No TJ – No problem!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Ballyhale advance to semi-final showdown with Naas AIB Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship Quarter Final UPMC Nowlan Park Shamrocks Ballyhale 5-25 Castletown Geoghan 0-15 Croke Park will be the next stop for Shamrocks Ballyhale after they cantered to an easy win over Castletown Geoghan at UPMC Nowlan Park last Sunday. …
Barry’s was surely Kilkenny’s smallest shop
This article first appeared in The Kilkenny Standard in 1980 As you walk down the very narrow High Street in Kilkenny these days, near the end of the street at its junction with James Street, you can see a small stone plaque on the wall where “The Gourmet Store” currently trades. The stone plaque reads; …
Fr. Tommy Murphy – Much loved priest and hurling legend
The death occurred on Monday morning of Canon Tommy Murphy. A long time cleric at St John’s parish in Kilkenny, he was a GAA legend. Tommy Murphy won two senior All Ireland medals, four Leinster, an All-Ireland minor medal and a county senior title. An iconic leader and a successful coach he was the driving …
The Kilkenny Beer Festival
By John Fitzgerald The craic to end all craics. That was the Kilkenny Beer Festival… one of the biggest and brightest projects of its kind ever attempted in Ireland. Its main instigator was a Mr. Bill Finnegan, who was elected Chairman of the Festival committee that helped to organise the Marble City’s annual booze-up and …
World Cup 1966 and the Dream Team!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran At last it has come round, the famous, or rather infamous, Qatar World Cup; the most written about World Cup in Christendom, and in Arabdom, I guess, and it hasn’t even kicked off (at least not as I write) This Qatar World Cup comes to us under a cloud, not of …
In Jail with John Lacey
BY NED EGAN Part 1 I was running amok a fair bit in the ‘80s. Lowering the old pints like nobody’s business, throwing the remnants of a fortune about like the proverbial snuff at a wake. Life then was simple and carefree. You could go to any little country pub, pull out an accordion or …
Black Friday: how to buy safely online
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Black Friday is upon us again. Without doubt the biggest shopping event of the year. Millions of deals are to be had across everything from TVs, laptops, to mattresses, home appliances, beauty, fashion, and toys. The sale is supposedly the best time to bag a bargain. The average spend in …
Elderberry nature’s finest healer
BY CLAIR WHITTY Elderberry is one of nature’s finest healers with a long tradition in herbal medicine. Records of its use go back as far as 460-370 BC when it was known as The Father of Medicine. The berries have long been used for making preserves, wines, winter cordials and for adding flavour and colour …
The Crown: never mind what really happened
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Will the latest season of Neflix’s The Crown upset the carefully rehabilitated image of Charles II and his Queen Consort Camilla? Its timing, just before Charles’ coronation, where the series covers the period the crisis years for the monarchy during the 90s , could hardly be worse. It will …
Refugees, and a question of ‘overstretching ourselves’
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS There are between 42,000 and 55,000 Ukrainian refugees in Ireland, depending on who you talk to, with most in collective accommodation like hotels and otherwise vacant premises. Some 10,000 are working, 12,000 are in school and 1,000 at college. With most with a roof over their heads, the …
