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Faceworks

The Martian

Faceworks offers specialised aesthetic treatments that are medically based, scientifically proven and results driven.

The friendly team are passionate about delivering the best results, using only the top products, in a safe, clinical environment and are constantly training and updating their skills. Faceworks specialises in treatments that can combat the signs of ageing, and improve your skin, your appearance, and your overall confidence.

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When astronauts blast off from the planet Mars, they leave behind Mark Watney (Matt Damon), presumed dead after a fierce storm. With only a meager amount of supplies, the stranded visitor must utilize his wits and spirit to find a way to survive on the hostile planet. Meanwhile, back on Earth, members of NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring him home, while his crew mates hatch their own plan for a daring rescue mission.

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Maxi Zoo Maxi Zoo staff understand how much happiness your pet brings you and will work with you to ensure your pet has a healthy, happy, fulfilled and fun life. Maxi Zoo boasts an impressive line of exclusive products, designed by pet lovers for pet lovers. All Maxi Zoo stores offer a free weighing service, along with plenty of advice and assistance regarding your petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal nutrition needs. Maxi Zoo Pet is located at Four Lakes Retail Park, Dublin Rd, Carlow. Visit maxizoo.ie for more.

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To Pimp a Butterfly

by Kendrick Lamar Californian musician Kendrick Lamarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third album combines elements of funk, spoken word poetry and jazz, and is described by Lamar as â&#x20AC;&#x153;honest, fearful and unapologeticâ&#x20AC;?. One of the most lyrically excellent albums of any genre in years, Lamar raps fluently on the subjects of social injustice, inequality, greed, religious philosophy, personal anxiety and more. Lamar switches up styles and tempos within an intricate mesh of free-flowing jazz, seventies funk and hip hop.

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Eden Manor Bridal

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Eden Manor Bridal is in the heart of County Wexford. They treat every bride to a day with a difference with the Eden experience, where your time is valued and your friends and family are welcome to join with you in seeking out the perfect wedding dress. Eden Bridal is open Monday to Friday inclusive from 10am till 10pm at night, so no matter what hours you and your friends and family work, you will be able to find a time that suits you. www.edenbridal.net

Call of Duty: Black Ops III combines three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies. The title ushers in an unprecedented level of innovation, including jaw-dropping environments, never before experienced weaponry and abilities, and the introduction of a new, improved fluid movement system. All of this is brought to life by advanced technology custom crafted for this title, including new AI and animation systems.

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Sinnott Kitchens

Concussion

Sinnott Kitchens is a well established family run kitchen company, who have been manufacturing kitchens, bedroom and kitchen furniture for almost 30 years. They offer a wide range of kitchen and fitted wardrobes in quality Irish, German, English and Italian designs. Their ranges vary from contemporary modern to country traditional to classic traditional. They can also offer hand treated, hand painted and in-frame kitchens. Their impressive showroom is located on the Kells Rd, 6 miles outside of Kilkenny City. Visit sinnot kitchens.ie for more information.

While conducting an autopsy on former NFL football player Mike Webster (David Morse), forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) discovers neurological deterioration that is similar to Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. Omalu names the disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy and publishes his findings in a medical journal. As other athletes face the same diagnosis, the crusading doctor embarks on a mission to raise awareness about football-related head trauma.

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The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

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Habitica (free) To-do lists are all well and good, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to spend a couple of days creating them and then fail to tick anything off. Habitica changes good intentions into actions by turning it into a game. Cleaning the kitchen never sounds like something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d leap out of bed to do, but when that unlocks achievements and improves your virtual character rating in the process it suddenly sounds more appealing.

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Despair day as exiles hammer Carlow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; London 5-16, Carlow 1-11 BAD and all as the ďŹ nal scoreline looks, and it is very bad, being there, on the ground, braving wind and drizzly rain, it was much, much worse, for with an hour played in Netwatch Cullen Park on Sunday the Exiles led by a shattering 4-15 to 0-7, a gaping 20 point gap.

The home countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-4 in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rubbish timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; could be viewed as the team showing some â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ďŹ ghtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but that would be clutching at straws as this was, without doubt, Carlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst day on the hurling ďŹ eld in a long, long, long time.

Diehards in the small attendance talked of a league defeat in Ballina in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;04 as the last â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;despair dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; while the last time this writer left the County Grounds feeling as low after a Carlow hurling match was all of 21 years ago, early 1995 when Kerry inďŹ&#x201A;icted a 5-11 to 0-6 home defeat on the red, yellow and green.

