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China calling: Chen Xiaobing and Samantha Zou of Shanghai Finance University with Dr Patricia Mulcahy and Declan Doyle of IT Carlow

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Located in the historic village of Skryne, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is best known for its appearance in the famous Guinness Christmas TV advert. KILDARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Malone Newsagent.

Date Founded: 1864 Located in Kildare town, L. Malone Newsagents has remained in the ownership of the same family since opening in 1864. Thought to be one of the oldest newsagents in the county, it celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2014. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lâ&#x20AC;? in the name dates back to the original proprietor, Brigid Malone, who decided to call the shop after her daughter Lily.

KILKENNY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Kytelerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inn. Date founded: 1324 Located on St Kieranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Street in the medieval city of Kilkenny, the ďŹ rst owner of Kytelerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inn is said to have been Dame Alice Kyteler, who was accused of witchcraft in the early 14th century.

LAOIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Morrisseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar. Date founded: 1775 Like many of the old pubs on this list, Morriseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Abbeyleix began life as a grocery store that also served alcohol. To this day, it retains its â&#x20AC;&#x153;traditionalâ&#x20AC;? pub feel, containing many kinds of Irish memorabilia from days of yore.

LONGFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supply Store. Date founded: 1875 Located in Edgeworthstown, Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supply Store has been serving the community of Edgeworthstown and the surrounding areas for 140 years. The business is currently in the hands of the ďŹ fth generation of the family.

LOUTH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Argus. Date founded: 1835 The Dundalk-based Argus began publication as The Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal. The weekly newspaper is fourteen years older than its rival in Co. Louth, the Dundalk Democrat, which was established in 1849.

OFFALY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thrace Synthetic Packaging. Date founded: 1865 Located in Clara, Thrace Synthetic Packaging was founded in 1865.

The company manufactures woven technical fabrics from jute and produced packaging products from jute and cotton. 150 years later, Thrace Synthetic Packaging is still one of the leading producers and suppliers of technical fabrics and industrial packaging products.

Westmeath â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Canton Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Date founded: 1825 Located in Mullingar, Canton Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar has been at the heart of business in the town since 1825.

The business is located adjacent to the statue of local legend Joe Dolan in the town centre.

WEXFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; GH Letts. Date founded: 1810 Located in Enniscorthy, Lettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is one of the leading drinks wholesale and distribution organisations in the country.

Today, seven generations later, the business is still in the hands of the Lett family.

Wicklow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Avoca. Date founded: 1723 With headquarters located in Kilmacanogue, Avoca is an Irish family-run business that is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest surviving clothing manufacturing companies. Today Avoca has nearly a dozen stores and cafĂŠs across the country.

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,W¶V KDQJRYHU VHDVRQ We’ve all been there, when you say that was the best night of my life but actually can’t remember anything after the second pub. Strangers pass you the next day and smile at you and you say to yourself, who the heck was that?

YOUR head is killing you, you spent all of your money, and you have no idea how you got home, but the bits and pieces you can put together tell you this was one of the best nights of your life.

You wake up and you still have a steam on you, now that’s money well spent in my book! Enjoy it. These hangovers are few and far between, but when they come at Christmas I can only describe mine as having ten little men inside my head and each one of them are using a cango hammer.

Pass me the Ibuprofen fast and the ice cold can of Diet Coke which you cleverly leave beside your bedroom locker before you leave your house for your one and only lifeline the next morning!

Sounds like hell, right? But we’ll all say the famous words “Never again” and repeat it all over. After all it is ‘silly Season’.

So what is the biggest cause of a hangover?

Dehydration. So how to we stop hangovers or at least minimize them? I have done some research for you all and here is what I’ve come up with.

Salt dehydrates the body in the same way a glass of wine (or two or bottle) does and can therefore cause us to feel hungover. Dehydration usually leads to a headache and other classic hangover symptoms such as feeling weak and dizzy. At its most extreme level, dehydration can even cause us to experience heart palpitations.

