Risky business; 7 key points to investing
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR WHEN investing, risk relates to the possibility you might get back less than you put in. Like most things in life, no investment is without risk. However, you’ll have your own ideas about the risk you’re comfortable with. It’s not only how much risk you’re prepared to take, known as …
Local Employment Services tender ‘must not put profit over people’
THE Sinn Féin TD for Carlow Kilkenny, Kathleen Funchion, has called on the Government to remove the profit-focused approach set out in a tender for the expansion of Local Employment Services (LES). The request for tender is open to applications for the rollout of a new model of contracted public employment service in four areas. …
South East industries’ needs inspire new degree with data intelligence
WIT first with level 8 degree in automation engineering AS industry transitions towards ‘Industry 4.0’ — and there is an increased need for modern automation engineering that incorporates data intelligence — Waterford Institute of Technology’s (WIT) Department of Engineering Technology has developed a new degree to offset a skills shortage. The nationwide skills demand for …
Eoin Everard becomes the first man from Kilkenny to break 14 minutes for the 5000m
Running 13:58 seconds for the event this summer, Eoin, who was already Kilkenny’s first sub 4-minute miler, moved up distances to try to achieve this mark nearly 3 years ago. The Kilkenny Observer caught up with Eoin to discuss the achievement. When did you start out to try break 14 minutes for the 5000m? About …
Life and death in the Land of Giants
Paul Hopkins recalls a trip on the wild side to see life in the raw in Botswana THERE is only one road into Mashatu in the Northern Tuli terrain of Botswana. They call it the MI: two strips of white-washed cladding on a bed of red-earth-coloured stones. It is less than a mile long, not …
Summer chicken one-pot
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 40 mins Easy Serves 4 A lovely, light dish ideal for al fresco dining Ingredients 8 chicken thighs 2 tbsp plain flour 1 tbsp olive oil 8 rashers streaky bacon, chopped 400ml stock 500g bag baby new potatoes, halved 200g pack full fat soft cheese 200g broad beans, podded 200g sweetcorn …
Strawberry cheesecake in just 4 easy steps
Prep: 30 mins plus 1 hr and overnight chilling Easy Serves: 12 – 14 Follow our step-by-step recipe for this easy no-cook cheesecake – a delicious summer dessert for all occasions Ingredients 250g digestive biscuits 100g butter, melted 1 vanilla pod 600g full fat soft cheese 100g icing sugar 284ml pot of double cream For …
Are school days the best days of your life?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS JOHN DIGHTON was a British playwright and screenwriter of minor note, among whose work was Kind Hearts And Coronets and Roman Holiday for the cinema and the stage play The Best Days Of Your Life. The 1947 production is based upon a boys’ school and girls’ one merging …
Feeling the pressure? Try Aspire Mental Performance
By: Clair Whitty Recently I was feeling some anxiety and stress. Most of it I could name and give reason for. But naming the cause or reason did not relieve the symptoms I was feeling. I have been trying to do mini meditations to relax, but I haven’t got the time (or so I tell …
