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Cheers! Town toasts new bar and 50 jobs Wetherspoon’s to splash â‚Ź3m on Tullow Street pub CARLOW Town is toasting a WKH ÂżUVW Ă€RRU FXVWRPHU OHYHO new pub - and 50 new jobs. $ ÂżUVW Ă€RRU URRI WHUUDFH Work will start next month on accessed via summer doors converting the former Traders WKURXJK WKH ÂżUVW Ă€RRU EDU KDV D Bar, in Tullow Street. partially covered space, as well The JD Wetherspoon group as an outdoor customer area, at plans to spend more than the rear of the premises. â‚Ź3m on the bar which We t h e r s p o o n will be called The founder and MORE Tullow Gate and is chairman Tim JOBS scheduled to open Martin said: “We IN THE in June next year. are delighted that PIPELINE: The Wetherspoon development work group has on the pub is to PAGE 4 almost 1,000 pubs start soon. throughout Britain and Âł:H DUH FRQÂżGHQW WKDW some in Northern Ireland. the pub will be a welcome ,W RSHQHG LWV ÂżUVW SXE LQ WKH addition to the town and prove Republic, in Dublin, in 2014. popular with people of all ages. In Britain it has revolutionised “Hopefully the new pub the licenced trade with low will act as a catalyst for other prices and an open-plan mix of businesses to invest in Carlow.â€? food and drink. It has been a good week The design for The Tullow for jobs in Carlow. MSD, is Gate incorporates one bar and expanding its base here in customer area on the ground a move that will create 170 Ă€RRU OHYHO DQG D VHFRQG EDU RQ jobs.
Kenny Iasaki and Tomiwa Odumeunf(festival Secetery) in the Visual arts centre last weekend for the Carlow-African film festival. Lots more pictures inside
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Two-hour commute is a blight on county, says Ibec SOME people are spending more than two hours every day commuting from Carlow to Dublin, according to a report from the business group Ibec. Lengthy commuting times, ZKLFK D൵HFW RI WKH population, were one of the downsides of life in the county. On the plus side Carlow was praised for having a diverse enterprise base, an institute of technology (soon to be a university), relatively low commercial rates (18th most expensive of 31 local authorities) and attracting overseas tourism. The Local Economic Indicators report also looked at the wider South East. It found that the region has a high dependency on the National %URDGEDQG 3ODQ ZLWK RI homes and businesses unable to access high speed broadband. It found that Waterford ranks third for IDA jobs with 10,000 people in the labour force. Carlow is second for Local (QWHUSULVH 2൶FH MREV DQG VL[WK for Enterprise Ireland jobs.
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Carlow Institute salutes Homecoming day best ever, says its talented graduates Shauntelle’s mam
Winner of the Technology, Science and Business Faculty Award: Geraldine McGlynn, presented by Mr. David Forde, Deputy Principal CIFET CARLOW Institute of Further Education and Training (CIFET) annual graduation ceremony took place in The Woodford Dolmen Hotel. Markita Mulvey, Principal of CIFET, welcomed all the special guests, graduands and their families. In her address she celebrated the achievements of the 2018
Winner of the Humanities and Services Faulty Award: Geraldine Collier, presented by our sponsor Mr. Doug Poole, Jones Business Systems
graduands and wished them every success in their career paths. Ms Mulvey thanked the many partners who work with Carlow Institute: the County Childcare Committee, Carlow IT, Carlow College to mention but a few. She referenced the broad range of educational disciplines on R൵HU LQ &DUORZ ,QVWLWXWH Cynthia Deane, CEO of
KCETB, and guest speaker for the occasion, expressed congratulations to all in attendance. In her address she referenced the evolving market place and the sustainable skills required by graduates to facilitate their journey into the work force, a journey that is initiated during their time at Carlow Institute.
