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OUR BLENDS: Foodservice Section (1kg) Cafè Crème Cafè Espresso Cafè Milano Cafè Roma Cafè Verde Five Bean Blend Retail Section (1kg) Viking Roast French Ground Viking Roast Whole Bean Gourmet Blend Fresh Ground Gourmet Blend Whole Bean Continental Blend Fresh Ground Continental Blend Whole Bean

The Kilkenny Connection

here is a strong connection, historically and currently, between the Bergin Family, owners of the Ponticelli Brand, and South Kilkenny. Stephen, who now lives just outside Mullinavat, is son of Mary Bergin (nee O’Neill) and Jimmy Bergin of Coolnaleen, Bigwood, a former Mullinavat goalkeeper. Stephen’s Grandfather was the legendary Garda Pat O’Neill, who was stationed practically all of his Garda life in Mullinavat. Pat joined the Garda Siochána at its inception from the East Clare Brigade of the Old I.R.A. His Garda No. was 275. Stephen received his secondary education at St. Kierans College and De La Salle College, Waterford.

for the successful operation of a Roastery. This experience is evident in the quality of Pontecelli Coffee, which now has the fastest growing Coffee Sales in the 26 Counties. Ponticelli is now available throughout the food service industry in Filling Stations, Deli’s, Coffee Shops, Cafés, Restaurants, Hotels and Pubs.

Stephen’s son, Mark has played a major part in setting up the Roastery in Waterford, from where it now services all of the Greater South East Area. Mark spent some time in Turkey, gaining all the knowledge and experience needed

Our retail packs of Gourmet, Continental and Viking Roast blends are available in both Fresh Ground and Wholebean form and will be available exclusively through your local Supervalu in the coming weeks.

Mark Bergin (above centre) is pictured with Ciaran Cullen, Waterford Enterprise Office and The Food Academy Start program, Thomas Caulfield, of Caulfields through the local Enterprise Office, and Supervalu, at the launch of the in conjunction with Musgraves, Bord Bia and Marla Communications provid- Ponticelli Retail Packs. ed an excellent platform for us to launch Ponticelli to the wider retail market. Mark found this programme to be both Educational and Helpful for small food companies on how to progress their products to the Supermarket Shelves.

The Ponticelli Presso home espresso maker available from Ponticelli Coffee for €179.00

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Could you be Kilkennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Young Entrepreneur? And Win an Investment of up to â&#x201A;Ź25,000 The Local Enterprise OďŹ&#x192;ce Kilkenny is looking for Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best young entrepreneurs. If you are between aged 18 to 30 and either have a business idea or have started a business, why not enter this competition for a chance to win part of the â&#x201A;Ź50,000 local investment prize fund, with an opportunity to win an overall national winners fund of â&#x201A;Ź100,000.

ENTER NOW You can apply online via www.ibye.ie or via hard copy from the Local Enterprise OďŹ&#x192;ce Kilkenny, 42 Parliament Street, Kilkenny Telephone: (056) 7752662 E-mail: info@leo.kilkennycoco.ie Website: www.localenterprise.ie/kilkenny Closing Date for applications is extended to 31st July 2014

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You know the home you want. We know how to get you there. Whether you’re a ﬁrst time buyer or moving home, come along to Bank of Ireland’s “Open House” event. Bank of Ireland will tell you all you need to know about getting your mortgage. We’ll also have a local Auctioneer on hand with the latest property listings and a local Solicitor will be available to answer all your legal questions.

Bank of Ireland “Open House” Event Saturday, 5th July, 11.30am – 3.00pm Bank of Ireland, Parliament Street, Kilkenny R.S.V.P. www.bankoﬁreland.com/mortgageevents

There are lending criteria and terms and conditions, and security and insurance are required. Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank trading as Bank of Ireland Mortgages is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

