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Ageing Gracefully
BY CLAIR WHITTY Healthy ageing is something that I often get asked about. Most of us, including myself, think about how our skin and hair looks. Aching joints, tiredness, changes in gut health, or sluggish memory are also reminders to us that we are ageing. So, is there anything that we can do to slow …
Kitchen Session returns to the Mayfair Library
On July 25, the Kilkenny Mayfair library will open its doors to The Kitchen Session. The event is for anyone who likes to sing a song, recite a poem, dance a jig or play a tune. The library informed The Kilkenny Observer that the invitation is open to all. So, if you have a ukulele, …
Tipp topple Cats in Croker!
Kilkenny fall to 14-man Premier County in semi battle BY NIALL SHERRY, SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSEDITOR@KILKENNYOBSERVER.IE All-Ireland SHC Semi Final Tipperary 4-20 Kilkenny 0-30 Croke Park Referee: James Owens (Wexford) Where to start? In a game that ebbed and flowed between two great hurling counties, it was Tipperary that emerged victorious in Croke Park after 74 …
Recovering from pain
A gradual return to normal movement and activity helps in recovery from pain By Paul Bolger. Chartered Physiotherapist at Nano Physiotherapy, Kilkenny (www.nanophysio.ie). Astronauts have a lot to teach us about recovering from pain. After months in zero-gravity in the international space station, aches and pains are a guarantee for most astronauts when they step back …
Kelly’s heroes return to celebrate Mike’s birthday
By Ger Cody Photos: jbsphotoskilkenny Last week, at the St Canice’s Neighbourhood Hall on the Butts Green, Mike Kelly celebrated a special birthday. It was organised by a group of young men and women from the Arts sector who wanted to thank Mike for all he had done for them, both on and off stage. …
Beer, bees & the joys of barbecuing!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran There’s nothing quite like the smell of a barbecue, nothing quite like the whiff of charcoal wafting on the balmy summer air. And that’s it as far as I’m concerned. What do I mean – that’s it? I mean I like the smell of a barbecue. End of story. Don’t ask …
How housing plan delay causes concern
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Ireland’s housing market is under strain with property prices rising 7% in the three months to June 2025 driven by a continual shortage of homes. According to MyHome.ie the average asking price reached €395,000 nationally with Dublin sellers seeking €495,000 and regional prices hitting €340,000. The report, authored by Bank …
Callan’s Field of Dreams…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Callan’s Moat Field Heritage Trail is a major attraction, a jewel of the South East. And the field once encompassed a magical castle on a hill! Norman invaders built Callan Motte, known locally as the “Moat”, in about 1217. It was a wooden castle situated on top of an artificially created mound of …
Beating the sky-high cost of social homes
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON Last month the plug was pulled on Government contracts for building social homes due to value for money concerns. And the price involved? One million euro a unit – they couldn’t be serious! But they were: plans for 500 social homes in Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare and Sligo were …
Debate on assisted dying still very much alive
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Terminally ill people in England and Wales are to be given the right to an assisted death in a recent historic societal shift that will transform end-of-life care. MPs narrowly voted in favour of a private member’s Bill introduced by Labour’s Kim Leadbeater, which could become law …
