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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 2011

Kilkenny ReporterT: 056 7795051 E: [email protected]

‘Her eyes began to roll in her head. It was unreal’ »Pages 2&3

George Clooney set for a visit to his Kilkenny roots »P4

It’s a spine chiller for pilgrim pupil

Tullahought prepares for Hollywood heart-throb

Pic: Donal Foley

VILLAGE VICTORY IS A LARKIN THE PARKSpearheaded by amazing hurling cousins, Eoin and Philly Larkin, the Village stormed to glory with a team of fantastic sporting gladia-tors. Our picture shows ‘Man of the Match’, Eoin Larkin shrugging off the challenge of Shamrocks duo, Aidan Cummins and James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick »See Pages 36, 37, 38 and 39

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Super students show carefor Church and community

Local schools and colleges have a touch of classJIMMY [email protected]

Warm welcome: Monsignor Kieron Kennedy welcomes student volunteers to St Kieran’s College Pic: Donal Foley

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Above: Fergal Brennan, left, with Bishop Freeman, Peter Reynolds, Knights of Columbanus, Fr Peter Farren, Pope John Paul 11 Awards, Msgr Kieron Kennedy, President St Kieran’s College and Fr Willie Purcell, John Paul 11 Awards.

Right: Kilkenny students in Medujorge

Pic: Donal Foley (main image)

Students hear how visionary changed the life of Fergal, 18St Kieran’s pupil had a message of hope for peers

JIMMY [email protected]

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‘Magnificent Seven’ get Watergate welcome

By George: Our boy Clooney is on the wayBig reception planned for Hollywood heart-throb

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Left and above right: George Clooney and the star on his bike. Above: Power’s Bar Tullahought

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Follow the Leader: Martin Rafter of Leader, with tutors and children at the successful cake stall Pic: Donal Foley

From Manchester to Muckalee for coffee!Another new shop for our city of optimism


Open for business: Shop owner Gabriella Esmeralda

Food for thought as teens delight in school projectSuper local chefs help kids to get mix right



way to insulate


Review of The Unconquerable Keane by David Smith

BY DIARMUID O’FLYNN

Sharp insight on the Keanest edgeSanta to make a big splash with Christmas Swim


Little debs’ ball is a big draw!

Chubby BrennanTHE NEXT generation of Deen Celtic took to the soccer field for the first time, away to Fort Rangers.The game ended in a 2-2 draw with Alan Smyth and Eoghan Moore the goal scorers. Debutants were Dominic Bolster-Conroy, Shane Buggy, Oran Byrne, Kieran Brennan, Malachy Flaherty, Matthew Heeney,Eoghan Moore, Jessica O’Shea, Aaron Powis,Harry Roche, Joey Rowe, Robert Ring, Alan and Kiel Smyth.

Darts for childrenShortall’s Bar hold a dart tournament in aid of Temple Street Hospital on Friday. Draw for doubles on the night. Games begin 8.30.

Local lottosGolf €7,100; Vaults €400.

Ceili timeJohn Ryan has thanked all who supported the ceili in Moneenroe. The venture was a great success.

Croagh PatrickErin’s Own GAA hold a sponsored climb of Croagh Patrick on the weekend of November 19/20. Anyone who raises €150 or more will receive free travel. Accommodation and breakfast places are limited. Information: 086-0514071.Donations will be given to local charities, including church renovations, from proceeds.On behalf of both Church communities in the ‘Comer

and outlying areas, I would like to wish Canon Tom Sherlock and his wife Hazel a very happy retirement. They will be badly missed as they contributed to many aspects of local life. The couple are returning to their native Cork.

Queen of PowleyThe following dates have been confirmed for heats of this year’s Wellie Queen competition: Mahon’s, Clogh, November 4; Shortall’s, November 5; Dillon’s, November 25; Kavanagh’s, Clogh, November 26.

Kids’ chorusEnrolment for kids chorus for this year’s panto is on November 2, 2-4pm in the community hall.


Above: House of prayer: A Good Friday and even better Saturday

Right; It’s official: Mayor David Fitzgerald heralds the opening of a

new church, supported by Pastors John Nulty and Andy Guilfoyle, with Deputy John McGuinness, Cllr Joe Malone and

supporting pastorsPics: Donal Foley

Garden blaze: Oil tank and shed burned down Pic: Donal Foley

Cold comfort for terror home woman as she seeks a houseAISLING HURLEY

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Ecumenism alive as nomads become Church key holdersGood Friday leads to even better Saturday!



