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Now, where did we put all those 135,400 batteries?
HOUSEHOLDERS in Kilkenny recycled 51,000 more batteries through retailers last year than in 2019, new figures show. Data from WEEE Ireland reveals that environmentally-conscious consumers in the county brought 135,400 used batteries — 3.4 tonnes — back to supermarkets, hardware and electronic stores in 2020. That was a rise of 50,800 on the 84,600 prevented …
Protecting your income in these uncertain times
By JOHN ELLIS Financial Advisor THE money you earn pays for almost everything you have, mortgage, gas, electric, phone, food, children’s education, car, holidays, insurance, pension, home repairs, the list goes on. You probably don’t think twice about insuring your home, car or healthcare but what about your income? Thirty-six percent of those recently …
Dawn meeting at Peace Park remembers the dead
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” Edited and compiled by: Gerry Cody All photos: jbs photos Kilkenny These words are from the pen of poet Robert …
Obesity: blame it on the fridge, says new study
OBESITY, which could have fatal consequences if one gets Covid-19, would have been a hard concept for our ancestors to understand. There was little opportunity for it to emerge. Advancements in food preservation and storage, such as processed foods and fridges, opened up an entirely new means of existence. But we have paid for those …
Revealed: the odds of alien life out there and they are pretty good odds
GIVEN the size of our universe, not to mention other universes, it would make you wonder, where are all the aliens? We can’t be the only ones who made it out onto a cosmic rock alive. There might be many reasons we have not encountered aliens yet, from lack of technology to the aliens not …
OUT & ABOUT WITH DANNY LAHART
OUT & ABOUT WITH DANNY LAHART
Great to see the future stars of O’Loughlin’s and Kilkenny back up in the club enjoying their hurling O’Loughlin’s Juvenile U6 team
Spain hoping to welcome tourists from next month
SPAIN hopes to reopen to overseas holidaymakers from next month under the Covid digital health certificate scheme, the country’s secretary of state for tourism has said. Fernando Valdés told the recent World Travel & Tourism Council summit in Mexico that the programme – under which tourists could show they have been vaccinated, tested negative or …
WolfWalkers & Kilkenny at the Oscars
“The Oscars came to Kilkenny for one night only on Sunday 25th April. Following strict Covid guidelines and multiple Covid tests over the weekend a skeleton operations crew from Cartoon Saloon along with the 3 nominees and their partners came together at the Rivercourt Hotel to take part in the 93rd Academy Awards. Unfortunately it wasn’t …
Love in Lockdown 2
Lockdown has placed restrictions on most aspects of our lives, but Barnstorm Theatre Company and Barn Owl Players continue to prove that even the most ardent of lockdowns has not put a barrier on the arts. Beginning with their successful monologue virtual production, Zoom BOP: Confinement, last September, the two companies set out to up …
