BY CLAIR WHITTY Are you trying to live your best life but this isn’t working out for you? Maybe because you’re feeling worn out, tired, and not sleeping well? Or you’re under pressure or overwhelmed with daily life. Is your head spinning and won’t switch off? Are you feeling low in mood but don’t know …

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BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR EVEN with a travel insurance policy, many Irish holidaymakers could be leaving themselves exposed to serious financial hardship this summer for the sake of the price of a pizza and beer on the Costa. The whole point of a holiday, is it not, is to relax and enjoy oneself, returning …

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AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON TIME was, not so long ago, when there was a lot simmering under the surface in our lives in Ireland. There were things that weren’t right, which affected our lives; privately acknowledged but publicly ignored, issues of discrimination, social justice which were swept under the official carpet. It was …

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MARILYN Monroe is the sexiest woman ever. No argument. Those accentuated, full-pointed breasts; the sinuous figure and sensuous curves; that sexy walk with those swaying hips. The sultry look, the dreamy, come-hither eyes and kissable lips make Monroe the sexiest woman ever — bar none. That skirt-billowing scene in The Seven Year Itch was every …

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BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO Galway dethroned in semi victory Glen Dimplex All Ireland Camogie Senior Championship Semi-Final Croke Park, Dublin Kilkenny 1-13 Galway 0-12 There will be new champions of the senior camogie championship following Kilkenny’s four-point victory over current holders Galway at Croke Park last Saturday. These two giants of …

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End of an era as the greatest bainisteoir ever steps aside BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR There had been murmurings about a possible departure following Kilkenny’s two-point defeat in this year’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final; and the official news broke last Saturday afternoon via a statement from the Kilkenny County Board. “Brian Cody has informed …

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By Frank Cody Saturday mornings, during childhood, brought freedom from classroom confines. There was an escape from ‘bhfuil cead agam”’and the equally repetitive ‘cuir amach do lámh’. Released from the spirit-numbing repression, we welcomed frivolous weekends with exuberance. Admittedly they got off to a slow start, courtesy of mundane chores. Yards had to be tidied, …

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With thanks to Cois Céim and The Saturday Walkers group The city fathers were very much aware the handicap to the city trade that dependence on land transport represented. They were anxious to see a canal on the Nore to make it navigable from the sea. Goods had always been transported by water but this …

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Sat. 30th July 2022 Club house hotel 11a.m to 5p.m The Annual Kilkenny Book Fair will be held in the Club House Hotel on Saturday 30/07/2022 starting at 11 A.M and finishing at 5 P.M. There will be in attendance around 10 Book sellers from all over Ireland bringing together an eclectic mix of Books, …

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Lunch & Theatre at 3 John’s Quay Rural Ireland today! Two elderly small farmers who have witnessed much change in their community meet between their adjoining farms. An age-old ritual of small talk, farming news, sporting yarns is now peppered with uncertainty and fear. Eamon and Nashee are men of heart, of humour, of hardness …

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