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The stress effect on your gut
BY CLAIR WHITTY Stress is part of everyday life and it’s important to keep you alert and aware of your surroundings so that you can avoid danger. But unfortunately, excess stress is not good for your digestive system. It can have a negative effect on your gut because stress affects the production of digestive enzymes …
Making allowance for that time of the month
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Just as I was musing that social attitudes have reversed between North and South and that the North is now more conservative than we are, comes the news that the Six Counties may be taking a liberal leap. There are calls to do the decent thing there and follow …
Banshees and boyos… and male friendship
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS In the multi-award nominated film The Banshees of Inisherin – the Oscars are this Sunday night – the central thesis of Martin McDonagh’s wonderful piece of cinema comes in the early exchange between the two main characters when Colm (Brendan Gleeson) abruptly ends his lifelong friendship with Pádraic …
Cats go point crazy in Laois drubbing!
REVIEW BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Dublin up next for Lyng’s men Allianz Hurling League 1B Round 3, Laois Hire O’Moore Park Laois 1-18 Kilkenny 0-34 Kilkenny got back to winning ways in the Allianz National League with a comprehensive 13-point win over Willie Maher’s charges at Laois Hire O’Moore Park last Sunday. The …
Tribeswomen take the points!
REVIEW BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Stripey women defeated in home clash with Galway Very Camogie League Division 1A UPMC Nowlan Park Kilkenny 1-13 Galway 1-17 It’s back to the drawing board for our senior camog’s after they fell to their second successive defeat in division 1A of the Very Camogie League at UPMC …
Minister of Education announces New Autism Class in CBS
Scoil Iognáid de Rís welcomed Minister for Education, Norma Foley, on Friday 24th February. The entrance area was festooned with the colours of the CBS when Minister Foley was welcomed by Fr. Richard Scriven, Chairperson of the Board of Management, Niall Bergin, Principal, Tom Cunniffe, Deputy Principal and Ann Marie Cahill, parents’ nominee on the …
Marie Clear visits the Irish Wheelchair Association
Marie Clear visits the Irish Wheelchair Association in Claddagh Court on Thursday 23rd February 2023. Marie was one of the leaders from the RTE Operation Transformation. She gave an inspirational speech to the service users and staff and also presented medals to the Irish Wheelchair Association service users who took part in the IWA OT …
Girl Auction
BY NED EGAN Part 7 “I’ve explained to you that if father finds us out, he’ll have me locked up until he can get that Paudhaun swine married to me. If that happens, we’re both done for. Then who’d help you? And who would you have to give cheek to then – smart little Missy? …
The strong women characters created by John B Keane epitomised in Lakes Production of Moll
By Tom Dayton As a student of journalism, I felt quite chuffed when I received a call from The Kilkenny Observer to submit an article on the play Moll by JB Keane. I received a phone number for Lake Productions and I was to call the number when I arrived in Kilkenny to determine where …
The Great Kilkenny Floods
By John Fitzgerald PART FOUR The 1947 flooding of the Black Abbey, where the water reached to a staggering fifteen feet, prompted an act of clerical heroism. When Dr. Gaffney O.P. saw to his horror that the water was about to reach the level of the High Altar, he cried aloud from the boat in …