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Willoughby’s, serving Kilkenny since 1901

his year, Willoughby’s begins a brand new legacy as a new coffee shop and restaurant for our city, and the location is already showing itself to be one of Kilkenny’s finest. The mission statement of Willoughby’s is a simple one, in fact it is one so simple that I can’t believe more businesses don’t make an attempt at it. Willoughby’s just wants to be the best at what it does, to serve the best coffee, the best food, and have the best atmosphere of all the coffee shops and restaurants in the city. ‘It’s a high standard that we’re going for’ said Padraig Mahon, a proprietor of this new establishment as we sat over coffee and an open sandwich of smoked salmon, chives and cream cheese ‘Our speciality would be our food and our quality, all local and fresh everyday’. Willoughby’s

serves breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, their chef Owen Scanlon is accomplished in his field and strives for a new level of excellence with his food. ‘I’d highly rate Owen, Owen’s food is top quality’. The original building for Willoughby’s was constructed early in the 19th Century, though very little is known about this first incarnation and it was not until 1901 when the late John Willoughby took over that what we now think of as Willoughby’s began to take shape. The location was a jewellery and watch making workshop and one so famous in Kilkenny that even now, years after its closing those growing up are still aware of the jewellery store that was Willoughby’s and its long history in the county. A lot of effort went into its rebuilding, and the location is constantly in search for the foremost in all fields ‘We’re

putting a lot of money and a lot of time and effort into getting our staff to a high standard’ as Padraig said, ‘It’s hard to get good staff, we had to let a few go. They’re under pressure but sure, you can’t progress if you’re not under pressure’. We discussed Willoughby’s on an upstairs couch, surrounded by a cornucopia of curiosities from clocks to chandeliers to elaborate pottery figures, ‘everything in the shop is actually for sale’ according to Padraig, and with a grin ‘even the floors we can get you’. With this Willoughby’s functions as both a coffee shop, restaurant and gift shop; the location is bursting with items of simplicity and beauty that would enhance any home, though requests have often verged on the strange, as Padraig stated: ‘They’re mad about the paint colour, everyone’s looking for the paint colour’. And indeed, it is the

atmosphere that truly defines the Willoughby’s experience, it’s a place that you can just sit in an soak in over a long period of time, Padraig himself told me Willoughby’s is: ‘somewhere really to come and relax rather than to get in, get a coffee and get out, we’re not rushing people out. You’d probably sit on that couch for the day’. Willoughby’s has already proved itself as a success, when asked about how it had been going so far: ‘Business is flying. I’m very happy with it, it’s going very well. We’re getting good feedback, of course you get a bit of criticism, you can’t please everybody, but we learn from our criticism’. There are also plans to open another Willoughby’s sometime in the future in Waterford. The future once again looks bright for this ancient establishment.

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Mighty Rangers; Paulstown/Goresbridge U14 Barrow Rangers Hurling Team represented Kilkenny in the National Hurling Feile in Omagh, County Tyrone. Front, from left, Liam Hogan, James Lennon, Dermot Hennessey, Killian Rudkins, Ruairi Breen, Sean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Eoghan Hogan, Matthew Fitzpatrick. Back, from left, Nicholas Brennan, Jack McDonald, Ciaran Hanlon, Ciaran Brennan, Philip Drennan, James English, Robbie Shortall. Middle, from left, Peter Dunne, Eamonn Roche, Conor Blake, Kieran Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, David Quinlan, Conor Hanlon, Josh Barcoe, Eoin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor and Conor Dermody.

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Jerpoint towers over the rest! Did you know: Jerpoint Glass makes approximately 10,000 products a year? Uses 9 tonnes of raw material a year? Uses 40,000 litres of LPG Flogas., the Furnace burns 24/7 365 days a year at 1200 degrees celsius to keep the glass molten? Andâ&#x20AC;¦ It takes four days of making tall-squard vases to make the height of St Caniceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tower? Jerpoint makes roughly 26 metres of glass a day â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 18cms average x32 pieces? In 12.5 days Jerpoint makes enough tall wine glasses that if stood on end would be the same height as Dublinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spire. Some 136 days making glass produces 1,038 metres in height of glass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the same height as Carrantuohill.

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Andrew looks to successful cycle!

