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A mindful workplace is a successful workplace
BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST Mindfulness makes the workplace a more productive environment for both employees and employers. Once simply a Buddhist practice firmly rooted in the East, mindfulness has seen a popularity boom in the Western world. Yet, it is something which is still frequently misunderstood. Neither weird nor wonderful, mindfulness is beautiful in its …
Women with their rifles under their ruffles
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS Three months into the pandemic I interviewed the globally-renowned photographer Kim Haughton for the Sunday Independent. During a wide-ranging interview from Washington DC, where — masked up and sturdy Nikon to hand — she was covering the #blacklivesmatter protests, the Dublin native told me she would wish to …
Go West!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX: DANNY LAHART Cody seeks third win at expense of Henry’s tribe Sherry Says Preview…… Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Pearse Stadium, Galway, Sunday 1st May Galway vs Kilkenny Henry has been expecting us. Yes, it is true – Kilkenny legend and son of Ballyhale, Henry Shefflin IS Galway manager. …
Cats Un Laois-ed!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR ALL PIX: DANNY LAHART Cheddar’s men mauled in Nowlan Park rout Leinster Senior Hurling Championship UPMC Nowlan Park Kilkenny 2-34 Laois 1-14 It’s two from two as Kilkenny prepare to head west next weekend for a catch-up with Henry. Brian Cody made four changes from the first-round win over the …
Community Radio and Lake Production join forces to produce The Liam Mac Carthy story
Recently, Community Radio Kilkenny City, premiered a specially commissioned piece by Barrie Henriques, delving into the story of the Liam Mac Carthy cup. Broadcast in thirty-minute segments, over four consecutive nights, the author followed a unique path and told the story through the eyes of the cup itself. To deliver this inventive concept, CRKC utilised …
Clay Rooms official opening
Clay Rooms Kilkenny will be officially opened by Malcolm Noonan TD on Saturday April 30th at 2.00pm. Clay Rooms Kilkenny is a new ceramics teaching studio right in the heart of Kilkenny city in Colliers Lane Kilkenny. Aisling McElwain, Liselott Olofsson and Niamh Synnott opened the doors of Clay Rooms Kilkenny in January 2022. They …
Fourth Wall Productions present The Field at Thomastown
“We’ll give him just enough to teach him a lesson.” Thus says the Bull McCabe (Joe Murphy), evocative of recent horrific events in the Monaghan-Fermanagh border area, as an outsider William Dee (John Kavanagh) attempts to establish a business by buying and concreting a field, owned by the poor widow Maggie Butler (Geraldine Moore). Bull …
Time for a balance to be struck, to counteract detrimental effect on our planet
Kilkenny school teacher Sean Hickey looks at the message from Pope Francis and asks what we as individuals can do to assist in restoring the world around us Kilkenny Military Barracks April 23rd 1922 The thirteenth day of March 2013 marked the beginning of a new Papacy, a new charism and a new journey for …
Where are you, Walter Lally …
By Ned Egan Part 1 Well, Peamount TB Sanatorium, back in the 1940’s. For those of us who were ‘inmates’, it was – as Dickens would say – ‘the best of times, the worst of times’. Two of my sisters had been swept away by the tide of consumption – as TB was so delicately …
