Opinion
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 …
What Transition Year, if anything, teaches us
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS The American humorist and novelist Mark Twain said: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” He might well have been addressing the 67,000+ students who this year completed Junior Cert and who, in 90% of cases, have the option of doing Transition Year (TY). The …
Red Star over Comer
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Part 1 High on castlecomer’s roll of honour is Nicholas (Nixie) Boran. Boran caused a social earthquake in North Kilkenny in the early 1930s. He was the “Miner’s Friend”, a tireless champion of human rights who followed in the footsteps of Big Jim Larkin. He spread the gospel of trade unionism throughout …
The short, sad life of a Kilkenny tennis champ
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Mention champions and Kilkenny in the same breath and one immediately thinks: hurling. And rightly so. After all, regardless of how things pan out on the playing field this year, Kilkenny are still top of the pile with 36 All Ireland Hurling titles, followed by Cork with 30, Tipperary with 28 …