SHAUNTELLE Tynan’s mam says having her daughter back home in Carlow is the best feeling in the world. “It’s still surreal, I’m still pinching myself,” Leona Tynan told Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show. Shauntelle was diagnosed with a multi-system Langheran’s cell histiocytosis back in May 2015. She was declared completely free of the rare cancer after lengthy treatment at a clinic in Texas. Waking up, knowing her daughter was back home, made it “the Carlsberg of mornings”, Leona said. There were emotional scenes at Dublin Airport when Shauntelle returned. Well-wishers joined friends, IDPLO\ PHPEHUV DQG D ³ÀDVK mob” of dancers from the Leah Moran Stage School to welcome her home. Shauntelle said she was shocked by the huge crowd awaiting her arrival and she “wasn’t expecting anyone to be there”. She said it was “great to be home” to begin the rest of her
life, learn to drive, get a job, go to college and advocate for awareness of this cancer.” Shauntelle’s care in Texas was not supported by the Health Service Executive because she did not qualify for the Treatment Abroad Scheme. Her story received widespread media attention after she posted a tearful video on YouTube last year in which she said that the specialist treatment in Texas was her “last chance”. The video was shared thousands of times on social media and more than €700,000 was quickly raised on the crowdfunding website gofundme. com. Before the dramatic cash boost, the family had spent more than a year trying to raise the money.
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Survey names and shames dirty old town SOME areas of Carlow town have been heavily criticised in the latest survey by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). Overall the town was deemed “moderately littered” and ranked a lowly 35 out of the 40 towns and cities surveyed. “Carlow has fallen short of other towns in cleanliness at times and this was again the case,” said the report. “There were just three top ranking sites and two heavily littered – the remainder were moderately littered.” 7KH VXUYH\¶V ¿QGLQJV RQ individual areas were Gateway Business Centre: Grade A. The overall impression here was of a clean and tidy environment which was well presented and well maintained. Castlecomer Approach Road: Grade B. Much of this road
was in good order with regard to litter but it was let down by some food related litter casually dropped and the contents of an RYHUÀRZLQJ ELQ Tullow Street: Grade B. There ZDV D GH¿QLWH OLWWHU SUHVHQFH along Tullow Street with cigarette butts quite pronounced and lower levels of dog fouling and food / mineral related litter. It was noted that the adjoining laneways were also littered. A couple of vacant properties along Tullow Street create a poor impression. Barrow Way Apartments and Residential: Grade A. There was a complete absence of litter at this riverside residential environment. R448 from M9: Grade B. 'HVSLWH JUHDW H൵RUWV ZLWK regard to maintenance of the road, there was fresh sporadic
litter on both sides. Kennedy Avenue: Grade C. An air of neglect prevailed throughout this mixed use site, including a variety of food RXWOHWV 7KHUH ZDV JUD൶WL RQ many separate surfaces, weed growth was very pronounced and clearly the area has lacked a thorough cleaning for quite some time. Carlow Town Park: Grade A. The car park and immediate environs presented well DQG FUHDWHG D SRVLWLYH ¿UVW impression of Carlow Town Park. M9 / N10 Carlow / Kilkenny link Road: Grade B. While the presentation and maintenance of this site was excellent it was let down by heavy levels of plastic bottles and lower levels of other food related litter.
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Carlow girls, Krista Valteris and Keisha Moloney, have been presented with National Bravery Awards. They saved a six-year-old boy from drowning LQ D PXG ÂżOOHG SRQG DQG UHYLYHG him with CPR.
Well done
Carlow Council held a reception to celebrate the achievements of local competitors in the 2018 Special Olympic Games in June. Some 40 competitors from local clubs represented Leinster at the national games.
Hurlers v footballers
Carlow hurlers will take on the Carlow footballers in a fund-raising game show, ‘Who Wants to be a Thousandaire?’, on November 17 at the Mount Wolseley. For tickets call 086 680 9165.
Cylinder explodes
Gardaà arrested a 15-year-old boy who stole medical supplies, including a gas cylinder, from a vehicle at St Dympna’s Hospital and later threw the cylinder against a wall causing it to explode.
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170 jobs in pipeline at new MSD medical plant AN extra 170 jobs are on the way to the Carlow branch of pharmaceutical company MSD. The multi-national giant already employs 400 people here and 2,000 in four Irish plants. The company is planning to build a second manufacturing plant on its existing site at Ballyvergal. Recruitment is starting immediately although manufacturing at the new facility is not expected until 2023. The Carlow factory produces vaccines for a variety of ailments, and MSD said that the expansion was a result of the growing global demand for the company’s medicines. The new centre will focus on the production of biologics — drugs that are made from a living organism — as well as vaccines. MSD said that the build “will include an expansion of warehouse and laboratory services at the siteâ€?. The investment is the second VLJQLÂżFDQW ,ULVK H[SDQVLRQ WKDW
Students from Borris Vocational School were presented with Waterford Institute of Technology/BSTAI Junior Certificate Awards, for achieving ‘A’ grades in their Junior Certificate Honours Business Studies. Seated from left: Rachel Fenlon, Kathleen Fenlon, Brid O’Dwyer and SeanĂĄn Doyle. Back row: Kathleen Doran, teacher; Angela Malone, Hannah Murphy, Paul Davitt, Maria Dagg, teacher and Dr. Tom O’Toole, Head of School of Business, WIT. Absent was Fionn Murphy. photo: Aileen Drohan MSD has announced this year. In February it revealed that it had received the go-ahead to build a biologics centre at Swords in Dublin. That facility will produce
Keytruda, which is used to treat cancer, and will employ about 350 people. Construction is due to start next year and the plant is expected to open in 2021. MSD had planned to sell the
site in Swords but reconsidered when it was looking at possible locations for its new biologics plant and was assured of a relatively uncontentious planning process.
