Kilkenny People (Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland) back issues from June 2008:
Scholarships for two Kilkenny VEC students.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Kilkenny Campus, NUI Maynooth ran an Essay Writing Competition to celebrate ten years in Kilkenny and the prizes worth 4,000 euro in scholarships will enable the winning students to take third-level courses at the campus. First prize went to Kate Strain of Thomastown who is ...
All roads lead to Dublin.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys LOCAL people who travel to Dublin for business and pleasure are being invited to make suggestions on public transport links to and from Kilkenny and in and around the capital. With so many Kilkenny people travelling regularly to the city for work, sporting ...
Kilkenny violinist wins ArtLinks 18,000 bursary.
Jun 04, 2008 ... LORETO student Alison Comerford is the recipient of an 8,000 euro bursary from ArtLinks. She was among the five winners in Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow, with one bursary awarded per county. Alison has been playing violin since the age of four, ...
Rocking the Red Rocks at Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre.
Jun 04, 2008 ... SAXONISTAS take note: Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson are back as Oliver Dawson Saxon, with a summer Irish tour which begins in Kilkenny. Opting to kick off at Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, Kilmanagh on July 24 from 7.30pm, the band will play a host of Saxon classics such as 'Wheels ...
Remembering a working class hero.
Jun 04, 2008 ... A COMMEMORATIVE weekend in memory of the working-class activist and member of the XV International Brigade killed in action at the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War will take place in Inistioge on June 27 and 28. George Brown's parents, Francis Brown and Mary Lackey, ...
Protest after Kilkenny official crosses the picket line.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Mary Cody A GROUP of striking staff from the trade union BATU (Building and Allied Trade Union) travelled to Kilkenny last week to appeal to their members to support their strike and to highlight their opposition to the decision of a Kilkenny-based trade union official to pass ...
Serious gridlock at Dublin Road roundabout.
Jun 04, 2008 ... THE ring road extension has not solved Kilkenny's traffic problems, as is very evident at the expanded roundabout at the Carlow Road/ Dublin Road. "The Carlow Road Roundabout was completely blocked up for an hour and a half," Mayor Marie Fitzpatrick (FG) pointed out at a ...
Lineup for Castlecomer Writers Festival is revealed.
Jun 04, 2008 ... THE lineup has been announced for the Castlecomer Writers Festival which is due to take place from September 26-28. Authors and poets taking part include: ? Sheila O'Flanagan was Ireland's first woman Chief Dealer before becoming a writer. Based in Dublin, she started ...
Dialysis centre on path to international accreditation for good patient care.
Jun 04, 2008 ... THE Wellstone Dialysis Clinic in Kilkenny is one step closer to achieving an international development accreditation. The clinic has reached stage one of the programme, run by the University of Leeds, and celebrated the stage by unveiling a plaque detailing its success. ...
Tune in to watch changing face of High Street.
Jun 04, 2008 ... MAJOR events in Kilkenny's history, such as the beer festivals of the 1960s, the 1971 fire, GAA homecomings and St Patrick's Day Parades, will feature in a new documentary series looking at the changes in Ireland over the past few decades. RTE's 'On The Street Where You Live', ...
St John's Junior School students open their minds to the arts.
Jun 04, 2008 ... TWENTY TWO schoolchildren got the opportunity to see the Women's Art Project Park which was exhibiting in Bridgewater House, Dean Street last Thursday. Martina Comerford, (RAPID Co-ordinator, Department of Community and Enterprise) organised this visit as part of her five-week ...
Youngster died trying to save her little sister.
Jun 04, 2008 ... A KILKENNY youngster who drowned while trying to save her younger sister was buried last Wednesday. Nicole O'Brien (13) died after she swam into strong currents to rescue her 11-year-old sister Cjay after she got into difficulty in the water at Inchodoney Strand on May 24 ....
Principal remains critical.
Jun 04, 2008 ... PRINCIPAL of Kilkenny College Philip Gray remains in a critical condition in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. The popular headmaster was involved ...
