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Clara crushed as Shamrocks size up The Sash!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR The Village see-off Dicksboro to book final spot St Canice’s Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship Quarter Final Review Shamrocks Ballyhale 1-27 Clara 0-15 The last of the remaining quarter-final ties took place last Sunday at UPMC Nowlan Park when holders Shamrocks Ballyhale took on Clara with a semi-final against Tullaroan …
Garden party at New Haughton Hospital
Photos show residents, their visitors and staff enjoying the recently held annual Summer Garden Party event at the New Haughton Hospital, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Residents, their visiting family members and HSE/South East Community Healthcare staff recently enjoyed an autumn garden party on the grounds of New Haughton Hospital, New Ross. The event, which took …
Remembering Dermot Morgan
By Fred Tuite This week, The Kilkenny Observer Newspaper caught up with Kilkenny resident Fred Tuite as he reminisced about the late writer and actor Dermot Morgan. In October 1972, I returned for my second year to UCD to find the Belfield Arts Block filled with new first year students trying to find their way …
And the band played on…
By John Fitzgerald For more than a century, the men and women of St. Patrick’s Brass Band promoted all that was best in Kilkenny’s musical traditions. From the day it was founded in May 1882, it won its way into the hearts of young and old in Cat County. The band’s motto, inscribed on a …
Irish women entrepreneurs’ self belief continues to grow as Kilkenny’s National Women’s Enterprise Day event is launched
Louise Kennedy, Ruth Larkin & Suzie McAdam some of the names lined up for this year’s event in Kilkenny. Research has shown that Irish women’s belief in their ability to run a successful business is continuing to grow as this year’s National Women’s Enterprise Day (NWED) was launched in Kilkenny today. The initiative of the …
The Worshipping of Helena
BY NED EGAN Part 1 It was springtime, back in the far days when you noticed such things. When every dawn gave the hope that the savage frost of the night before might be the last one of a hard pitiless winter. And maybe this day would see the snow start its long slow retreat …
A month’s reprieve for those have to change banks
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Having recently written about the closure of Ulster Bank and KBC I think another review and reminder is in order. This is because Ulster Bank is putting back its proposed closure deadline to help those on social welfare not lose the higher payments announced in the Budget, like the double …
Inheritance: a tax worth knowing about
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Any close encounters with the taxman reduce me to an apprehensive state akin to skating on thin ice. Not knowing what is lurking underneath the ice increases the fear. Ridiculous I know, taxation is an instrument of monetary policy that’s meant to be fair, nevertheless I am not alone …
Winter remedies for kids with coughs and colds
BY CLAIR WHITTY There’s nothing worse than listening to your child coughing and sneezing, it makes you feel so helpless. Thankfully, there are natural remedies that can help relieve their symptoms. It can be that when you collect them from creche or school they are coughing or sneezing, especially at the start of the school …
The common cold, and winters of discontent
When I was but knee-high to a grasshopper and succumbed to bouts of childhood ailments, my mother would summon the local GP. After he had pressed the cold stethoscope to my chest and back and had me cough and cough, my mother, fearing the worst, would say: “Well, Dr Dolan, what is it?” He would …
