Cats seek to lower Banner on trip to Tipp
Silverware at stake in Semple showdown BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR Allianz National Hurling League Final FBD Semple Stadium, Thurles, Saturday 7:15pm Kilkenny vs Clare This year’s Allianz National Hurling League Final takes place tomorrow evening and sees Kilkenny once again lock horns with Clare to determine where the silverware will rest for the next …
Resistance Training: What is it and why do we keep hearing about it?
Keeping strong to stay healthy in the modern age By Paul Bolger. Nano Physiotherapy www.nanophysio.ie You will likely have heard of ‘resistance training’ being talked about on the radio, TV on online. But what is resistance training? Why are we hearing more and more about it? And is it important for health? Here is a chartered physiotherapist’s …
Men, the long and the shorts of it is …
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS My bugbear are the hordes of men who don shorts at the first sign of the clock going forward. More specifically men over a certain age, an age when they really should know better, who assail my senses with visions of knobbly knees, bow legs or flat …
CLOGH WRITERS GROUP
IN NOVEMBER OF 2023, CLOGH WRITERS GROUP LAUNCHED ‘WHERE I AM’, A COLLECTION OF POETRY AND PROSE FROM ELEVEN DIFFERENT WRITERS. AS CO-ORDINATOR OF THE WRITERS GROUP JANE MEALLY SAID: “WHERE I AM” IS A PUBLICATION WHERE EACH WRITER COMMUNICATES THEIR PASSION TO THE READER.” Having attended the launch in Clogh, The Kilkenny Observer Newspaper was quite taken with not only …
HEALTHY CLUB LAUNCH AND LA NA GCLUB NIGHT
Shamrocks Ballyhale GAA Healthy club held their official launch night in collaboration with La na gClub, on Easter Sunday, with their overall focus to make the community of Ballyhale a healthier, happier, more connected place to live. On Friday night we took a step down memory lane to revisit some of our favourite times in …
What is Gout?
BY CLAIR WHITTY Gout is a type of arthritis that causes pain and swelling. It happens when high levels of uric acid build up in the body and form needle-shaped crystals in and around the joint leading to inflammation of the joint. Gout is commonly seen in your big toe but can happen in other …
Murray’s ‘Da’ owned the stage as Lake perform Leonard comedy
By Tom Dayton Photos by Pat Shortall In 2022, I accidentally came across a theatre production by a company I had not heard of. The Company was Lake productions, a Kilkenny based group, and the show was a Jimmy Murphy play called The Kings of the Kilburn High Road. To say I was gobsmacked would …
How coercive control holds women hostage
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON “Nowhere was safe, not even the shower.” Those seven words sum up an experience where home became hell and life a torment for Maeve McGloughlin Doyle at the hands of her husband Mark. Her story, told in interview with Oliver Callan on RTE 1 revealed a litany of …
CLOGH WRITERS GROUP
IN NOVEMBER OF 2023, CLOGH WRITERS GROUP LAUNCHED ‘WHERE I AM’, A COLLECTION OF POETRY AND PROSE FROM ELEVEN DIFFERENT WRITERS. AS CO-ORDINATOR OF THE WRITERS GROUP JANE MEALLY SAID: “WHERE I AM” IS A PUBLICATION WHERE EACH WRITER COMMUNICATES THEIR PASSION TO THE READER.” Having attended the launch in Clogh, The Kilkenny Observer Newspaper was quite taken with not only …
Cats rip up Treaty script to reach league final
Lyng’s charges show courage to down green machine BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR Allianz National Hurling League Semi-Final Páirc Uí Chaoimh Kilkenny 3-17 Limerick 1-15 Derek Lyng masterminded a much-needed win over the green machine of Limerick in the first of the two Allianz League semi-finals last weekend to set up a final clash with …
