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Children’s storybook teaches tools for life
BENNETTSBRIDGE-based author, Lizzy Shortall, debuts her first children’s book, ‘Joy’s Playground’, tomorrow at Khans Books, Kilkenny. The storybook aims to help young children learn how to navigate the stresses and strains of daily life as they follow the adventures of a little girl – Joy – and her animal friends, Jumpit the frog, Torti the …
Have yourself a gourmet lover’s Christmas
Taste Kilkenny Food Producers tempt with Christmas hampers full of exceptional local products WITH the countdown to Christmas now on, a group of Kilkenny-based food and drink producers have collaborated to create a remarkable range of seasonal hampers with something to suit everyone – and every budget. Discussing the initiative, local food expert and business …
Yulefest – Christmas in Kilkenny is back!
Yulefest is back for Christmas 2021! Celebrate Christmas in Kilkenny with a wide range of events from live music to markets, movies and more. Working alongside our partners providing festive fun, activity and entertainment to locals and visitors alike, there is something for everyone in Kilkenny this Christmas season. The Elves are busy working away …
Artesan Cheese House New to Friary Street Kilkenny!
Students from the Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Culinary Arts Waterford Institute of Technology studying Media and Visual Arts: writing about food. Pictured at Artesan Cheese House, Unit 2, Regency Court, Friary St, Kilkenny.
Recipe for success on offer to Kilkenny foodie start-ups
THE closing date is fast approaching for applications for Food Works, a collaborative initiative run by Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland and Teagasc for innovative and export driven food and drink start-ups. If you want to follow in the footsteps of thriving food and drink companies as Nobó, Wicklow Wolf, and Fiid, you have until December …
Simply Gorgeous
Paul Hopkins, a Satoa Travel Writer of the Year recipient — awarded for writings on Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean — describes a visit to the luxury Steenberg Hotel WHAT would make you want to come back to a place that’s so much more than a piece of paradise? A place with almost eternal …
A global Elf shortage or Chinese whispers?
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR WE didn’t have #Elfontheshelf back in my day, but Santa’s spy has been keeping kids in check for several years now. However, there are a million Elf on the Shelf toys apparently stuck in China due to global port congestion, prompting media scare stories about elf rationing (only two per …
The benefit of living backwards
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON A FRIEND who was making a speech at her 80th birthday celebrations suggested that maybe we should live our lives backwards. Think about it, she said, you would climb out of your coffin, gradually lose your aches and pains, get your job back, emerge from that mid-life crisis …
Shamrocks FOUR cast Gael force battle
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART Tom Walsh cup awaits winners St Canice’s Credit Union (Kilkenny) Senior Hurling Championship Final Shamrocks Ballyhale Vs O’Loughlin Gaels SHERRY SAYS FINAL PREVIEW…… Sunday 7th November 2021 – UPMC Nowlan Park, the home of hurling, the last two teams standing, following a pulsating championship campaign. Four …
Murphy magic seals final fling
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX DANNY LAHART No glory for Henry as favourites crash out Michael Lyng Motors Hyundai Intermediate Hurling Championship Glenmore 0-19 Thomastown 1-13 Glenmore shook off their underdogs tag to hand Henry Shefflin a defeat in what would prove to be his final game in charge, before he heads west. …