Breda Raggett

MY GRANDSON Padraig loves sticky toffee pudding and I occasionally

buy one for him, but then I thought why not make one myself.I didn’t have a recipe so I googled ‘Sticky Toffee Pudding’. I came across a wonderful web site www.odlums.ie and they have recipes for just about anything you could possibly want to bake, including sticky toffee pudding. Odlums is synonyms with baking in Ireland and I can remember attending their cookery demonstrations in St. Mary’s Hall here over 30 years ago.The different sections include breads, cakes, desserts, savory, gluten free, weddings, baking for kids and Christmas. They have all the old dishes and many many new recipes. There is a recipe for Guinness Brown

Bread, carrot and pineapple cake, blackberry and walnut bread and, believe it or not, a recipe for HRT Bread. The great thing about this web site is that there is a designated facility for printing the recipes.I have spoken to a lot of people who are going back to home baking, principally because of the economy. There is nothing like the taste of home baking. If you want to start home baking, Odlums is the ideal site for you. I would like to mention a young woman, Hilary Hughes from Gowran who has just entered a ‘Chef Factor’ competition and would like to ask you to vote for her by clicking this link and liking her ‘Spanish Tapas’ http://cheffactor.ie/content/competition-entries/spanish-tapas-0If Hilary win’s she’ll cook for her class, Loreto Convent 10 year re-union.

Get clicking for Hilary who will cook for Loreto

Bread carrot and pineapple cake

On the move...

Welsh Choir helps Kilkenny and KenyaLocal volunteers will build centre for orphans

On song: Morriston Orpheus Choir


Peaches is the cream of local boutiques

Gritty girls: Peaches owners, Andrea Lyons and Siobhan Forrest Pic: Donal Foley

Stage set for Springhill’s ‘Ballroom of Romance’

John Travers and fellow musician Paul Piggott

Real class masqueraded at fashion show special

Pencil skirts are write on in stunning Market Cross show

Pics: Donal Foley


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Outstanding in her field: Anna ready to conker worldOver 3,000 enjoy Freshford’s 12th festival

They came, they saw and they conkered Pic: Donal Foley


SEAN [email protected]

Kilkenny Cat is not happy with Fat Cats!

TD Ann Phelan

A first for local rehab as it becomes best in Ireland

Green light for Ballyhale plant

Sisters Victoria and

Genevieve Condon, from Greenshill, at

the Market Cross Fashion

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W WWalking the streets in the pain!

WE DO NOT DOUBT THE SINCERITY OF OUR CITY FATHERS

AND MOTHERS, NOR DO WE ACCUSE

THEM ALL OF NOT KNOWING THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING BUT BELIEVE THAT

COLLECTIVE VISITS WOULD GIVE

THEM A BETTER APPRECIATION OF HOW BAD THINGS ARE

“NICKNAMES

OFTEN STARTED IN SCHOOL BUT IF

YOU MANAGED TO GET THROUGH YOUR EDUCATION

YEARS WITHOUT AN EXTRA NAME, THEN THE LIKELIHOOD IS THAT YOU WOULD

NOT BE NEGLECTED IN THE WORKPLACE

Our nicknames capital is ’Comer

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Wild orgies and goings on at Kilkenny wakesSEAN HURLEY

The goings on at Kilkenny wakes could hark back to Roman times

LIVINGWITH AISLING HURLEY [email protected]

Indoor and outdoor creature comforts

REPORTER WISH LIST THESE ARE A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS...

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Mascara revolutionDIORSHOW 360 is the first versatile spinning

mascara that delivers volume, length, and curl. It’s the ultimate

professional mascara that mimics a make-up artist’s application technique for a perfect 360º lash-styling effect.It features a patented double-helix brush with extra-smooth fibers and a sculptable wax formula to coat, curl and

lengthen lashes. The spinning brush rotates in both directions to adapt to every need: left- or right-handed, upper and lower lashes. While it might sound like a gizmo the spinning brush manages to catch all your eyelashes no matter how short they are.

Kitchen essentialsKITCHEN clutter is something most homes suffer from and finding attractive storage solutions can prove difficult.This set of retro-style stackable tins from Garden Trading is the perfect stackable storage

solution for two of the most important kitchen essentials- biscuits and cakes! The cake tin features a rubberised airtight seal and each tin features chrome handles and labels on the front in classic font. There are matching kitchen accessories also available including tea and sugar canisters.Available from www.amara.co.uk for €47.

