Saint Patrick’s Day 1903 in Kilkenny
Cois Céim in association with The Kilkenny Saturday Walkers group, take a look at St Patrick’s Day in 1903 when James O Mara an Irish politician successfully introduced a Bill that made it an official public holiday. Up to this date St Patricks Day was celebrated on the Sunday following March 17th. Bank holidays or …
Team Teac Tom: Philip O’ Neill on life in the counsellor’s seat
Teac Tom opened the doors of its first house in 2015. Located at 15 Ormonde Road there is a safe and welcoming space through the bright blue doors. The team, led by CEO Angela Hayes, is supported by Rory Connellan, Clinical Services Manager and Valerie O’ Sullivan, Marketing Executive. A support team of administrative assistants, …
When positive action is controlling the controllable
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST LIVING costs are rising fast and predictions are they will worsen over coming months. This is, at least for the individual, uncontrollable. You can choose to worry about it but sadly any fretting is likely to be futile. That doesn’t mean just getting on with things is the best course to …
Time to spring clean your financial affairs
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR IT is springtime once again. The days are longer, the sun is shining into every nook and cranny showing up the cobwebbed corners of the house. Hence, the spring clean, the deep scrub. While you are putting some elbow grease into sprucing up your home ,why not spend some time …
Kilkenny writer Shortall brings Orphan Disease home to Kilkenny
This April 23rd a new play by Kilkenny-born Catherine Cronin comes to the Watergate Theatre. The one-woman show, Orphan Disease, opened in Zurich, Switzerland last August with the company Close Encounters Theatre (CET). Cronin has been living in Zurich for over twelve years but Kilkenny and Ireland remain close to her heart and her work. …
Ukraine: the peaceful weapon of women’s power
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON I am literally climbing the walls. My beloved has Covid and as a close contact I am isolating. I can’t find my usual solace in the radio or the papers; I find the reports on Putin’s genocidal war on Ukraine unbearable. I feel shame and despair at that as …
Let’s celebrate Mother’s day
BY CLAIR WHITTY Mother’s Day 2022. It’s difficult to believe that after two years we can finally meet up for Mother’s Day and maybe go for coffee or lunch, and hug each other properly to celebrate the occasion. This year I have fantastic news, my daughter is now a mother too, she had her first …
‘IDEAS Kilkenny’ competition open for innovative TECH start-ups
The inaugural ‘IDEAS Kilkenny’ competition is now open for entries. The competition is open to people in Kilkenny with a Tech related business idea or in the early stages of trading (less than 18 months). If you have an original and innovative idea within the technology sector (e.g. Agri-Tech, AI, Ecommerce, FinTech, Gaming, Healthcare, ICT, …
The indelible human spirit that defines Ukrainians
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS In half a century plying my trade in journalism, I have found myself on three occasions smack bang in the middle of what are euphemistically termed ‘conflict zones’. In short, war of one kind or another. For three years in the late ‘70s I covered the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe ‘bush …
