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Wait, Mr Postman, is there a letter for me?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS When I was a young journalist in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in the late ’70s, I would regularly write home to my parents of my adventures in a country at war — and that I was okay. They were more like missives: a dozen foolscap pages every other week, typed …
Burnout: Life overloads you!
CHOICES SHAPE YOUR FUTURE By Judith Ashton I hope that everyone has had a good rest over the holidays. However, I am not foolish enough to think that this is the case for all. For many people Christmas and New Year can be simply exhausting if you’ve been juggling family, work and all that goes …
Seventy really can be the new 50
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON Auto-enrolment came in earlier this month, copper-fastening pension contributions and drawing attention to that arbitrary line drawn across our later lives. There are around one thousand people every week in Ireland tumbling over that cliff edge called retirement. Currently there are a million of us in that ‘old’ …
Happiness … and listening to your heart
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran You know those self-help publications and soppy little books of wise quotations that populate the shelves of our book stores this time of year? Well I love them. I collect them. Not alone do I collect them but friends give them to me – usually as a Christmas present. And God …
That we have lived at all is the miracle
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS It seems like it was only yesterday that I wrote in this column… Where did that year go, with a new one upon us? Now, here I am again, wondering where the last 12 months went. I may not be any the wiser, but I am, unfortunately, …
Cats frozen out of Walsh Cup after coin-toss madness!
Westmeath advance as Shield beckons for Lyng & Co BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSEDITOR@KILKENNYOBSERVER.IE Dioralyte Walsh Cup & Shield 2026 Following some farcical shenanigans last weekend, Kilkenny will get their intercounty preseason underway this Sunday when they face-off against the winners of last night’s clash between Laois and Carlow in the Dioralyte Walsh Shield. …
Recreation in Old Callan
By John Fitzgerald (Part four) Peter Roughan, the local newspaper columnist, wrote a lot about the Waltons…one of the long-established families in Callan. Larry Walton was in America at the time that Peter wrote his weekly Callan Man looks Back column. But Larry’s name never failed to come up in fireside conversations back in his …
The Neighbourhood Hall where enjoyment is the priority
jbsphotos For the last three years, Steve Nolan has been putting on two sing-along events a year – one in the summer and one in the winter – tailored for an age-friendly audience and aimed at incorporating all the groups he works with. Steve is Project Co-ordinator at The Neighbourhood Hall in the Butts. And …
SETU’s Urlingford Hub Leads Rural Innovation Across the South East
South East Technological University (SETU) is celebrating a year of transformative progress in research, innovation, and enterprise engagement, with the Urlingford hub in Co. Kilkenny emerging as a flagship for rural innovation. Part of the TU RISE – TU Research and Innovation Supporting Enterprise – initiative, the Urlingford hub provides modern workspace, training, and pathways …
Kilkenny farm leader welcomes Government confirmation that Ireland will vote against Mercosur – “The right decision both economically and environmentally”
The President of ICMSA and Dunbell farmer, Denis Drennan, said that the Government’s decision that Ireland would vote against the Mercosur Agreement was the right decision on both economic and environmental grounds. Mr. Drennan said that there were certain occasions and circumstances in which basic principles of fairness and consistency had to override hype and …
