Kilkenny pet store celebrates 15th anniversary with PAWsome PAWty
Fetch a prize worth €1,500 Irish owned pet store, Petmania is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month. Locally, Petmania Kilkenny is celebrating the milestone anniversary with a PAWty and PAWsome competition. The top prize is a €1500 Petmania gift card for one lucky winner to spend instore at Petmania. Petmania began as a pet section …
Who Let the Dogs Out!
Cillin Hill in Kilkenny was awash with dogs last Saturday for the ‘Kilkenny’s Next Top Madra’ top show which took place at the Red Mills Store and was sponsored by local dog food brand Leader. With lots of fun classes including ‘Quickest Sit’ and ‘Best Treat Catcher’, as well as face painting and balloon modelling …
Newpark residents celebrate outdoor community mass
Photos By Pat Shortall On Wednesday evening a large gathering of neighbours and friends joined Fr Dan Carroll & Fr Joseph from St John’s parish to celebrate an outdoor community Mass on the Upper Green, in Newpark. A joint initiative by the Residents Association, and Fr Dan, the local celebration took on an international flavour …
Let’s feel good with Solgar Ultimate Calm
BY CLAIR WHITTY Are you trying to live your best life but this isn’t working out for you? Maybe because you’re feeling worn out, tired, and not sleeping well? Or you’re under pressure or overwhelmed with daily life. Is your head spinning and won’t switch off? Are you feeling low in mood but don’t know …
Don’t skimp on your travel insurance
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR EVEN with a travel insurance policy, many Irish holidaymakers could be leaving themselves exposed to serious financial hardship this summer for the sake of the price of a pizza and beer on the Costa. The whole point of a holiday, is it not, is to relax and enjoy oneself, returning …
Politicians answer the woke up call
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON TIME was, not so long ago, when there was a lot simmering under the surface in our lives in Ireland. There were things that weren’t right, which affected our lives; privately acknowledged but publicly ignored, issues of discrimination, social justice which were swept under the official carpet. It was …
Sixty years on, Monroe still sexiest woman ever
MARILYN Monroe is the sexiest woman ever. No argument. Those accentuated, full-pointed breasts; the sinuous figure and sensuous curves; that sexy walk with those swaying hips. The sultry look, the dreamy, come-hither eyes and kissable lips make Monroe the sexiest woman ever — bar none. That skirt-billowing scene in The Seven Year Itch was every …
Norris ensure s Cats Croker return
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO Galway dethroned in semi victory Glen Dimplex All Ireland Camogie Senior Championship Semi-Final Croke Park, Dublin Kilkenny 1-13 Galway 0-12 There will be new champions of the senior camogie championship following Kilkenny’s four-point victory over current holders Galway at Croke Park last Saturday. These two giants of …
Cody calls time on Cats reign
End of an era as the greatest bainisteoir ever steps aside BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR There had been murmurings about a possible departure following Kilkenny’s two-point defeat in this year’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final; and the official news broke last Saturday afternoon via a statement from the Kilkenny County Board. “Brian Cody has informed …
Sacred Saturdays, and wonderful memories of shops from John Street to Newpark
By Frank Cody Saturday mornings, during childhood, brought freedom from classroom confines. There was an escape from ‘bhfuil cead agam”’and the equally repetitive ‘cuir amach do lámh’. Released from the spirit-numbing repression, we welcomed frivolous weekends with exuberance. Admittedly they got off to a slow start, courtesy of mundane chores. Yards had to be tidied, …
