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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 2011

Kilkenny ReporterT: 056 7795051 E: [email protected]

Tonight’s big test: Can teens get top marks in party behaviour? »P4

Time to show our hurlers we love themParents and students can celebrate together

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GOOD PEOPLE GATHER TO PROMOTE OUR HEROESAmy Fraser, left, and Anna Tomczyk were at the launch of the Kilkenny Person of the Year Awards in St Francis Abbey Brewery. » Story: P6

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We should marvel in marble to honour heroes

JIMMY [email protected]

EXCLUSIVE

St Luke’s centre for acute care

Our cranes help give Japanese people a liftOur Japanese friends

Pride of Thomastown: The great Ollie Walsh and Kings of the Castle: Tribute to local heroes. Far left, a close up of the names of the eleven magnificent men written on the base of the statue Pics: Donal Foley

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Disgusted: Elain Bradshaw with a vandalised tree

Cannonball fires car enthusiasts: Thousands greet finest on wheels

AISLING [email protected]

Left, Rachel and Jasmine Shasby Walsh Kilkenny City

Right, Casey Horne

and Lisa Kinahin,

Robersthill and James

Cartwright, Loughboy


Parents urged over Junior Certificate celebrations

It’s Daylight Robbery: World Premiere at The WatergateLocal thespians do SOS Kilkenny proud at movies

JIMMY [email protected] Publicans asked to exercise caution on results night

Families are being encouraged to be aware as children celebrate their results

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Who are our top people? - The choice is yours...

Brave amputee walks 233km for charity

Rehab honours the great and good in our communityJIMMY RHATIGAN

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Pat McPhillips, regional manager, Rehabcare, Co Council chair, Paul Cuddihy and Tom O’Connor, O’Neill Foley Accountants


The Cat who got the creamWarm welcome for Smithwick’s Pale Ale


Pale Ale: On draught and in bottles

History: Brewery manager, Ian Hamilton with the first pint of Smithwick’s Pale Ale, pulled by Johnny Holden at Cleere’s Bar launch Pics: Donal Foley

Six of the best visit the Lime TreeCONGRATS TO the Kilkenny team on a super performance in the a All-Ireland final.Had a visit to the Lime Tree on Thursday, with the McCarthy Cup, from Brian Cody, Martin Fogarty, Henry Shefflin, JJ Delaney, Michael Rice and captain Brian Hogan. There was great excitement.

Local lottosGolf €5,000; GAA €8,000; Vaults €800,

Martial ArtsNew classes have started in the One Step Business Centre, Ballyhemmin. Contact Mags 086-8414815.

PilatesInterested in a new challenge? Joe O’Neill is to start a beginners’ Pilates course in the hall on September 19, 8pm to 9pm. Details: 087-2877912. Classes are limited to 10 participants.

Zumba Castlecomer fitness, every Wednesday, from Sepember 21, 8.30pm to 9.30pm Contact Nicola Ggwilly, 085-1416953

Clogh golfClogh Handball Club hold a par three classic in Quinnagh, Carlow, September 17. Contact

Brendan, 087-1475770. Presentation cabaret will follow in Ryan’s, Clogh

Business mattersJune 3 may yet turn out to be a significant day in Castlecomer. It was the launch day for the ‘Comer Business Association.Aim is to help businesses to prosper and to create extra employment in the area. Association office is in The Square, email [email protected]. A new booklet, The Deenside People was launched last week, serving ‘Comer, Moneenroe, Clogh, Muckalee and Conahy.


Emma McGrath, Mayfield,

Kilkenny, and Michael Synnott,

Robertshill, Kilkenny,

pictured before the Presentation

Convent, Kilkenny, Debs Ball

Chubby Brennan

They shall go to the ball...

St Kieran’s College Principal, John Curtis, with students Michael Brennan, Jack Byrne and Conor Comerford

Trinity of St Kieran’s friends will live on the Aran IslandsYoung boys win scholarships to study through Irish

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On your bike to Dunmore Recycling

Beautiful Butler House

Visitors sing praises: Butler House in Top 10

Fine book: Spinning a good yarn!


