The Kilkenny Canal
With thanks to Cois Céim and The Saturday Walkers group The city fathers were very much aware the handicap to the city trade that dependence on land transport represented. They were anxious to see a canal on the Nore to make it navigable from the sea. Goods had always been transported by water but this …
Annual Kilkenny book and coin fair
Sat. 30th July 2022 Club house hotel 11a.m to 5p.m The Annual Kilkenny Book Fair will be held in the Club House Hotel on Saturday 30/07/2022 starting at 11 A.M and finishing at 5 P.M. There will be in attendance around 10 Book sellers from all over Ireland bringing together an eclectic mix of Books, …
The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna – Lunchtime Theatre
Lunch & Theatre at 3 John’s Quay Rural Ireland today! Two elderly small farmers who have witnessed much change in their community meet between their adjoining farms. An age-old ritual of small talk, farming news, sporting yarns is now peppered with uncertainty and fear. Eamon and Nashee are men of heart, of humour, of hardness …
Knockdrinagh Hill, and a great brother…
BY NED EGAN Seventy five years ago now. An age – or a minute? Both. It was the end of the school holidays, in the hard and hungry 1940s – 50s. The Crossroads I lived on looked towards Slievenamon in the vicious winters of the time, towards the blue hills of Kilmoganny in the sweet-remembered …
Can Omega 3 change the way you think, feel and age?
BY CLAIR WHITTY Wild Atlantic Health, an Irish company down in Cork, has developed a number of innovative home health tests to measure nutritional deficiencies. They’re a passionate bunch of people who feel that preventive health is the future. Knowing your Omega-3 Index identifies the underlying level of silent inflammation in your body and is …
Refugee chaos: a better welcome is needed
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Having been Ireland of the Welcomes for Ukrainian refugees arriving here, the current reality is now like a modern Nativity story despite public goodwill. There is no room at the inn. A situation where the latest 250 arrivals in the ongoing low of 41,000 refugees to date, had …
Why the weather is our magnificent obsession
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS At the beginning of July, half way through the summer, there was little suggestion any kind of a decent Irish summer, despite conflicting forecasts. Small wonder they were tripping over themselves at the airport to find a place in the sun. Then came the global scorcher. The heatwave. …
Cats fall to Limerick machine in epic final
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO First 3-in-a-row for the Treaty All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final Croke Park, Dublin July 17th Limerick 1-31 Kilkenny 2-26 Limerick are All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions for a third year running, following an epic encounter with Kilkenny at headquarters. When referee Colm Lyons sounded the long whistle, the …
Semi shootout on the cards at Croker!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR PHOTOS BY INPHO Kilkenny primed for final push Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi-Final Galway vs Kilkenny Saturday 5:30pm, Croke Park All eyes will be on headquarters tomorrow as our camog’s take on old foes and reigning champions Galway for a place in this year’s senior camogie final in …
Mayor Fitzgerald thanks ‘the Saturday Walkers Group’ for keeping the history of Kilkenny alive
At a recent reception at city hall in Kilkenny, Mayor David Fitzgerald welcomed thirty members of The Saturday walkers club. Started in 2012 by then mayor Seán Ó hArgáin, the focus was on Kilkenny being a healthy and active city. According to Seán, “I had recently travelled my own journey of improving my levels of …
