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OH HOLY GOD, IT’S A GIRL! Daughter of our city is the pride of London » Story & pics P6

CRAFT CLASS: Edmond Chesneau spreads the craft gospel, bringing hope where there was despair. » Story and pics Page 26

GIRL POWER: Local girls did brilliantly as they shared the role of Jesus in a South Kilkenny pageant. Pictured is Catherine Cassin of Newmarket National School. » Story and pics P27 Pic: Donal Foley

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News â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Some Irish people particularly who emigrated in the 1930s and 1950s struggled with loneliness and isolation and turned to alcoholâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

No choice: Emigration experience can be both painful and traumatic

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Viva to Las Vegas couple of courage JIMMY RHATIGAN

Kevin and Jennifer Gordan with their children Myah, Eli and Ethan Gordan from Las Vegas

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Armchair amble is The Saints join Notre a write good read Dame and Maynooth JIMMY RHATIGAN JIMMYRHATIGAN@GMAIL.COM

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Diarmuid Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Flynn at Lyrath Leisure Centre

Natasha Dowling with Deputy John McGuinness

Nicola Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea with Deputy Ann Phelan

Gerri Kinsella, Loreto Secondary School

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Martin Flynn, Rollercoaster Records

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Conor Tobin at Kilkenny City Library

23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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Phyl Cleere, Tara and Patrick Neary

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FF and Sinn FÃ©in: Perhaps a marriage made in Heaven?

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Roisin Dubh & DJ till late

Generation 5 followed by DJ Vinny Nolan 10pm

Tomas Jackman

23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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The Great War: 600 lost lives and many prisoners of war as local families suffered NOEL J BOURKE JIMMYRHATIGAN@GMAIL.COM

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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Michelle Dockery of Downton Abbey with Benedict Cumberbatch of Dr Who

Edmond Chesneau and Chris Heltzel

Nicci St George Smith with her partner Jack L

Susan Burgess-Lent

Oscar winning actress Lupita Nyongoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;o with one of the bags

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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A scene from the Monroe/Newmarket pageant

Our young Church in action

A touch of class: Students from Monroe and Newmarket

Denis Walsh is Jesus in Stoneyford

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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Hogan repeals the bankruptcy disqualification Cait McEvoy, Kitty Phelan and Gretta Quigley at the St Canice’s Parish Pongo dinner in Langton’s

TIM RYAN In the Oireachtas

Aoife Walsh and Sarah Murphy, both Piltown, and Celine Power, New Ross at WIT’s Information Evening which was attended by more than 2,000 CAO applicants and their parents. The evening was to help prospective students ﬁnd out more about the Institute’s 70 undergraduate courses as well as fees and grants, student services and sports opportunities.

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Lifestyle

)LOP %HDUV Disney Nature has made the celebration of Earth Day (April 22) the launch date for their ambitious and poignant animal documentaries. To date, we’ve been offered Earth, Oceans, African Cats, and Chimpanzee. And now for Earth Day 2014, this studio present us with the latest entry in this beloved series of docs, simply titled Bears. Directed by Disney Nature veterans Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, Bears follows a mother brown bear through the first year of her two cubs’ lives, introducing this family of three as they are still nestled in hibernation. At the top of the doc, we’re told (via voiceover by John C. Reilly) that only about half of bear cubs make it through their first year. From here, audiences are exposed to the various dangers that threaten a growing cub as the film follows mother bear Sky and her babies Amber and

7UDQVFHQGHQFH Director Wally Pfister’s new sci-fi thriller Transcendence plays with a lot of smart ideas. Living in an age of constantly advancing technology, each and every one of us has taken a moment to think about where the future is heading, and we’ve been both excited and horrified by the prospects. Pfister’s movie dives headfirst into that idea with an exploration of artificial intelligence and the theory of the technological singularity. It questions the morality of these kinds of advancements, and takes a long look at both the benefits and the negative consequences. It’s a film that should inspire interesting conversations and deep thought in its audience. For all of its big ideas, however, Transcendence ends up lacking when it comes to translating them into a compelling story. All of the pieces are in place – from a talented visual filmmaker at the helm to an all-star cast of very talented people – but issues in the script by Jack Paglen do their part to remove a few gigabytes from the movie’s hard drive. Set in the not-too-distant future, the film centers on Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), one of the world’s most respected researchers in the field of artificial intelligence.

