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An income protection plan that works for you
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Income protection is the most tax efficient means to provide an income should you become ill or have an accident and be unable to earn. Who would pay for your mortgage, gas, electric, phone, food, children’s education, car payments, holidays, insurance, pension, home repairs etc, if your income dried up …
Creativity, and finding your everyday nugget
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON The thing about working as a journalist is that you spend lots of time trying to have bright ideas about things to write about. Some of the ideas may not be so bright and are likely to shot down by critical editors with remarks like: “People don’t want to …
Bogged down in dealing with rising fuel poverty
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS There I was, barely knee-high, struggling to put on my underpants on a bitterly cold winter’s morn, crouched down over the one-bar electric fire. And then walking to school, in short trousers, my knees exposed and eventually chapped. That was the norm back then. At night my dear …
A rocky road to Dublin
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX: DANNY LAHART Cats look to end Dub’s unbeaten run Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Saturday May 14th Parnell Park, 7pm Kilkenny will look to bounce back from their narrow defeat to Galway, when they take on Dublin in Parnell Park tomorrow evening (throw-in 7pm). The race to be …
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX: DANNY LAHART Cats hang on to claim Leinster title in Carlow cracker O’Neills.com Leinster GAA U20 Hurling Championship Final Netwatch Cullen Park, Monday 9th May Kilkenny 1-13 Wexford 0-15 With the clock having reached 64 minutes, a sideline cut was sent in and around the house by Wexford …
Premises taken over as Civil War erupts in Kilkenny city
In early May 1922, nearly two months prior to the official beginning of the Civil War, Kilkenny anti-Treaty IRA units took over 15 buildings in Kilkenny City, most notably St Canice’s Cathedral and Kilkenny Castle. This week, The Kilkenny Observer in conjunction with Cois Céim and The Saturday Walkers group, take a closer look at …
Darkness Into Light
Darkness Into Light, the annual fundraising event organised by Pieta, who provide life-saving support services for those in suicidal distress and who have been bereaved through suicide, took place as the sun rose on Saturday May 7th, 2022. Darkness Into Light is a global movement dedicated to raising vital funds for Pieta’s life-saving services. Hosted …
The death of Joe Cleere has left hearts in smithereens
In a week that saw the passing of local actor Joe Cleere, former Watergate manager Ger Cody remembers the fun-loving Joe – He brought a unique, joyous presence to everything he was involved with – When former head honcho of Dreamstuff theatre group and Young Irish Film makers, Mike Kelly phones and says “let’s do …
Carlow Institute & Further education: Your less stressful route to university, career and apprenticeships
Carlow Institute is one of the largest Further Education providers in the South-East. We provide full-time courses to over 800 students at Level 5 and 6, with certification from four different awarding bodies: QQI, City and Guilds, ITEC and CIDESCO. We provide over 50 courses across a wide variety of areas of study, grouped into …
