Opinion
Hot flushes and night sweats in the summer time
BY CLAIR WHITTY If you are having hot flushes in the summertime, you could be left feeling exhausted, irritable, or drained. They can affect your sleep and cause untold stress as you twist and turn in the night trying to cool down. A.Vogel Sage tablets is the first supplement I think of for hot flushes …
Nature and avoiding an age of extinction
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON The June full moon is known as the strawberry moon because it coincides with the strawberry season. This year the midsummer moon was a startling shade of strawberry, nothing to do with fruit solidarity though. The colouration was due to smoke from the unprecedented wild fires in Canada which …
Maureen’s ashes: Elegy in a country churchyard
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS The ominous cloud dissipates and the sun shines through, casting its summer light on the ancient, fractured gravestones in the rustic burial ground, long since not open to new residents, its church idle these decades. We are gathered to scatter her ashes. Maureen Hopkins (nee Wright). A Glaswegian …
Kilkenny football
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY The Kilkenny Football Team are shaping up for what they hope will be another big weekend within the county, as they will attempt to defend their All-Ireland Junior crown they won last year. Tonight (Friday), in a repeat of last years Semi-Final Kilkenny play London at 7.15pm in The All-Ireland Junior Semi-Final …
Seven ways to train in the heat
BY EOIN EVERARD When hot weather strikes (which is not often here in Ireland but most likely in Kilkenny). It’s important to know what to do to make sure you don’t give yourself heat exhaustion or worse. Hot weather can catch a lot of us out and maybe I’m an optimist after the last month …
Red Star over Comer
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Part 2 The 1932 strike for higher pay brought hardship to the workers of North Kilkenny and their families, against the background of a crippling economic recession. To add to the workers’ plight, the Castlecomer clergy again backed the bosses, mounting ferocious attacks on Boran and the union at Sunday masses. The …
From North Carolina to the Green Glens of Antrim
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Ba é buaicphointe na hóiche an bhean a cheol The Green Glens of Antrim i nglór binn álainn agus dh’obair gur phléasc mo chroí Aontramach i lár Chill Choinnigh. Beidh mé ar ais. I don’t often start a column as Gaeilge. In fact I never have but here’s the thing, and …
Your pension: Should you go or should you stay?
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR In 1982 The Clash asked the age-old question: “You got to let me know should I stay, or should I go now?” The self-same question is being asked by clients in defined benefit schemes (DB) – should I stay in the scheme, or should I go? A DB pension is …
How to treat fungal nail infection naturally
BY CLAIR WHITTY Fungal nail infections are common. Your finger or toe nails can be affected. Thankfully they are not serious, they are unsightly, and unfortunately, they can be very slow to clear up. Your nails will appear thicker, they will change colour, often a yellow or greenish colour, and they can become brittle. The …
RTÉ and restoring trust in the workplace
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON How does working for RTÉ feel to the majority of its 1,800 or so staff? Unfair at very least, I imagine. It’s not great to be in an environment with a ‘them and us’ culture. One where you are denied spending in order to do your job properly or …
