Opinion
Top Tips to be Winter Ready
BY CLAIR WHITTY We have had a fantastic summer but already many of you are thinking about natural ways to support your immunity. Echinacea, Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Zinc continue to be the top picks to support immunity. A combination of diet, lifestyle, and topping up with extra nutrition can help. Aim to include …
Honouring Bridget Woods…
By John Fitzgerald The Kilkenny Heritage Walkers honoured a very special woman on Saturday. Bridget Woods (nee Corcoran) who was born in 1879 and died in 1965, never sought attention or glory, but her life exemplified a rare devotion to the county’s sporting heritage. The walkers gathered at her graveside to pay homage, and the …
Revisiting a Halloween night of terror
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Some things you never forget – like the Halloween night I spent in jail. In a penitentiary to be precise. Little did I know when boarding a flight for New York that I, my wife and two daughters, would end up in the penitentiary in Philadelphia! Not bad enough that my …
When science changes what we believe
“Follow the science!” Wasn’t that the global mantra during Covid? Constantly on TV, and blasted all over social media? Science, if you think about it, evolves through thorough scrutiny, constant questioning and challenges. What might have once been accepted as fact can change. At one time people believed unequivocally that the Earth was flat and …
Pay talks resume but households still suffer
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR The public-sector strike is over for now. The proposed second day of action was suspended, and both sides are back at the Workplace Relations Commission. That is welcome, but it does little to ease the pressure on household bills. More than 300,000 public servants walked recently. Schools closed, hospital appointments …
Ripping reads in Rhatigan’s rag!
By John Fitzgerald A book that thinks it’s a newspaper. That’s how veteran journalist Jimmy Rhatigan describes his long-awaited new tome The aptly titled Rhatigan’s Rag will make its debut on October 22nd at Paris Texas. It promises to be a night to remember, with the city’s literati and glitterati expected to throng the High …
Intimate Dryness and the effect it has on your life Fabü has you covered
BY CLAIR WHITTY We talk a lot about symptoms of perimenopause and menopause but we seldom talk about vaginal dryness and vaginal atrophy. Because it’s such an intimate issue many women suffer in silence, but thankfully, we are hearing more women talk about it in store. During perimenopause, our levels of estrogen begin to decline. …
Why that life deserved to have a better death
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Esther Rantzen should have been a politician. In fact, the woman, who produced and presented BBC show That’s Life! for 21 years and who has died at the age of 86, was a politician if we agree a politician’s work is to solve or address relevant and …
Silly love songs, 50 years on and forever!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran It’s music, music all the way this week but not just any old music although the music is old, 50 years old to be precise and yet it all sounds fresh to me, as if they were hits from yesterday – not from 1976. A tribute to the quality of the …
I wouldn’t put the rainy-day money here
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR The new personal investment account is not the SSIA of old. Anyone who remembers the old scheme should get that straight before July 2027. From next July, anyone over 18 who is tax-resident here and has a PPS number can open one. You can put in up to €12,000 a …
