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Supplements for lack lustre hair
BY CLAIR WHITTY I recently talked about how stress can have a negative impact on your digestive system. I mentioned that stress can affect your hair simply because it affects how you absorb the nutrients from your food. Stress also depletes the important B vitamins which can help the body deal with the effects of …
Holly Cairns: the renaissance we need
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON There’s a breath of fresh air blowing through the tired old political corridors of the Dial brought by Holly Cairns. In a masterstroke, Social Democrat co-leaders Roisin Shortall and Catherine Murphy stepped aside and gave voters the things they have been looking for — change and choice. For those who …
Mothers come in varying guises, including Old Bats
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS My maternal grandmother died when my Mother was just five so she never had a lifetime to know her. When I came into this world, the first of three, and work took my Father away a lot, my paternal grandmother came to call for an afternoon of china-cupped …
Stripey Women back to winning ways!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Rebels up next for our senior ladies Very Camogie League Division 1A Parnell Park, Dublin Dublin 0-11 Kilkenny 0-17 At the third time of asking, our senior camogs got their first victory of this season’s Very Camogie League Division 1A campaign with a deserved 6-point win over Dublin in Parnell …
It’s time to rethink icing sore and injured muscles
By Eoin Everard Even while you may believe that you are promoting your own healing, you are actually hindering it. You probably pull an ice pack out of the freezer to relieve pain when your knees hurt after a day of intense squats, your elbow hurts after a weekend tennis match, or your daughter knocks …
Cheltenham preview 2023
Kilkenny Sport Focus By Michael O’Leary One of the great Racing and indeed Sporting Highlights of 2023 commences next Tuesday Afternoon March 14th as the Cheltenham Festival gets underway. As is traditional, The Supreme Novices Hurdle gets The Festival underway and it was 28 years ago to the very day – Tuesday March 14th 1995 …
Frankie Ryan RIP
News of the death of Frankie Ryan was heard of with extreme regret in the Bennettsbridge community and beyond. Frankie died on 11th February at his home in Woodlawn surrounded by his family. Born in 1937, he was one of a family of seven children of Edward and Margaret Ryan, 17, The Ring, Bennettsbridge. He …
Theatre a major part of life as Henriques prepares for Moll role
By Tom Dayton It was back in 2000 when Founding Father of Kilkenny Musical Society , Donal O’Brien was doing his traditional “go raibh mile maith agaibhs” after a captivating presentation of the Charles Strouse (Music) and Martin Chapman’s (Lyrics) Annie. A young Callan lassie had given a terrific first-time ever presentation Miss Hannigan in …
Kilkenny Castle Park Festivities at St. Patrick’s Festival Kilkenny
Kilkenny Castle Park will play host to a range of activities across St. Patrick’s week. With American Marching Bands on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday and the new special Castle Park Festivities on St. Patrick’s Day March 17th. On the day the Castle will be hosting a whole day of family fun. Visitors can travel through …
Girl Auction
BY NED EGAN Part 8 At the bedroom door now, and looking down the gloomy stairs, Molly felt a small terror grip her, about the strange and dangerous situation she was in. All the nights in her young life had finished up with her waking in the morning in this little room, drowsy, and fairly …