The Post Mortemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had begun long before the losers found the sanctuary of the dressing room and all the usual suspects were rolled out: the manager Pat English, of course, came in for ďŹ&#x201A;ak, so too the County Board while the players who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit and the fall-out of the Rangers/Myshall row were also cited as reasons for the corpse that is Carlow hurling.

There could be grains of truth in all that. Yet it was the same manager who was in charge when Carlow beat Dublin in

Fortress Parnell Park in the U-21 HC three years ago, the same County Board then too, the same County Board last Summer when the Scallionaters came within a point of Kilkenny in a gripping Leinster U-21 semi-ďŹ nal.

Players not committing due to the fall out from the row?

Naomh Eoinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eoin Nolan has had to have a thumb rebroken, a injury he sustained in Mullingar last year not mending correctly, Eddie Byrne of the Rangers is sitting important ďŹ nal exams, hence neither are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; now but both have been in attendance at Carlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s league matches, hardly evidence of men â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;outâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with the game.

So what then has gone wrong you ask? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good question but maybe the answer depends on where you felt Carlow hurling stood in the ďŹ rst place.

There are those who felt that we were ready to step to the next level, to drive into the Top 10, to mix it with the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;big boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, running Limerick to a goal in a league game in Limerick, a halfchance of an equaliser late on, and coming within the width of a goalpost to beating Wexford in Wexford in the championship (James Doyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grounder just inches wide) still fresh in the memory while, in sensational fashion, Mount Leinster Rangers Club Championship exploits brought Carlow hurling to the attention of the Nation.

Yet, there are those of us who

argue you have to keep an eye over your shoulder too and believe that Carlow were guilty of not treating the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;chasing packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with respect with Westmeath and Kerry, in particular, gifted motivation when certain elements in these here parts whinged and moaned too long about the NHL structures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These lads donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they should be on the same ďŹ eld as ye, think ye are beneath them!â&#x20AC;? was all a Westmeath or Kerry manager had to say ahead of a Carlow game, then let his charges out!

Kerry have certainly leapfrogged us and their beating of Laois and rattling of Limerick is reminiscent of Carlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploits just three short years ago. We, on the other hand, are on the trap-door to double relegation, league and championship.

These things, though, tend to by cyclical, Kerry, Westmeath, Carlow have all rattled the hurling hierarchy at different junctures down the years, then slip back into oblivion, before rising again. Same with Kildare, Down, Derry and Meath, all have had their days in the sun, endured their dark night of the soul too.

Carlow are deep into a dark night of the soul, dawn, just now, seems a long way away, but if the darkest hour is before the dawn then we live in hope that this startling setback will focus minds, that on-ďŹ eld leaders will emerge, for remember

time nor tide waits for no man and the Carlow of a few years ago have lost key men, time now for some of the then young kids on the block to take ownership of Carlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hurling destiny.

Returning brieďŹ&#x201A;y to Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, Carlow actually led 0-2 to 0-1 after 4 minutes, trailed 1-5 to 0-2 at the end of the ďŹ rst quarter, were 2-12 to 0-3 in arrears at half-time and 12 minutes after the restart the scoreboard read an ugly 3-15 to 0-4 when Diarmuid Byrne was red carded for a second yellow card offence, this one, ironically for an incident involving former Carlow player Daryl Roberts (see box).

It was damage limitation from there to the dreary ďŹ nish.

CARLOW: Jack Barron (Erinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Own); Ronan Nolan (Naomh Eoin), Shane Kavanagh (Naomh Eoin), Michael Malone (Mount Leinster Rangers); James Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara (Naomh Eoin), David English (Ballinkillen) 0-1 pen, Ger Coady (St Mullins) Diarmuid Byrne (Mount Leinster Rangers); Kevin McDonald (Mount Leinster Rangers); Craig Wall (Ballinkillen) 0-4, Seamus Murphy (St Mullins), James Doyle (Erinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Own); Seanie Whelan (Ballinkillen), Conor Lawlor (Carlow Town) 0-1, Denis Murphy (Mount Leinster Rangers). Subs: John Michael Nolan (Naomh Eoin) 0-3 for Coady (26), Marty Kavanagh (St Mullins) for Doyle (h-t),

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