Glanbia and Teagasc team up for milk plan

The launch: Included are Minister Simon Coveney, Jim Bergin, Glanbia and Professor Gerry Boyle, Teagasc


From left, a warm rural welcome for President Mary; Presentation: Local children, Isabelle Strudwick and Evan Riordan presented a hurley and flowers; Inset below: The plaque says it all Pics: Donal Foley

Dream come true for proud parishPresident McAleese joins community celebrationAISLING HURLEY

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Squad chases quad in dramatic road raceGardai find stolen children's bikes

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Labour are facing crucial times ahead

WE ACCEPT THAT CHANGES HAVE TO BE MADE, THAT WE

GOT MONEY TO KEEP US AFLOAT, ALBEIT

COSTLY MONEY, BUT THERE HAS TO BE

JUSTICE WHEN IT IS DECIDED WHO PAYS

BACK THE PIPER, THE MAN, OR MEN, WOMEN TOO, WHO

CALL THE TUNE

“WE HAVE

WRITTEN ABOUT IT BEFORE AND WE

MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR RETURNING

TO THE SUBJECT. WHY IN THE NAME

OF GOD, AND INDEED OF HENRY,

BRIAN, TOMMY AND THE REST OF

THE LADS, ARE WE SO RELUCTANT

TO REMIND OUR VISITORS THAT THEY

ARE ENTERING THE HURLING CAPITAL OF

IRELAND?

Time to erect that hurling monument

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Wedding day of M&NSEAN HURLEY

Ned takes us back to an enjoyable ‘Big Day’

This week NED EGAN contributes


King sized shopping at a Royal store

Young people come clean to help communities

Get your thinking caps on: Members of the new youth club Youthink

Poignant and prayerful: Our city remembers 9/11Brave son of Kilkenny died fighting to save lives

Above, our people pay respects. Right from top, Rahim of Kilkenny Islamic Church, Garda Supt Michael Nevin and a candle-lit tribute Pics: Donal Foley


Good shopping in store: Doyle’s Royal Oak Stores in Bagenalstown

LIVINGWITH AISLING HURLEY [email protected]

Reporter wishlist: These are a few of our favourite things

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Yes, they’re real!

Perfume on the go

Wave Envy

A’kin for a calm baby

Swing into autumn

Paris Dilettante Iconic lamp

Furry nice!

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A TRIP to Jerpoint Glass Studio in Stoneyford offers a truly exceptional experience. You are encouraged to watch glass blowing from a viewing area where you can see skilled glass blowers perform their magic as they turn flowing red-hot molten glass into beautiful Jerpoint shapes, right before your eyes.At Jerpoint, glass blowers make each piece entirely by hand using simple tools and creative judgement and methods that

date back over 2,000 years. This craftsmanship can be seen in the unmistakable quality of each piece.In the old stone building adjacent to the studio, you can see the full collection of glass in the Jerpoint shop and gallery, pick up a bargain from a range of seconds or view carefully chosen work by other artists and special one-off pieces.Jerpoint Trumpet wineglasses featured in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’.

BILLY Byrne’s Bar, John Street is quickly becoming one of the hippest

places on the strip. Directly across from the train station, this chic

bar has been refurbished to create an interior that

wouldn’t be out of place in London or New York.The friendly bar staff are there to advise you on their extensive selection of beers and

wines. A speciality is the Italian lager Peroni which

is on draught and served in fancy tall glasses.Wednesday Night is ‘Movie Night’ which has long been a fixture for film lovers who like a scoop. There is a huge screen for sports games, excellent food and the legendary beer garden where renowned graffiti artist ‘Danleo’ has just painted a giant mural.There is superb music at the weekend with bands and DJs as well impromptu trad sessions. So for a pub that is cool and fun look no further.

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ARE you looking for a safe hiding place for your valuables? Keep your WD-40 can safe in the garage or in the press under the sink. It’s doubtful that a thief will be interested in the can of WD-40 that’s sitting on the shelf among tins of paint and cleaning products.

What better

place to stash

your spare keys, money

or valuable jewellery when you are out of the house or away for the weekend.The WD 40 safe is simple to use with a handy screw off base.Costs just €49.99 at www.spyireland.ie.

