A WARRIOR of sport who says he has never feared anyone in a boxing ring or on a hurling pitch has told The Kilkenny Observer that he is frightened out of his wits by Coronavirus. “The big advantage this roving killer has is that it is impossible to land a punch on him or her …

THERE must be a hole in the mind-set of the 80 or so attendees who flocked to the Oireachtas Golf Society Dinner in Clifden, Galway. Speaker was local Sinn Féin TD, Kathleen Funchion who said the list included current and former FF and FG TDs and Senators. Also there were a Supreme Court Judge, retired …

HOSPITAL staff members who were applauded as medical marvels have become spin doctors in a bid to focus on patients and charities that support the vulnerable. A nationwide 200 kilometre sponsored cycle is also a thank you to everybody who is supporting a war with Covid. As a gesture of appreciation, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) …

By Jimmy Rhatigan OUR proposed new government could perhaps best be described as an arranged marriage. A wedding of a son or daughter to a lassie or laddie down the road, cobbled together to ensure that a blow-in doesn’t have the opportunity of his or her hand in marriage? The suspicion is that a high …

ALL Charges have been re-instated on the streets and public carparks in Kilkenny City. The council relaxed charges and enforcement in March at the start of the Coronavirus Lockdown restrictions to help support the pandemic response. Purpose was to allow people who needed to travel into the city to do so safely. It wanted to …

SINN FÉIN spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs Kathleen Funchion TD has said that there will be huge disappointment at the childcare plan brought forward by the government. “If we are to re-open the economy, then parents returning to work need to be able to access affordable childcare in a way that is safe for …

US Healthcare provider and insurer UPMC is to create 60 new jobs in Kilkenny over the next three years. The company is to open a global technology operations centre at MacDonagh Junction in Kilkenny City to support its ongoing international expansion. The jobs will mainly be in IT areas including network, systems and security engineers …

THE FIANNA Fáil family has completed a double in local elections. New County Council Chair is Andrew McGuinness while John Coonan is new mayor. Deputy chair is FG’s Martin Brett while David Fitzgerald of FG is deputy mayor.  

PEOPLE Before Profit’s Councillor Adrienne Wallace has called for a public apology from Fine Gael after one of their councillors in Dundrum tweeted support for fascism. FG’s Councillor Jim O’Leary was responding to a social media user who was commenting on Mr O’Leary’s fellow party councillor’s calls for Black Lives Matter protesters to lose their …