Athletics Ireland Women in Sport strategic plan 2021-2024
All photographs Nathan Cafolla Ireland is proud to announce the launch of our Women in Sport Strategic Plan 2021-2024, during the week of the 6th of January coinciding with Nollaig na mBann. This plan is designed to both expresses our commitment to women in sport and our vision of inspiring the nation to be active, …
Ladies of the Dragons Lair
On Saturday the 4th of December at the Dragons Lair dojo the Kilkenny Jiujitsu club held a grading for both junior and senior students. This was a special one for the club and a pivotal moment in its twenty-year history as a group of female students graded for brown and black belts. The grading was …
COMPETITION WINNER
Congratulations to Ann Marie Thank you to all who entered the draw to win a gift voucher sponsored by The Kilkenny Observer. Congratulation to Anne Marie O’Hara, Station Avenue, Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny who won the €200.00 gift voucher for Caulfield’s SuperValu, Loughboy, Co. Kilkenny. The gift voucher was presented to Anne Marie by Lorna Fletcher, …
Anything is possible according to Nicholas Ryan Purcell
Nicholas Ryan Purcell pictured with his recently published book ‘Anything is Possible’ which details his life growing up in Ireland and living with autism. It is a wonderful insight into his life and deals with the trials and tribulations attached to autism. The book, which has received many positive comments, tells his story from childhood to …
Why bother with promises that you just won’t keep
THE FACT OF THE MATTER – 2 PAUL HOPKINS And so Christmas has gone from us, just like we knew it would, and I trust you all had a good and peaceful one. From my window the avenue is still strewn with windows and doors lit up like landing strips, and only God knows the …
Avoiding the pain of painkillers
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST SOMETIMES you hear people complaining about the “nanny state” when it comes to medication. Somebody can’t get a pill for this or that and instantly they put the blame on the medical profession and/or the government. There are occasions when there may even be a little substance to their protests. The …
2022 What’s your focus?
BY CLAIR WHITTY The end of the year can be a good time to reflect on the year gone by and think about any changes you would like to make for the year ahead. This could mean doing something new, or it could be something that you want to stop doing, something that you feel …
What Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction shows us
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON THE conviction of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in the dying days of last year suggests that the balance in the outcomes of sex crime trials has shifted in favour of abused women and girls. And so in one sense it has. Maxwell faces up to 65 years in jail …
So, what we can expect the New Year to bring?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS It’s 2022, and is the coronavirus, new strains and all, at long last being put in its place? After an unimaginable and miserable two years, alternating between lockdowns and new outbreaks, are we beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel? Or see the tunnel at …