Editor to retire.
Jun 04, 2008 ... KILKENNY People editor Tom Molloy is to retire from the paper after five years in the job. "It's been a happy time by and large but I think its time to step aside and allow somebody else to fill what can often be a tiring and difficult ...
Red-wigged runners hit the streets in memory of little Melody.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys THE whole county reeled with shock when a precious four-year girl, Melody Dwyer from Kilkenny, died from a rare strain of meningitis earlier this year. But a group of local women who knew Melody at her brightest have done their bit to make sure her death ...
Mining talk in Castlecomer.
Jun 04, 2008 ... 'THE Origin of Ireland's Ore Deposits' is the title of a free public lecture which will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 6pm in Castlecomer Discovery Park. The talk by Professor Mike Russell is part of a series of geological talks being held around the country to celebrate the ...
Game, set and match for Kilkenny kids.
Jun 04, 2008 ... THIS summer will see boys and girls throughout Kilkenny take to the tennis courts as the programme for the 2008 KitKat Parks Tennis Leagues is served up. Now in its 31st consecutive year, the KitKat Parks Tennis will return to local venues throughout Kilkenny including public ...
Special needs children at risk due to HSE cuts.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys MORE than ?60,000 worth of specialist equipment for disabled children is sitting unused in boxes in Kilkenny schools while some of the community's most vulnerable children struggle through their school day without it, because of funding cuts by the Health Service ...
Radio Kilkenny returns for a month.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Sean Keane RADIO Kilkenny will be back on the air for a month starting on Monday, August 11. The community-based radio station lost its franchise licence three years ago KCLR 96 fm. Now Radio Kilkenny will have a month to show broadcasting chiefs that it ...
Festival a great success.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys THE city rumbled with the laughter of the 30,000-plus fans who flooded into Kilkenny, Ireland's comedy capital, for the annual Smithwicks Cat Laughs Comedy Festival over the weekend. The shows were sell-outs, the streets were packed and pubs overflowed as ...
Father and son behind new Thomastown music festival.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Mary Cody THOMASTOWN will host Ireland's newest boutique festival in August, with headline performances from Jools Holland and his 19-piece rhythm and blues orchestra and guests, the Blind Boys of Alabama, John Martyn and a host of the best new Irish bands and singers. ...
Maytime Melodies hits the right note with audience.
Jun 04, 2008 ... THE A Orchestra of St Canice's Co-ed National School, Granges Road, Kilkenny brought the curtain down on a hugely successful Maytime Melodies at the Watergate Theatre on Wednesday night of last week. It marked the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the event which brings ...
McGuinness accuses Hogan of causing mischief after Hogan challenges him on replacement jobs for brewery.
Jun 04, 2008 ... TRADE MINISTER John McGuinness has accused Fine Gael TD Phil Hogan of political mischief and causing trouble over his attack on Minister McGuinness over comments made by him about turning part of the Diageo site at St Francis Abbey Brewery, Kilkenny into a Norman museum. Deputy ...
Local schools under the magnifying glass.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys SECONDARY schools in Kilkenny have fared well in the latest school inspection reports to be released by the Department of Education and Science. Six schools in the county were among the latest batch of schools around the country to be randomly inspected. ...
Mental health service in Kilkenny needs coherent management system - Mental Health Commission.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Sean Keane THE mental health service in Kilkenny and Carlow has developed in a piecemeal fashion over the previous three years and there is no sense of a coherent plan. That's according to Dr Susan Finnerty, assistant inspector of mental health services, who said the ...
A better vision of the future for Kilkenny.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Tess Felder WITH so many predictions of doom and gloom resulting from climate change and the peak in the world's oil production, the group Future Proof Kilkenny is working towards a more pleasant vision of the future. This vision involves communities working together ...
No laughing matter now that comedy festival is over for another year.