At present the company employs 2,000 people between Carlow, Cork, Dublin and Tipperary. MSD vice-president for global biologics and sterile ops, Karin Shanahan, said the decision to further invest in Carlow was a testament to the talent of the current Carlow team . Carlow’s Fine Gael TD Pat Deering welcomed the announcement. “This new facility is another YRWH RI FRQÂżGHQFH LQ &DUORZ and the highly skilled work force we have here,â€? he said. Âł,W LV DOVR QR GRXEW D UHĂ€HFWLRQ of the increased talent pool we will have locally thanks to the new technological university in the south east. “The decision of this international company to further invest in Carlow is a real testament to the talent of the current Carlow team and reinforces MSD’s commitment to Ireland, further strengthening their 50year strong legacy here. Such investment is critical to our communities.â€?
Council outlaws agressive beggars Winner of the Creative Arts Faculty Award: Aine Lynch, presented by Mr. David Forde, Deputy Principal CIFET
Abuse puts stop to free parking FREE parking at Hadden’s car park (PlĂĄs na Saoirse) has been ended because it was “abused by some motoristsâ€?. The temporary parking arrangements were introduced to support the town centre retailers during Irish Water’s works on Upper Tullow Street but the council said they were being abused. The temporary free parking arrangements ended on Saturday. The previously introduced 30 minute free on-street
parking will continue. Councillors, meanwhile, have approved a proposal to lease land for 35 additional parking spaces in Bennekerry. Following lengthy discussions with a local landowner, an agreement has been reached for the leasing of 0.224 acres. Converting the area into a car park will cost more than â‚Ź20,000 and the rent will cost Âź D \HDU IRU ÂżYH \HDUV with an option to extend the lease.
A CRACKDOWN has been ordered on “professional and aggressive beggingâ€? in Carlow town. The municipal council has passed a bye-law banning begging “in any public place in Carlow Townâ€?. Cllr Will Paton, who wrote the bye-law, said aggressive begging was a major issue and “people were sick and tired of being harassedâ€? and “businesses were fed up of it tooâ€?. Cllr Jim Deane opposed the measure. He said it meant that “if if a person says, ‘Excuse me, please, can you help me?’ they DUH FRPPLWWLQJ DQ RŕľľHQFH 7KLV is stopping somebody looking for help. We are criminalising that person.â€? But Cllr Ken Murnane said gardaĂ have advised they would use their discretion. Cllr John Pender said the public feel threatened by certain beggars. Cllr Brian O’Donoghue said it’s too easy to get on a train and land up in Carlow and “spend the day working, aka, begging, and potentially make a day’s wagesâ€?.
