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When gender is not such a neutral issue
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Most of us have notions around the way we want to bring up our children and prepare them for the world. In the early days of Women’s Lib I decided to avoid stereotyping when it came to toys and my daughter got a train set as well as a …
Easter, the Pope, and the mystery of life
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS As one who has long eschewed the pomp and pageantry of Catholicism, or any organised religion for that matter — I’m a great believer in going into my closet to pray — I concede, however, that it is hard not to like Pope Francis who, as I write, …
Cats edge Tipp in Piltown
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Very Camogie League Division 1A Kilkenny 0-14 Tipperary 0-13 Piltown was the setting as our Senior camog’s brought the curtain down on a disappointing Very League campaign with a hard-fought 1-point win over Tipperary, who themselves missed out on a final berth following Galway’s win over Cork. In what can …
Cats out-gun Rebels!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Allianz Hurling League Semi-Final UPMC Nowlan Park Kilkenny 2-22 Cork 0-22 Kilkenny set-up an Allianz National League Final clash with current All-Ireland champions Limerick next week, following a well-deserved victory over Cork at UPMC Nowlan Park. The cliché, ‘goals win games’ was never truer and thanks to majors from Mossy …
Gowran Park Golf Club… It’s worth the drive…
A wonderful golf course set in the traditional parkland of the old Annaly Estate in the midst of historical Co. Kilkenny, this par 71, 18 hole championship golf course provides an exciting playing experience for golfers of all abilities. Superbly laid out with plenty of interesting features from tree-lined fairways, superb greens and various water …
Dig your well before your thirsty
BY EOIN EVERARD Listen to the whispers and you won’t have to hear the screams is an old Cherokee saying that I think we could all relate to. We know athletes get injured, we know people who have had back pain in the past are 12 times more likely to get it in the future, …
Mia Griffin
KILKENNY SPORT FOCUS By Michael O’Leary Glenmore is most famously renowned for the calibre of hurlers that have won Senior All-Irelands with Kilkenny over the years, but over the past few years Mia Griffin has been doing the little village in south Kilkenny very proud indeed with a string of excellent performances around the world …
GIRL AUCTION
BY NED EGAN Part 11 Aye, the blood of Amazons and Celtic Queens of old flowed fast and merry through the veins of these Connolly girls. The shocked and defeated Paudhaun now tore himself loose from Barker’s jaws, and made a mad bust into the bushes under the salley tree. Gone! Behind Molly, watching to …
Thanks for the memories…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Paris Texas was packed to the rafters for the launch of Jimmy Rhatigan’s book, Treasure Lost, Treasure Found. Hundreds of well-wishers converged on the High Street venue from all over Ireland and a few even travelled from as far afield as Belfast, the USA and Latvia for the big night. Family, old …
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