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Healthy Office Movement
Moving and raising your heartrate in brief bouts may be key to office health By Paul Bolger. Chartered Physiotherapist at Nano Physiotherapy, Kilkenny (www.nanophysio.ie). We often blame our desks, chairs and postures for those nagging aches we occasionally experience at work. But what if I told you that we have all been focusing on the wrong …
TOMMY HARDING
There was huge sadness across Gowran Parish and beyond with the passing of Tommy Harding on Monday 9th December. Tommy was a much loved character who was a Liverpool fanatic, and for several years he was a very popular member on stage with The Gowran Pantomime Society where he performed alongside his close friend John …
“ARE YOU BUYING YOUR COAL FROM A REGISTERED MERCHANT? CLAMPDOWN ON ILLEGAL SALE OF SMOKY COAL?
Kilkenny County Council in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are raising awareness regarding the continuing sale of bituminous coal in the south of Ireland, despite the Solid Fuel Regulations implemented in 2022, which prohibit its sale due to significant public health and environmental concerns. Recent reports have highlighted the troubling trend of bituminous …
The drama of a Kilkenny life
By PM O’Sullivan Philip Hardy’s life, so productive in his chosen field, turned into a Kilkenny life. His course could have tilted in several other directions. Not away from the world of theatre, not after he left his teens, by which time that passion had begun to rustle and ripen. But certainly along different paths, …
When our vote talks, and your TD doesn’t listen
Democracy — it’s a great idea and important that we defend it but sometimes it feels like we’re just shouting down a well, waiting for our vote to echo back with some sense of relevance. Many people across Ireland believe their voices are just polite suggestions in a boisterous Matt the Millar’s pub dialogue. There’s …
Contradicting the Bible and bare-legged women!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran January – the month when folks try to predict what lies ahead in the coming year. I love to peruse the predictions in Old Moore’s Almanac (on the go for a mere 261 years) though they’re not always accurate. It predicted Kerry to win the Football All Ireland in 2024 and …
Despite all, the economy remains robust
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR In a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Irish corporate insolvencies have increased by 16% in 2024, the highest level in six years. Though the final count of 852 insolvencies fell short of the anticipated 900, it reflected an unexpected strength in the Irish economy. Retail and hospitality sectors bore the …
Is living happily ever after a myth?
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON If I have wished friends and contacts happiness once over the festive season, I have done it hundreds of times in greetings. But what chance is there of living happily ever after like Cinderella with her Prince? Even though we know that real life isn’t like that and …
Ireland’s Prawn Cocktail Revolution
THE LAST WORD By Pat Coughlan A few weeks ago, we chatted about the dreaded Brussels Sprout. Did the article change your mind about the “little verdant orb”? Was it on the menu in your house? This week I am going back to a starter that had its birth in Ireland in the 1960s and …
Light of hope in an ever-changing street…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD This is often a time for looking back over the past year. As I happened to be researching Callan in a bygone era I couldn’t help but cast my mind further back…far beyond my own lifespan, to how different the town looked a century ago, The raising of the festive lights in Callan illumined a town …