Jun 04, 2008 ... Laura Keys IT is one of the most eagerly-anticipated dates on the summer festival calendar and the Smithwicks Cat Laughs Comedy Festival went off in spectacular fashion over the bank holiday weekend. The city was far beyond capacity, coping with an influx of more ...
The return of the King.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Shamrocks 2-19 Young Irelands 2-14 THE final piece of the puzzle is back in position for the Shamrocks. The return to full match action of Henry Shefflin saw the reigning county champions back at full strength, which is just what they needed to get past ...
Life's a beach for ladies footballers.
Jun 05, 2008 ... EIGHT local ladies footballers will swap the green fields of Kilkenny for the sandy beaches of France this weekend. The team, made up of footballers from the John Lockes (Callan) and Muckalee junior football teams, will travel to Nantes for a competition involving several ...
Dunnamaggin cruise to victory.
Jun 05, 2008 ... VAN Morrison sings a famous song where he says "My mama told me there'd be days like this". For Tullaroan it was just one of those days where nothing seemed to go right for them. They also had the misfortune to bump into a Dunnamaggin side that are clearly on form at the moment, ...
'Boro left in dark by Power surge.
Jun 05, 2008 ... A STAR performance from their main scoring threat, a two-goal haul from another dangerous forward and the return to action of a key defensive component. Where do Carrickshock begin to pick holes in their performance? The 'Shock were simply too polished for Dicksboro to catch ...
O'Loughlin's were simply a class apart.
Jun 05, 2008 ... CROSS the opposition's crossbar 20 times and it affords your mentors and supporters the luxury of contemplating victory. Cross the underside of the same crossbar with a couple of shots, and the same mentors and supporters can luxuriate in the near-certain knowledge that victory ...
Erin's Own escape to victory.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Erin's Own 1-13 Emeralds 0-14 After misfiring for three-quarters of the game, Erin's Own found top gear long enough to snatch the intermediate hurling league points from under the noses of Emeralds on Saturday. How the Urlingford men ended up on the wrong ...
Conahy maintain Intermediate drive.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Conahy Shamrocks 0-16 Glenmore 0-12 KIERAN Mooney and Alan Healy delivered the crucial scores for Conahy as they continued their impressive start to life in the Intermediate grade at Bennettsbridge on Saturday night. Following on from their opening day ...
Neighbours nab senior camogie spoils.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Tipperary 2-12 Kilkenny 2-10 NOT EVEN a spirited comeback could prevent Kilkenny from slipping to an opening day defeat to near-neighbours Tipperary in the opening round of the senior All-Ireland camogie championship on Sunday. The Cats were given a ...
Footballers beaten but they were far from losers.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Wicklow 4-9 Kilkenny 1-8 SOMEONE once wrote that if you do your best, even if things don't work out, you are not a loser. The Kilkenny footballers were anything but losers when they bowed out of the Leinster junior football championship, beaten by a finely ...
Hickey and Everard are our top class performers.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Athletics A HEAVY downpour during the schools track and field finals in Tullamore on Saturday did not affect the performance of the Kilkenny athletes. The good weather returned and with it came good results. While medals were won at all grades, with Sarah Buggy at ...
Big two to meet in McCalmont showpiece.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Evergreen 'A' 6 Ormonde Villa 'A' 0 JAMIE OWENS delivered a masterclass at the weekend as Evergreen set up a mouth-watering McCalmont Cup final with Freebooters. The big two will face off in the showpiece for the first time in two seasons, after two rather ...
'Booters ease into final.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Freebooters A 4 St Pat's Boys 1 TWO GOALS in either half helped Freebooters keep their quest for a Cup double on course on Saturday. The Leinster Junior Cup champions had too much for St Pat's Boys, scoring four goals to set up an all-city meeting with ...
Barcoe on the double for clinical Bridge.
Jun 05, 2008 ... Bridge United 2 Callan United 1 AFTER the closest ever First Division league campaign in memory it came as no surprise that Sunday's Cup final at Derdimus Park went the full distance. The second tier of the Kilkenny & District League was in many respects ...
