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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: A diary of self-imposed isolation. My hero Eddie and the pandemic of my childhood

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2020 0

When I was a lad growing up in the black-and-white years of the late Fifties, there was a lad who lived in the next neighbourhood, the age as me. Me and my pals were in awe of Eddie, for he was famous. He had his picture on a small cardboard box that sat beside the […]

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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: A diary of self-imposed isolation. Easy riders and human kindness

By Kilkenny Now 7th April 2020 0

My deepest heart-felt thanks to all those people, of all guises, who, locally, nationally and globally have risen to the occasion and are showing, in however small or big way, that good will always prevail, triumph even. From the organised community helpers to the supermarkets putting aide shopping times for the elderly to the willingness […]

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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: A diary of self-imposed isolation

By Kilkenny Now 30th March 2020 0

Covid-19 crisis has been coming for some time You couldn’t make it up. Well, in truth, you could. The award-winning movie Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon. Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Gwyneth Palthrow, and which I watched for the first time at the weekend, tells of health and government officials and […]

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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: A diary of self-imposed isolation

By Kilkenny Now 26th March 2020 0

Bright yellow bandana, and a sandwich tern heading for sea Day 11 in self-imposed isolation I am definitely an ‘extra’ in a Sci-Fi B movie where things are beginning to feel somewhat surreal. Getting stir crazy too, so I head off for a spring walk over the mill and down the playing fields. There’s more […]