As per usual I bring you the traditional Brasscock Annual Quiz with a festive feel of quizzical questions – watch out for...
Farming
By special request, some ‘funny bits’ from the archive
By special request, some ‘funny bits’ from the archive
An elderly couple from Passage East One day last week, a garda on foot patrol along the Quay noticed a car double parked outside...
More effort needed to keep schools going in bad weather
More effort needed to keep schools going in bad weather
We write this article in Christmas week, a week that will see many schools obliged to keep their pupils in class until the 23rd...
Christmas – home and abroad
Christmas – home and abroad
This week as Christmas beckons, we look to other cultures around the world to see how they celebrate this Mid-Winter Christian...
Partial victory for people with Down Syndrome
Partial victory for people with Down Syndrome
Such is the importance of the move, I was surprised that a Ministerial decree, announced in the budget, did not receive very...
Beat the cold by understanding the cold
Beat the cold by understanding the cold
There is no doubt that some people feel the cold more than others. It’s not that I get cold quickly, but rather that I am...
Government still doesn’t ‘get’ poverty
Government still doesn’t ‘get’ poverty
Of course, we don’t know the specific details of the case but the report in last week’s Kilkenny People newspaper by Mary Cody...
Please shop local this Christmas
Please shop local this Christmas
This past two weeks has seen some very unseasonal weather and snow and cold temperatures have led to a cabin fever mentality. As...
To become better-to do a little good
To become better-to do a little good
This week I thought it would be appropriate time of year to learn about the work of St Vincent de Paul who provide such a...
Change – it’s all in the way you look at it!
Change – it’s all in the way you look at it!
The Christmas decorations are up, the ironing basket is empty and the house is very tidy; all thanks to the snow. Mind you I’m...
New ‘Waterford’ DVD now available
New ‘Waterford’ DVD now available
Congratulations to the Waterford William Vincent Wallace Appreciation Society on the fact that Wallace’s ‘Lurline’, recorded in...
Response to snow too little too late
Response to snow too little too late
Overall, last week proved a little how helpless our nation has become. We wrote about the bank bail-out last week funded by us...
