Artwork celebrates Kilkenny sport icons!
Artist Paddy Cunningham is making waves with his first art exhibition. On show at Callan library, his drawings of celebrities, especially GAA stars, has cast a spell over the Town on the King’s River. Local man Paddy is a relative newcomer to the visual arts. For decades he made his mark as an eagled-eyed amateur photographer in Callan and the surrounding district. …
Kilkenny County Council Launches ‘Mná Feasa/Wise Women’ Project to Celebrate Women’s Stories and Local Lore
Kilkenny County Council Library Services & Heritage Office are delighted to announce a new project called ‘Mná Feasa/Wise Women’; a social history project and podcast series comprising of stories, experiences & local lore from the women of Kilkenny. On November 3rd 1324 in Kilkenny, Petronella of Meath became the 1st woman to be burned at …
Taking small steps away from a climate crisis
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON The warnings of climate catastrophe are too urgent to be ignored in UN Secretary General Antio Guterres’ stark ‘moment of truth’ declaration recently. If we miss our limit of no more than 1.5 degrees warming and go scorching on to 2.9 degrees increase by the end of this …
Winning is all that counts in the final run
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS One of the great war-cries among boys of a certain age, when they have fallen foul of yesterday’s best friend, is to mutter with clenched jaw and fists: “Loser!” How often have you said to your children at some school sporting event, “Go out there and do …
Young Cat’s down The Banner to set-up Premier clash!
Buggy drives Bergin’s boys to semi victory BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSEDITOR@KILKENNYOBSERVER.IE Electric Ireland Al-Ireland MHC Semi-Final Kilkenny 2-23 Clare 2-20 (AET) FBD Semple Stadium, Sunday June 16th Kilkenny will face-off against neighbours Tipperary in this year’s Electric Ireland Minor Championship Hurling Final, having got the better of the Banner after extra-time in Thurles …
How to Prevent Insect Bites
BY CLAIR WHITTY Summer is here and it’s the time for thinking about our holidays. But this time of the year whether at home or abroad we will have a variety of insects that bite, including midges, ticks, and mosquitos. The last thing we want is to be bitten by these insects. Thankfully there is …
PRIMARY SCHOOLS FINALS
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY With Primary Schools finishing up for the summer next week, the Primary Schools Camogie and Hurling competitions have been winding down over the past few weeks with finals played at a variety of venues. The competitions began in March with a whole host of games played throughout the group stages before reaching …
Characters, oddballs, eccentrics – and then me!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Every now and again we talk about ‘characters’ in the pub (a much needed respite from politics and sport). We talk about the ‘characters’ from our childhood and our youth. We remember ‘Aeroplane’ Meehan, May Timmins, Kitty Saunders with her numerous dogs in tow, Kevin Traynor, selling the Press and Herald …
White Twine and Old Suitcases
THE KILKENNY INVOLVEMENT CENTRE AND RECOVERY COLLEGE SOUTH EAST HAVE PRODUCED A WONDERFUL ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY AND PROSE. ‘WHITE TWINE AND OLD SUITCASES’ COMPRISES OF 128 PAGES AND 60 AUTHORS AND IS COMPLEMENTED BY SOME WONDERFUL PHOTOS AND ARTWORK BY TASK CAMERA CLUB. IT IS PRINTED BY MODERN PRINTERS. IT IS DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED READING FOR …
Golden Memories
PART 2 BY JOHN FITZGERALD In 1958, when she was 77, Nell Dooley-Monahan wrote to Callan’s newspaper correspondent Peter Roughan to share some memories with him and his readers. Nell was a daughter of Jim Dooley who worked with Ben Thompson, a gamekeeper in Desart. Last week, I recounted her visit to Desart Court and her precious memory of a childhood meeting …