Affordable VersaceTHE Versace collection for H&M hits selected stores on Monday, November 17. The hotly anticipated collection will be available from H&M in

Dundrum Town Centre; South King Street, Dublin 2 and Royal Avenue, Belfast.The range is full of strong pieces that stand out, with colours, prints and cuts that are clean and precise. The women’s collection is full of dresses, while the men’s collection is very sophisticated.

Versace has revisited some of its most famous prints, which are used on dresses, short pleat skirts, velvet bomber jackets, leggings and jeans.

Bring colour to your bathroomIF you have a colour scheme in your bathroom or just want to liven up the room with a bit of colour then these coloured toilet rolls from Renova are for you.More than just a gimmick the toilet paper is three-ply, super soft and extremely absorbent. Made from 100% virgin pulp it is biodegradable and has 140 sheets per roll. It would make an ideal gift for someone who has everything.Available for €2.17 for one roll, €2.76 for two rolls, €5.81 for six rolls and a special gift pack with three rolls for €7.91 from shop.renovaonline.net.

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TVLIVINGTOGETHERby Franc Micklem - [email protected]

Some winter warmers from Kwilla

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LOLA Rose is a gorgeous new boutique at No. 2 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny. Open just a short while it is already making waves among the fashion conscious women of Kilkenny.With a great selection of casual, daywear, occasion wear, evening dresses, shoes and accessories it has everything you could need to complete a whole outfit.Labels stocked include Pia Michi, Caroline Kilkenny, Gestuz, Ceci Tokyo, Snob, Manoush, Soaked in Luxury, Loraine Domican head pieces, Fiona McGuinness shoes,

Hultquist and Tutti and co. From its stunning white painted shop front to its interior wooden floors and white panelled walls it’s a shop that you would love to browse and spend time in.

So, if you have a Christmas party or another glamorous event looming make sure you pop by where Agnes will be delighted to meet you and offer you some

wonderful advice. Opening hours are Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm.

THE Orchard House Bar at New Orchard, Kilkenny is hosting a wine tasting event on Thursday, November

17. Entry is €8 and there will be canapés and plenty of wine to be

sampled. All proceeds will go to the Orchard Rovers Soccer Club.The Liam McCarthy Cup will also make an appearance at the pub on Friday, December 16. There will be live music

and all customers will have an opportunity to have their photo

taken with the cup and maybe a player or two. There will also be a raffle and all proceeds will go to the players’ holiday fund.The Orchard House has function rooms that can cater for all types of occasions including birthdays, retirements and christenings. If you are looking for somewhere to hold a meeting they can cater for that too and have an overhead projector available.Food is served daily from 8.30am to 8pm.

‘FIGHT Night’, by Gavin Kostick, performed by Aonghus Og McAnally and directed by Bryan Burroughs is at The Watergate Theatre on Saturday night. ‘Fight Night’ is a gripping journey charting the comeback of Dan Coyle Jr, a failed amateur boxer from a long line of accomplished fighters. Living in the twin

shadows of his overbearing father and his brother’s Olympic success, Dan lets his training slip in favour of girls and booze. Then, an incident with his father splinters the family and exiles Dan from the ring. It’s not until the birth of his own son years later that his competitive fire is reignited and he takes the first

tentative steps on his road to redemption.This fast-paced and engaging solo performance combines intense physicality with a classic Dublin wit in a storytelling experience that will leave audiences both exhausted and exhilarated. Tickets: €15/€12 from The Watergate Theatre (056) 7761674.

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Theatre of the week

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SAVE on central heating bills this winter with a mobile sleeping bag. A brilliant alternative to a dressing gown for lounging around the house, the ‘MusucBag’, a revolutionary wearable sleeping bag, is more of a suit than a bag, giving maximum mobility and keeping you warm as toast. Snuggled into a MusucBag you can move your limbs

freely, stand

up, walk, cross your legs, do the David Brent dance - whatever. Its lining is made from soft-touch nylon with a polyester hollow fibre bonded filling. Each MusucBag can withstand temperatures as low as -13°C. Brrr-illiant! €103 from www.firebox.com.

‘The Havishams: The Hive of Nightmares’ by Kilkenny writer Edward Crane is out now in paperback in most Kilkenny bookshops. The story blends elements of horror, science fiction and a healthy dose of laughs. It centres around Robbie Havisham - a shy ten year old boy with a special gift. When Robbie’s grandfather

dies, his family inherit a vast mansion. Soon Robbie and his sister Lucy discover one of their grandfather’s experiments – a device that was designed to destroy nightmares! When Lucy tampers with the machine she sets a series of terrifying events in motion.Suitable for children between the ages of 8 and 12. Cost: €12.

