Cost of living now, officially, a crisis
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR The cost of living in Ireland “isn’t a trend, it’s a crisis!”according to the all-Ireland research report recently published by The Foundation, a Belfast-based branding, design and digital marketing agency. The report was commissioned to examine the impact of the rising cost of living on shoppers’ behaviour and how this …
Support for dealing with exam stress
BY CLAIR WHITTY It’s almost exam time which can be stressful for students, parents, and teachers. How are you coping? I know everyone is different and that some of you will sail through with flying colours. Either way you might be interested in these facts I read in a study done on 1,000 parents of …
Alcoholism – fighting fire with fire
Alcoholism leaves a trail of destruction wherever it appears. It devastates the health and wellbeing of sufferers and tears apart their relationships. Furthermore, it is inherently sneaky, frequently making its presence known to all but the person struggling with it. It has a close cousin, problem drinking. There is debate whether people who regularly consume …
Our wastefulness gives us food for thought
Hands up those who remember real fried bread? Not the limp, half-hearted specimen that shuffles unashamedly these days around the plate of a Full Irish but the genuine article fried in the fat left over from the Sunday roast. In those days real men (and women) knew their fried bread and that it would put …
Tribesmen by one!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Injury time drama in Salthill showdown Leinster Senior Hurling ChampionshiP Pearse Stadium, Salthill, Galway 1-24 Kilkenny 3-17 Galway emerged 1-point victor’s following an enthralling encounter at Pearse Stadium last Sunday, where drama was certainly in no short supply. It appeared that Kilkenny had secured a share of the spoils when …
Casey’s dream for Kats Theatre lives on in energetic night of poetry and prose
You could almost sense the presence of Michael Casey in the room. Founded almost forty years ago, Kats theatre group gathered on the eve of ‘Poetry Day’, in Cleeres theatre on Parliament Street. When Department of Agriculture employee Michael had decided to stage a production of Sean O Casey’s “Bedtime Story”, he could hardly have …
Dawn gathering commemorates Anzac day with dignitiy and pride
Photos by Pat Shortall As settings go, this was picture perfect. Commandant Larry Scallan (retired) hoisted The Irish flag to full mast and Reveille echoed from the Great War memorial at The Peace Park in Kilkenny city. Representatives of the Army, O.N.E., and Gardai stood to attention and saluted the Tri-colour. Blowing gently in …
The Civil War in Kilkenny 25th April to May 3rd 1922
In early May 1922, nearly two months prior to the official beginning of the Civil War, Kilkenny anti-Treaty IRA units took over 15 buildings in Kilkenny City, most notably St Canice’s Cathedral and Kilkenny Castle. Over the next three weeks,The Kilkenny Observer in conjunction with Cois Céim take a closer look at events of the …
A theatrical triumph as Cronin play receives standing ovation
Photos Pat Shortall Words: Gerry Cody What, in the name of all that’s holy, possesses people to go on stage. Stage fright has afflicted some of the biggest stars the acting world has ever known. Laurence Olivier suffered years of debilitating performance anxiety, recalling in his autobiography: “My throat closed up and the audience was …
