Opinion
Old Time Fun and Games
PART EIGHT BY JOHN FITZGERALD The Obstacle Race at the big 1926 Sporting Day in Callan proved controversial. At first the outcome seemed beyond doubt. Mickey Croke had sprinted across the finishing line. His laces looked impeccably secure, and there was no sign of the spud. (You’ll recall from last week that the winner needed …
It’s time for a bit of financial spring-cleaning
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Many people feel the squeeze in the first quarter of the year and the Christmas bills can still cast a shadow for some. Add to that continuing inflation and still high energy costs, and it’s more important than ever to break free of bad spending habits and make positive changes. …
KILKENNY WOMAN ON GRAFTON STREET
BY NED EGAN ‘On Grafton Street in November’ – great lines from Kavanagh’s immortal ‘Raglan Road.’. Now we have a Kilkenny woman on Grafton Street, every weekend of the year — feeding the homeless, the deprived, the abandoned. Mary Pierce spends all of every week hunting and searching Kilkenny for any lots of food or …
Making habits stick
A chartered physiotherapist’s perspective By Paul Bolger. Nano Physiotherapy If I could offer you the one solution to change your habits for the better – I would be living on a tropical island and not writing articles for The Kilkenny Observer (well, maybe I would still write a few…). There is no single solution to …
Time for the next dramatic act at RTE
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON With RTE holed below the waterline following the latest crisis, when Media Minister Catherine Martin forgot the use of her phone, would we miss it if it sank? Some wouldn’t, that’s the 60 viewers a day who aren’t paying their €160 licence fee – maybe they think non- payment …
Credit unions big step closer to being banks
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR In a groundbreaking move for the Credit Union sector, Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has kickstarted the much-anticipated Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Credit Union Amendment Act 2023, signalling a historic transformation for credit unions in Ireland. Celebrated at a special event in the Department of Finance recently, …
When there’s a bit of a spring in our step
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS It’s perhaps an age thing but the last few years I have found the dark and dank of winter sapping what I have left of the will to carry on. That’s probably an exaggeration. That said, I am not alone in finding the short days and long …
STOOK 10 MILE RUN 2024
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY The Stook 10 Mile Run that takes place this coming Sunday (March 3rd) has been a terrific success since it was first held in 2012. Located in Dungarvan between Gowran and Thomastown, The Stook run is open to everyone and has a variety of distances suitable to a persons individual ability. Since …
Woman-wise, what will the referendums mean?
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Taoiseach Leo Varadkar promised a while ago to make Ireland a leader in gender equality in all its forms. As a woman I wonder how the referendums that we are being asked to vote on will affect women and whether ‘gender neutrality’ is in our interests. International Women’s Day …
Recalling Button A, Button B and the angst of phoning!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran I got rather nostalgic last week watching the news and seeing a huge chapter of my life being wheeled away by heavy machinery! The items in question were the P&T’s public phone booths now consigned, not to the scrap heap, but to the recycling heap. And, with them. went a part …
