kilkenny reporter 6th april 2011
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WEDNESDAY April 06 2011
Kilkenny Reporter
Other local businesses may now follow »P2
Warm city welcome for 90 year old »P6
Local fi rm engineers its way to success
Screen starpraises our ‘Age Friendly’ initiative
T: 056 7795051 E: [email protected]
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GATHABAWN GIRL IS TOPS IN IRELANDBeautiful Gathabawn girl Karen Fitzpatrick who has
been voted ‘Irish Model of the Year’ »Full Story P13
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JIMMY RHATIGANEDITOR
Kilkenny firm to get €2m boost
Local enterprises eye €40,000 pot at awards
Prochem – the success story
Students clash in battle for Croker
Another recession on way!
Croke Park
Nicole Foss
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Caring children help struggling kids
The Cullinanes
Pride of North Kilkenny smoothes road to LourdesLaura Hidalgo
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It’s party time for smashing young women
Chubby Brennan Column
‘Comer brooch for screen legend,Maureen O’Hara
Gráinne Doyle with her sister MarianneJennifer O’Connor, Ferns, Mary O’Mahony, Aut Even and Ruth Foley, Graignamanagh. Pics: Pat Moore
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Battle is on to save Kilkenny Job ClubBY AISLING HURLEY
Top, Colin Ahern, General Manager of the Ormonde Hotel and staff with Maureen. Bottom row, from left, Maureen with Anna Maria Lanigan, HSE, Garda Lisa Mullins and Maureen, Maureen chats with Anne Connolly, Director Ageing Well Network and Maureen with Mayor Martin Brett, County Council Cathaoirleach Catherine Connery and City and County Manager, Joe Crockett.
Pics: Pat Moore
BY AISLING HURLEY
Screen legend O’Hara lauds actor John Wayne
Home is where the heart is for €25,000 winner
Pat Dalton, left, receives his prize from Chamber President John Purcell and Bobby Kerr
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CBS student, David McGeary, Fr Aidan O’Brien, Good Counsel College, All-Ireland Junior Hunter Trials Champion 2011 Pat Byrne and Ms Olive O’DonnelL, CBS Teacher
CBS boy on the trail of an Olympic hero!
St Pat’s captain, Martin Johnstone, referee, John Direen and CBS captain, Jack Langton
Warm welcome for Derry boys
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It’s a home, sweet home for Loughboy childrenBY AISLING HURLEY
A moving tribute to a much loved teenager
BY AISLING HURLEY
From left, mum, Angela, grandmother, Rita Shore and other close family members, Aoife Whelan (13), The Fairways, family and friends said goodbye and Caoimhe O’Brien, Ashfield. Pics: Pat Moore
From top left, Ciara Heffernan (5), Willow Close gets sweets from ‘Sponge Bob’, Nadine Falsey (7) and sister, Sasha (4), Assumption Heights, with Katelyn Leahy (4), Loughboy and Mayor Martin Brett, Vera Dowling, Board of Management LARC and Kilkenny hurling star, Jackie Tyrrell. Pics: Pat Moore
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JIMMY [email protected]
‘Mr Personality’ Festival brings over 1,500 to our city
Andy Hughes, Kilkenny and Shane Carroll, Carlow, contes-tants at the ‘Mr Personality Festival’ bidding to impress Macra treasurer, Mary Brennan Pic: Pat Moore
Sister act is tops in exciting ‘Stars’ final
Worthy champs: Sisters Carol and Sylvia Knox whostole the show Pics: Pat Moore
JIMMY [email protected]
Music and song lead to bricks and mortar
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Original Sins
NEW IRISH WRITING
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Edited by Suzanne Powerand John MacKenna
The new Irish writers featured in thisanthology of fictional stories are guilty ofthe sin of originality. They share their manyversions of saints, scholars and demonswho speak from around the world andbeyond it, from Ireland, from abroad, fromplaces of the mind or from the past. Theircharacters discover old lives and invent newones, fall in love and out of it, engage withlife, death and all its promises, make newfriends and enemies and are daring, caring,frightened and funny. Travel through theimaginations of twenty two new voices whohave created many more. Step into thestories and poems, believe their intentionsto entice the reader away from the routineof the day into the realm of storytelling. The writing in Original Sins works for whatit omits as much as for what is written. Theauthors have sharpened their blades forfour years, working together and alone andwith themselves. They truly learned thatless is more on paper. They know the valueof silence in a story. They use the shadowswords cast to great effect. They are writerswhose work you will read again. Remembertheir names.