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25 JUNE 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Accelerating Kilkenny Business Start-ups Success (Opportunity is KNOCKING!!)

ank of Ireland, Ireland’s “Enterprise Bank” has launched a new national Accelerator Programme to support start-ups throughout the country. The programme is currently open for applications with ten places available and Bank of Ireland is encouraging all Kilkenny start-ups to apply for a place on the programme. Participants will receive €10,000 seed funding, input and guidance from some of Ireland and Europe’s leading mentors including Bill Liao and Sean O’Sullivan of SOS Ventures as well as Gavin Duffy of Dragon’s Den. The programme will be based in Cork and is open to SMEs throughout the country and all sectors. Gerry Prizeman, Head of Enterprise Development at Bank of Ireland and Bill Liao, Accelerator Programme mentor, have advice for those starting out in business. If you have a great idea, have spotted a gap in the market and are keen to start a new business, before you launch on the market, why not consider some of the key ingredients for success? 1. Strategy Every play for the market should have a strategy behind it. Your strategy defines how you will achieve your goals and measure success. Work out what internal and external factors will affect your business, and how to analyse and measure your efforts. Milestones are important to get a sense of progress and achievement. 2. Customer Traction Customer traction is when you start getting a response from customers and begin making those vital sales. Customer traction is one of the most difficult marketing challenges every start-up faces. You will need to understand your market, and its motivations. Just as importantly you need to create “your story” and be confident in

communicating it to customers and investors alike. 3. Product Differentiation There are very few products and services without competition so it’s important to differentiate your product somehow. It might be as simple as creative packaging, branding or offering extra features. Alternatively you could look at pursuing niche markets with less competition. Your unique selling proposition gives you an edge without necessarily offering a completely ‘unique’ product, but it does give people a reason to pick you over the competition. 4. Commitment Commitment means dedication in the face of many challenges. Knowing how to identify a problem quickly and adapt is a sign of a good entrepreneur. Get fully committed to your business, be a leader and share your vision with those you need to support you. It doesn’t mean just putting in long hours, but being committed to taking the steps to long term success by being smart and focusing on the right areas. Gerry Prizeman Head of Enterprise Development at Bank of Ireland commented. “We are committed to supporting startups and last year over 16,000 start-ups chose to bank with us. To further support start-ups we are seeking applications for our Accelerator Programme where they will get best in class mentoring from wellknown entrepreneurs such as Bill Liao and Sean O’Sullivan. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for start-ups to get a kick start for their business.” For more details or to apply for the Bank of Ireland National Accelerator Programme, visit www.bankofireland.com/accelerator. Closing date for applications is Friday, 25th July 2014.

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World Cup runners-up Deen Celtic

World Cup champions Bridge United

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Paddy Corcoran and Bridget Williams

Ann, Marion and Ger Walsh

Mags Walsh and Maura Ryan

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Jim and Brid Fitzpatrick

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Adventure Zone at The Watershed New outdoor Adventure Zone for all the family at The Watershed Kilkenny Bouncing fun-filled activities guaranteed to keep the whole family happy this summer

With the school holidays around the corner, The Watershed Kilkenny is preparing for a burst of family fun with Kilkennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest weekend outdoor Adventure Zone. The largest leisure facility in the south east, The Watershed Kilkenny are happy to announce the facilities at the new Adventure Zone, which opens on Saturday 28th June at 2pm. The Adventure Zone will consist of various air inflatables and activities such as an obstacle course, wipe-out, bungee trampoline, 35 foot climbing wall, princess carriage, tea-pot, Pirates of the Caribbean course, dumper truck slide, bubble soccer and more. Families can expect to enjoy at least half a dozen of the aforementioned activities plus some smaller inflatables for the

younger kids and activities will change every weekend, keeping the excitement going all summer long! According to The Watershed Chief Executive, Dermot Gaynor, â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is an exciting new venture for the Watershed and Airmax Inflatables, we are delighted to be working together to bring an innovative experience for families this summer in Kilkenny.â&#x20AC;? The adventure zone will be in the outdoor playing areas and will suit families of all ages; as young as two years old right up to the older teenagers. Mums and dads, aunts and uncles are all welcome to join in on the fun. Dermot Gaynor adds â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Adventure Zone is also transportable indoors if the good weather fails us.â&#x20AC;? The Adventure Zone will open every Saturday from 2pm to 6pm and every Sunday from noon to 5pm, commencing June 28th and continuing until the end of August. It will not be available for one weekend only as a major fundraising event for the Irish Cancer Society takes place at The Watershed from 3pm Saturday July 19th to 3pm Sunday July 20th. The Adventure Zone aims to be an affordable adventure for families, with no entrance fee, everyone can â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pay as you goâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with tokens purchased at reception. Watch out for the free tokens that The Watershed will be giving out to schools on their swim programme