Working alongside his wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and partner, Max (Paul Bettany), Will is close to discovering how to program a computer with sentience, but is struck down when an assassin from the luddite terrorist organization known as RIFT shoots him in the chest with a radioactive bullet. Given only a few weeks to live, it seems that he will be unable to complete the work to which he has dedicated his life. While the script has severe faults, the movie is served well having a master cinematographer behind the camera working as a first-time director. Pfister manages to successfully transfers his keen visual eye to Transcendence, working with his own Director of Photography, Jess Hall, to make the film fantastic to

look at. The filmmakers have a keen eye for the smallest of details, which comes in handy when making a movie that involves nanotechnology on an important level. With proper credit due to the visual effects artists, there is a great marriage of CGI and practical landscapes, sucking the audience into a believable sci-fi world that is just a few steps beyond our own. Given that we are about to enter the movie season best known for its mindlessness, I want to give Transcendence a lot of credit for actually being interesting and thoughtful in its concepts, but there are un-ignorable flaws in the execution. Pfister shows definite promise as a director, but hopefully next time out he will get a better-constructed script.

Scout from their den in the mountains of Alaska, down to the coasts where salmon ﬂock and big bears feed, and deep into the forests in search of sanctuary from predators. The production teams behind Disney Nature docs are truly top notch. I lost count of how many times my jaw literally dropped from the breathtaking landscapes, terrifying majesty of avalanches, and fascinating yet intimate moments of animal behavior the cinematography smoothly captures. The grandeur of Alaskan forests, rivers, shores and snowy mountaintops are revealed in

steady and precisely focused aerial shots. On the ground, wild life photographers get shockingly close to their subjects, allowing for us to make out every hair and every tiny movement. Clunky script structure aside, Bears is an endearing and beautiful documentary that manages to educate without feeling stodgy. It shows us the wonders and dangers of the Alaskan wilderness as well as the incredible tenderness and brutality of which brown bears are capable. Ultimately revelatory and heartwarming, Bears is a treat for the whole family.

23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Comment

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Politics

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Business of the week Kilkenny Airsoft Kilkenny Airsoft is Ireland’s ﬁrst fully indoor shooting range and is one of the best locations in the country for enjoying airsoft. Located in Wallslough Village 3km from city centre, Kilkenny Airsoft is perfect for a day or night out; packages are available that will keep

the prices to your liking and the helpful staff will make sure your day is a great one whether you’re an expert or have never held a gun before. It’s perfect for birthday parties or even stag and hen nights; I highly recommend Kilkenny Airsoft.

DVD of the week American Hustle David O’Russell returns to the movie making world with possibly his best piece yet, the bizarre and entertaining American Hustle. Russell’s reputation as a director has increased tenfold in the last few years due to the huge success of ﬁlms like The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, but American Hustle is a completely different creature.

Set in the late 70’s, the film follows the infamous abscam scandal that led to the conviction of a US senator amongst others, though the film deviates from the true events slightly and opens with: ‘some of this actually happened’. The film has an all-star cast including Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams and should certainly be seen.

Show of the week It’s the Real McCoy It’s the Real McCoy is a brand new Irish comedy coming to the Set Theatre from the 25th to the 26th April that promises to have you in stiches. The play is set in 1964 in rural Ireland and follows 68-year old Madge Mulloy, a widow of 40 years who has been struggling with a small farm and a single daughter

since her husband completely vanished ﬁve months into the marriage. The play documents Tom’s return home and the explanation of his disappearance. It is a great comedy, despite the seemingly grim premise. I recommend It’s the Real McCoy.

