2023 Towns Cup Final – Kilkenny V Tullow
One of the big days in the Rugby Calendar takes place this coming Sunday in Athy at 3pm as Kilkenny and Tullow clash in The Provincial Towns Cup Final. Both Teams had somewhat contrasting Semi-Finals with Kilkenny mostly in control against Cill Dara in Portlaoise, while Tullow had to endure a Final Quarter fightback from …
Minister for Health visits construction site of new 95 bed Community Nursing Unit in Thomastown
The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly T.D. was in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny on Thursday afternoon (6th of April, 2023), where he visited St. Columba’s Hospital and the adjacent construction site of a new Community Nursing Unit. The HSE entered a public private partnership (PPP) with EquiSisk Community Care Partnership Ltd in December 2022 for the …
Something wicked this way comes…
Following last year’s successful run of XIV, Barnstorm’s Kilkenny Youth Theatre return to Ionad Dara, Goresbridge with their annual production. This year they bring their version of William Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth to the stage. Macbeth tells the story of the tragic downfall of the warrior Macbeth, whose ambition causes him to abandon his morals and …
Mayoral reception at City Hall for Bishop of Ossory Niall Coll
PHOTOS: Pat Shortall “Please know that I am as surprised as you that I find myself standing before you this morning as the future bishop of Ossory. A telephone call from the apostolic nunciature on a recent Sunday evening asking me to come to Dublin for a meeting began a process that brings me here …
Elaine Dillon RIP
There was much sadness in Bennettsbridge when news of the death of Elaine Dillon was announced. Elaine died on 5th April 2023, in the loving care of the kind staff at the Oak Ward, Palliative Care Unit, University Hospital, Waterford. A member of the Hennessy family and a native of Threecastles, Elaine had lived in …
GIRL AUCTION
BY NED EGAN Part 14 The dadser is showing slight signs of remorse at his treatment of the girls, since their mother died. Whether he is genuine in these expressions or not – only time will tell… Molly had just been thinking that however things went, ‘the Babs would make a fair fist of things …
Anzac Day to be remembered in Kilkenny by Great War Memorial Committee
“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.” These words are from the pen of poet Robert Laurence Binyon, written 1914, dealing with Patriotism and Sacrifice. The …
The mayonnaise jar and the miniskirt
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran A professor stood before his philosophy class with some items in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. …
The Thunder and Lightning All-Ireland
BY JOHN FITZGERALD PART ONE When I set about recalling the Emergency years in this part of Ireland I wondered where I should start. I posed this question tentatively to veterans of that shadowy era and the answer they all gave was the same: the 1939 “Thunder and lightning” All-Ireland! That singular event seemed to …
If you had to rebuild your house from scratch
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Were you unfortunate enough to be amongst the 16% of home insurance claimants who discovered too late that they were underinsured? Hopefully not. Have you reviewed your house insurance cover recently in the light of inflation and soaring building costs? According to experts, if you are under-insured and make a …
