Now is the time to tune into a Summer of Love
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS If proof were needed that the pandemic is behind us, or that at least we are learning to live with the rogue microbe, it’s that that institution among institutions, the revered Music Festival, is back with a bang and a guitar riff or two. Thirteen of them on …
Saffron’s put to the sword!
By Seamus McAleenan PHOTOS BY INPHO O’Connell sees red as Kilkenny win Glen Dimplex All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Pearse Park, Dunloy Antrim 1-9 Kilkenny 1-15 ANTRIM got their first real test of playing a top-three team in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Championship in Dunloy on Saturday and came out of the game feeling …
A dedicated professional soldier, Plunkett became an expert in trench warfare
In this, the second week, The Kilkenny Observer looks at the life Of Lieutenant Colonel James Frederick Plunkett, born into a Kilkenny military family, and who was to see war at first hand in many parts of the world Life in the trenches Plunkett’s indefatigable efforts throughout this grim period earned him the further reward …
Castlecomer is venue for the story of the Leadville miners
Castlecomer in county Kilkenny is the venue for a forthcoming talk on a memorial being built in Leadville, Colorado At 10,200 Feet in Elevation, Leadville is the highest town in North America. It’s also the site of the largest and most politically important Irish immigrant communities in the Rocky Mountain West, consisting of approximately 20% …
The Wake of Bryan Reilly, his last will and testament and an assault on the honour and dignity of King George
This week in The Kilkenny Observer, Cois Céim in association with The Saturday Walkers Group, takes a look at the life and times of one of Kilkenny’s well-known characters from Walkin Street by the name of Bryan Reilly In the 1830s there lived in Walkin Street a man named Bryan Reilly. He occupied the house …
Beating bullies needs smart action
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.’ So states the children’s nursery rhyme, familiar to most of us from our schooldays. First appearing in a text known as ‘Eothen’ written in 1830, it has been around a long time. What most people don’t know is …
‘The Courting of Katie Earls’
BY NED EGAN PART 2 The question of a dowry for Katie was hardly thought about, and not discussed at all between the courting pair. In case you wonder, reader, a dowry was practically mandatory within the middle-class fraternity in a lot of the country, and was generally settled by the fathers down the pub, …
Your tax affairs after two years of the pandemic
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Back in 2020 businesses impacted by the Covid lockdowns were throw a number of lifelines by the Government. They suspended debt collection and charging of interest on late payment of VAT and PAYE (payroll tax) liabilities due from March of that year. They allowed the “Warehousing” of tax debt. They …
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Why The Firm is better than all the others tried
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON What’s this? Are we really monarchists at heart wishing that Michael D could wear a crown on ceremonial occasions? Maybe not. But in a recent survey her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II turned out to be more popular than all our political leaders, even Mary Lou. It’s easy to be …
