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New Kilkenny Through the Eyes of the Brewers Tour begins
Smithwick’s Experience Kilkenny is extending its offering with a new ‘Kilkenny Through the Eyes of the Brewers’ tour that offers over 18s a not-to-be-missed adventure back in time. Visitors to the city and locals with a passion for history and brewing will not want to miss the new tour on Thursday, August 20, starting at 6pm. …
The story of a king and two rivers…
By John Fitzgerald For decades one of the first lessons that every Callan schoolchild learned was that a great Ard Ri (High King of Ireland) drowned here in the mid-ninth century, which is how the King’s River got its name. The fact that a community in another part of Ireland also laid claim to the …
Why Are There So Many Different Types of Magnesium?
BY CLAIR WHITTY If you’ve ever shopped for a magnesium supplement, you’ve probably wondered why there are so many different types. Bisglycinate, citrate, malate, taurate and L-threonate all promise different benefits, but what do those names actually mean? The answer is surprisingly simple. Magnesium is an essential mineral involved in hundreds of processes throughout the …
Café Lates returns to Kilkenny City
Following a successful pilot in 2025, Café Lates returns to Kilkenny City on Thursday 20th August and Thursday 17th September. Café Lates is an initiative under the Kilkenny Night Time Economy Action Plan supporting local cafés in Kilkenny City to extend their opening hours by offering innovative and cultural events after 6pm. Four cafés in …
Putting pressure on Tirlan to up their farmer milk price
As milk supplies look certain to fall, ICMSA want Co-ops to raise prices and anticipate tightening supplies Speaking in advance of most the July announcements of milk prices by our Co-ops and milk processors, Noel Murphy, Chairperson of the ICMSA Dairy Committee, has said that it is highly likely that milk flows in Ireland this Autumn will be significantly reduced due to …
Read the other side of the balance sheet
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR The latest figures from the Department of Finance tell us something we have heard before. The State is still taking in huge amounts of tax, but that does not necessarily mean the public finances are as strong as the headline numbers suggest. Tax receipts for the first seven months were …
Local produce, with answers for food security
As the threat to food security posed by climate change and war hits the headlines, what can be done to help protect Irish consumers from the rising price of the weekly shop? The answer to preventing cost-of-living shocks for fresh foods could lie at home, helped by a change in policy. Our food production is …
Road carnage toll more horrific than you think
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Out walking the other day, I spotted a local man I know by sight. Just before Covid on December 27, 2019, having drunk 15 pints throughout St Stephen’s night, this man knocked down a younger man walking home from celebrations. He was jailed for five-and-a-half years. In …
From Lisnafunchin National school to the Mens shed
The song “Two Little Boys” (originally titled “When We Were Two Little Boys”) was written by lyricist Edward Madden and composer Theodore F. Morse in 1903. This song is a celebration of loyalty and friendship. With that in mind we focus on two members of Kilkenny Men’s Shed, Shem Muldowney and Micheal Bergin. When they …
Local teen Sam Cummins set to represent Ireland at European Championships
From August 20th to 23rd, Waterford will host the U17 Inline Hockey European Championships, with Inline Hockey Ireland & SETU Arena welcoming national teams from Slovenia, Italy, France, Czechia, Great Britain, Belgium, Slovakia, and Ireland. Among those proudly representing Ireland will be local teenager Sam Cummins, who has once again earned selection to the national squad …