App of the week Equalizer For those who are unaware, HTC android phones come with Beats Audio installed on them. This program puts emphasis on bass and highs while diminishing mids, and if you turn it off then the opposite occurs,

Book of the week Gabriel García Márquez As many of you will be aware, much acclaimed Columbian writer Gabriel García Márquez died last week at the age of 87. He is most famous for his epic work One Hundred Years of Solitude back in 1967 and the more personal and affecting, Love in the time of Cholera from 1985 though all of his work is great.

He pioneered what would become known as Magic Realism, a mix of the absurd and fantasy with the ordinary and it’s a style that would inﬂuence hundreds of writers as the decades wore on. Gabriel (known as Gabo) was one of the greatest writers of our time and will be sorely missed.

bass and highs are reduced with a large emphasis being put on mids. This can make using the phone frustrating for those wanting a neutral EQ and it is impossible to get without replacing the sound card manually, but the free Equalizer app on the play store does a

good job of evening it out and can give you a more neutral sound or whatever EQ you could have need of. There are over 10 presets available for all different types of music and the EQ itself is fully customizable. I recommend the app Equalizer.

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Lifestyle Hitman GO Hitman GO is a slow and strange new addition to the Hitman franchise that soon proves itself to be one of the series’ best and most addictive games probably since Blood Money, and it’s only available on iOS. The game is turned based and simply tasked you with getting from one part of the map to the other. On the way are guards, some

ﬁxed, some that move, but all that will kill you instantly if you enter their line of vision. It’s a simple premise, and it’s amazing to think that the game manages to stay fresh through more than 30 levels. I highly recommend Hitman GO for anyone in the market for a fun, cheap app store game this week.

Song of the week A Plastic Rose – Someone’s Daughter A Plastic Rose are a Belfast band who have been making nineties style alternative rock since 2006; Someone’s Daughter is a single released in 2014 that is catchy, exciting and poppy, it really deserves to be played on the radio. The song reminds me of last year’s Deafheaven album with almost all the

metal and post-rock elements stripped out, replaced with hooks and a much deeper appreciation for alternative rock. The song borrows elements from Shoegaze, the second guitar is wet with effects and the occasional screams at the chorus add a lot to the song. I recommend Someone’s Daughter.

Film of the week Calvary Another week goes by means another week where Calvary is still probably your best bet for something to see in the cinema. Though it may have a few problems; it gets a bit too much out of bringing attention to itself as a movie

and most of its main points would have been more relevant five or ten years ago but it’s still a fascinating and entertaining film. It’s also interesting to think, the play ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ came out fifty years ago this year and showed an Ireland where the church was

one of the all-powerful institutions, one that dramatically shifted peoples lives, even more than the schools or the law. Now that’s all gone, the church is in steep decline as more and more people move away from it. If those themes interest you then I recommend Calvary.

TV of the week Fargo Fargo is a new television show inspired by the famous Coen Brothers ﬁlm of the same name and is an interesting take on the quant, snowy and Scandinavian surrealism of the original ﬁlm’s setting. The story is for the most part about a drifter (Billy Bob Thornton) who

Album of the Week Todd Terje- It’s Album Time Nu-Disco seems to have firmly established itself as not only a thing but one of the most popular things in electronic music right now. Last year’s Random Access Memories by Daft Punk was the genre’s first big hit but with Norway’s Todd Terje now bringing out his first album; the scene is really beginning

to establish itself. The songs are, like last year’s album Disclosure album, all simple and catchy but take long to tire of, they bring back a lot of the funk in disco as well as the aesthetic of the time (for better or worse depending on the listener). I recommend It’s Album Time.

wanders into Bemidji Minnesota and sets the town’s population on edge with his ill behaviour and tendency towards violence. Principle among these is Lester Nygaard, played by Sherlock’s Martin Freeman who is an insurance salesman in the show. I highly recommend Fargo.