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XIANG Long Chinese Restaurant on Main Street, Urlingford, is a popular destination for locals and visitors to the North Kilkenny town.The restaurant offers a varied menu with an extensive range of traditional Chinese dishes. An Irish menu is also available.For diners who would like to treat themselves to a night in, there is also plenty to chose from on the restaurant’s take-away menu. A delivery service is also available seven days a week from 5pm to

11pm and costs €2 for local deliveries. For addresses outside the town call and ask for a quote.Opening hours are Sunday to Thursday 4pm to 11pm and Friday and Saturday 4pm to 11.30pm. Call (056) 8838020 or 087 6663177 to book a table or for

further details. Groups or parties can be catered for.

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Fundraiser of the week

Restaurant of the week

Exhibition of the week

Gig of the week

RICHMOND Fontaine return to Kilkenny this Saturday night for a gig in Cleere’s Theatre. The band was formed in 1994 at Portland Meadows racetrack as songwriter/vocalist Willy Vlautin and bassist Dave Harding pored over the racing form and talked music between races. They took their mutual love of Husker Du, Willie Nelson, X, The Blasters, and The

Replacements and started playing music together. Before long, Fontaine was a four-piece with an avid fan-base.Their latest album ‘The

High Country’ tells an operatic tragic tale. Willy Vlautin has written an extraordinarily eccentric album. More than a concept record, ‘The High

Country’ is a songnovel: a fully realized, novel-sized story set to music. Set in a rural logging community, it is a Gothic love story between a mechanic and an auto parts store counter girl, whose secret love inspires an effort to escape the darkness of the world that surrounds them.Tickets: €20.

Saturday 4pm to further

7 KILKENNY County Council Arts Office invites artists, working across all art forms, to apply for the Arts Office 2011 Bursary.Individuals seeking assistance must be involved in arts activities which, in the opinion of the Arts Office, develop knowledge of the arts and arts practice, their own practice and that of others. They must seek to promote the arts and artists practice to the public and develop an appreciation of the arts and

their own practice and that of others. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is no later than 4pm on Monday 14th November 2011. Contact Niamh Finn, Arts Administrator, Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, No. 76, JohnStreet, Kilkenny. T: 056 779 4138 E: [email protected] / [email protected] forms can also be downloaded from tinyurl.com/5rumm2j or artlinks.ie.

THE Morriston Orpheus Choir from Wales make a return visit to Kilkenny on Saturday, November 5 for a fundraising concert in aid of the Susie Long Hospice Fund and the Building of Hope Kenya Project 2012. Often referred to as the unofficial ambassadors for Wales , the choir is one of Wales’ oldest and most renowned. Their busy schedule takes them all over the UK and

to some of the major concert halls of the world, including Carnegie Hall, New York and Sydney

Opera House, where they have received many standing ovations. They have also represented

Wales at the Seville Expo and have recorded CDs with The Alarm, T’Pau and Howard Jones. The concert venue is St John’s Church, Dublin Road. Show: 8pm. Tickets: €20 from The Book Centre, High Street, Newpark Hotel (056 7760500); Rollercoaster Records (056 7763669), Billy Murphy, Ballyfoyle (086 3262446) and members of the Susie Long Hospice Fund.

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‘FOOD for Sharing’, is the latest book by well-known Kilkenny chef, Anne Neary. It emphasises simple, straight forward recipes with one chapter devoted to 1960s classics including prawn cocktail, French onion soup and croquette potatoes.Anne is one of the most respected chefs on the Kilkenny cooking circuit and is well known

all over the country through her highly uccessful Ryeland House Cookery School, broadcast appearances and food columns.Passionate about cooking, she has spent all her professional life promoting food and in her 30 years in Kilkenny has been a culinary pioneer championing the work of local and regional artisan

food producers.She lives in Cuffesgrange which is also home to a tribe of talented artisan producers of food and natural ingredients. Anne built her own poly tunnel last year in which she grows herbs, vegetables and soft fruits all of which she uses for her cookery classes.Available in all good bookshops.

