Knockdrinagh Hill, and a great brother…
BY NED EGAN Seventy five years ago now. An age – or a minute? Both. It was the end of the school holidays, in the hard and hungry 1940s – 50s. The Crossroads I lived on looked towards Slievenamon in the vicious winters of the time, towards the blue hills of Kilmoganny in the sweet-remembered …
Can Omega 3 change the way you think, feel and age?
BY CLAIR WHITTY Wild Atlantic Health, an Irish company down in Cork, has developed a number of innovative home health tests to measure nutritional deficiencies. They’re a passionate bunch of people who feel that preventive health is the future. Knowing your Omega-3 Index identifies the underlying level of silent inflammation in your body and is …
Refugee chaos: a better welcome is needed
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Having been Ireland of the Welcomes for Ukrainian refugees arriving here, the current reality is now like a modern Nativity story despite public goodwill. There is no room at the inn. A situation where the latest 250 arrivals in the ongoing low of 41,000 refugees to date, had …
Why the weather is our magnificent obsession
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS At the beginning of July, half way through the summer, there was little suggestion any kind of a decent Irish summer, despite conflicting forecasts. Small wonder they were tripping over themselves at the airport to find a place in the sun. Then came the global scorcher. The heatwave. …
Cats fall to Limerick machine in epic final
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO First 3-in-a-row for the Treaty All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final Croke Park, Dublin July 17th Limerick 1-31 Kilkenny 2-26 Limerick are All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions for a third year running, following an epic encounter with Kilkenny at headquarters. When referee Colm Lyons sounded the long whistle, the …
Semi shootout on the cards at Croker!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO Kilkenny primed for final push Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi-Final Galway vs Kilkenny Saturday 5:30pm, Croke Park All eyes will be on headquarters tomorrow as our camog’s take on old foes and reigning champions Galway for a place in this year’s senior camogie final in …
Mayor Fitzgerald thanks ‘the Saturday Walkers Group’ for keeping the history of Kilkenny alive
At a recent reception at city hall in Kilkenny, Mayor David Fitzgerald welcomed thirty members of The Saturday walkers club. Started in 2012 by then mayor Seán Ó hArgáin, the focus was on Kilkenny being a healthy and active city. According to Seán, “I had recently travelled my own journey of improving my levels of …
Former army band man Charlie releases trumpet classic for home care team
When it comes to music, Charlie Parsons knows a thing or two on that topic. As a former trumpet player in the Army Band he has recently recorded the trumpet classic Il Silenzio in memory of his mother. All proceeds will go to the Carlow / Kilkenny home care team who are very close to …
When women’s hands became fighting tools
‘A Woman’s Culm’ (2021) HDV 17:30 mins by Pauline O’Connell is a single-channel film, an artistic response to the commission call-out under the ‘Local Legacies 1921/2021’ Community Strand of the Decade of Centenaries Programme in County Kilkenny. The short cine-poem, centred on the upland areas along the Castlecomer Plateaux, makes visible rural women’s day-to-day struggles …
Cromwell in Kilkenny
Another legend relates to the profanement of Kilkenny’s Market Cross by Cromwellian soldiers. This magnificent stone structure stood close to the present location of the same name. Four columns supported it and devout folk could ascend it on its four sides by flights of stone steps. From its highest point rose a sculptured figure of …
