Opinion
Floradix Has You Covered
BY CLAIR WHITTY As the season is about to change you might feel a change in your energy levels or that your immune system might need a boost. Or, maybe you are stressed and frantic with back-to-school arrangements. Thankfully there are natural remedies to help get you back on track. Floradix is a brand that …
Prospective homeowners need to remain proactive
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR As I write I discovered that tonight, August 19, we will witness a rare event – a blue moon. In another rare turn of events, Irish banking customers are currently witnessing there own ‘blue moon’ event – a shift in both mortgage and deposit rates. The average mortgage rate in …
Could technology restore faith in boxing scores?
THE LAST WORD By Pat Coughlan Boxing, a sport steeped in tradition and drama, has long been plagued by dodgy scoring decisions. The controversy was on full display during the recent Paris Olympics, where several matches were marred by judgments from judges who had previously been identified as making questionable decisions. Fans and fighters alike …
How Should We Treat Osteoarthritis?
How might we change our approach to this growing condition to reduce suffering? By Paul Bolger. Chartered Physiotherapist at Nano Physiotherapy, Kilkenny (www.nanophysio.ie). If you have been keeping up with this series you will know that osteoarthritis is a growing problem, that many factors influence joint health and that our joints are very much living, breathing organs that …
The Black Abbey
BY JOHN FITZGERALD (PART ONE) A Treasure to Behold The story of Kilkenny’s Black Abbey reads like a “stranger than fiction” tale. It’s as much a tourist attraction as a place of worship. A painstaking restoration process lasting decades has ensured the preservation of the building and its historic treasures. William Marshal, the Norman Lord, founded the …
Shedding light on friendship of Edison and Ford
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran This week a wonderful story from Gerry Cody’s Facebook page: Sunday’s Anecdote from History. In 1896, Thomas Edison, the great inventor of the electric bulb, was working on a car design when he learned that a young man in his company had created an experimental car. Edison met this young man, …
The next US President will it be Madam or Mr
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON You might as well play the daisy petal game as a way of predicting a certain outcome of the November US presidential election. Instead of plucking off flower petals in the girlhood game counting “he loves me he loves me not” down to the last petal, you could …
When Hollywood came to town…
BY JOHN FITZGERALD (PART THREE) Continuing the story of the “Breakfast on Pluto” movie days in Callan…twenty years ago this month… The five or six men who pushed an old Morris Minor up and down the street looked a bit browned off, but they persevered and after many takes, they took a well-earned rest. Nobody said …
Making Kilkenny safer, one heartbeat at a time
THE LAST WORD By Pat Coughlan Last week I happened to notice an unusual box on the wall outside Eurospar in Newpark Shopping Centre. They’re not fancy post boxes or secret leprechaun hideouts. They’re defibrillators, and they’re here to save lives. When someone’s heart decides to take an unscheduled break, these devices can give it …
The impact of living longer on our pensions
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR According to recent statistics and surveys we are, as a nation living longer. While Ireland is often spoken about as a country of young people, the over-65 population has grown by 35% in the last decade, more than three time the rate of growth in the overall population and faster …