and to children participating in The Watershedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer camps. The Watershed will also run competitions on social media and on local radio for wonderful family prizes and tokens for the Adventure Zone. Each token is worth â&#x201A;Ź1, some attractions will have a minimum token requirement and other attractions are free. After lots of fun at the new Adventure Zone families can further enjoy quality time at the state-of-the-art centre - which boast three swimming pools, a sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, fitness gym, badminton, basketball, football and unrivalled range of fitness classes. Since it opened in December 2008 annual footfall/visitors to the Watershed has now grown to 450,000. It has been awarded the prestigious White Flag Excellence Award every year. The Watershed also holds highly successful camps for children from four to twelve years, with multi-activity camp and swim camp programmes commencing Monday 30th June and continuing right throughout the school holiday period. The Watershed offers competitive three, six or twelve month, gym only or pool only or full membership options. The ideal summer fitness kick start for outdoor and indoor pursuits that the whole family can enjoy.

For more information visit www.thewatershed.ie

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)LOP -HUVH\ %R\V So you’re planning on checking out Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of Jersey Boys. And why wouldn’t you? The smash-hit musical has been a Broadway staple since 2005, touring theaters from London to Las Vegas and claiming four Tony Awards – including Best Musical – in 2006. Interest in Jersey Boys, particularly from the theater crowd, should be high. Do this instead. Stay home. Light a candle -- preferably a beige or dishwater-grey candle – and watch it slowly melt for several hours. Play Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons records in the background to set the mood. This experience will be far more exciting than actually suffering through Eastwood’s disappointingly ﬂavorless and lackluster on-screen Jersey Boys pass. Not that Eastwood has made a bad ﬁlm. Rarely, over the course of his 50-plus years in the director’s chair,

%RUJPDQ Borgman begins by introducing us to men living in holes in the woods. Their peaceful existence is on borrowed time, however, as these vagrants are being hunted and ﬂushed out, as creatures would be hunted by terriﬁed townsmen (and a parish priest, of course) in a fable. This isn’t a distant past, though. It’s modern times, and Camiel Borgman (grungy Jan Bijvoet) – rooted from his terrestrial existence – heads to a familiar suburban location for shelter. He approaches the home of a nurse, Marina (Hadewych Minis), who pretends in front of her husband not to know this grimy stranger. Yet, they are connected by a mysterious past, which Borgman carefully unpacks with patience and a powerful taste for gallows humor. (The bodies in the lake, impossibly, are a hoot.) Who is this stranger? How does Marina know Borgman? And why is she seemingly in debt to this unwashed oddity? The man’s a gifted storyteller, spinning yarns to entertain Marina’s young children (even though he has promised to stay out of sight from her distrusting and abusive spouse). Is he weaving a massive yarn that somehow has pulled the wool over Marina’s eyes? Borgman is about as Euro-

pean as they come, and I mean that as a sincere compliment. Crystal-clear character motivations aren’t required, as van Warmerdam places enough faith in his audience that they will have the patience to ride out his vague storyline until a resolution presents itself. You can wonder about the scars on the backs of different charac-

ters, but their relevance won’t be reveled until van Warmerdam is good and ready. The director’s visual palette is dull, but the characters are colorful enough. Borgman burrows under our skins by being different. Ironically, the fact that it’s so different might scare the bulk of its potential audience away.