You will remember their stories and readmore of them in years to come.
Authors:Maura Barrett
Jeanne Beary
Ilona Blunden
Nora Brennan
Phyllida Clarke
Tim Clifford
Eileen CondonJane de Montmorency
Nora Farrell
Majella Gorman
Pat Griffin
Mary Healy
Orla Hennessy
Stella Lanigan
PJ McAuliffe
Rachel Nolan
Robert O’Brien
Mairead Phelan
Valerie Ryan
Steven Thomas
Mark TurnerMartha Woodcock
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Wonderful people who are made of write stuff
Carers: Stand up and be counted! Mary Kennedy and kilkenny Dragon Bobby Kerr with family carer Carolyn Akintola
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Church Canon is fired with enthusiasm
JIMMY [email protected]
Kate Kavanagh and parents with the bishop Pics: Donal Foley
Niamh Bowden, Gearoid Troy, Chloe Forristal, Payton Redman, Orla and Ciara Leahy, Keelan Hayyes
The Brophy, McCarthy and Young families with Bishop Freeman
The Kavanagh family
Liam and Sandra Grant
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Sax in the city!
The LEADER of the pack
A day in the life...
Pat has a Lotto luck
Memorial Mass for Sister Mary
Recycling at Newrath
Signage for Kilmacow
Anglers ‘Hall of Fame’
Community News
JIMMY [email protected]
Now it’s an SOS for budding movie stars!
Our beautiful girl is No 1 in Ireland
Karen deserved honour
A scene from ‘Crime Scene Investigation’
JIMMY [email protected]
&CommentOpinion
O S€145,000 fi ne for breach of smoking ban
IN IRELAND WE ARE QUITE GOOD AT
MAKING LAWS, BUT KEEPING THEM IS
ANOTHER MATTER“
THE SPORTING BODIES MUST NOT ONLY CUT, BUT
SLASH, THEIR PRICES AS THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THEIR
GAMES ARE UNDER THREAT. THEY MUST REALISE THAT WE
ARE LIVING AT A TIME WHEN A MAN OR WOMAN WHO DROPS
A EURO WILL GO DOWN ON HIS OR HER HANDS AND KNEES TO
TRY TO RETRIEVE IT. IT IS IN THAT CONTEXT THAT THEY MUST
RESTRUCTURE THEIR ADMISSION PRICES.
Sports bodies must slash admission prices
“JIMMYRHATIGAN
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Thomas Moore and his Kilkenny connections
SEAN HURLEY
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Poet Thomas Moore
LIVINGWITH AISLING HURLEY [email protected]
KILKENNY REPORTER 06 04 2010
What I’m putting on my wish list
Wishing my life away...Shoes
Skincare
Clothes
Make up
Household
Hair
Alternative
Treatment
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It’s all just peachy at the launch of new boutique
LIVING
Winners - hook line and sinkerFront left: winner John Mealy, middle Bobby Dowling accepting 3rd place for Paul Dowling, right hand side David Ward biggest fish and back row Eamonn Mahony 2nd
Bangers and mash for Amber
Clement Gleeson (Manager, Aspect Hotel); Geralyn White (Friends of Amber Committee) Gráinne Monks (Head Chef, Aspect Hotel) and Raymond Lannen (Chairman, Friends of Amber Committee).
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DIVA Fashion on the corner of High Street and James’s Street in the city is a sassy ladies fashion store off ering all a woman needs to step out in style!
Open just over a year, the boutique is well stocked with all you could need for a glamorous night out or for a casual day spent shopping or having lunch with friends.
The shop is very well laid out so customers have no problems seeing what is on
off er or what new items have come in since their last visit.
They have a great selection of jeans and the staff are very helpful when it comes to choosing the right shape and fi t for your fi gure so don’t be afraid to ask.
