Hurling: the ancient Irish sport Kilkenny Now 22nd June 2022 How much do you know about hurling? This outdoor Gaelic sport is rising in popularity again. Find out all you need to know about this
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Time to end this sham fight and build the new hospital Kilkenny Now 8th May 2022 The politicians who are trying to block the construction of the new National Maternity Hospital on the site of St Vincent’s, in south Dublin, are
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Tread softly, Mary Lou, when you tread on unionist dreams Kilkenny Now 30th April 2022 It is more than 30 years since Dominic Murray published Worlds Apart, a book that has stood the test of time as a revealing and
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Croke Park in September is where we all belong Kilkenny Now 23rd April 2022 The GAA has been running ads on television and other platforms featuring people with big hearts who play for small clubs. They show young lads
MICHAEL WOLSEY: When a glimpse of stocking was nothing shocking Kilkenny Now 16th April 2022 I was scrolling through television listings when I noticed the BBC was running some of the old St Trinian’s films. Not the 2009 version, with
MICHAEL WOLSEY: It’s little things that make our hospitals look sick Kilkenny Now 10th April 2022 Big changes have just been announced for Ireland’s hospital system. That worries me, for I remember other announcements of big changes. They always cost a
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Sonia and the census get the gender question right Kilkenny Now 2nd April 2022 The first personal question on your census form asks your name; the second says ‘what is your sex’. You have a simple choice, male or
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Bah mumbug! Time to ditch this Mother’s Day nonsense Kilkenny Now 26th March 2022 What is a modern Irish mammy? Or mam, mum, ma, mom, mommy, mother? Whatever you’re having yourself. She has as many roles as she has
MICHAEL WOLSEY: How a dark horse helped Charlie beat the bookie at last Kilkenny Now 19th March 2022 Work was scarce when I was growing up and a lot of men, with nothing better to do, divided their days between the bookmaker and
MICHAEL WOLSEY: Ireland and the free world is at war – and we must live with the pain Kilkenny Now 12th March 2022 In 2001, a junior minister, Joe Jacob, talked himself out of his job with advice on how Ireland should handle a nuclear emergency. We should,