29/10/2017
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29/10/2017
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Brian Keyes: Just one of those times when the harder you try, the harder it gets
Championship 2017 concluded last weekend for our senior hurlers - unseasonally early as the hurling world seems to spin in an off kilter axis yet again. Of course we’d like the world to stay black and amber, at least until August anyway. Alas, the ...
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Sean Keane: Dog fouling in city has serious consequences
It is becoming increasingly difficult to go for a walk by the river in the city. We are blessed to have the Canal and Lacken Walks on our doorstep but more and more people are allowing their dogs to relieve themselves along the walks and leaving ...
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Sean Keane: What does future hold for the Watergate?
The difficulty with funding for the arts is trying to put a monetary value on what artistic endeavours bring to the local economy. In the case of the Watergate Theatre, it's easy. It brings joy and laughter to those who enter the theatre; it ...
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Sean Keane: Kells and its priory could be a huge attraction
Why isn't the magnificence of Kells village and its Priory prioritised? Why hasn't the State, through one of its organs, done more to promote this village, its priory, mills and Kilree Round Tower. Its potential remains untapped. It is the ...
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Mary Cody: ‘Buy Me’ makes us think twice about how and why we consume
Our relationship with fashion and our needless thirst for consumption will be explored in an original multi-disciplinary piece of art which will be performed later this month at The Goods Shed at MacDonagh Junction. Fast fashion is one of ...
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Sean Keane: Kieran Street and lack of a skate park in city
Shopkeepers on Kieran Street have taken unprecedented action. They have spoken out about the siege they feel they are under from a group of youngsters who congregate outside Dunnes Stores, across the street from their shops every ...
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This Kilkenny Life Gerry Moran: Have pass, will travel – but to where?
You don’t feel them coming around. Birthdays, I mean. And it’s faster and faster they’re coming. Gathering speed at the rate of knots. Jesus, you’ve hardly celebrated one when the next one is upon you. Whoa for Godsake. And let ...
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This Kilkenny Life Gerry Moran: Cold front en route to the sun!
Good fences, they say, make good neighbours. But what if there is no fence or what if that fence is a simple armrest, the armrest between two passengers on a four-and-a-half-hour flight. A true test of neighbourliness for sure....
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Gerry Moran This Kilkenny Life: Saints & scholars & a rub of the relic
I couldn’t count the number of exams I have sat in my lifetime. Well I could but for certain sure I’d get the count wrong, maths having been the bane of my school-life (and still is) Anyway, of all the exams I sat I never sat ...
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