Bowie Day – A Night of Music, Magic, and Meaning at Ryan’s Bar
Kilkenny, next Saturday the 20th – Get ready for a night of Bowie magic as “Bowie Day” returns to Ryan’s Bar. This special event, organised by Aoife Meagher and Kevin Bruce and hosted at one of Kilkenny’s favorite live music venues, aims to raise funds for a crucial cause – Kilkenny Helping the Homeless. The musicians, fuelled by …
ELLEN MOLLOY
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY Back in October, Ellen Molloy made a most welcome return to action following a horrendous year, where she was out of competitive football for more than a year after damaging her cruciate in September 2022. The unfortunate injury occured while she was playing for her Club Wexford Youths in a National League …
veganuary 2024
BY CLAIR WHITTY I can’t believe that we are half way through January already. Have you any plans for changes this year? I know that reducing meat consumption in January has become a popular thing to do. This can be for ethical reasons or simply because you are feeling stodgy after all the festive eating. …
Teacht an Earraigh as Tradfest launches its headline acts
As we battle through a current cold snap, Tradfest Kilkenny’s organisers have launched the headline acts who will grace the city’s stages and venues on St. Patrick’s weekend this year. Perennial favourites Hothouse Flowers, John Spillane and Iarla Ó Lionáird will be joined by newcomers including Pádraig Jack, Buíoch, Breaking Trad and Clare Sands. Festival Committee Chairperson, Brendan Treacy, said they were very excited …
The Physical Fitness of Jockeys at Goffs Thyestes Chase
BY EOIN EVERARD How physically fit must you be to ride a horse? Many an armchair analyst has lamented that a rider wasn’t stronger over the final furlong or blamed the jockey when they see their horse fall at the last. But having enough core strength to be able to balance on a horse for …
Old Time Fun and Games
Part One BY JOHN FITZGERALD In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Callan people, young and old, had to make their own sports and amusements. In an age devoid of TV, radio, computers, and all the other mod cons we now take for granted, open-air fun was all the rage. That was in the …
UK trans guidelines would vindicate Enoch Burke
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON We don’t know what gifts Enoch Burke received in his now familiar surroundings of Mountjoy prison but one metaphorical present arrived in Christmas week. It was news about the UK’s advice to schools on how to handle pupils questioning their gender identity. The document, described as calm and moderate …
SOLA LAUNCH NEW SINGLE AS THEY PERFORM AT DUBLIN’S NEW YEARS DAY FESTIVAL AT MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
By Phelim Devane, Dublin Review. There are times when being a journalist is one of the nicest jobs going. When your editor emails you to cover the Dublin New Year’s festival, then it doesn’t get much better. My remit was to cover music at Dublin Castle, National Museum, and Meeting House Square. It was while …
100 YEARS IN UNMARKED GRAVE RECTIFIED AS ACTING SERGEANT HORAN IS REMEMBERED
Private (Acting Sergeant) Patrick Horan, Haggartsgreen, Callan, Co Kilkenny was killed at Adamstown, Wexford on 24th March 1923. Aged 25, he was serving with the 47th unit, attached with the 14th Battalion, Waterford Command and stationed at Palace East, Wexford. For approximately 100 years, 8 months and 12 days Patrick has laid in an unmarked …
Shrughawadda Players will perform their play `By the Bog of Cats` by Marina Carr
Playing from Wednesday, 31st January to Saturday, 3rd February in St.Eoghan`s, Centre, Kilmoganny at 8.15pm nightly. Loosely based on Euripedes tragedy Medea, this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she loved have discarded her. …
