By Jimmy Rhatigan KILKENNY Observer photographer Donal Foley’s superb pictures highlight the sheer brilliance and beauty of the recently opened Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge in Ballyverneen, Glenmore at the heart of South Kilkenny. The bridge connects Pink Point in Glenmore to Strokestown in Wexford and is now Ireland’s longest bridge at 887 metres. The N25 …

Dear Neighbour, We have decided it is important to open any of our Fr McGrath Family Resource Centre and Neighbourhood Hall community services that we can safely run to assist local families, children and older people with the challenges they are facing, while being very considerate to public health issues. Our family centre promises, we …

By Clair Whitty I DON’T know where to start. What can I say? This is not an article that I expected to write. Last Thursday morning when I heard that the schools were closed and that things had moved to a different level, my adrenaline went through the roof. My heart was pounding so hard …

By Jimmy Rhatigan TALK about panic buying. WHEN the chips were down at the McDonalds Drive Thru at the Hebron Road Roundabout it was bumper to bumper for several hours as motorists queued for burgers, chips and their first cousins in food. Hundreds, thousands maybe were dashing to satisfy their hunger for fast food as …

Social Dog Distancing

By Jimmy Rhatigan PARENTS have a huge job on hands as their teenage sons and daughter are being identified as showing a lack of respect for others by congregating in numbers as a battle with Coronavirus rages. It is being pointed out that schools were closed so that youngsters would no longer be in groups …

By Jimmy Rhatigan SLOWLY but surely our people are seeing through our caretaker government’s right wing response to the hardship our people are being put through in what is akin to a war for survival. As has been its wont for some time, Fine Gael continues with fire brigade action in the hope that one …

All pics: Donal Foley

By Jimmy Rhatigan A BRILLIANT united front as our people fight the Coronavirus together is being re-enacted at a proud local business. Staff and management at a popular local bar and restaurant that have been at the hub of a local community for 10 years has just announced an admirable community service. In common with …

(5th Anniversary) In loving memory of Anthony (Tony) Cantwell The Bungalow , Archersfield, Kilkenny who died on March 22nd 2015. We miss you in so many ways, We miss the things you used to say, And when old times we do recall, It’s then we miss you most of all. Anthony’s 5th Anniversary Mass and …