has Eastwood delivered an unquestionable bomb. But he has made a dull ﬁlm, and that betrays the doo-wop energies and disgruntled behind-the-scenes dramas that helped make Jersey Boys such a beloved story for countless theater audiences. Do you know how musicals usually sizzle and pop, though? Jersey Boys never does. Never even attempts to. Eastwood’s color palette – conceived with longtime cinematographer Tom Stern (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven) – displays that usual, washed out look the director favors. As is usually the case in an Eastwood movie, scenes linger on longer than necessary. The direction is competent, but has so little creativity that when Eastwood ﬁnally tries something out of the ordinary – a camera shot that scales the side of a skyscraper and gives us a peek

inside various audition rooms – the irregularity briefly shook me out of the mundane coma Jersey Boys had lulled me into. Eastwood, more than anything, isn’t interested in remaking Jersey Boys, the musical. His film plays the story of the Four Seasons on a far more straight and literal line than the stage show, and doesn’t build to theatrical transitions or show-stopping musical numbers. The only time Jersey Boys resembles a show that started in stage is in the end credits, when the cast reunites on a sound-stagey neighborhood “street” for an up-tempo montage of he musical’s hits. Yet even at the very end, Eastwood freezes his cast in awkward poses before fading to black, leaving them looking like curious wax figures waiting to melt. And we’ve come full circle.

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Business of the week Adventure Zone at The Watershed The Watershed is the South-East’s largest leisure centre and on the 28th June the will be opening up a brand new facility for the summer called Adventure Zone that guarantees hours of family fun. The adventure zone is full of things to do from obstacle courses to bubble

soccer to a 35-foot climbing wall, as well as much more. Adventure Zone will be on until the end of August on Saturdays from 2pm to 6pm and Sundays from noon to 5pm, if you are or have children who are anywhere from two to an older teen I recommend the Adventure Zone.

Show of the week A Night at the Movies On Sunday the 29th June at the Watergate Theatre Grainne Mulvey School of Ballet and Modern Dance will be presenting A Night at the Movies. Students from 3-18 from Bagenalstown and Kilkenny will

perform a variety of dances from ﬁlms throughout the years, showcasing primarily ballet and jazz styles. It is promised to be a nice night out for a family; it will be on 7:30PM to 9:30PM and cost €12/6.

Book of the week The Goldfinch The Goldfinch is the newest book by American Author Donna Tart and was her first in 11 years following 2002’s The Little Friend. The book begins with our main character, 13 year old

Theo Decker, who after miraculously surviving an accident that kills his mother, is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He spends the next few years of his life in misery and is drawn into the world of art

by his only reminder of his mother, a Dutch painting called The Goldﬁnch. It’s a long book and very old fashioned but it is endlessly engaging and captivating, the kind of book one stays up all night to read.

TV of the week Fargo Fargo has just wrapped up its ﬁrst (possibly only since it’s a miniseries) season and with it, established the show as one of the best currently on TV and a worthy successor to the 1996 movie. The show’s main characters are Martin

Freeman’s Lester Nygaard and Allison Tolman’s Molly Solverson and their time in Bemidji during a massive murder spike that Nygaard is a part of and Solverson is investigating; though the real star of the show is Billie Bob Thornton’s Lorne Malvo,

Song of the week Stranded Mermaid- My Last Summer on Earth Stranded Mermaid are a Swedish band that make dark, poppy folk music that takes inspiration from Spaghetti Western Soundtracks and 60s Surf Rock, they’re latest single is titled My Last Summer on Earth and is an interesting take on the inﬂuences and adds a certain eeriness that was not apparent

on their earlier material. The song structure is simple, for the most part just an acoustic guitar and vocals with minimal lyrics, the singer, Louis L, is usually quite high pitched but this aspect is deemphasised on this song. The song is highly suitable for a summer night, I recommend it.

some sort of prankster god that sweeps in and causes chaos wherever he travels. The show is full of surrealism and zaniness in grand Coen brothers tradition but is deﬁnitively its own creature and can stand on its own two feet.

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Lifestyle & Living Wasteland 2 The original Wasteland was a highly innovative game, released in 1988 the game was deeper, darker and better than anything the world of video games had ever seen before, its development is directly responsible for Fallout nine years later and its legacy endures to the

extent that a sequel was fan funded on kickstarter back in 2012. The game is set in postapocalyptic America and is a turn based game, little is known about the plot of Wasteland 2 now, the game is set to be released in August, I am personally looking forward to this and I hope you all are too.

