The Clonmel Oil Steeplechase
Clonmel Racecourse have announced details of this year’s Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Steeplechase. It is due to take place at Powerstown Park on Thursday 17th November. This will be the 20th year of sponsorship by Clonmel Oil. The Clonmel Oil Chase has an illustrious roll of honour with two Cheltenham Gold Cup heroes in Imperial …
The heart and soul of the “Village”…
By John Fitzgerald The day of reckoning arrived: the launch of the new-look St. Patrick’s band and its treasured corps of Majorettes. On Sunday, December 19th 1971, Thousands of people lined the route to St. Mary’s Cathedral. They awaited the band’s much-heralded arrival at the historic place of worship. Dr. Birch, Bishop of Ossory, was …
Bewitching… Alice and Idona – two of a kind?
Furthermore By Gerry Moran Almost 700 years ago, a young woman was dragged though the streets of Kilkenny, publically flogged, tied to a stake and burned to death. It was November 1324 and it was, purportedly, the first ever burning of a ‘witch’ in Ireland. But there was a problem. The wrong woman had been …
Hard times as many are cutting back on spend
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR According to the new ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back’ Credit Union survey for October, sentiment has improved as consumers took some comfort from Government measures introduced in the Budget to support household spending. A special question though was asked that focussed on the extent of spending cutbacks being undertaken by Irish …
Promising future for Kilkenny’s food sector
The annual Savour Kilkenny Food Festival kicked-off on Thursday 27th October with a special event aimed at food product development for food business. ‘Foodpreneurs – Food Product Development’ was organized by Local Enterprise Office Kilkenny to give people the opportunity to learn from industry leaders and gain insightful information into the sector. Guest speakers on …
Get moving with Zincuflex
BY CLAIR WHITTY Ginger and turmeric are two amazing spices, so, what do you get when you put the two together? You get Zincuflex a supplement that combines both to help you deal with pain and stiffness associated with osteoarthritis. Zincuflex may help to protect joints and help maintain joint mobility. Osteoarthritis is the most …
Jake, Sunday Mass, bacon, and cabbage
BY NED EGAN Part 2 – “a builder? repair man? maybe a teacher?!!” “Wrong on all three” he said. “What I wanted to be was — a steeplejack! That business would get me up high, away from people – in whom I had no interest much. Nor had they any in me. And it would …
Let’s not play the generation blame game
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Resentment is a sneaky emotion – a corrosive “you’ve got what I don’t have and I blame you” feeling. I don’t like it when people foment that kind of attitude. I especially don’t like it when I am on the receiving end. But, hey, that’s the way things are …
God rested on the seventh day, so why don’t we?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS One of the ‘drastic’ proposals that many business, faced with the energy shortage and escalating prices, have put forward is to close on Sundays or at least limit the opening hours. Businesses such as local shops, the pubs, some petrol stations and the perennial Pennys! I am up …
