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The value we place on a stay-at-home parent
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Are you thinking of reviewing your life insurance plans and wonder what the proper amount is to insure you and your stay-at-home partner? What monetary value would you use? Before you state a value look at what the average stay-at-home parent does each day; childcare provider, cleaner, general cook, teaching assistant, …
Symptoms of the Perimenopause
BY CLAIR WHITTY The menopause is a journey that is for sure. I know it was for me, but thankfully, I am at the other side now and l feel great. Some of you will begin with perimenopause symptoms in your early thirties but for most women it could be in your late forties. There …
In deep water, when the water dries up
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Last month we were without water for a day and a half together with a swathe of north Wicklow due to work on a filtration plant. On day one it meant no showers, no loo flushing, dish or other washing. By day two we were buying bottled water and …
Magnificent obsession with the weather
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS What is it, this obsession of ours with the weather? When it’s hot, it’s ‘very hot, isn’t it?’ And when it floods it’s a great excuse to close schools or hospitals and take a day off work. We’re obsessed with climate, though sadly not with climate change and …
It’s a new chapter at our columnist’s book launch
The Kilkenny Observer columnist and opinion writer Paul Hopkins pictured with his children Niamh and Paul at the launch of his book of writings culled from some three million words printed in numerous newspapers the past 20 years. Entitled ‘Affairs Of The Heart ( And Other Writings)’, it is published by Monument Media and is …
The Tom Walsh top 2 lock horns!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Final berth awaits semi winners St Canice’s Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final Preview Shamrocks Ballyhale vs Tullaroan League champions Tullaroan will take on the absolute might of Shamrocks Ballyhale when the two sides meet at UPMC Nowlan Park tomorrow (throw-in 3:30pm) for a place in the St Canice’s Credit …
Clara crushed as Shamrocks size up The Sash!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR The Village see-off Dicksboro to book final spot St Canice’s Credit Union Senior Hurling Championship Quarter Final Review Shamrocks Ballyhale 1-27 Clara 0-15 The last of the remaining quarter-final ties took place last Sunday at UPMC Nowlan Park when holders Shamrocks Ballyhale took on Clara with a semi-final against Tullaroan …
Garden party at New Haughton Hospital
Photos show residents, their visitors and staff enjoying the recently held annual Summer Garden Party event at the New Haughton Hospital, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Residents, their visiting family members and HSE/South East Community Healthcare staff recently enjoyed an autumn garden party on the grounds of New Haughton Hospital, New Ross. The event, which took …
Remembering Dermot Morgan
By Fred Tuite This week, The Kilkenny Observer Newspaper caught up with Kilkenny resident Fred Tuite as he reminisced about the late writer and actor Dermot Morgan. In October 1972, I returned for my second year to UCD to find the Belfield Arts Block filled with new first year students trying to find their way …
And the band played on…
By John Fitzgerald For more than a century, the men and women of St. Patrick’s Brass Band promoted all that was best in Kilkenny’s musical traditions. From the day it was founded in May 1882, it won its way into the hearts of young and old in Cat County. The band’s motto, inscribed on a …
