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
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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,
