Centenary Mass at Tulla Cemetery, Threecastles
Photos by Tom Brett Directed by Monsignor Kennedy, PP Freshford, Saturday 6th August 2022
5 Science-backed benefits of strength training for every athlete at every age
BY EOIN EVERARD With just one or two sessions per week, you can live a longer, more fulfilling life thanks to strength or Pilates training. In order to live longer, healthier lives free from illness and damage, people are always looking for ways to slow down the aging process. According to experts, strength training is …
King Kong Company rocks Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre
By Trevor McGrath Band members donned with gorilla masks, a humanoid security camera, a fist-pumping athletic boxhead, a storm trooper wielding a smoke cannon and a choreographed dancing robot. Where else would you see other than at a King Kong Company gig? After entertaining the masses at the recent All Together Now and Spraoi festivals …
Con Downeys legacy as Godfather of Kilkenny soccer is remembered as community joins together for fun day at Waterbarracks
Con Downey was associated all his life with the publicly owned and community developed Waterbarracks, The Butts community housing area and Kilkenny schoolboys’ soccer. Con, one of the founders of Kilkenny’s schoolboys’ soccer league, was remembered this week by local Butts families who attended a Family fun Day and watched a memorial match played out …
Birthday 90th Celebrations Party…. Jim Fogarty (Bodalmore) and Family
Photo by Tom Brett If There Is Water There???….Well known water Diviner Jim Forgarty at his 90th birthday party at home in Bodalmore, Waterford Road with his wife Mary and nine children. The couple also have twenty two grandchildren.
A closer look at what a Master Trust is
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Last week we looked at Master Trusts in general. This week we look in more detail through some of the questions we have received. What is a Master Trust? A Master Trust is a defined contribution company pension scheme set up under trust. It differs from traditional Defined Contribution pension …
I’ve earned my space in my sunny garden
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Some of the proposals to solve the housing crisis have been weird and far from wonderful. Like the one where oldies like me would be required to shuffle off into apartments and vacate their hard-won forever homes to make room for others. No chance in my case, as there’s …
Tips to help ease the symptoms of Fibromyalgia
BY CLAIR WHITTY Fibromyalgia is condition that I often get asked about. It can be difficult to get diagnosed as you can have a number of symptoms all going on at the same time. The most common symptoms are pain and extreme tiredness. You can feel pain in your neck, back, shoulders, back of head, …
Memorial to a worker
BY NED EGAN Aye, this was the time of year that Jack Phelan loved. The long early morning walk, down past the rushing roaring Clonassy Waterfall, the mists on the familiar fields, the whirl and dash of fallen leaves, drifting and scudding along on their way to oblivion. The odd startled rabbit, fox, or hare, …
Where have all the cowboys gone?
There was a time when you couldn’t walk through the neighbourhood without almost being knocked flat off your feet by children on bikes, trikes and scooters, or young lassies playing beds, kick-the-can or follow-the-leader, or swinging from the nearest lamp-post, or the boys as the sheriff and his deputies galloping off into the next estate …