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Before making Un Chien Andalou, film makers Luis Bunuel and Salvidor Dalí agreed that: ‘No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted’. Un Chien Andalou is a 1920s plotless surrealist film, 21 minutes long that forces us to question our most basic instincts in film making. The entire piece is meant to replicate what it feels like to be in a dream and basically works as a series of vignettes, as unconnected or connected as you see fit. For example, a man in a nun outfit riding a bike falls over on the sidewalk and then a woman in an upstairs room hears something outside and looks out her window; are the two connected? Are these both completely unconnected stories? That was Bunuel’s intention. He wanted to twist and distort what we thought of when we watched films. In the next scene, the woman goes downstairs and finds a man in a nun outfit collapsed on the sidewalk, but it’s completely unconnected from what had just happened. This is not a film to be analysed or given any serious thought, instead it’s a film to just look at and enjoy the visuals and the lack of

logic, let it breeze over your head. People looking for plot or meaning are missing the point, like those who sit and watch Andy Warhol’s Empire for eight hours straight. The film is a definitive piece of surrealist art, an art movement itself mostly about the melding of the dream world and the real world. Its two creators were artists in their twenties working out of Paris, they were young and brave new artists who were willing to experiment and revel in distorting what the viewer sees or thinks he or she sees. Their aim was to make a film that would shock the bourgeois and the elite of the French Avant Garde; to their great disappointment, everybody loved the film, they were even commissioned to make a sequel. Bunuel finally got his riots and outrage with L’Age d’Or in 1930 but from the right wingers not the art types of Paris. Un Chien Andalou will always be remembered as one of the most important and influential films of all time, and that it can still shock audiences today is testament to its quality and inventiveness. I highly recommend this film.

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or someone who is revered for centuries: in every reality you will die. Yeats imagines Maud as once ‘a ladaean body’ that now has: ‘taken a mess of shadows for its meat’. In the sixth stanza, Yeats regails us of the actions of Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras, some of the greatest minds of their eras, then shocks us in the stanza’s ﬁnal line, deeming them all: ‘Old clothes upon sticks to scare a bird’. Yeats ponders in the ﬁfth stanza why would one even bother having children since the children are just as doomed to be miserable and die as their parents die. He dedicates a

stanza to comparing childbirth and religion; they both crush hearts and they both mock the effort we put into them. It’s a depressing poem, one of Yeats’ most bitter and resentful. ‘Beauty born of its own despair’ is a line Yeats uses in the ﬁnal stanza and does a ﬁne job of summarizing its overall message, why bother creating anything if you’re going to die regardless and anything you do create will all eventually be forgotten. There will be a time when nobody knows why Plato or Aristotle is, and if their legacy can’t last forever then whose can?

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The work of Can in many ways can be seen as a continuation of what the Velvet Underground started in the 60’s when they melded avant-garde and pop music together but Can went much further with the idea. They were a German band, and one of the most important and inﬂuential in the Krautrock genre that would grow in prestige and fame constantly as time passed. Can’s Irmin Schmidt, a student of early electronic musician Karlheinz Stockhausen was initially interested in the Avant Garde minimalist movement of the 60s that also housed La Monte Young and Steve Reich; but upon a visit to New York City he made in 1966 he became infatuated with the city’s Underground. Andy Warhol, Hotel Chelsea and The Velvet Underground all made huge impressions on him, and shifted completely the music he would end up making. Between 1971 and 1973 the band released a trilogy of albums that went on to all be considered their best work and some of the most important albums of the era: Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days. Today it is the middle album being covered; I would consider Tago Mago to be an album that melds the New York underground with minimalism and electronic instrumentation but Ege Bamyasi takes the latter two and couples them with funk, R&B and jazz. Most of the songs have strong, monochromatic grooves to them that are immeasurably pared back. The band seem to take what was in many ways dance music at the time and make it clinical and formalist; like a meld of Kraftwerk and Funkadelic. Many of the

songs make great use of repetition, such as the opener Pinch that has Spartan instrumentation (drums, some guitar and a few other things) and vocalist Damo Suzuki improvising in a dozen different languages over everything for almost ten minutes. It resembles a jazz song in many ways with singing (or spoken word) taking the place of an instrument. The album’s use of repetitive grooves and strange vocals reminds me of Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and it was very likely a huge inﬂuence on that album. The songs are more pop inﬂuenced than on Tago Mago, album closer Spoon even charted in Germany, selling 300,000 copies in the country. It’s testament to the fact that being experimental and daring doesn’t mean you have to make a boring or tedious album; that’s easy, what’s difficult is keeping it bold and daring while also making it simple. Ege Bamyasi takes funk, jazz and R&B and decontextualizes them, turning them into something wholly different; it is one of the best albums ever made.