New stock is constantly arriving so make sure you regularly pop in and see what amazing styles are coming in for the summer. You won’t be disappointed!
IF you fancy a night out in one of Kilkenny’s friendliest bars
then look further than Ryan’s Bar on Friary Street - the
city’s worst kept secret. Always fi lled with an eclectic bunch of people you never know who you will meet there. Tourists
mingle with locals against the backdrop of
this stylishly laid out bar. An excellent music venue
- all kinds of tunes can be heard including trad, rock, heavy metal and indie. Presided over by Arthur Drohan, who is always ready with a smile and a quip for new comer and regular alike, this bar is an essential stop on a bar crawl and once you drop by you might never leave.
There’s also a spacious beer garden at the back which is next to the covered smoking area where everybody in the know in Kilkenny comes to on a summer evening.
OUT of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it’s a passing aff air and play along, b) angrily declare the marriage over, c) crack up or d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup?
In ‘The Summer Without Men’ by Siri Hustvedt, Mia Fredricksen cracks up fi rst, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her.
THE Rafter Dempsey’s Bar, Friary Street in association with Evergreen FC presents ‘An Evening with Ireland and Liverpool Legend John Aldridge’ on Wednesday, April 13.
Former Republic of Ireland international footballer and football manager John Aldridge was a prolifi c record-breaking striker best known for his productive time with Liverpool in the late 1980s, and for being the fi rst man to have a penalty kick saved in a Wembley FA Cup Final.
His book, ‘John Aldridge: My Story’,
published by Hodder & Stoughton is a favourite among football fans.
Aldridge is a patron of AFC Liverpool, a non-league football club set up by Liverpool FC fans in 2008.
Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm. Tickets are €20. A great night is guaranteed with stories from Aldridge’s playing days. There will also be an opportunity for book signing and photographs.To book your ticket email [email protected] or send a text to (086) 8230050.
MAKE washing up faster, easier and more eco friendly with the Dish Squeegee. An average household can waste up to 24,500 litres of water every year by pre-rinsing dishes prior to putting them into the dishwasher.
However by not rinsing you might also waste water if they emerge unclean! The Dish Squeegee is a silicon wedge, designed to scrap off dish washer bound plates and pans without pre-rinsing and thus conserving water and reducing your energy bill by preventing you wasting hot water.
The Dish Squeegee is designed for use on pots, pans, plates and cups of all shapes and sizes.
Available from www.purchase.ie for €7.95.
Shop of the week
Pub of the week
Product of the week
Book of the week
Theatre of the week
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QUICKLY becoming one of Kilkenny’s favourite eateries Royal Spice on Patrick Street caters for every taste. The luxurious surrounds and the chilled ambiance of this trendy place make it the place to go for a romantic date or a casual lunch.
They have an excellent selection of all things Indian from Onion Bhaji, Samosas and Pakora to Tandori, Tikka or Jalfresi. Indeed you will think you are in Brick Lane in
London or New Delhi itself with the plethora of delicious Indian food on off er.
The staff are friendly and knowledgeable and if this is your fi rst time they will fi nd the right of amount of spice for your dish.
Well worth checking out is their latest off er where for €9.95 you can have all you can eat at their lunch buff et. Vegetarians and vegans are also most welcome.
AN exhibition of work by students pursuing the Advanced Certifi cate in Art and Business at Ormonde College of Further Education runs at the Upstairs Gallery of the Watergate Theatre until Thursday, May 5.
The Level 6 Advanced Certifi cate in Art and Business was introduced as a follow-on to the already existing and ever popular Level 5 Certifi cate in Fine Art (Portfolio Preparation) course in September of 2009. The course is uniquely designed to prepare student for
life as professional artists. The modules include drawing, painting, photography, art appreciation and exhibition organisation.
The exhibition is the result of the students taking individual responsibilities of all the tasks for a successful exhibition and then working as a team to complete them.
The exhibition asks its audience to ‘STEP BEYOND’ and enjoy the experience of viewing the artwork of some of Kilkenny’s newest artists emerging in 2011.
THE Spar Junior Great Ireland Run takes place on Sunday April 10 in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The 2.5km run is for eight to 15 year olds who are invited to run for either their county or their province.