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Retail park gets new owner in â‚Ź16m deal
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A spooky night spent with shades of Duckett’s Grove A PARANORMAL research team has issued a Halloween report on its investigation of Duckett’s Grove. The team of four women and three men spent the night in six separate areas of the historic house. They encountered strange smells and the unaacountable sound of a piano. One member, Laurie Cronin, lay in a Perspex FRྜQ LQ WKH EDVHPHQW DQG
had “the unsettling feeling of being lowered deeper and deeper into the groundâ€?. She said the area that impressed her most was the tunnel past the wine cellars. “The electricity I felt there made every hair on my entire body stand on end,â€? she said. “The K2 meter (an instrument that measures HOHFWURPDJQHWLF ÂżHOG ZDV Ă€DVKLQJ IURP ORZ WR
end of the scale, with no explanation. “There are no wires or electrics here. “There was also a potent smell of cinnamon that would mysteriously waft through the air on numerous occasions. “Three of the other members of the team also reported on this scent. “This was at the place I was drawn to most.�
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Presidential term is perfect length Darren Keating In our last edition, we published an article by Brian Quigley entitled ‘Seven years too long for President’ suggesting that we should reduce the Presidential term to four years. Darren Keating contacted us to say that he thought the piece was too one-sided, so we are delighted to publish his response:
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hen we l o o k b a c k o v e r the last seven years, v e r y few, if any, would argue that President Higgins has misrepresented us Irish citizens
Eluk O Rock, Tselane Morabane, Deputy Mayor Andrea Dalton, Gladys Orono Atsenokhai, Kenny Iasaki at the Visual arts centre for the 14th annual Carlow-African film festival at home, in the European Parliament, at the United Nations or with other Heads of State. He has brought his experience from a lifetime as a public representation to the job and a result has helped in my opinion grow Ireland’s reputation abroad. This is one of the principle roles of our president. It is not an easy task to be the voice of a nation. When you look at other countries with similar constitutions
to our own, such as Germany, whose current president is Frank-Walter Steinmeier, you soon realise that a lot of heads of state are not known outside there own country. To earn a global reputation, to earn global respect as a leader and to embody strength of character is of huge importance. This only comes with time. Ireland must have a voice that is listened to on the world stage. A voice that can be used to promote peace, dialogue, sustainable development, human
rights and an end to global poverty. Our friends around the world listen to and respect our president and his words become more powerful and more hard hitting as time passes and the respect of the presidency grows. This has been achieved in part because of the time a presidential term allows. One of the unique powers of the presidency is the fact that two seven-year terms allows for the time to be given to really creating and delivering a vision for the country.
Our government is by its nature in a constant cycle of election and no more so than now. Its budget to budget at best, but WKH SUHVLGHQF\ LV GLŕľľHUHQW WKH presidency has a real mandate and importantly time to deliver. To create, drive and inspire change on a national and international level needs commitment. Commitment to visions such as ethics, to the environment, to constructive debate, to acts of shared imagining and to really take charge of change needs
commitment. The commitment of two terms. Fourteen years is a unique opportunity to be a true global statesman or stateswoman, to deliver a vision of a society that can be renewed and strengthened with solidarity, diversity and accountability at its core. Not just at home but in Europe and around the world. A term limit of 4 years simply put is a dilution of a unique opportunity. There comes a point in a 14year term when a true global leader emerges, a leader that heads of states around the world aspire to meet and seek advice from, a leader of leaders. Can this be achieved in the short term, overnight, in one year, I would argue no, impossible. The presidential term RI RྜFH DW D JODQFH ORRNV OLNH a long time. By time as we all NQRZV ÀLHV E\ I for one am glad that we allow our president time to really be our voice, to embody what we aspire to be on global stage. To be part of the public discourse to encourage new ideas for shaping the country and nation’s future.
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Ni Riada is a hit with the young
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y wife and I were shooting the breeze at the kitchen table over D FR൵HH one evening during the week. The presidential election, the latest happenings with Brexit and various other current news items were being tossed back and forth. We do this quite a bit, trying to make sense of it all. 8VXDOO\ ZH ¿QG VRPH FRPPRQ ground, some gaps in our respective opinions that we can bridge and some gaping chasms WKDW ZH DJUHH WR GL൵HU RQ This evening in particular ZDV GL൵HUHQW WKRXJK LQ WKDW RXU three youngest came in, and after listening for a while joined seamlessly into the conversation. Who says that youngsters are only interested in their electronica and not what’s happening in the world?! They knew all six candidates in the presidential election. They knew about Peter Casey’s faux pas that scuppered his already slim chances of reaching
Brian Quigley the Aras. They knew Michael D was favourite to win. When asked who they’d like to see victorious there was overwhelming support for Liadh Ni Riada. ‘’She’s young, she looks good, she speaks Irish, she communicates well and she’s been in Europe’’. We couldn’t argue with any of that. They certainly put their ¿QJHUV RQ VRPHWKLQJ WKHUH Charisma counts for a lot with voters. Perhaps the children are too young to fully appreciate Michael D’s charisma – his interest in culture and art, his eloquence and diplomatic skills. More obvious to them would be how well someone looks and
John Connell, Neil Rooney and Jack O’Connell at the launch of the Movember 2018 campaign comes across on camera. Ni Riada wins the show hands down. Everyone else had some sort RI FKDULVPDWLF GH¿FLW LQ WKHLU
eyes – they were too old, didn’t speak well enough or in Casey’s case just said something unforgiveable (no Trump-like bounce
for him in our house!). We moved on to Brexit to get their take on it. My son, who is eight, felt that Britain leaving
the EU would leave Ireland fatally exposed. I wondered did he mean economically, or politically, or what. Turns out he meant physically. He thought that Britain would actually be relocating on the world map to somewhere outside Europe, as if May had an engine in Downing Street that she could just turn on and drive the nation elsewhere. This is about as silly an idea as Brexit itself, which just shouldn’t be happening in a sane world. Putin made a cameo appearance. His latest nuclear utterings have the playgrounds of Drumcondra mildly worried. I wouldn’t have thought he would permeate through their defence shields of Match Attax and Strictly Come Dancing but there you are. They were also concerned with the threats to journalists in the modern world, again something I wouldn’t have thought was on their radar. ‘ ’Daddy, don’t write anything bad about Putin or Trump!”. Out of the mouths of babes and all that.
