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Cigarettes still kill 6,000 of us a year
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR IRELAND, though a recognised global leader in tobacco control, still has an unenviably statistic that one in every two smokers will die from a tobacco-related disease, and, according to the HSE, nearly 6,000 people will die in Ireland each year from smoking-related illnesses. The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021, which represents …
Let’s have more of that inward gaze…
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON What do I wish for this new year? Well, it’s nothing tangible and it has to do with something Carl Jung said: “Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.” In a culture where we spend our time racing around in answer to external demands it’s a thought-provoking …
Loving your liver
BY CLAIR WHITTY The liver is a major organ in the right side of the body. It has many functions; it removes toxic substances and waste products from the blood. It breaks down insulin and other hormones. It produces Cholesterol which we need a certain amount of to survive. Glycogen is stored in our liver …
Kilkenny County Council Decade of Centenaries Grant Scheme 2022
Applications are invited from heritage societies, local historians, communities and artists who wish to commemorate events which happened in County Kilkenny in 1922. The scheme encourages projects which recognise all of the dimensions of this period in our history – the military activity, the political context, and social, economic and cultural aspects and …
Trip to Tipp as Shamrocks quest continues
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Connacht champs next up for Ballyhale AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB SHC SEMI-FINAL Shamrocks Ballyhale v St Thomas’ (Galway) Sunday, January 23rd, Semple Stadium, 3.30pm (Live on TG4) St Patrick’s Day 2019. This same pairing took to the Croke Park turf in the decider, to see which …
Young guns shoot down Laois
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Opportunity knocks for ‘new look’ cats side Walsh Cup Kilkenny 1-27 Laois 0-24 Sunday 16th January 2022, John Locke Park, Callan Kilkenny senior hurlers got their season off to a winning start with a 6-point victory over Laois at John Locke Park, Callan last Sunday. Seamus …
Coogan’s bunch are ready to bloom!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Mooncoin out to prove a thorn in Connacht champ’s side AIB All-Ireland JHC Semi-Final Mooncoin vs Salthill-Knocknacarra (Galway) Sunday, January 23rd, LIT Gaelic Grounds, Limerick, 1:30pm All roads lead to the LIT Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Sunday, as Kilkenny and Leinster junior champions, Mooncoin …
Donall Mac Amhlaigh – the man behind the Irish Navy
This week, The Kilkenny Observer teams up with The Saturday Walkers group and we learn about the author of ‘An Irish Navvy-The diary of an exile’ Donall Mac Amhlaigh was born in Galway and grew up there and in Kilkenny. He left school at fifteen, and worked in various jobs before joining the Irish speaking …
When is a choice not a choice?
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR ACCORDING to Active Retirement Ireland, the country’s largest representative body for older people, Christmas – a time of supposedly peacefulness and joy – was for many older people living on the state pension a time of difficult decisions: heating or groceries, gifts for the family or taking part in Christmas …