If you have still to enter you can collect your race pack and county colours are posted to you. After in Dublin between tomorrow (Thursday) and Saturday.
In 2008 hundreds of children took part with RTE’s The Den fi lming competitors as they
battled it out to see which province in Ireland had the fastest and fi ttest junior runners.
The event is open to anyone and not just those of you who run for your school or local club.
The Junior race is followed by the SPAR Great Ireland Run, which is open to anyone aged over 15. This years charities are the Marie Keating Foundation, Our lady’s Hospice and Care
ONE of the most gifted and versatile female artist’s to come out of Ireland, Maria Doyle Kennedy is appearing at the Hole In The Wall on Saturday April 9. Maria forged a name for herself and held her own in diverse arenas including fi lm, TV and as a singer-songwriter.
Nominated for Best New Album 2001 at the Meteor Music Awards, she also presented the Tom Dunne show Pet Sounds (Today FM) and John Kelly’s show Mystery Train (RTE). She recorded a live concert tv
show called ‘Other Voices Other Rooms’ and featured on an album called ‘The Lady Sings The Blues’ alongside Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
Maria has also worked in tv, starring in the UK hit series ‘Father Ted’,‘The Fitz’ and ‘Queer as Folk’. She is also one of the original members of the Commitments.
She will be accompanied by Kieran Kennedy on the night. Tickets, €20, from Rollercoaster Records.
FISHING is a wonderful Sunday pastime that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Kilkenny is full of great fi shing spots including the River Nore which is noted for its fi ne supply of salmon and trout. Open season for these two fi sh started on March 17 and runs until the end of September.
Salmon in the Nore range in size from 5lbs to 30lbs plus. Trout are on average about 1/2 to 3/4 of a pound but trout of three to 5lbs are caught occasionally during
the season. Excellent stock of trout can be found
between the River Dinin and the weir downstream of the city. Other good trout fi shing areas lie between Mount Juliet and Inistioge.
A state licence is required for salmon angling and local permits are also required for salmon and trout.
The coarse angling enthusiast will fi nd that the Graignamanagh area provides all his requirements.
Angling permits are available from most angling suppliers.
Something for Sunday
Fundraiser of the week
Restaurant of the week
Exhibition of the week
Gig of the week
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The Hired Man costs a staggering €50,000!
April 4-11Monday 4The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pm
After Dark, Matt the Miller’s @ 10pm
Trad Night, Cleere’s @ 9.30pm
Tuesday 5The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pm
Cellar Sessions, Matt the Miller’s @ 8.30pm
The Kilkennys, Paris Texas @ 9pm
Wednesday 6The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pmMovie Night, Billy Byrne’s @ 8.30pm,
Open Mic Night, Ryan’s @ 9pm
Thursday 7The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pm
Pete Fagan and Band, Matt the Miller’s @ 10pm
Trad Night, Ryan’s @ 9pm
Na Fianna, Lanigan’s @ 9pm
Friday 8The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pm
Divil the Bit, Lanigan’s @ 9pmSaturday 9Jedward, The Hub, Cillin Hill @ 6pm
O Emperor, The Set @ 8pm
The Hired Man, Watergate Theatre @ 8pm
The best tunes from t his year’s and previous yearsRhythm & Roots with D.J Willie Meighan, Cleere’s @ 9pm
Sunday 10Hamell on Trial, Cleere’s @ 9pm
The Best of American Folk with the Duvets, Cleere’s @ 7pm
The O’Dwyer Brothers, Kyteler’s Inn @ 6pm
The Kilkennys, Lanigan’s @ 9pm
The Barflies, The Pumphouse @ 9pm
Monday 11The Briars, The Field @ 9pmTrad Night, Cleere’s @ 9.30
Gig Guide - By Ciara Gilbert
Jukebox Gypsy for Hole in the Wall
Kevin Reade
Wrestling for a bet
BY AISLING HURLEY
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Hamell on Trial at Ceere’s TheatreBrilliant musician and singer here soon
FILM Sucker PunchDirector Zack Synder
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City and County tennis: The pride of Kilkenny clubs connections
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HEBRON Industrial Estate and Hebron Business Park are two of the busiest
retail areas of the city
Excel Organisation