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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Blocks of hope will help development

Tea break for GAA lumberjacks

An ill wind blows out cash for GAA JIMMY RHATIGAN JIMMYRHATIGAN@GMAIL.COM

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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Mount Juliet sale may come up trumps! JIMMY RHATIGAN JIMMYRHATIGAN@GMAIL.COM

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Denis and Aisling Lahart hereby apply to Kilkenny County Council for permission for retention of an extension to their dwelling, at Goodwinsgarden, Kells, Co Kilkenny. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Department, Kilkenny County Council, County Hall, John Street, Kilkenny, during its public opening hours 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the Planning Authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (â&#x201A;Ź20.00) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the planning application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission. Signed: Mark Kelly, www. mkelly.ie

Take notice that I intend to apply to Kilkenny Borough Council for permission to construct 17 parking spaces on lands at High Hayes Terrace, Gardens, Kilkenny. This application will provide 11 allocated spaces for Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gormans Public House Planning Register Ref. 13/62. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Department, Kilkenny Borough Council, City Hall, High Street, Kilkenny, during its public opening hours 9 a.m.- 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00 p.m. Monday to Friday, and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the Planning Authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (â&#x201A;Ź20.00) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the planning application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission. Signed: Eamon Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gorman

Planning permission is being sought by Thomas Tennyson for the Construction of a new milking Parlour, dairy, plant room with ancillary collecting yard and underground dairy washing tank with all associated site works at Ballyvoole, Inistioge, Co Kilkenny The Planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Department, Kilkenny County Council, County Hall, John Street, Kilkenny, during its public opening hours 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.pm and 2.00 p.m. - 4.00.p.m. Monday to Friday, and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the planning Authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (â&#x201A;Ź20.00) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the planning application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission. Signed HM Tennyson Agricultural Consultants, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny. 056-7758532

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23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

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*ROI 1RWHV Castlecomer MensEaster Singles 17th/ 18th April The glorious weather and excellent condition of the course enhanced scoring in the Men’s Easter Singles Stableford. James Daly was a model of consistency, scoring on every hole on his way to victory with an outstanding score of 40 pts. James needed to be in top form as Kevin Brennan returned 39 pts ,with a birdie on hole 17 the highlight of his round. 1stJames Daly (20) 40pts 2ndKevin Brennan (18) 39pts Gross Michael Dermody (5) 32pts Class 1 (0-10) Colum Lynch (6) 38pts Class 2 (11 – 18) Anthony Holohan 38pts Class 3 (19 +) Adam Comerford 30pts

Easter Classic 1. Eamonn Brennan (12), Kevin Brennan (17), Conor McMahon (22) 87 pts 2. John smith (5), Willie O; Gorman (7), Tom Coogan (10) 82 pts

Easter Monday Open Singles 1. John Brennan (17) 39pts back 9 2. Jimmy Nolan (10) Macroom 39pts Gross Michael Buggy (-1) 31pts 3. Kevin Brennan (17) 36pts

Diary Thurs 24th April Mens open singles (visitors golf and dinner €20) Sat . 26thand Sun. 27th April ( open fourball €20 per pair)

Ladies In the glorious sunshine, Susan Boland was victorious in the ladies competition, sponsored by Eddie Walsh. With a score of 36 pts, Susan’s back nine pipped Delia O’Donoghue’s 36 pts which secured the second place position. In third place was Joan Cullinane with a score of 35 pts. The ﬁnal matches in the spring league are underway. The Peugeot Qualiﬁer ladies foursomes is due on Sat/Sun 26th and 27th April.