Healthcare cutbacks prompt nurses protest.
Jun 11, 2008 ... Laura Keys MORE than 600 health workers from Kilkenny will stage a protest outside Lacken/St Canice's Hospital on the Dublin Road today. The workers, who are employed in all areas of healthcare throughout the county, are protesting against staff and funding cuts to ...
New art gallery for Castlecomer.
Jun 11, 2008 ... A NEW art gallery is opening in Castlecomer this weekend. The Arthro Gallery, located in 11 Kilkenny Street, Unit 3 in the town, will be opening on Saturday evening with an exhibition of fine art ...
Children turn Graig into 'The Land of Make Believe'.
Jun 11, 2008 ... Tess Felder STUDENTS from Scoil Mhuire gan Smal in Graignamanagh are taking to the stage in a variety show for three nights this week. Today (Wednesday), tomorrow and Friday at 7pm in the town's Abbey Hall, 166 students from the school will be putting their talents ...
Kilkenny man's action secured us right to vote on Lisbon Treaty.
Jun 11, 2008 ... Mary Cody THE forward-thinking actions of Kilkenny man, Raymond Crotty has secured the right for four million Irish citizens to vote on behalf of 500 million Europeans in the Lisbon Treaty referundum which takes place tomorrow (Thursday). Ireland is the only country ...
Travelling cinema to roll into Callan today.
Jun 11, 2008 ... CINEMOBILE, Ireland's travelling cinema, is reeling its way to the Mill Lane Car Park in Callan today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday). The mobile cinema which seats 100 cinema lovers, brings the magic of the big screen to the heart of Co. Kilkenny. Today (Wednesday) the ...
Irate psychiatric nurses "outraged and disgusted".
Jun 11, 2008 ... Laura Keys KILKENNY'S mental health crisis hit another low last week, when more than 60 psychiatric nurses protested against the state of the system outside the gates of St Canice's Hospital. The lunchtime protest took place last Wednesday and gave the nurses a ...
Website promotes Kilkenny's health.(Website overview)
Jun 11, 2008 ... MARBLE City Health is a growing network of health practitioners, sports clubs and food producers based in Kilkenny. They have joined together with one common aim - to promote physical, mental and emotional health through increasing public awareness of the services and activities in the ...
New school opens.
Jun 11, 2008 ... Tom Ryan MINISTER for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, officially opened a new national school at Mohober, Mullinahone on Friday. The two-teacher school currently has 36 pupils enrolled and consists of two classrooms, a resource room, a combined ...
The full Ballykeeffe lineup.
Jun 11, 2008 ... A RANGE of activities and events are planned for Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, Kilmanagh this summer: June 27: a lecture with Junior Minister Martin Mansergh in St Aidan's Church, Kilmanagh at 8pm. Admission 5 euro. Minister Mansergh represents Tipperary South and has served as a ...
Fresh concerns over policing in South Kilkenny.
Jun 11, 2008 ... GARDAI have expressed new fears that people living in south Kilkenny will be vulnerable to attacks from criminal gangs because of changes in the way Kilkenny is policed. The changes, first revealed in this paper last month, have also been criticised by local politicians. ...
20,000 fans make a date with Dolly.
Jun 11, 2008 ... DESPITE working' "9 to 5" most of the week, Kilkenny people and those from surrounding counties will turn out in droves to see country music megastar Dolly Parton when she bounces into town next week. The incomparable Dolly will play to an expected crowd of 20,000 people at ...
Freshford produces winner of the Epsom Derby.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THREE years ago, a blind mare, aged 22 years of age gave birth to the new star of the equine racing world on a Kilkenny farm. When New Approach won the Epsom Derby in England on Saturday he was roared on by a large number of people in Lisdowney. It wasn't because they had backed ...
Odds are on Miss Kilkenny.
