The changing Irish attitudes to our health
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR In March 2022 Webdoctor.ie, Ireland’s leading online GP service, compiled the National Health Watch Report in which they surveyed more than 1,600 people across Ireland. The report covered various areas of health, including physical health, diet and nutrition, smoking and alcohol consumption, and mental health. According to the report six …
Healing with dandelions and nettles
BY CLAIR WHITTY Dandelions, are they weeds or herbal healers? According to ancient folklore dandelion is helpful as a bitter tonic, a laxative, and was valued for liver, gallbladder, and urinary problems. It was traditionally used to treat warts by applying the milk from the stem a couple of times a day. Today it’s used …
Good luck? Bad luck? Who can say?
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST We all experience bad luck. Events do, however, also take favourable turns for us. A problem many people have is the enjoyment of these occasions is fleeting, whereas the pain of being “unlucky” endures. This encourages negative thinking. There was once an old man in China. Well, the fact that he …
In defence of women… and that Oscar slap
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Sometimes where to draw the line when it comes to gender can be quite confusing. Take two recent issues. How do you respond to the question, “Can a woman have a penis?” which was put to the UK labour leader Sir Kier Starmer recently. And who do you think …
Just when we thought it was safe to go out again
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS Back in October, inflation in countries sharing the euro rose, almost unnoticed, to 4.1% from 3.4% a month earlier. Unnoticed, because most of us had our eyes on making sure Christmas would be so much better than the miserable one the first pandemic year. And it was a …
Rebels rise to cut Cats down
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Cork win by 4 to secure final berth Allianz National Hurling League Semi-Final Cork 1-27 (30) Kilkenny 2-20 (26) Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork Cork stunned Kilkenny with a second-half comeback on Leeside last Saturday night, as they advanced to their first league final since 2015 with a 4-point win over …
The Journey to Calvary to feature on Community Radio with all-star local cast
By Pat Shortall It is a natural human instinct to love hearing good news, unless of course there is begrudgery lurking. The story of the Passion and Death of Christ Jesus is anything but good news! In what is often titled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, we must patiently wait until The Resurrection, to learn …
Sad times of a workhouse and a war, followed by a new design in Kilkenny
WEEK SEVEN Kilkenny is home to the most famous cats in the world. For over two hundred years, people everywhere have heard of the fierce Kilkenny Cats. They are part of our history; part of our DNA. They reflect Kilkenny in all its glorious past, its developing present and exciting future. In week seven, local …
Community rallies as fire causes devastation
Wednesday 23rd March saw tragedy unfold in the lives of two elderly brothers in Jenkinstown, six miles outside Kilkenny City when a fire broke out in their family home, completely destroying the residence and all its contents. The fire also took the life of one of the brothers, Oliver Brennan, who was not able to …
