Opinion
“Captain, they’re coming, thousands of ’em!”
BY JOHN FITZGERALD An excerpt from INVADERS, the story of how a small band of men and women faced one of the most powerful armies on earth… The bombardment had resumed shortly after dawn on Day Three of the battle for Callan. The first rays of sunlight coincided with the day’s first ball that came …
Feel good on the inside – Look great on the outside
BY CLAIR WHITTY This time of the year many of you are planning parties and get togethers with friends and family. You want to look and feel your best but maybe you’re not feeling that right now. Perhaps you are constantly feeling bloated and uncomfortable in your clothes or they just don’t fit because you …
European cross country championships
BY MICHAEL O’LEARY In more recent years Kilkenny Athletes have had medal success at The European Cross Country Championships, and this year Hannah Kehoe and Maebh Richardson from Kilkenny City Harriers Club will represent Ireland this coming Sunday in The Ladies U-20 race in Brussels, Belgium. Both Athletes competed recently in The National Cross Country …
Trilogy Winter skin
BY CLAIR WHITTY Does your skin dry out in the winter? The drop in temperature and central heating can cause the skin to become very dry. This can lead to itchy or dry skin all over our body including our face and lips. Here are some tips to help keep your skin stay soft, smooth, and …
THE MAGNIFICENT NINE
PART 3 CALLAN NUNS BLAZE A TRAIL DOWN UNDER BY JOHN FITZGERALD The nine Callan sisters travelled to Tilbury Docks in England, which they reached on October 11th. Cardinal Moran had turned up to accompany them on their journey to Australia. He met them at the docks. Another top brass cleric and four priests flanked …
Heart of darkness throws light on our well-being
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Diarist Anne Frank wrote: “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” And she knew about darkness in her short tragic life. We are amidst the darkness in these short, dank days and never-ending nights where many a candle is lit and …
Midnight Bells and Moonlight Blessings
THE KILKENNY OBSERVER CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY SERIES Celebrating writers in our community ’23 The Kilkenny Observer Newspaper is delighted to present our ‘2023 Christmas short story series’. We have invited four writers from Kilkenny to submit a short story over the coming weeks, which we hope you will enjoy. This week we welcome Joseph Kearney …
Time to deal with the menace of right wing extremists
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON The rhetoric about right-wingers here is dismissive. They don’t represent us, we are told, they are motivated by hate, unlike other countries they will never have enough support to have political clout. They seem to merit no more attention that an annoying cloud of gnats. But the riots in …
A brief history of theatre in Kilkenny
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Outside of Dublin, Kilkenny possesses the greatest collection of medieval documents and records in Ireland. One of those documents refers to a dramatic presentation at The Market Cross in Kilkenny’s High St in 1553 when a play entitled ‘God’s Promises’ was performed. The play, written by John Bale, the Church of …
Keeping your festive spending in check
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR We all love a present, especially at Christmas, but New Year debt and financial worries we can do without. Sometime we lose the run of ourselves at Christmas and end up with unwanted bills to accompany the chills of January. It can take some households seven months to repay Christmas …
