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TRAD CAMP 2021
By: Sinéad Blanchfield Music Development Officer, Music Generation Kilkenny E: sinead.blanchfield@ kilkennycarlowetb.ie Music Generation Tipperary and Music Generation Kilkenny ‘Magnificent opportunity for young traditional musicians in Co. Tipperary and Co. Kilkenny’ 28 July 2021, Kilkenny: Music Generation Tipperary and Music Generation Kilkenny present TRADCAMP 2021 – a week-long camp for young traditional musicians from both …
Our LGBTI+ young people are Shining With Pride
Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation, unveiled their Shine With Pride mural. The artwork was created in collaboration with SUBSET. LGBTI+ young people from across Ireland engaged in a series of virtual sessions with the artist KinMx to share their lived experiences of growing up LGBTI+ in Ireland and come up with the messages they …
Cats edge Galway in Croke corker
By NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Sensational strike from Doyle seals win as Power returns! Kilkenny’s camogs delivered yet more silverware following an exhilarating encounter with Galway at Croke Park recently. Brian Dowling’s charges secured a three-point win at headquarters, following an inspired second half comeback. The game was a repeat of December’s All-Ireland Final, and …
“You’ll want more than tea and ye going to play Tipperary!”
It doesn’t fall to many people in a generation to be recognised by a short version of their name or a nickname. Internationally, the names JFK and Mother Teresa easily conjure up images. Nationally, the names Dev and Peig are also examples which inspire easy recall Edited and compiled by: Ger Cody In Kilkenny, similar …
Go skate at Kilkenny Skate Park
Go Skate Day is celebrated internationally on 21st June, and this year Kilkenny Skate Park decided to mark the occasion by hosting their very own competition in the new skate park on Sunday 27 June. All images: Danny Lahart Renamed Go Skate Day in 2004, the original event called Go Skateboarding Day, started in the …
Cat’s seek purr-fect start
BY NIALL SHERRY – SPORTS EDITOR Headquarters hosts semi-final battle All roads lead to Croke Park tomorrow for the Leinster Championship Semi-Final meeting of old foes Kilkenny and Wexford. (Throw-in 4:30pm) The Leinster Council gave the go-ahead last Monday for both semi-final’s to take place at headquarters. This will give the teams a chance to …
A bite of the Big Apple
A visit to New York is every bit as exhilarating as you would expect, discovers Paul Hopkins NEW YORK, New York. So good, they named it twice; the City that never sleeps; the Big Apple, Capital City of the World, the Centre of the Universe. We’ve heard it all before, of course, but, to paraphrase …
Light out of darkness …
The Butler Gallery Kilkenny ahead of the opening of the Irish premiere of Richard Mosse’s two video installations Incoming and Grid (Moria) which are presented by Butler Gallery during Kilkenny Arts Festival. Pictured in deep thought is Malcolm Noonan TD, Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform Picture: Patrick Browne
For your tomorrow we gave our today!
During World War II (1939-1945) 156,000 British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy, in Northern France. The D – Day landings, codenamed Operation Overlord, began the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. The fighting continued until the end of August the same year. It is accepted that the invasion, one of the largest …