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A solo exhibition of performance and of bravery

One man show: Actor Aidan Dooley


FILM Margin CallDirector J.C. Chander

Once in a while a film comes along which summarizes an entire age. One such film is David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”, another

is this masterpiece which shows how the financial meltdown happened in the most accessible and exciting way yet.It starts with a whole floor of traders at an investment bank being let go. One of them (Stanley Tucci) hands a fellow risk analyst (Zachary Quinto) a USB stick with his research which is unfinished. Quinto succeeds in cracking it and unleashes hell. It becomes obvious to him the economic Armageddon which we all now live in. He tells his masters and we see how the structure of the institutions did as much to cause the catastrophe as the phoney math-ematics. His bosses up the line from Paul Bettany and Kevin Spacey to finally Jeremy Irons all try to take advantage of the misery this disaster created.This movie has the whiff of authenticity about it. The director’s father worked on Wall Street his whole life. There is a lot of empathy for his subjects and by round-ing them off as human beings he makes the situation more horrible. Based on the Lehmann Brothers’ scandal it even names Irons’ character very closely after their CEO. However the fictionalised version manages to make all the arcane concepts and ideas very understandable. What is truly shocking is the fact than that many of people in charge don’t understand how the system works either but only exploit how the market reacts.

There is an incredible cast involved here. It is so refreshing to see a lot of faces who have spent the last decade portraying cardboard villains actually use their talents. What is most surprising is Kevin Spacey’s turn. Channelling his idol Jack Lemmon’s everyman he creates a character that is the moral fulcrum of the movie and the most flesh and blood creation of his entire career. Another actor Paul Bettany reminds us of his explosive beginnings in “Gangster No.1” –here he is superb as a charismatic trader who must square his loyalty with his ambition. But it is really Iron’s movie- all lizard charm and Machiavellian cunning. It is his best ever portrait in a gallery of masterpieces.What we really learn from this film is that science was corrupted in America. This caused a chain reaction through the financial system as engineers were using their minds to build risk based products to fool people instead of steel bridges to help humanity. Those above them however didn’t understand how the magic of their numbers worked and they destroyed their reputations to make even more money when the meltdown became obvious. The system has been destroyed by the greed of the many and the American dream achieved by the very few and shows why traders and bankers will be allowed to con-trol us all forever more unless we change.This is a movie for anyone who wants to understand why there is less money in their life at the moment. Unlike the dreary analy-sis and whinging that clogs up the airwaves and internet it is brilliantly scripted and performed. It will make you very angry and hopefully next time an investment comes your way that will be at the cost of another you will refuse. Or at least make you look beyond the voodoo of the numbers. – DARRAGH BYRNE


Queen of the Minor Key, Jewell set for sparkling show


Artists on hand to offer inspiration

A piece by artist Deirdre Gallagher... ... another piece by the artist

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Doctors will explain surgery

Historical Society

Point to Point

Fashion Show

Twinning quiz

Christmas party

Food festival cooks up a stormOver 20,000 eating, imbibing and a little bit of merriment!


Treat for tastebuds: From left: Rod and Julie Calder-Potts of Highbank Farm, paella being cooked at Savour Kilkenny Food Market and Ruth Gibbons of Truffle Fairy Artisan Chocolates

In brief... Ooh la, la, it’s French night at Hole in the Wall

Morgan Cooke

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Soccer Round-Up with Jim Rhatigan

Oscar Traynor glory?: Not a ghost of a chance!

Kilkenny Junior Fixtures

Kilkenny soccer results

Great battle in the mud

Kilmacow Lotto

Kilkenny GAA Club Forum Kilmacow kids carry on: Cup romance is alive

Danesfort GAA Lotto

Freebooters Schoolboys’ chairman Tony Scanlon with players Edward Moylan and Conor Heary, accepting new jerseys sponsored by Irish Power & Process Managing Director Noel Heary, right

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Bennettsbridge 1-14; Thomastown 0-13

Robert Lennon gets the better of Andrew Kehoe and Adrian Burke

Blanch battle: Luke Blanchfield gets the better of Thomastown’s Kevin Blanchfield Eoghan O’Connor is chased by Mark Walsh

Young champions: The pride of Bennettsbridge

Wafer was ice cool as the ‘Bridge rocked neighbours

Greats would approve of a new generation SEAN OG

Captain fantastic: Paul O’Neill of the ‘Bridge

Pics: Donal Foley

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James Stephens 1-20; Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-15.

It’s Stephens Day as

Cup of cheer: Captain supreme Jackie Tyrrell

Larkins show class when the chips are down

Hercules had Village blood in his veins!JIMMY RHATIGAN

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Hurling Hercules: Jackie Tyrrell

Happy clubmen: Jackie Tyrrell with Stephens boss Niall Rigney and Tommy Lanigan, right

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Right: Battle

Stations: Colin

Fennelly and John

Dalton in ‘semi’ struggle

the Shamrocks wilt

Spot the ball: Hands high but who got the sliotar? Eoin Larkin in full flight

James Stephens are super champions

Celebration time: Fabulous Village supporters

Wonderful warrior: Philly Larkin

All pics: Donal Foley

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