IT began with rumours from China about another pandemic. The reports were fragmentary and confused. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much worse.

Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to face events that tested our sanity and our sense of reality.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in a zombie epidemic, ‘World War Z’ by Max Brooks is also being made into a film starring Brad Pitt.

‘The Crucible’ will run at The Watergate Theatre from this coming Monday, September 19, to Saturday 24. Arthur Miller’s classic portrait of one man’s struggle toward grace is set in the scorching context of the 17th Century Salem Witch Trials. A community galvanized by fear and suspicion, a wife betrayed by lust, an orphan girl blind with passion and

possessed with revenge, ruthless prosecutors, deluded holy men, and covetous neighbours. The Crucible pulses with the destructiveness of socially

sanctioned violence and the heart of one tortured man trying to find his own goodness. ‘The Crucible’ tour is a co-

production with Washington DC-based ‘Keegan Theatre’ and ‘Town Hall Theatre Galway’, and will feature local actresses ‘Annette O’Shea’, ‘Iseult Cahill’, ‘Connie Walsh’ and ‘Alex Christle’.Shows: Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 at 8pm. Tickets: €20/15. Daytime shows at 11am on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22. Tickets: €10.

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Shimla Indian Restaurant, 6 Dean Street has introduced a new take away menu and to celebrate they have a range of special offers.Main dishes come with free boiled rice or plain nan. Take away orders over €30 come with a free bottle of Cobra beer and orders overs over €50 come with two bottles of Cobra. Prices have also been reduced on many items on the take away menu. Delivery charge is €1.50.The restaurant specialises in

Tandoori and curry dishes but also offers a wide range of Narwal, Bhuna, Rogan Josh, Kashmiri Rogan Josh, Karahi, Dupiaza, Saag, Jalfrezi, Rim Jim, Achari, Madras, Vindaloo, Danask, Pal, Chilli Masala, Handi, Moglai, Bombay, Ceylon, Malayan and Pathai dishes.If you feel like treating yourself or a loved one to a meal out, the restaurant has seating for 40 and staff are very friendly and experienced so you will be guaranteed a fantastic time.

A ‘Croi Nua’, Aislinn Family Services event will be held in St Mary’s Cathedral, James’s Street, Kilkenny at 8pm this coming Friday.Roscrea Folk Group will perform the Mass setting ‘Lead me Home’ which has been written and composed by Seamus Doran.A ‘Healing Mass for Families and Addicts’ will also be held with Chief Celebrant Fr Mark Condon.

Aislinn’s Croi Nua programme, which is based in the addiction centre in Ballyragget,

developed out of a desire expressed by parents and concerned persons for assistance in their lives,

dealing with life issues such as grief, and living with chemical abuse within the family.Croi Nua offers a space to step out for a short time into a nurturing , caring and tranquil environment in order to develop new coping skills and heal spiritually, emotionally and physically, enabling them to return and reclaim their family.

KILKENNY Free-range at Shellumsrath provide free-range geese, ducks, chickens and eggs to restaurants, shops, food outlets and ordinary consumers in the region.What started out as a hobby for owners, Mary and Tony Walsh, is now a small business.Quality for the consumer and quality of life for the birds they rear is what the business is built around. Mary and Tony manage production all the way from a day old chick and gosling to the end customer

and their volume of production is very small by industry standards thereby ensuring that they maintain the highest quality. The welfare of the birds is maintained by adhering to the five freedoms as determined by ‘Freedom Food’ standards: Freedom from hunger and thirst, from discomfort, from pain, injury or disease, freedom to express normal behaviour and freedom from fear and distress.Call (056) 7763426 for further details and for stockists.

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FRESH from their appearance at Electric Picnic, ‘The Japanese Popstars’ will do one of their outstanding DJ sets at The Set Theatre this coming Friday.The band are riding a wave of great live gigs, major festival bookings and media praise off the back of their amazing energy driven live shows and their critically acclaimed album ‘We Just

Are’. Native to Northern Ireland the band consists of Declan McLaughlin aka Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue.

