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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 2011
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It’s a spine chiller for pilgrim pupil ‘Her eyes began to roll in her head. It was unreal’
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PHOTO VILLAGE VICTORY IS A LARKIN THE PARK Pic: Donal Foley
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Spearheaded by amazing hurling cousins, Eoin and Philly Larkin, the Village stormed to glory with a team of fantastic sporting gladiators. 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
Tullahought prepares for Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney set for a visit to his Kilkenny roots
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Warm welcome: Monsignor Kieron Kennedy welcomes student volunteers to St Kieran’s College Pic: Donal Foley
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By George: Our boy Clooney is on the way Big reception planned for Hollywood heart-throb AISLING HURLEY AHURLEY@KILKENNYREPORTER.IE
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Little debs’ ball is a big draw! THE 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 children Shortall’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 lottos Golf €7,100; Vaults €400.
Ceili time John Ryan has thanked all who supported the ceili in Moneenroe. The venture was a great success.
Croagh Patrick Erin’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 Powley The 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’ chorus Enrolment for kids chorus for this year’s panto is on November 2, 2-4pm in the community hall.
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Get clicking for Hilary who will cook for Loreto
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Y GRANDSON Padraig loves sticky toffee pudding and I occasionally buy one for him, but then I thought why not make one myself. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a recipe so I googled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sticky Toffee Puddingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. 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. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, Bread carrot and pineapple cake, 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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Chef Factorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; competition and would like to ask you to vote for her by clicking this link and liking her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Spanish Tapasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; http://cheffactor. ie/content/competition-entries/ spanish-tapas-0 If Hilary winâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cook for her class, Loreto Convent 10 year reunion.
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Real class masqueraded at fashion show special Pics: Donal Foley
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Affordable Versace THE 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.
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Shop of the week 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 led walls it’s a shop that you would love to browse and spend time in.
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Theatre of the week ‘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.
Book of the week ‘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.
Product of the week 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.
Pub of the week 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.
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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.
Exhibition of the week K KILKENNY County Council Arts O Office invites artists, working aacross all art forms, to apply for tthe Arts Office 2011 Bursary. IIndividuals seeking assistance m must be involved in arts aactivities which, in the opinion o of the Arts Office, develop kknowledge of the arts and arts p practice, their own practice and tthat of others. T They must seek to promote the aarts and artists practice to the p public and develop aan 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, John Street, Kilkenny. T: 056 779 4138 E: niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie / mary.butler@kilkennycoco.ie Application forms can also be downloaded from tinyurl. com/5rumm2j or artlinks.ie.
Fundraiser of the week 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.
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.
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
Food of the Week ‘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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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 control 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 analysis 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
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Pics: Donal Foley
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
Captain fantastic: Paul O’Neill of the ‘Bridge
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the Shamrocks wilt
All pics: Donal Foley
Spot the ball: Hands high but who got the sliotar?
Eoin Larkin in full flight
Right: Battle Stations: Colin Fennelly and John Dalton in ‘semi’ struggle Wonderful warrior: Philly Larkin
Celebration time: Fabulous Village supporters
James Stephens are super champions
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