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FODVVLÀHGV PLANNING NOTICES. Carlow County Council Retention permission is sought from Carlow County Council for indefinite retention of a 48m2 extension to the rear of my existing dwelling and indefinite retention of a 23m2 detached single storey home-office at Templepeter, Fighting Cocks , Co. Carlow. Signed: Patricia Meade. 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 Authority, Civic Offices, Athy Road, Carlow, during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in re-
lation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission. Carlow County Council Retention permission is sought for alterations and extensions to an > existing two storey dwelling as constructed
as follows: Increase of height of original pitched roof to structure, removal of original single storey extension to rear and its replacement with a two storey extension comprising new kitchen, bathroom, utility/lobby to ground floor, additional 2no. bedrooms and bathroom to first floor, associated roof lights and windows to same with finishes to match original house and associated site works at Laragh, Ballon, Co. Carlow Signed Jimmy O Toole The planning application may be inspected and/or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority, Carlow County Council, County Buildings, Athy Road, Carlow Town, during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.
18 | WILDLIFE with Justin Ivory
carlowpeople October 23, 2018
ninenottomiss BOOK of the week
TV SHOW of the week
FILM of the week
Puppy Love Seal pup at Bray Harbour (Photo – John Ivory) THERE can be few bonnier babies in the animal kingdom than Grey Seal pups. With their sleek white coat (or lanugo), big dark eyes and general air of helplessness, they should carry a warning sign – “Prepare to be Cutified�! The Grey Seal (Haliechoerus grypus) is our largest, land breeding carnivore. Breeding takes place from late August to the end of November. In the autumn pregnant females (cows) gather at traditional breeding grounds or rookeries to give birth to their single pup. A pup’s gorgeous, but very conspicuous white coat, would appear to be a strange evolutionary device for a young, vulnerable animal. It is most likely a hangover from the last ice age when seal pups would have been born in a frozen and predominantly white environment. Lack of major natural predators since then has seen the white coat remain. Another predator thwarting technique employed by the cows is the relative synchronisation of the births so the colony is at maximum population size. There’s safety in numbers! The pups are reared on an exclusive diet of milk for approximately 3 weeks. Grey Seal milk has the highest fat content (up to 60%) of any animal. It is not surprising that the pups grow at a phenomenal rate on this incredibly fat rich diet. Putting on up to 2kg per day, by the end of the lactation period they will have trebled their birth weight. At this stage the pups shed their white coats to reveal their grey coats adapted for life in the cold sea. The females then leave the pups to fend for themselves! It is not surprising that mortality rates among pups in that first winter can be up to 60%. With lactation completed, the cows come into season and mate with dominant male before heading back to sea. With a combination of delayed implantation and suspended development of the fertilised egg, the cow ensures that birth will not take place until the following autumn. And so, the cycle will begin again.
HOROSCOPES
THE FALL OF THE PHOENIX by Daniel Kelly
THE PODGE & RODGE SHOW Mondays 10.40pm RTE 2
HALLOWEEN ROI Rating: - 18
The long siege of Troy, the battles fought over it, and the city’s eventual capitulation and incineration are events which have often been retold since their first recitation by Homer. Seldom, however, will they have been narrated with such close attention to the minute particulars of battle, to its reek and terror and pain, as in this startling account by Daniel Kelly. Kelly looks minutely at every detail of archaic combat, as well as at the lives and feelings shaped by it. His Troy is not only a scene of shining glory, but also a grimy struggle for survival and mastery.
