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Santa Claus Comes to Kilkenny!
Santa Claus is coming Kilkenny City on November 26th to launch Yulefest Kilkenny 2022! After enjoying their trip so much last year, Santa and Mrs. Claus will return to Kilkenny to turn on the City’s Christmas Lights! Kilkenny Civil Defence will travel with them down the River Nore before they take off around the City …
Kevin the Carrot is back – but will he be Home Alone this Christmas?
ALDI’s festive Christmas ad will make its Irish TV premiere on Thursday the 10th of November The nation’s favourite Carrot returns to fend for himself as he is left behind by his family Kevin the Carrot will make his highly anticipated return to Irish television screens on Thursday, 10th November. This year’s ad opens with …
Two special events for Remembrance Sunday
Sunday November 13th is going to be a very busy day for members of the Kilkenny Great War Memorial Committee. It’s Remembrance Sunday and they have plans to hold two events. At 12.30 pm at the memorial in the Peace Park a short ceremony will take place to remember those who died from Kilkenny in …
The Tale….
BY NED EGAN It was 1940, wartime, and I, J Conway was on a special mission to the USA. Based in England, I and my new wife Marie took the opportunity to visit our old haunts in Kilkenny Town, on our way to Waterford, then to Cobh. So, we headed down to Waterford, and booked …
Lady Desart…the aristocrat with a heart of gold
By John Fitzgerald When we think of aristocracy in Ireland, images of oppression, exploitation, and aloofness come to mind. The lords and ladies are thought of as having been born with silver spoons in their mouths. We have a concept of toffs swanning around in their big house and not caring a whit for the …
My word! A good word for bad language!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran “Foul language can boost group bonding, raise pain tolerance and increase physical strength….. It also eases stress,” according to The Irish Times, on Monday October 31 last. Boy was I glad to read that. Effin glad even! And why? Because yours truly is prone to peppering his conversations with the F …
Don’t bank on that switch being easy
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR We flagged in an earlier piece that D-day was coming for those who have to move from Ulster Bank but we make mention of it again because, according to Ulster Banks CEO Jane Howard, the bank intends to move forward with plans to freeze the accounts of a first wave …
Looking after your prostate
BY CLAIR WHITTY November is Men’s Health Month, a great time to remind you to get your prostate checked. Make an appointment with your doctor today if you have not had a check-up recently. Prevention is better than cure. If you’re getting up several times to pee during the night it could be a sign …
Turning a blind eye to the naked truth
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Events of the past weeks remind me of the story of the emperor who had no clothes. In Hans Christian Anderson’s tale, the emperor and his people are told by weavers that they would make him a wonderful suit of clothes. Anyone who could not see these wondrous garments …
‘Look after your children, they are most precious’
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS My father’s sister Maeve was a mere slip of a young woman when she took the boat to an England where ‘no Irish need apply’ and eventually found a job in the British civil service and a flat in Chiswick. She came home every Christmas to my grandmother’s …
