Opinion
Financial literacy: we’re bottom of the class
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR According to a recent study from Bank of Ireland many Irish people struggle with financial matters. Many of us are not sure of the best ways to save money, how to get tax back, or what is the best way to prepare for retirement etc. The study asked more than …
Planning your wedding this year?
BY CLAIR WHITTY Are you are planning your wedding this year? Then, no doubt you’ll want to look your best on your big day. To help your skin glow I would start with a cleanse. Flor Essence is where I would begin. I have taken this supplement over the years and my skin glows after …
When gender is not such a neutral issue
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Most of us have notions around the way we want to bring up our children and prepare them for the world. In the early days of Women’s Lib I decided to avoid stereotyping when it came to toys and my daughter got a train set as well as a …
Easter, the Pope, and the mystery of life
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS As one who has long eschewed the pomp and pageantry of Catholicism, or any organised religion for that matter — I’m a great believer in going into my closet to pray — I concede, however, that it is hard not to like Pope Francis who, as I write, …
Dig your well before your thirsty
BY EOIN EVERARD Listen to the whispers and you won’t have to hear the screams is an old Cherokee saying that I think we could all relate to. We know athletes get injured, we know people who have had back pain in the past are 12 times more likely to get it in the future, …
Mia Griffin
KILKENNY SPORT FOCUS By Michael O’Leary Glenmore is most famously renowned for the calibre of hurlers that have won Senior All-Irelands with Kilkenny over the years, but over the past few years Mia Griffin has been doing the little village in south Kilkenny very proud indeed with a string of excellent performances around the world …
GIRL AUCTION
BY NED EGAN Part 11 Aye, the blood of Amazons and Celtic Queens of old flowed fast and merry through the veins of these Connolly girls. The shocked and defeated Paudhaun now tore himself loose from Barker’s jaws, and made a mad bust into the bushes under the salley tree. Gone! Behind Molly, watching to …
Thanks for the memories…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD Paris Texas was packed to the rafters for the launch of Jimmy Rhatigan’s book, Treasure Lost, Treasure Found. Hundreds of well-wishers converged on the High Street venue from all over Ireland and a few even travelled from as far afield as Belfast, the USA and Latvia for the big night. Family, old …
Fair days in Callan
BY JOHN FITZGERALD PART FOUR The buyers at the fowl market in Fair Day included the Flynns and Youngs of Waterford; From Carrick came the Kirbys, Meaneys, Dunphys, Daniels, and Aylwards. The Ayres and the Slaters of Kilkenny and the Barrons of Ballyhale never missed a market day. Foremost among the buyers was “Turkey Tycoon”, …
High as a kite and clapping Cloud 9!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran I did a very brave thing last Sunday. I got up on the big wheel – the Ferris wheel on the Parade for the St Patrick’s weekend festivities. Day after day I’d pass that big wheel, stop, look up and think: “There’s no way, Ger is going up on that contraption.” …
