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BY CLAIR WHITTY If you have constipation, it means that you won’t have regular bowel movements. In an ideal world you should have at least one movement a day. Ideally, what goes in should come out within a 24 hour period. Those of you that experience constipation will know how uncomfortable it is. Symptoms of …

AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Summer time and the livin’ is easy, sang Ella Fitzgerald. It should be easier shouldn’t it with salad days and warm weather, correction, warm wet weather? But if anyone is hoping for an imminent reduction in those distressingly high electricity bills which have done more than their fair share …

THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS My father was forever a young man at heart, with an eye for the ladies and an eclectic taste in contemporary music. And he walked and cycled all his life to frantically appease his fear of annihilation. Not long before he died in his 81st year he said …

KATHLEEN FUNCHION Sinn Fein TD for Kilkenny Carlow Sinn Féin TD for Carlow Kilkenny Kathleen Funchion, responding to the latest Department of Housing homeless figures, which show the number of adults and children in emergency accommodation has reached another historic high, has echoed her colleague Eoin Ó Broin TD that ‘it is time for this …

BY JOHN FITZGERALD Part 3 Like Martin Lynch, pupil Sean Holden (son of War of Independence hero Lyda Holden) had frequent words of praise for his teachers. In the 1930s He attended the Christian Brothers School in West Street, Callan. He recalled the brothers as tough, committed, deeply religious and highly motivated men, who cared …

FURTHERMORE  By Gerry Moran I’ll always remember the day I told my parents that the Americans were going to put a man on the Moon. And I’ll always remember the look on their faces, a look that said: “Our child is mad.” That’s how crazy the concept of putting a man on the Moon seemed …

BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR It’s hard to fathom how speedily many people’s mortgage repayments have increased since July 2022. Nine increases have been saddled upon many home owners, adding significantly to the financial stress which they were already under.  The latest hike will see tracker mortgage holders paying interest rates of between 5% and …

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AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Whatever you say about Barbie, you have got to admit that the impossibly curvaceous doll has got pulling power. Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie is expected to attract an €80 million opening audience, double that of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The blonde bombshell wins over bomb-maker hands-down. The explanation may have …

THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS I met Sinead O’Connor in 1991 when – with her toddler son Jake – she arrived one day in the offices of The Sunday Tribune, where I was an assistant editor. The paper’s editor, Vincent Browne, had offered to show her around the newsroom. Joseph O’Connor, Sinead’s older …