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Make Kilkenny a great place to…
Grow up in, Live and invest in With a focus on greater innovation and enterprise development, Kilkenny could become a major regional city drawing skilled labour and investment from overloaded Dublin, Waterford and further afield, while still preserving our medieval heritage and identity. The key to local enterprise development is housing. Without a policy to …
Mouse strikes late to deny Cats victory
14-man Kilkenny held in Carlow BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSEDITOR@KILKENNYOBSERVER.IE Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Round 3, Netwatch Cullen Park Carlow 1-20 Kilkenny 1-20 The 2024 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship continued its unpredictable nature last weekend with Carlow stunning neighbour’s Kilkenny to register their first point of the campaign courtesy of a late equaliser by …
Looking good for summer
BY CLAIR WHITTY It’s that time of year when the weather should be warming up and we are beginning to shed the layers of winter clothes. But then we do, we notice how pale and washy we look, well at least I do, and we notice the few pounds that have piled up over the …
Odd couple kicks off a busy year for Carlow Theatre Group
Carlow Little Theatre Society are delighted to present Neil Simon’s classic and brilliant comedy ‘The Odd Couple’, in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre at the VISUAL Centre in Carlow later this month, from May 23rd to 26th. Set in 1960’s New York, Felix Ungar is thrown out by his wife and his recently divorced poker …
The bombings: I remember that summer in Dublin
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Friday, May, 17 1974. I am sitting in my bedsit in Home Farm Road in Dublin’s Drumcondra. It’s sometime after five o’clock and I am cramming as students do when exams loom large on the horizon; cramming because I didn’t exactly haunt the library of Saint Patrick’s Training College, just down …
The power of your vote in local elections
THE LAST WORD By Pat Coughlan When it comes down to it, throwing your vote in the local elections is a massive deal. It’s not just about picking who gets to sit in the big chair; it’s about having a say in the nitty-gritty of what’s happening right in your own backyard. Across Ireland, particularly …
Minding your language … in Irish
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON A change seems to have crept in, gradually the way leaves unfold in Spring. Like the green of April, it’s a pleasant change full of promise. I am talking about the renewed enthusiasm for Irish. It seems to crop up everywhere. There’s a friend who now teaches three …
Top cats in the West
Colm Dunphy from Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny receiving his first dan black belt certificate in Kickboxing from fellow Kilkenny man and 8th Dan Black Belt Master, Pete Foley. Colm, who has been living and working in Galway for over 10 years, ventured into Pete’s world famous Black Dragon Kickboxing Gym in the city of the Tribes …
Certificates received with pride
Kilkenny Employment For Youth Trainee’s took part in 8 weeks Self Defence training, delivered by Instructor’s Guy Jones, President of the European Song Moo Kwan and Dominika Mlynarska
Summer camps: just camp on the green
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS At my supermarket checkout I hear a young woman say: “It won’t be long now ‘til the summer school break. And I have so much to organise.” I gather we’re talking summer camps or the Gaeltacht for the children. Heading home, Drivetime – with that consummate journalist …