Unfortunately, the older we

get, the more susceptible we become to hangovers as our ability to retain water and fight dehydration decreases with age.

So as well as keeping your alcohol intake within the recommended limits, you might want to start looking at food labels more often, to keep your salt intake in checks.

Hangover-pedia

Champagne: Champagne is a fantastic way to ring in the New Year, however it is one of the worst types of booze to mix with other booze. Unless you are Jay-Z, you probably don’t drink champagne all the time.

Sugary and carbonated, more than a glass can wreak havoc on a stomach that has already ingested beer, alcohol, and a handful of Doritos. Either spending the party with your head in the bowl or waking up to your tongue permanently glued to the top of your mouth, this one is going to hurt BAD! Blackout: A classic for hangovers, ‘Blackout’ is similar to the ‘Oh No What Did I Do, except you wake up in a safe place with the feeling that you definitely got up to mischief but for the life of you you can’t remember a thing.

You recall getting to your destination, and having your first drink. A brief conversation and then the shots came out. You wonder what happened as you realise you have a phone number scrawled on your arm.

And the worse part of the ‘Blackout’? When people start uploading photos of you to Facebook and you don’t know one single person in the photos, but you look like you are having the time of your life!

The Apology Hangover: You wake up and you remember everything. And that’s the problem. It plays back in your head like a sad, sad movie: telling everybody what you really think of them; puking and blaming it on food poisoning from the remains of a take away that you find at the side of your bed.

You start sending apology texts and get no response.

You think maybe you’re an alcoholic, shake that off,

and think maybe everyone appreciates your style of honesty. Plan to stay low for at least three weeks after the apology or find new friends.

Either way you have the ‘Fear’ where you think the entire County is out to get you. You go to the Local Spar Shop for a breakfast roll when you can drag yourself out of the bed. You pray you don’t meet anyone you know and if you do you bury your head in the nearest newspaper you can find and stare blankly into it until they leave the shop.

The Fear is the worst part of a hangover for me. Where I think my entire life is falling to shambles, nobody likes me. I feel unloved and the only friend I have in the world is my dog. You contemplate the cure but you know you will only prolong the Fear, but you do it anyway.

The “I feel great” hangover: If you get this feeling, welcome to the AA - you are now officially an alcoholic. This is the hangover where you wake up and realise you aren’t hungover. You get up and feel great. Then the room starts to move a little bit.

Everything feels a bit different. You realise you’re still drunk. It’s too late now.

You ponder to begin drinking again, but alas even pondering something like that makes you worry about being an alcoholic. So you have breakfast. Drunk. You are now an alcoholic.

Have a fantastic Christmas to all my followers and supporters. Thank you so much for reading my articles this year and following my Blog. I can’t thank you all enough. A lot more to come from me for 2016.

I would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year. May all your dreams come true.

Remember, this Christmas it’s not whats under the tree that counts its who’s around it!

Drink sensible this Christmas and what ever you do NEVER EVER DRINK and Drive www.drinkaware.ie Love, Live, Inspire, Travel & Be Crazy Lolly, Harry & Hank xxx

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Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Barrack Street, Carlow Pop into Fairgreen Shopping Centre for those last minute Christmas gift buys, they have a fantastic range of shops bursting with great gift ideas, conveniently placed all under one roof. There’s also a great array of food outlets and a state of the art Omniplex cinema, for those of you who need a break from retail therapy! Fairgreen Shopping Centre has grown from strength to strength since its opening in 2003 and its subsequent extension in 2005. It is now home to a number of national retailers. Tenants include Heatons/Sportworld, Next, Tesco, River Island, Argos and Costa Coffee. Visit: www.fairgreen.ie for a full list of stores and other information.

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Tom Clancy’s The Division (PS4) A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City, and one by one, basic services fail. In only days, without food or water, society collapses into chaos. The Division, a classified unit of self-supported tactical agents, is activated. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, Division agents are trained to operate independently in order to save society. When society falls, your mission begins.

