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MICHAEL WOLSEY: We could learn a lesson about school dinners

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2019 0

IF YOU have been making back-to-school preparations in recent weeks, you may have been given a menu along with the book list and uniform requirements. Thirty-six primary schools – at least one in every county – have been chosen to pioneer a scheme which will deliver a hot meal at lunchtime to some 6,600 children. […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Better to get a real job than a useless degree

By Kilkenny Now 21st August 2019 0

APPRENTICESHIPS are making a comeback, I read. I hope that is true. It would be a victory for common sense and might mark a turning of the tide which has seen degrees and diplomas devised for almost every profession and trade, including my own. It wasn’t always so. My first job was an apprenticeship, although […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Come on ye girls in green, show us how it’s done

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

IT has been a very good year for women’s sport, culminating in some thrilling contests at Wimbledon. For me, it started last summer with the World Cup exploits of the Irish hockey team. I was in Spain at the time and watched several of their games in a bar where people of all nationalities seemed […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: How Fine Gael has shot itself in both feet

By Kilkenny Now 22nd May 2019 0

GOVERNMENTS rarely do well in local or European elections. Voters do not see either event as terribly important and usually take the opportunity to give parties in power a bit of kicking. They don’t need to look for an excuse this time out. Fine Gael has shot itself in both feet with two of the […]