Their gigs are typically raucous affairs, with an energy that crackles with each beat, chord, and keyboard stab. They aren’t indie rave, or

any other sub-sub-sub genre, theirs is big room, cool as hell electronic music built for festivals and stadiums. They’re not dance kids aping indie kids, nor are they indie kids dropping synths and calling themselves ‘ravers’. ‘The Japanese Popstars’ - back to the future dance music for today, tomorrow, and forever.Tickets €10.

7 ‘MODIFIED Expression’ running at the National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard until October 12 is an exciting mix of emerging and established artists whose work is inspired by the written word, or by the binding and recycling of books and paper, in response to the work of authors who participated in the literature strand of Kilkenny Arts Festival.

The artists have responded with a breathtaking range of techniques, manipulating and experimenting with all aspects of the authors’ recent works, from the text itself to the structure and binding, the paper, the print and the illustrations.Featuring calligraphic text, de-constructed books, intricately hand-cut paper, and recycled and re-sculptured works,

‘Modified Expression’ is a fascinating collection of artworks that demonstrates each artist’s personal interpretation of the texts, transforming literary works into visual ones and creating powerful new forms of expression.Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5:30pm, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11am – 5.30pm.

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FILM Red StateDirector Kevin Smith

This ham-fisted attempt at satire of Christian fundamentalism in America bites off more than it can

chew and delivers a film that is as boring as it is incompetent.It opens with three young lads who are seduced over the internet by an older woman (Melissa Leo) promising them sexual favours. They are suddenly kidnapped and taken to the compound of a religious cult where they meet an unfortunate end. Meanwhile the local authorities are sent in under the leadership of John Goodman whose beliefs are compromised by the situation. This film is directed by Kevin Smith who made one decent film many years ago called ‘Clerks’. Ever since then he has been trying to demonstrate that it wasn’t a fluke. However he has failed with each so-called ‘film’ and now drags his overweight ego and torso around the world pontificating on every subject as if he was the voice of a generation. Once in a while he attempts to prove that he is a serious director but this is as limp as one of his penis gags. The main problem is the editing.

Never have I seen a movie that treats its audience with such disdain. Every few minutes we are reminded of what happened in the scene before. There is also the length of some of the speeches which are really theatrical in length. It is like a bad student play with a few fancy action shots to make you think you are watching a movie. One monologue where we meet the preacher is more tedious and drawn out than a thousand decades of the Rosary.All this would be forgivable if a real life incident like the Waco disaster wasn’t being used to make light of some very serious issues. I am sure many of the victims of this event would be deeply insulted by the tone and approach of this film. The distasteful violence would be excusable if there was empathy for any of the characters involved. John Goodman and Melissa Leo are completely wasted in their roles and must have shook their heads in shame before each take.Even the most diehard atheist will be driven back into the arms of Jesus by this travesty. By sugaring the pill of his message with gross out comedy Smith has made a film which is neither funny or thought provoking. The only thing laughable about this film was the direction and the only exciting part was when the credits finally came. - DARRAGH BYRNE

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South Kilkenny: €20,000 needed to bridge the gap

Soccer’s birthday

Community Playschool

Craft classes return

Hospice Coffee

Senior Citizens

Youth Club

Much loved teacher says fond farewell to students

Danesfort GAA Lotto

South East edges its way to university

Minister Phil Hogan

Sister Act: Eileen Lanigan, centre, with her sisters, Kathleen Seale, left, and Mairead Walsh

Flower power: A bouquet of thanks from school caretaker, Ann Fleming

Husband Tommy and Eilish Lanigan with Joan Kenneally and Fr Nicholas Flavin Pics: Donal Foley

Devoted principal retires after 32 years serviceJIMMY RHATIGAN

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Soccer Round-Up with Jim Rhatigan

Maher shield was a big draw!

Girls, fancy a game of rugby?

Kilkenny Junior Soccer Fixtures

Morellis and soccer-mad children are chip butties!

Frome left, Giovanna Morelli presents jerseys to John Demecz, Sheila Donnelly and coaches. Below from left, Stars of the future, Coaching in progress and Parental support Pics by: Donal Foley


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