Jun 11, 2008 ... MISS Kilkenny, Marianne O'Neill is one of the top favourites to be crowned the 2008 Miss Ireland. The betting odds on her chances of winning are 9-1, according to The Star, which has her even with Miss Dublin South, Collette McBarron. And Paddy Power has Marianne's odds at 12-1, ...
No toilets in the Market Yard for months.
Jun 11, 2008 ... IT will be several months before public toilets can be provided in the Market Yard to replace those removed for the courthouse redevelopment. The council is currently selecting a design for the facilities, which can then be approved by the Borough Council, senior engineer, ...
Council is 'paving the way' to extend borough boundary.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THE boundary drawn around Kilkenny City hundreds of years ago could finally be widened to include more of the city's environs. Services such as housing, community and enterprise, and finances are now being joined up for the borough area and the environs, so that when a new ...
School staff prepare to strike.
Jun 11, 2008 ... DEDICATED staff at St Patrick's School for special needs children in Kells Road, Kilkenny are preparing to strike over cuts made to staffing levels. It is believed staff at the school, which educates more than 50 children with varying degrees of disabilities, are so concerned ...
Fire fighters battle forest fire for hours.
Jun 11, 2008 ... EIGHTEEN firefighters spent several hours containing a forest fire in the rural area of Glenpipe in South Kilkenny. The alarm was raised shortly after 6pm on Monday evening. Units from Thomastown and Graignamanagh were immediately dispatched to the scene. When they arrived there ...
Promised pitches in new Butts Park may not be possible.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THERE are strong fears that plans for playing pitches to serve a city community have shrunk considerably. A large turnout of interested local families and sports groups are expected to attend a meeting at the Fr. McGrath Centre, St Joseph's road, Kilkenny on Tuesday, June 24 at ...
Goodbye to the headmaster.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THE man fondly known as "An Maistir" to thousands of parents and students at Gaelscoil Osraa is due to retire at the end of August. icheal O Mairtin has been priomhoide (principal) for the last 22 years. Under his leadership, the school has blossomed Founded in 1984, ...
Bunscoil McAuley Rice waves Green Flag of success.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THE first week of June was a big week for Bunscoil McAuley Rice in Callan. The primary school, which last year formed a single school out of two existing schools, celebrated the first anniversary of its amalgamation and its achievement in receiving a Green Flag from An Taisce ...
Mixed reactions as Leaving Cert gets underway.
Jun 11, 2008 ... WITH the first week of the Leaving Cert exams over and the second well underway, the nerves of Kilkenny's 4000-odd Leaving Cert students appear to have settled now that the end is in sight. The exam period started on Wednesday with English Paper 1 and Home Economics, followed by ...
Smiling students take exams in their stride.
Jun 11, 2008 ... THERE was no panic or visibly nervous students outside Kilkenny exam centres in recent days as the realisation seemed to have dawned on students that waiting for the dreaded Leaving Cert is usually much worse than sitting the actual exams. Outside the city schools there was a ...
Castlecomer man charged over alleged violent attack.
Jun 11, 2008 ... A MIDDLE-AGED man appeared before Kilkenny District Court yesterday (Tuesday) in relation to an alleged violent attack on his former boss and his boss's partner. Garda John Bolger told the court that Noel O'Connor, 39 The Acorns, Castlecomer was arrested on Monday morning. He ...
Just four votes between Yes and No camp in Kilkenny.
Jun 13, 2008 ... Kilkenny was one of the few places in Ireland where voters were evenly split on the merits of the Lisbon Treaty, with just four votes separating the two sides. 26,210 people voted in favour of the treaty and 26,206 voted against, according to official figures following the count ...
Digger driver jailed for assault after All-Ireland.
Jun 18, 2008 ... Mary Cody TENSIONS between two men reached boiling point in the post All-Ireland celebrations when a forty-year-old man landed a punch at a man he believed was making fun of his brother knocking his front tooth out. Thomas Maher, 1 Ardlachain, Freshford was found ...