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Super food: From The Orchard to your home
By Jimmy Rhatigan A BRILLIANT united front as our people fight the Coronavirus together is being re-enacted at a proud local business. Staff and management at a popular local bar and restaurant that have been at the hub of a local community for 10 years has just announced an admirable community service. In common with …
Anthony (Tony) Cantwell
(5th Anniversary) In loving memory of Anthony (Tony) Cantwell The Bungalow , Archersfield, Kilkenny who died on March 22nd 2015. We miss you in so many ways, We miss the things you used to say, And when old times we do recall, It’s then we miss you most of all. Anthony’s 5th Anniversary Mass and …
THE LAUNDRY BASKET
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Burke’s display sees Cats through
Jim goes write back to U21 finals Walsh Park, Waterford. Kilkenny 1-12, Tipperary 0-11 SOME 9,000 spectators watched a thrilling 1984 final in ideal conditions. When the final whistle blew, the talk amongst spectators was of the brilliant display of Kilkenny goalkeeper David ‘Stoney’ Burke. He kept his side in the game during the opening …
Army marches on Nowlan Park
MEMBERS of our Defence Forces have marched on UPMC Nowlan Park. They are the first local troops to lend their services to help fight the Coronavirus as the HSE sets up a virus testing operation at the local GAA grounds. The model, The Kilkenny Observer understands, will be based on the very successful testing centre …
GOODS – Mother’s Day
With Mothers Day just around the corner why not treat mum to a little shopping spree when GOODS open their doors again 🛍 🎁 And if you miss the last post on Friday they’ll email your mum with news of her gift 🥰 Vouchers available in any amount & they never expire. Goods Gift Voucher …
GAA as Gaeilge agus Béarla
By Liam de Lása Aistear Teangan na gCat N’FHEADAR éinne, conas mar a thitfidh scéal an ghalair COVID-19 amach sna seachtainí agus míonna atá amach romhainn. Ní chuimhin liomsa go pearsanta am chomh cinniúnch, imeaglach riamh i mo shaol agus ní chuirfinn an milleán ar aon duine agaibh as dearmad a dhéanamh go bhfuil ‘Seachtain …
Saved by the bell
On St Patrick’s Day local parishes were asked at 11am to ring church bells as a call to prayer to end the Corona Pandemic. Pictured in St Patrick’s Church, Clara ringing the bell for all parishioners in our Ossory Diocese, our country, and our world, asking St Patrick to help us is Fr Willie Purcell. …
Corona battle: A positive within a negative
A POSITIVE within a negative was how Kilkenny Observer Editor Jimmy Rhatigan described our nation’s battle with an invisible but potentially lethal enemy called Coronavirus. He said there was no doubt we were living in uncertain and dangerous times but that we should not envelop ourselves in doom and gloom. Speaking to KCLR journalist Eimear …
