by James and Noel Ryan. Windgap is an iconic rural parish in south Kilkenny with a deep retained set of monuments and links. For the first time, the full story and the collected information of the monuments and people of the Parish have been assembled and illustrated with some revealing images and …
Kilkenny man Joe Kearney publishes book of short stories titled The Beekeeper and The River
If you are a lover of short stories then you will be delighted to hear that Callan native Joe Kearney has just published his story collection, titled ‘The Beekeeper and the River.’ Joe Kearney is originally from Callan and is an award winning documentary maker, writer and contributor to RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. The cover blurb …
