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Pet car: New carry to car service
RETAIL SALE of essential items for the health and welfare of animals, including animal feed and medicines, animal food, pet food and animal supplies including bedding may remain open, Government has said. Petmania Kilkenny is assuring customers that it will remain open throughout the crisis and is now offering a carry-to-car-service to help customers get …
A message from Goods
With the most recent announcement it looks like our doors will be closed for a little while longer. But in the meantime, if there’s something you need like your favourite foundation let us know. If it’s not available on our online store, message us directly via #Facebook or #Instagram and we’ll arrange to get it …
Rose Garden: New bridge is tribute to Kennedy family
By Jimmy Rhatigan KILKENNY Observer photographer Donal Foley’s superb pictures highlight the sheer brilliance and beauty of the recently opened Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge in Ballyverneen, Glenmore at the heart of South Kilkenny. The bridge connects Pink Point in Glenmore to Strokestown in Wexford and is now Ireland’s longest bridge at 887 metres. The N25 …
Fr McGrath Centre: Important notice
Dear Neighbour, We have decided it is important to open any of our Fr McGrath Family Resource Centre and Neighbourhood Hall community services that we can safely run to assist local families, children and older people with the challenges they are facing, while being very considerate to public health issues. Our family centre promises, we …
Bach Remedies for Coronavirus Anxiety
By Clair Whitty I DON’T know where to start. What can I say? This is not an article that I expected to write. Last Thursday morning when I heard that the schools were closed and that things had moved to a different level, my adrenaline went through the roof. My heart was pounding so hard …
Burger rush as the chips are down
By Jimmy Rhatigan TALK about panic buying. WHEN the chips were down at the McDonalds Drive Thru at the Hebron Road Roundabout it was bumper to bumper for several hours as motorists queued for burgers, chips and their first cousins in food. Hundreds, thousands maybe were dashing to satisfy their hunger for fast food as …
Teen Russian Roulette rules: Not OK
By Jimmy Rhatigan PARENTS have a huge job on hands as their teenage sons and daughter are being identified as showing a lack of respect for others by congregating in numbers as a battle with Coronavirus rages. It is being pointed out that schools were closed so that youngsters would no longer be in groups …
Mortgage moratorium: A gift or a hoodwink?
By Jimmy Rhatigan SLOWLY but surely our people are seeing through our caretaker government’s right wing response to the hardship our people are being put through in what is akin to a war for survival. As has been its wont for some time, Fine Gael continues with fire brigade action in the hope that one …
