Celebrating 25 Years of Community Service
Dalton House Senior Centre celebrated a milestone event in Gowran over the weekend marking 25 years of serving the community. With the sun shining high in the sky, our celebrations kicked off on Sunday at 1pm with our volunteer musicians starting off the festivities. Pete Hutchinson and Paul Brett took centre stage and the shenanigans …
The Black Abbey
BY JOHN FITZGERALD (PART ONE) A Treasure to Behold The story of Kilkenny’s Black Abbey reads like a “stranger than fiction” tale. It’s as much a tourist attraction as a place of worship. A painstaking restoration process lasting decades has ensured the preservation of the building and its historic treasures. William Marshal, the Norman Lord, founded the …
Shedding light on friendship of Edison and Ford
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran This week a wonderful story from Gerry Cody’s Facebook page: Sunday’s Anecdote from History. In 1896, Thomas Edison, the great inventor of the electric bulb, was working on a car design when he learned that a young man in his company had created an experimental car. Edison met this young man, …
New bus shelter for Moneenroe
Local Fine Gael Cllr. John Brennan, has heartily embraced the sanctioning of a new bus shelter for Moneenroe. Serving as an essential upgrade, he affirmed that it will offer significant comfort and shelter to the local Moneenroe populace. Cllr. John Brennan pictured with John Bolger and Michael Walsh at the new bus shelter in Moneenroe. …
The next US President will it be Madam or Mr
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON You might as well play the daisy petal game as a way of predicting a certain outcome of the November US presidential election. Instead of plucking off flower petals in the girlhood game counting “he loves me he loves me not” down to the last petal, you could …
An annual nationwide celebration of Ireland’s built, natural and cultural heritage
An exciting programme of over 50 events is planned to celebrate National Heritage Week in Kilkenny which will take place from 17th-25th August. National Heritage Week is a Heritage Council initiative held annually in partnership with local authority Heritage Officers. The week invites us to foster a deeper appreciation for the heritage that shapes our identities …
When Hollywood came to town…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD (PART THREE) Continuing the story of the “Breakfast on Pluto” movie days in Callan…twenty years ago this month… The five or six men who pushed an old Morris Minor up and down the street looked a bit browned off, but they persevered and after many takes, they took a well-earned rest. Nobody said …
GIBBS EXCELLENT AS SHIRLEY ENTHRALS
By Tom Dayton Photos by Pat Shortall If memory serves me right, I saw my first production of Shirley Valentine in 2016, in the City of the Tribes. Galway was where I received my first pay check as a cub reporter. It was also where I worked as a front of house volunteer at The …
Making Kilkenny safer, one heartbeat at a time
THE LAST WORD By Pat Coughlan Last week I happened to notice an unusual box on the wall outside Eurospar in Newpark Shopping Centre. They’re not fancy post boxes or secret leprechaun hideouts. They’re defibrillators, and they’re here to save lives. When someone’s heart decides to take an unscheduled break, these devices can give it …
