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Liam (18) loses fight for life
Liam Anthony Phelan of Deans Court, Waterford Road, Kilkenny City, passed away late on Wednesday.
He was only son of Liam and Ann Phelan. His dad Liam is a prominent Kilkenny publican. He has been involved with Paris Texas, The Boston Bar and is now boss at Tynan’s Bridge Bar, John’s Bridge, Kilkenny.
Funeral Mass is tomorrow, Friday at noon in St Fiacre’s Church, Loughboy, Kilkenny, followed by cremation at The Island Crematorium, Ringaskiddy, County Cork.
Home is private. Family flowers only. Donations, if desired, to The Carlow/Kilkenny Home Care Team.
Happy Sinead celebrates 21st
CASTLECOMER girl Sinead Byrne celebrated 21 years with a party for family and friends in Shortall's Pub.
Locals turned out in force for an evening of music, song and dance to mark the special birthday of the student of dance.
Sinead is daughter of Jimmy and Eileen Byrne. Also present at the party were her sisters Aisling and Collette and brothers Gordon and Barry.
Heads not hearts: Senator John Paul on Glanbia
GLANBIA Co-operative Society members need to be “ruled by their heads rather than their hearts” and must be furnished with an independent, forensic analysis of the state of its Irish operations before a decision is made on any buy-out, Fine Gael Senator, John Paul Phelan, has urged.
Welcome home for All-Ireland champions!
THE FINAL has yet to be played but already the people of Kilkenny are planning a huge welcome home for the All-Ireland kings!
Talented trational band, Na Fianna are in the final of RTE's All-Ireland Talent Competition which will be screened live on March 12.
Just two days later big numbers of local people are expected to gather at Springhill Court Hotel for the official welcome home party for the young band.
In the meantime people are being asked to support the band by voting for them on final night.
Glanbia Co-op move gets IFA approval
THE PROPOSAL by Glanbia Co-Op to purchase the Irish business of Glanbia Plc has been described as a “welcome development” by Kilkenny IFA President John Bryan.
“The move holds out the prospect of outright farmer ownership of Ireland's largest milk pool as well as much greater direct farmer control of the Irish dairy industry, facilitating greater consolidation and cost efficiency”, he said this morning (Wednesday).
Mr Bryan said he and Dairy Chairman Kevin Kiersey would be meeting with Glanbia tomorrow (Thursday) morning to review the details of the negotiations and their implications for farmers both within Glanbia and nationally.
World title bid by talented Kilkenny lad
KILKENNY could have a world championship to add to its four-in-a-row All-Ireland Hurling titles, if an 11-year-old Clara lad has his way.Sports mad James Carrigan from Smithstown, Maddoxtown, Co Kilkenny heads to the United States in mid-April to represent Ireland in the World Sport Stacking Championships.
Audio All-Stars for Kyteler's Inn
TOP CLASS Kilkenny musician and entertainer John Travers will be among the stars when The Audio All-Stars play Kyteler’s Inn on Friday, March 26.
John has been on the music scene since he was a young boy. He started with The Fifth Degree, played for several big bands, played in Switzerland and gigged with some of the top musicians in the world.
He is originally from Fatima Place and will be remembered as a huge supporter of Emfa, later Kilkenny City, in their fledgling days at Buckley Park.
Brave Loreto Convent escape to victory
A MAGNIFICENT display of second half defending helped Loreto Convent, Kilkenny to a narrow win over BCS, Lismore in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary on Satuday.
The Kilkenny school won the Senior 'A' Schools' All-Ireland camogie crown with a gutsy showing in which they just managed to stave off the challenge of their determined opponents.
Final score was Loreto, Kilkenny 2-5, Lismore 1-7.
Loreto girls bid for hockey crown
LORETO Convent, Kilkenny, is battling to add a national hockey title to the recently won camogie crown.
The senior girls’ team from the Kilkenny City school has just won the South Eastern Final and now faces a group play-off for the Kate Russell All-Ireland Cup.
Cat Laughs brings the cream of comedy
CURIOSITY may have killed the cat, but that won’t be the case with the launch of the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival 2010 programme.
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Big turnout for Small Firms' boss
PATRICIA Callan, director of the Small Firms’ Association was lunch guest of Kilkenny Women’s Business Network on Monday.
Ms Callan spoke about the actions that firms need to take to survive the recession. Over 40, including three men, attended the Rivercourt Hotel.
Ms Dee Gibney, President of the Kilkenny Women’s Business Network, also spoke.
Elizabeth holds Keyes to Cathedral success
awards ceremony in Dublin. Elizabeth Keyes of St Canice’s Cathedral was presented with the award
Launched in 2009, the Tourism Business Challenge invited individual businesses involved in the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Learning Networks to put forward innovative ideas they had implemented in response to economic challenges faced last year and to outline the immediate and positive impact these have had on their business performance.
Congratulating the finalists, Colm Breheny, Manager Professional Development with Fáilte Ireland, said that all had demonstrated how
Women go ahead with parade plans!
Members of the 5 to 6 Project, they have been creating dramatic headresses using natural materials including
Two tier health leads to more tears!
IRELAND'S two-tier health system is the main impediment to public confidence in the health service. This is according to Cllr Michael O'Brien who recently attended a meeting of the Health Services Executive (HSE) Forum in Cork.
Speaking at the meeting he said that he agreed with the positive intention of the HSE to reconfigure acute services only on what is in the best interests of the patient. He said that the best politicians
he ever met were in the medical profession, who, he alleged, tended to close ranks when it suited themselves.
All Set for Can't Pay? Won't Pay?
Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! was written by the Nobel Prize winning playwright in 1974 after he became inspired by the self reduction
movement which saw working class Italian women take what they wanted from supermarkets only paying what they could afford. Another one of his trademark political farces, this play saw Fo tackling issues of inflation, unemployment, worker’s strikes and union interference, once more tied up in the framework of a wild, slapstick comedy.
Anything goes as drama club performs
Kilkenny Youths/Junior Soccer Fixtures
Saturday 13th
Leinster Youths Cup
FC Carlow v Freebooters, 2.30.
Rafter Dempsey’s Youths, Division 1
Thomastown United v Evergreen ‘A’, 2.30.
Division 2
Evergreen ‘B’ v Highview Athletic, 2.30.
Sunday, 14th
St Canice’s Credit Union Premier Division
Newpark v Evergreen 45, 11am.
AC Kilkenny ‘A’ v Evergreen ‘A’, 11am.
DKS Hardware, Division 1
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