Seniors 16/4/14 Seniors Results First Byrne Jimmy 9 Lynch Christy 22 Power L 20 Murphy Mal. 19 Score – 76 Pts

Second Morrissey Pat 18 Shore John 26 Comerford Ger 24 Score – 72 Pts Third Walsh Seamus 18 Murphy Des 20 Walsh Donal 20 Farrell Liam 21 Score – 71 Pts With the long evenings bringing bright opportunity for activity and enjoyment, the Tuesday scramble competition is a wonderful social event. The draw takes place from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. All are welcome to come and enjoy the cheerful atmosphere as many bring visiting friends to have chance to see the new course layout. Cost for members is just €3 and visitors €5.

Kilkenny RESULTS & FIXTURES MENS PRIZE PRESENTATION/ SNOOKER PRESENTATION Prize presentation will take place on Saturday April 26th at 7pm. All outstanding competitions including the Easter weekend competitions will be presented. The presentation will also take place for the snooker singles on Saturday night, the ﬁnalists and losing semi ﬁnalists are requested to attend.

JUNIOR/JUVENILE The Juvenile Committee are still looking for volunteers to help out with the coaching and supervision when the Saturday morning coaching sessions commence. Please contact Leo Byrne, Michael Keenan, Niamh Kelly or the office. Congratulations to the girls who took part in the May Fitzgibbon Trophy in the Curragh Golf Club on Saturday last. Aoife Crowdle & Eabha Sloyan ﬁnished second in this Foursomes competition with 35 pts while Sarah Molloy and Niamh Mulrooney with 34pts were 3rd. Both pairs qualify for the All Ireland ﬁnal in Greystones in July. Katie Keenan & Sarah Browne, Caoimhe Murphy & Jan Browne and Doireann Sloyan & Jenna Raggett also performed very well. Well done to all including their coach Jimmy Bolger and the parents and members of the Junior Committee who helped out with coaching and on Saturday in the Curragh.

INTER CLUB COMPETITION LADIES INTER CLUB The Ladies Minor Cup played Gowran in Callan on Thursday

and were victorious by 3/2. Barbara Teehan won 2&1, Helen Butler 4&3, and Ger O’Connor 2 &1. Catherine Leahy lost 2&1 and Lucy Yeates lost 4&3. The Junior Foursomes will take on Mt Wolseley in Carlow next Saturday April 26th at 2.30pm, the team is as follows, Dervilla O’Byrne & Margaret McCreery, Marian Woods & Jacintha Culliton, Bridget Norwood & Ann Widger, and the reserves are Kathleen Gaffney & Ella Dunphy. The team is managed by Paula Bradbury and Ann Greaney.

MENS INTER CLUB The Mens Barton Cup team (Foursomes Max Handicap Combination 14) had a good win over Seafield on Friday, The team had a home draw with three of the five matches in Kilkenny. The team won by 3 ½ to 1 ½. In Seafiled Brian Crowdle and Pat Collins won on the 14th with Luke Kelly and Larry Carroll winning on the 16th. At home in Kilkenny Brendan Hogan and Padraig Keegan were 3 up early on but pegged back to all square before winning on the 17th. Anthony Cleere and Kieran Hoban birdied the 16th to go one up in their match before being called in. In the third match Kieran Wall and John Byrne were I down playing the 16th when called in. The team have two wins behind them at this stage and will face New Ross with an away draw in the next round. The team is managed by Mark Grant and Sean Boland. The Duggan Cup team (Fouromses over 50 years of age.) managed by Pat Hickey and Liam Cody took on Callan on Saturday and with a home draw were hoping to proceed to the next round. However it was not to be, at home Pat Walsh and Martin Duggan fought back from 4 down at one stage before eventually losing on the 18th, John Marnell & Gus Carey were looking like going 1 up on 17th when called in and Pat Collins and John Burke lost on the 15th., In Callan Eugene Deegan and John Geoghegan won on the 17th and Leo Byrne and Pat Kearns lost on the 18th. The Provincial Towns Cup team (9 Matches Singles off 9 Handicap) managed by Frank Dalton and Seamus Rochford take on Waterford next Saturday at 1.45 with 5 matches in Waterford and 4 in Kilkenny. At Home, Derek Shelley, Maurice Nolan, Kieran Hoban, John Byrne. Away in Waterford; James Bateman, Eugene Deegan, Aidan

Brennan, Rob O’Shea and Mark Grant . Reserves; Aidan Phelan, Nigel Skehan, Larry Carroll, Des Woods and John Burke.