The return of the comedy talk show after almost 10 years away, with co-host Doireann Garrihy joining the two puppets to interrogate celebrity guests. Featuring “celebrity roasting and top notch music acts� in Ballydung Manor the return of this dastardly due is sure to be one of the most hotly-anticipated shows on Irish television this year. Love them or loathe them, they’re back! Performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O’Hara they have lost none of their humour and are apparently more vulgar than ever.
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. Serving as creative consultant, master of horror John Carpenter joins forces with writer/director David Gordon Green, writer Danny McBride, and cinema’s leading producer of horror Jason Blum to craft a film inspired by Carpenter’s classic but also carves a new path from the events in the landmark 1978 film.
RUN of the week
TRIP of the week
GIG of the week
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LISA HANNIGAN Visual Arts Centre, Tel: 059 917 2400. Saturday 3rd November 8pm. Tickets: â‚Ź26
PARKRUN Carlow Town Park. www.parkrun.ie Every Saturday
RATHWOOD HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN TRAIN Saturday, 27th Oct to Sunday, 4th of Nov. Rathwood Garden Rath, Tullow. T: 059 9156285
Following the launch of her number 1 album and sold out concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin and The Barbican Theatre, London, Lisa Hannigan visits VISUAL in Carlow with her intimate and acoustic concert ‘At Swim’. Now well established as one of Ireland’s leading solo female artists Lisa has scored two number one albums in the Irish charts, two Choice Music Prize nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination for Sea Sew. ‘At Swim’ is Lisa Hannigan’s third studio album and arguably her most bewitching.
Carlow Town Parkrun is a free weekly 5k jaunt every Saturday at 9:30. It is open to all who want to walk, jog or run. The route begins on the Barrow Track near the Town Park bridge, goes out and back on the Barrow Track and finishes in the Town Park. It is a community event organised by volunteers and people are welcome to participate by walking/jogging/ running being a spectator or volunteering. After the event all are welcome to come along to the Clink for coffee. If in doubt of running during bad weather, please check directly with us.
Join the Rathwood Halloween Pumpkin Train for a spooktacular adventure. You will be greeted by Winnie the Witch and many other spooky characters. Hop on the train if you dare to enter the enchanted woods where mysterious creatures live. On this ghoulishly, scary exciting adventure you will have fun, frolics and surprises along the way! If you are brave enough to enter the pumpkin patch in the enchanted woods you can pick your favourite pumpkin and with the help of the friendly witches carve your favourite picture onto it and you can take it home!
RIDE of the week
SCARE of the week
TOUR of the week
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WATERSIDE BIKE & HIKE Waterside Guesthouse, The Quay, Graiguenamanagh Tel : 086 408 4008
Get away from the hussle and bustle of modern day living and enjoy the Barrow Way from a different perspective. Bike and Hike offers bike rental and tours starting from the picturesque town of Graiguenamanagh with stunning views along the way. Take it easy as you listen to the birds, trying to spot a kingfisher or an otter. Perfect for groups, families or couples to explore the river towpath and discover wildlife, scenery and peace along a traffic free greenway. Cost: adults â‚Ź20 per day, children â‚Ź15 per day with adult bike or â‚Ź20 per day otherwise.
HALLOWE’EN AT HUNTINGTON CASTLE Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Co. Carlow Tel: 053-937 7160 www.huntingtoncastle.com
COUNTY CARLOW MILITARY MUSEUM Old Church, St. Dymna’s Hospital, Athy Road, Carlow Tel : 087 6904242
A Hallowe’en Spookfest at a genuine haunted castle! Features a ghostly guided tour with ghosts, ghouls and screams. Family tours suitable for under 12’s are available as well as over 12’s / adult tours only. Advance booking required. Bring your own torch and wear a costume! Family tours (suitable for U 12’s) between 4 – 6pm. Adult & Teenager tours 6.30 – 9pm Tours last approx 35 mins. U12’s ₏8.95 /Adults teenagers ₏11.95. Tours are on between 27th – 31st October only.
County Carlow Military Museum is located in the old church of St Dympna’s Hospital. The majority of the items/artifacts on display have been kindly donated by locals. Our Audio/ Visual features include footage of the War of Independence and Civil War in Ireland as well as The Irish Defence Forces service in the UN peacekeeping missions in the Congo, Lebanon and Somalia. There’s also a reconstruction of a World War One trench on display. For info on guided or school tour phone or email : militarymuseum@live.ie.
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