Opinion
Homelessness reaches another historic high; it’s time for this government to go
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 …
School days: Mixed memories
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 …
One giant leap for mankind and Mr Gorsky
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 …
Mortgage rates are going through the roof
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 …
Recharge your body and mind
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Getting in the pink for the Barbie movie
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 little girl who grew up wanting to save the world
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 …
Galway Races
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY Next weeks Galway Racing Festival is one of the great Sporting and Social Highlights of the summer, and over the years it has produced so many magical memories particularly from a local perspective. Not surprisingly, the Mullins family have had plenty of success including the featured Races, the Galway Plate and the …
School days: Mixed memories
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Part 2 Starting school back in the 1930s didn’t fazeMartin Lynch. He loved every minute of it. After this first year of “babies’ class in Callan’s Convent of Mercy school, he found himself in “Sixes” and it was while in this class that he made his First Communion. First Confession was an …
Guns, golf clubs, baseball bats and a hurl!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran You win some, you lose some. That said, there are some you really don’t want to lose, hate to lose – not least to a team who are frothing at the bit to emulate your precious record of having won four All Ireland Hurling finals in a row (along with Cork …