SOCIAL The social Committee have postponed the Table quiz which was to be held in the club next Friday 25th April and will reschedule for later in the year. They are now running a mixed social golf competition next Friday, please sign in at 5.45 for shotgun start at 6pm.

RESULTS LADIES & GENTS OPEN SINGLES WEDNESDAY APRIL 16TH 1. Thomas Buckley 17 (Mountain View ) 39 pts (B9) 2. Conor Morrissey (18) 39 pts (B9) 3. Dave Deloughrey (10) 39 pts Best Gross; Conor Boland (5) 33 Gross Pts (B9) 5. Darren Carroll (13) 38 pts (B3) 6. Sean Boland (9) 38 pts Presentation of Prizes Saturday 26th April at 7pm. Two’s Club Mens Ladies & Gents Open Singles Wednesday April 16th Aidan McDonald at 6th and 17th, Pat Butler Jnr at 6th, Cillian Timmons at 10th, Martin Byrne, Ivan Dunne, Mick O’ Flynn, Richie Hogan at 15th, Denis Brophy, John Keogh, Liam O’Grady, Sean Tyrell at 17th. Each Two is worth €24.50 and is credited in the Pro Shop

MENS EASTER OPEN FOURBALL SAT 19TH & SUN 20TH Sponsored by C J O’ Loughlan Pococke Foods 1. Mark Shortall (8) Brian Dillon (20) 45 pts 2. Brendan Hogan (6) P J Martin (12) 44 pts (B9) 3. Pat Walshe (10) Morgan Walshe (9) 44 pts 4. Justin Woods (6) Richie Hayes (8) 43 pts (B6) 5. Tomas O’ Dowd (12) Cathal McDonald (16) 43 pts 6. Pat O’Hanlon (13) Tommy Barry (15) 42 pts (B6) Presentation of Prizes Saturday 26th April at 7pm. Twos club details next week

4 PERSON TEAM EVENT MONDAY APRIL 21ST 1. Mark Shortall (8) Joe Casey (13) Robert Shortall (11) Paschal Connolly (15) 90 pts (B9) 2. James Young (6) Des Byrne (16) John Byrne (8) Brian Delaney (13) 90 pts 3. Willie Murphy (17) Eithne Murphy (15) Catherine King (19) John King (19) 89 pts 4. Maurice Ryan (21) John

Quane (18) Dervilla O’Byrne (16) S McNamara (20) 88 pts (B9) Presentation of Prizes Saturday April 26th at 7pm. Twos club details next week

LADIES NEWS Ladies Results 18 Hole Stableford Tuesday April 15th C.S.S. Sat & Sun 73, Tues 74. 1. Aoife Crowdle (36) 39 pts 2. Hilda Richardson (23) 38 pts Best Gross, Mary Leahy Browne (3) 35 Gross Pts 3. Jan Browne (27) 38 pts 4. Niamh Kelly (11) 37 pts 5. Stella Coughlan (19) 36 pts (B9) 6. Dervilla O’Byrne (16) 36 pts

LADIES 9 HOLE COMPETITION 1st April 2014 Barbara Schoﬁeld (34) 14 pts 8th April 2014 1. Kathleen Price (30) 14 pts 2. Mary Prendergast (24) 14 pts 15th April 2014 1. Joan Norris (23) 16 pts 2. Pauline O’Sullivan (28) 15 pts 3. Eileen Reynolds (24) 13 pts Ladies 9 Hole Competition on Tuesdays for those ladies who are unable to play 18 holes. Slots from 10.00 – 10.20 and 1.30 – 2.00, Self Entry. Swipe Ilgu card and enter score in computer. Entry Fee €3. The sheet for list of names for the high - low competition is on the Ladies notice board, and the competition will take place on Sunday May 18th at 6pm.