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Scragg’s Alley, Tullow Street, Carlow

Enrique Chia: Grandes Exitos Romanticos

Absorb the festive atmosphere at Scraggs Alley bar this Yuletide. It has been providing the best in live music, entertainment and fun in Carlow for the last 21 years. Scraggs Alley appeals to people from all walks of life and their customer base crosses all spectrums. With four venues they offer something for everyone including live music and events upstairs, DJ’s and entertainment downstairs, a serene beer garden and unique front bar for a relaxed atmosphere. In addition they cater for all functions, events and group parties offering a one of a kind experience to their customers.

Visit: www.scraggsalley.com for more information.

Enjoy a compilation of the most beautiful romantic songs of the Latin musical repertoire.

These all-time hits by Juan Gabriel, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Armando Manzanero, Juan Luis Guerra and other famous composers bring the piano of Enrique Chia to a new high.

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Brasserie 15, Tullow Street, Carlow

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Brasserie15, is a stylish and busy restaurant right in the heart of Carlow’s bustling restaurant/bar quarter. Open for dinner seven nights a week, early bird from 5pm every evening, lunch Thursday/ Sunday from 12:15 pm.

Their cuisine is modern French/European prepared using only the finest ingredients, sourced locally from the most reputable butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers.

Try Brasserie 15 and enjoy the great atmosphere, friendly service and great food. Visit: www.brasserie.com for more information.

Back in 1982, NASA sent a time capsule into space containing an insight into life on Earth including video games. Now, the aliens who received this information seemingly misinterpreted the message as an act of war and created their own versions of the video games to attack and invade Earth. Previously ridiculed for their obsession with the games, it is now left to the President of the United States Will Cooper and his childhood friends Sam Brenner Ludlow Lamonsoff and Eddie Plant to use their gaming skills to save the world from giant, man-eating, pixelated figures.

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Seven Oaks, Athy Road, Carlow

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The 4-Star Seven Oaks Hotel boasts 89 stylishly appointed bedrooms. All rooms include a double and single bed with larger and interconnecting rooms available for families. Disabled access is a priority within the hotel and they have rooms available with disabled level access showers. All guests also have the option of complimentary use of the hotel’s state of the art Leisure Centre. If you are planning a break in Carlow or indeed looking for a venue for your wedding, the Seven Oaks well pushe the boat out to make your stay/ event as special as possible. Visit: www. sevenoakshotel.com for more information.

Ginventory is purely designed to ensure you can mix the perfect gin and tonic by using the right ingredients. It seem oddly specific, I know, but there’s always one person who won’t drink anything else. In my experience their name is usually Grandma.

So does the humble G&T need an entire app dedicated to its crafting? That’s up to you to decide, but Ginventory doesn’t do things half-arsed. It’s a complete encyclopedia of gins, tonics, and garnishes stored in a very long list.

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Seedless in Seattle by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

Christmas with the Coopers

I had a lot of on my mind when I hit 33... Three new-born future Ireland internationals to feed, a daughter in need of psychiatric evaluation and a teenage son obsessed with uncovering the shameful secrets of our family’s 1916 past. Throw into the mix a wife struggling to lose the weight from her orse and an interfering fatherin-law living under my roof. You can see why my life had become a major hassle. And just when I thought it couldn’t get any more difficult, Sorcha decided that I needed to have the unkindest cut of all.

It’s time to celebrate ‘Christmas With The Coopers’, that wonderful time of the year when everyone comes together to give thanks that it only happens once a year.

As always, the Cooper family’s Christmas is falling apart at the seams, despite parents Sam and Charlotte’s best efforts. Their daughter Eleanor brings a stranger home so she can pretend to have a boyfriend; Charlotte’s sister Emma has been arrested for shoplifting; and their granddaughter is becoming a truly terrible toddler.

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