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Twilight Cultural Hub
Twilight’s International Cultural House was rocking & rolling, for their open day on Easter Saturday with just the lift installation to be completed as the final part of the jigsaw. The concept of this Cultural Hub was devised in 2018 and was set into this progressive Kilkenny Community Group five-year plan. The hub is for …
Ambush on Friary Street
PART 2 BY JOHN FITZGERALD Continuing the story of the infamous Friary Street Ambush: If you missed part one last week you can read it on the Kilkenny Observer website… The Threecastles group was to disarm the rearguard of the military patrol outside the Friary church. The Kells men were to waylay the ass and …
Castlecomer Woman Lisa is ‘The Gem’ of Roses
Castlecomer woman Lisa O’ Rourke has been selected as Kilkenny Rose for 2024. And the judges had a difficult job on their hands, as all twenty three participants were wonderful in their own right. However, as they say, there can only be one winner. Lisa was quick out of the blocks to congratulate all her …
A no-brainer switching broadband and TV contracts
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Price walking, also know as a loyalty penalty, is a form of price discrimination whereby longstanding, loyal customers of a service provider are charged higher prices for the same services compared to customers that have just switched to that provider. The pricing strategy was recently banned by the Central Bank …
Cleere’s Bar: the Last Ashtray – 20 years on
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran April 2005. My wife and I are sipping Bellinis in Harry’s Bar in Venice (a favourite haunt of the writer Ernest Hemmingway). We are celebrating a birthday, a big, birthday. Down the bar an American couple are chatting loudly (as Americans do); the man lights up a cigarette and immediately the …
SMITHWICK’S KILKENNY ROOTS FESTIVAL 2024
The launch of the 26th Kilkenny Roots Festival took place at the Smithwick’s Experience venue on Thursday night. The large attendance were given a rundown of the exciting lineup for the event, which takes place from 3rd to 6th May in venues throughout Kilkenny city. The exciting line-up features performers from the USA/Canada UK, and …
Cats seek to lower Banner on trip to Tipp
Silverware at stake in Semple showdown BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR Allianz National Hurling League Final FBD Semple Stadium, Thurles, Saturday 7:15pm Kilkenny vs Clare This year’s Allianz National Hurling League Final takes place tomorrow evening and sees Kilkenny once again lock horns with Clare to determine where the silverware will rest for the next …
Resistance Training: What is it and why do we keep hearing about it?
Keeping strong to stay healthy in the modern age By Paul Bolger. Nano Physiotherapy www.nanophysio.ie You will likely have heard of ‘resistance training’ being talked about on the radio, TV on online. But what is resistance training? Why are we hearing more and more about it? And is it important for health? Here is a chartered physiotherapist’s …
Men, the long and the shorts of it is …
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS My bugbear are the hordes of men who don shorts at the first sign of the clock going forward. More specifically men over a certain age, an age when they really should know better, who assail my senses with visions of knobbly knees, bow legs or flat …
