The impact the “Insurance Rip-off” is having on individuals and business needs to be addressed
By: Deputy Kathleen Funchion Sinn Fein TD for Kilkenny Carlow There is little doubt that business and individuals are struggling with their insurance premiums, Sinn Féin has called on all parties to work together and support their legislation to cap the interest rates charged by moneylenders. The motor insurance industry here in Ireland have generated …
Schools fear as data shows 12% of Covid cases are kids
FEARS are growing over a full return to schools as new figures show one in eight of all Covid-19 cases in Ireland were children and teenagers under 18 within the year of the pandemic. With primary schools set for a full return next week, experts are warning that children should be outdoors as much as …
Our own Cartoon Saloon is in line for a Bafta
KILKENNY”S Cartoon Saloon have been nominated for a British Academy Film Awards (Bafta) for their animated feature Wolfwalkers (pictured). Irish stars Barry Keoghan and Niamh Algar (pictured)are also among the nominees. Calm With Horses stars Algar and Keoghan are nominated in the Best Supporting Actress and Actor categories, respectively, for their performances in the Irish …
The Greatest Show on Turf
The countdown is on to Cheltenham 2021 and excitement can start to build for national hunt racing fans from all over the world By Eddie Scally In truth real racing fans have had one eye on Cheltenham since possibly last October, trainers on the other hand had both eyes on it since the curtain drew …
Holy St Patrick, there’s a pair of them in it…
By Paul Hopkins WELL, faith and begorrah, but as millions of people around the world may well don the shamrock and silly hat, but, thanks to the coronvirus, will mot be able to march in parades and drink green pints of the black stuff, the man they are remembering this March 17 is by all …
How a vaccine passport may free us to travel again
WE would all love a holiday. Indeed, we could do with one. Our thoughts are turning to far-away places with strange sounding names. The sun and the sea and hazy days. As vaccination rollouts gather pace around the world, attention is now turning to vaccines of another kind: vaccine passports. The International Air Transport Association …
The man from the Outer Hebrides, Micheál o’ Muircheartaigh and The Stripy Men
It’s a slow summer day in Cornwall in the 1980s and Benjamin Neesham is fiddling with the medium wave dial on his radio in search of some sort of diversion. The airwaves crackle and the room he’s sitting in is suddenly filled with the mellifluous tones of Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh commentating on a hurling match …
Seamus Walsh RIP
The news of the death of Seamus Walsh spread quickly around the north Kilkenny town of Castlecomer and indeed the county of Kilkenny. A poet, tour guide, historian and promoter of The Comer mines, he was certainly one in a million. By: Gerry Cody Coal Mining runs deep in the Castlecomer Community, and there was …
We drink 1.4 billion cups of a coffee a day. That’s good!
GLOBALLY, we drink about 1.4 billion cups of coffee a day, according to the Intern national Coffee Organisation (ICO). This might explain why you rely so heavily on your cuppa every morning or why you stop at one of many coffee shops for a take-out only when out walking in these pandemic times. In our …
“If you still want to marry me after this lockdown, I know you really must love me!”
As lockdown locations go, you couldn’t really get much better than An Rinn in the heart of the beautiful Gaeltacht na nDéise, according to Ros na Rún actor, Elaine O’Hara. A proud Kilkenny woman by birth, she now finds herself living with her fiancé Cian in the beautiful Rinn Ó gCuanach, Co. Phort Láirge. Elaine …