App of the week Dots: A Game about Connecting Not a new app by any means but the game that is Dots, available for android and apple, is such an insatiably addictive game that it deserves a spot, and it’s free. The game gives you sixty seconds to connect as many dots as possible, once you connect dots they disappear and more descend onto the screen, the objective is to connect as many dots as possible. It seems the only prerequisite for

a phone game to be a success is that it be addictive and something you can pick up and drop at any time and Dots is both of those, but the game is little else other than addictive. Half of the trick of doing well in dots is luck, for any colour can drop from the sky and if you aren’t lucky you won’t be scoring any large combinations. So the game is fun but that’s it, worth a try.

Film of the week The Fault in Our Stars Chances are you’ve already decided whether to see this ﬁlm or not, in fact anyone who was going to see it probably saw it on Day 1 and followed it up with a multi-hour stretch on Tumblr. The ﬁlm is based on the insatiably popular

and critically acclaimed novel of the same name by John Green about a cancer stricken teenage girl who falls in love with a former Basketball start turned amputee. Unfortunately the direction of Josh Boone is no match for the writing of Green and the

plot sometimes deviates into the mawkish and the melodramatic, something the book did a good job of avoiding, so it can’t match the book but The Fault in Our Stars is still a fun teen movie that’s worth seeing if you enjoy the material.

DVD of the week Non Stop Non-Stop is a new thriller film starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore in the most pure fun movie to come out on DVD so far this month. Neeson now has a traditional of playing the strong older masculine type in films and NonStop is no exception; he plays an air Marshall on a commercial flight who is sent a text stating that someone on the flight

Album of the Week CunninLynguists- Strange Journey Vol. 3 CunninLynguists are one of the most consistent hip-hop groups around and have been releasing both fun and provocative material regularly since 2001, their material can be said to be rooted in the traditions of Southern hip-hop (dance inﬂuenced beats, straightforward

lyrics, and a general more pop oriented approach) and the sound is very relaxed and fun. The emcees are great as always but the best part of CunninLynguists is still the amazing production, from the ﬁrst listen this album is fantastic to listen to and it’s a perfect album for summer.

will die every twenty minutes until $150 million is transferred into a speciﬁc bank account. It’s a good premise for an action movie and NonStop does enough with it that you are never bored throughout the ﬁlm’s 106 minutes; for anyone wanting a no-nonsense thriller to get lost in this week I recommend NonStop.

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CROSSWORDS All of the clues relate to Catchwords. Can you ﬁnd the words then ﬁt them correctly into the grid?

Bold, courageous, independent, enthusiastic, fun-loving and fascinating Aries. Your ruling planet is Mars, your best day of the week is Tuesday and red is your colour. With Uranus moving through your sign (until 2017), others will surely be magnetised by your presence and captivated by your antics. Persistent, appreciative, dependable, practical and creative Taurus: Your ruling planet is Venus, your best day of the week is Friday and your best colour, green. With Pluto moving through another of the Earth signs, Capricorn, until 2024, your expertise is set to grow and consolidate in the coming years. Funny, versatile, talkative, fast-thinking and sophisticated Gemini: Your ruling planet is Mercury, your best day of the week is Wednesday and your best colours are spring-like, yellow and lilac. Jupiter is in your sign until late June 2013 broadening your world. Sensitive, nurturing, careful, imaginative and encouraging Cancer: Your ruling ‘planet’ is the Moon, your best day of the week is Monday and your best colours are blue and silver. Jupiter arrives in your sign in late June 2013 ushering in a period of extraordinary growth and opportunity. Instinctive, warm, creative, extravagant and delightful Leo Your ruling ‘planet’ is the Sun, your best day of the week is Sunday and your best colours are gold, yellow and orange. With Uranus moving through another of the Fire signs until 2017, your life journey is set to include adventures bringing increased contact with new cultures. Nimble, versatile, analytical, constructive, meticulous and often mimicallygifted Virgo. Your ruling planet is Mercury, your best day of the week is Wednesday and your colours are Earthy greens and browns. With Neptune now in your opposite sign of Pisces, the need to find perfection is strong.

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142 sales event at Barlo Motor Group 3y years ears free servicing 3y years ears road-side assistance 3y years ears warranty NISSAN. WHEN YOU BUY A NEW NI ISSAN.

PURCHASE A 142 NISSAN DURING OUR SALES EVENT STARTING FRIDAY 13TH OF JUNE TO AVAIL OF THESE OFFERS.