Ladies Fixtures Tuesday April 22nd Ladies Australian Spoons Scotch Foursomes 8.20 – 10.20, 12.20 – 2.20 and 4.00 -4.30 Bookable Online Tuesday April 29th Ladies 18 Hole 8.20 – 10.20 and 12.20 to 2.20 Slots also available on Sunday April 27th, 10.30 – 11.00 and 4.20 - 4.55 bookable online. Ladies Committee meeting this Wednesday April 16th at 7.30pm.

SENIOR MEN Results Thursday April 17th 1. Michael Grant (8) John O’Donovan (18) Michael O’Neill (23) Michael Cuddihy (26) 67 pts 2. Martin Mullane (16) Michael Cody (21) Tom Reade (25) Michael Barry (26) 66 pts 3. Geoff Meagher (15) Michael O’ Reilly (19) Dave Schoﬁeld (27) Terry Morris (32) 66 pts 4. Eddie Guilfoyle (14) Pat O’Briain (16) Jimmy Rhatigan (19) Eamon Molloy (26) 64 pts

5. Willie P Murphy (14) Peter Dabinet (19) Joe Nolan (23) Joe O’Driscoll (26) 64 pts 6. Noel O’Sullivan 917) Alan Snype (20) Myles McCabe (22) 63 pts (58+5) 7. Pat Drennan (15) Bob Greaney (18) Paddy Halley (25) Tim O’Mahony (36) 63 pts Next Competition Thursday April 24th at 11am. Senior away outing in Faithlegg on May 12th

SENIOR LADIES Results Thursday April 17th 1. Mary Prendergast, Josie Bolger, Joan Mannion 43 pts 2. Patti Burke , Phil Cooke, Kathleen Price 36 pts 3. Sheila Brennan, Aileen Hehir, Ann Gubbins, Jane Duggan 34 pts 4. Adrienne Walsh, Greta Nicholson, Barbara Schoﬁeld 34 pts Next Competition Thursday April 24th at 10am

FIXTURES Tuesday April 22nd 8.20 – 10.20 & 12.20 -2 .20 and 4.00 – 4.45 Ladies Australian Spoons Scotch Foursomes. . Wednesday April 23rd, 1.00 – 2.15 Members Time. 2.15 – 4.00 Visitors. Thursday April 24th 10.00 – 11.00 Senior Ladies, 11.00 – 1.00 Senior Men, 1.00 – 2.00 Members, 5.55 – 6.15 Ladies Junior Foursomes Practice Friday April 25th, 11.00 – 12.00 Visitors, 1.00 – 2.30 Members Time, 5.45 Mixed Social Shotgun start Saturday April 26th, 7.30 – 9.00 Members, 9.00 – 9.45 Lady Captains Prize to the Men. 10.00 – 11.30 Visitors, 1.00 – 2.00 Members, 2.00 - 2.20 Mens Inter Club Provincial Towns Cup v Waterford, 2.30 – 3.00 Gowran v Castlecomer Inter club, 3.00 – 5.00 Lady Captains Prize to the Men Sunday April 27th, 7.30 – 10.20 and 11.00 – 3.30 Lady Captains Prize to the Men, Ladies Competition 10.30 – 11.00 4.20 – 4.50 Bookable Online Monday April 28th , 11.00 – 12.20 Visitors, 1.00 – 2.30 Members Tuesday April 29th 8.20 – 10.20, 12.20 -2.20 and 4.00 – 5.10 Ladies Australian Spoons Scotch Foursomes (Bookable Online) , Slots also available Sunday April 20th 10.30 – 11.00 and 4.35 – 5.15 Bookable online, 11.15 – 11.50 Visitors. Wednesday April 30th , 12.30 -1.30 Visitors, 1.30 – 3.00 Members Time.

23 APRIL 2014 Kilkenny Reporter