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Barlo Motor Group from our family to yours since 1944

Dubin Road, Kilkenny p: 056 7722575 ward@barlokilkenny.ie e: ward@barlokilkenny w: barlomotorgroup.ie

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PURCHASE A 142 NISSAN DURING OUR SALES EVENT STARTING FRIDAY 13TH OF JUNE TO AVAIL OF THESE OFFERS. Terms & Conditions Apply. Offer available during Sales event.

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Madden Motors Kilkenny Very Very Sensibly Priced Cars & Vans

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Opel Corsa 1.2 SXi Dark Blue – New Model Only 29,000 mls................................................................................ €5,950 Peugeot 207S 1.3 3 Dr Silver .................................................. €4,250 Honda Jazz 1.3 SE 5 Dr. Full Service History – Like New .. €4,500 Ford Focus Diesel 1.6 Service History Dark Silver Super Clean Car ............................................................................... €3,950 Peugeot 407 Diesel - 1.6SE Dark Green with Service History ................................................................................................. €3,500 Opel Corsa SXi – CDTi 1.2 Diesel – Alloys .............................. €2,950 Nissan Micra 1.0 5 Dr. Very handy small hatchback – Spotless ............................................................................................... €3,250 SOLD Nissan Micra 1.2 3 Dr. Silver – Ideal starter car................... €2,950 DAEWOO Nubira. – Black – Very Clean Car and Cheap..... €1,800 Peugeot 206 1.1 Jet Black – 3 Dr. Spotless Car – Handy money ................................................................................... €2,500 Seat Altea 1.6 Super clean- One Owner Full Service

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History Vehicle. Loads of room – Sporty Family Car ......... €3,950 Mini One – Black - Low Milage - Alloys - Spotless Sporty Mini ........................................................................................ €3,500 Ford Fiesta 1.2 Low miles. Silver.Very handy to run car SOLD Cheap................................................................................................... €2,500 Opel Corsa 1.2 3 Door Service History Very Low Miles Very cheap to run. ........................................................................... €2,950 Toyota Corolla 1.4 Hatchback – One Owner You will not find a nicer one !! ..................................................................... €3,950 Peugeot 206 1.4 HDi Diesel – Dark Blue – Full Service History ................................................................................. €2,950 Toyota Yaris 1.0 Dark Blue – Lovely clean small Toyota..... €3,500 Honda Civic SE CDTi 1.7 Diesel - 3 Door - Alloys – Dark Blue Full Service History ..................................................... €3,500

Just in: 03 Nissan XTrail Diesel, Leather, Test, Bargain @ ..........€2,250

All vehicles will have full NCT and are fully checked over by our mechanics Cars can be viewed at our warehouse in Kilkenny All are open to offers!!! Japanese cars arrive next month.

Call us on our car sales hotline 056 7720280

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In Castlecomer with Chubby Brennan Calling all Brennans and Malones

Blast from the past...

DELIGHTED to publish an epistle from a good women called Ruth Cawley who is tracing relatives. Dear Chubby, I would be grateful if you would print this in the Kilkenny Reporter. SomeoneÂ could have info for me. My dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister Milsey married a Mick Brennan. They had lots of children and one son was called Gerard. Milsey was a Malone before she married Mick and my mother always spoke highly of Mick. The Malones came from Kilkenny and Mick and Milsey moved to Cork, I believe. My dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents lived in Wolfe Tone Street, Francis Terrace and Dean StreetÂ Â My dad was born in 1918. His brothers were Ber Tony, Joe; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only info I got. I believe my grandmother Mary was a teacher and my grandfather Andrew was a gardener/beekeeper for the nuns. Not a lot of info really, is there? Moral of the story is listen more to your parents. Â Anyone with possible links or information please contact Chubby Brennan, chubbybrennan@eircom.net.

Gold for Joe Congrats to Joe Walsh, Castlecomer who represented â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Comer and Leinster at the recent Special Olympics in Limerick. Joe participated in the fast walking over two difficult courses. He won gold and bronze Well done Joe from all your friends in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Comer and your mates and staff in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Comer SOS.

Gymkhana time Â Ballyfoyle Gymkhana is on Sunday, June 29. This is a great family day out. There will be a

Castlecomer Male Voice Choir dog show. All entries welcome.

Reading challenge Our County Library Service presents Mythical Maze, a Summer reading challenge to read six books in six weeks.

Cards available at the local library from 10am on July 1. See www.kilkennylibrary.ie 056-4440561

DVD on sale AN SOS Castlecomer DVD

called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;King of the Powleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is now on sale. This is a short ďŹ lm which tells the story of how Paddy, winner of the ďŹ rst ever wellie race. Paddy is kidnapped and the wellie race committee are held

to ransom by the stars of Deen View Centre, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Comer. The committee hold an emergency meeting in Dillonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub. Do they hand over the trophy or do they try to rescue Paddy?

Film location is Skehana, Eugene and Margaret Dillonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Castlecomer Discovery Park. Cost of the DVD is â&#x201A;Ź5 and all proceeds go to SOS â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Comer. Contact Chubby Brennan 0872121639.

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We Patrick & Gemma Brennan are applying for permission for the erection of a dwelling house & domestic garage/store with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works at Sandfordscourt, Johnswell, 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. - 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: Byrne & McCabe Design, Architecture and Engineering Services (059 9725684).

Edward and Marie Tallent hereby apply to Kilkenny County Council for Planning permission for the change of use/renovations of the existing ground floor retail outlet to an apartment joined to the upper floors of the building (but also retaining its possible use as a separate retail outlet), also permission for an external porch, and all associated site works at 69 Dean Kavanagh Place (also known as 124 Upper Walkin Street), 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.

I, Eamon Langton, intend to apply for Permission for development at this site situated at No. 63 High Street and 64 High Street, Kilkenny. The development will consist, permission for a change of use the ground floor of No 63 High Street from retail to restaurant / bar use, to form two access doors from existing property at 64 High Street through to new proposed restaurant / bar area at 63 High Street, for minor alterations to the internal layout of 63 High Street, and all associated ancillary works. The building and site at No. 63 and 64 High Street are protected structures under the Kilkenny City and Environs Development Plan.

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I, Patrick Croke of killeen inistoige intend Ref. No. of the application: P13/523 The development applied for consisted of: Permission for a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment system, and all associated works, located at Killeen, Inistioge. Significant Further Information/ Revised Plans has/have been furnished to the Planning Authority in respect of this proposed development, and is/are available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the Offices of the Planning Authority during its public opening hours of 9:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. A submission or observation in relation to the further information or revised plans may be made in writing to the Planning Authority within a period of 2 weeks from the date of receipt of the revised public notices. A submission or observation must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of â&#x201A;Ź20, except in the case of a person or body who has already made a submission or observation. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

Take notice that I intend to apply to Kilkenny County Council for permission to construct 11 parking spaces on lands at High Hayes Terrace, Gardens, Kilkenny. This application is within the curtilage of the old railway viaduct, a protected structure NIAH Register no. 12000196. 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 County Council, County Hall, John Street, Kilkenny, during its public opening hours 9 a.m.- 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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: Eamon Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gorman

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.- 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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: Mark Kennedy, Reddy Architecture & Urbanism

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25 JUNE 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Sport

Girls can reach great heights

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Dress rehearsal suggests girls can conquer JIMMY RHATIGAN JIMMYRHATIGAN@GMAIL.COM

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Right: Robbie English, Lisa Coogan, Sergeant Gary Gordan from Kilkenny, who took part in an Olympic torch run, Ger Byrne, Gerri Kinsella and team mascot, Leo the Lion

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25 JUNE 2014 Kilkenny Reporter

Sport

Last weekend was a huge one for the Bennettsbridge Juvenile Club when the U14 hurlers travelled to Ulster for the National Féile. Their hosts were Loughgiel Shamrocks Club in the Glens of Antrim, north of Ballymena, who, with 19 titles, are one of the top clubs in Antrim

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Danesfort Camogie Club hosted an U8 blitz for the ‘Go Games’. There was a brilliant turnout and the event was a great success. Pictured is the Danesfort team. Trainers are Richard O’Brien, Pat O’Donnell and Sabrina Cunningham

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