Letters to the editors
NAMA should take over meat factories
Dear Editor,
I’ve always believed in having the right person for the right job. As a farmer in an ideal world, NAMA would take over the running of meat factories as they would be sure to pay way over the odds for our produce in case its future economic value would rise. This would save our meat industry.
Break-ins are worrying
Deserted pubs - then mayhem
Taxis
Dear Editors,
Following my many letters and objections regarding the second taxi rank at Dunne's car park, it now seems that the Borough Council have sat up and taken notice.
Ireland's head is on the block
Dear Sir,
I was never able to understand Brian Cowan's decision to hand Brian Lenihan the job as Minister of Finance, one of the toughest jobs in the Government, particularly as he has little or no experience in accounts. Unfortunately, my reservations were proven to be well founded with blunder after blunder and u-turn after u-turn.
A recipe for a new regime of censorship?
The Government is set bring in a law against Blasphemy.
Are they serious…or is this just a diversionary tactic to get us talking about something…anything…other than about the mess the country is in?
Banning remarks or writings about religion that offend a substantial number of adherents of the religious creed concerned would be a recipe for a new regime of censorship, possibly even stricter than the one under which some of our greatest writers, including Edna O’Brien, Liam O’Flaherty, and John McGahern had their books banned.
Bournemouth reader is happy
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
Congratulations on your online newspaper. What a brilliant way for fans and friends of Kilkenny to keep up to the minute with events in the city.
I shall certainly use it regularly and pass on the great news to my friends who are always interested in events happening throughout Ireland and want to know of interesting places to visit.
Where is more interesting than Kilkenny, I say!
Yours etc,
Ann Deegan,
Bournemouth,
England
A ‘camel’ – a horse designed by a committee
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
If the Borough Council could fix the many problems facing Kilkenny as quickly as they have installed the new parking meters we would all be encouraged into believing, the system actually works. Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth.
Barrie Henriques crew are recession busters
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
With the nation in the grip of recession, and misery stamped on so many lives, how refreshing it was to find a haven of joy, talent, celebration, and musical enchantment in the midst of economic doom and gloom.
I refer of course to the latest Callan Variety Show, an annual event that has brought credit and first class entertainment not just to the townspeople, but also to folk within a 40 or 50 mile radius who converge in their droves on Callan to savour this wonderful occasion.
I do not need to be lectured to says Council hopeful
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
Reading the Grassroots column in the 'Kilkenny Advertiser' of last week I was surprised at its tone, the lack of understanding of the political system and the insulting references to the many men and women who held the office of Mayor of our great city over its political history.
Mum’s the word
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
Hi guys, you've got another new reader from Sydney, Australia. Have been visiting the site since my mum told me about it.
Great to catch up on all the news back home and the pictures are fab. Brilliant lay-out. Keep up the good work!
Yours etc,
Majella Kelliher
Call on Council to reduce rents
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
DIFFERENTIAL rents must be reduced immediately given the effects of the recent budget.
When the interest rates drop they are passed on. So why not the rent? We in Kilkenny pay high rents.
I am calling on Kilkenny Borough and Kilkenny County Council to reduce them now. This will help our most most vulernable in these difficult times. And why are houses in our city empty and boarded up?
Horrified at parking meters
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
I am a Kilkenny City man who has spent the last 40 odd years working and living in Dublin. I love to return regularly and I always tell my friends how fantastic a place Kilkenny is.
When I came home just recently, I was horrified to find ugly parking meters dotted around our city. What an ugly army of what look like Aliens, I thought to myself.
Open pool to our homeless, says Anne
Dear Kilkenny Voice,
Nightly in Kilkenny, I see our homeless walking our streets. This is at the same time as our old swimming pool in Michael Street is lying idle.
Through the milk of human kindness, could our Borough Council not make this building available to the less well off, to rest their weary bodies at night?
Perhaps we could get voluntary workers to be available to help out if the facility could be put to this human use.
Yours etc,
Anne Ryan,
High Street,
Kilkenny
Are you working for nothing?
Dear Editor,
"You load 16 tons what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"
The above lyrics from the famous song by US country singer Merle Travis about a coalminer moving 16 tons of coal a day have a deep resonance with farmers. In a farming situation the coal becomes cattle, the day becomes a year and the company store is the Co-Op and the bank. But the reality stays the same.
Are trees part of Special Branch?
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
Could I ask if the trees on Kilkenny's Ring Road covered by the Special Secrets Act?
Or are they part of The Special Branch?
The trees on this road are now being cut down by Kilkenny County Council at a time when birds are nesting.
Another example from powers that be of 'Do as I say, not as I do'.
Yours etc,
Anne Ryan
High Street
Kilkenny
Thank you from Kent
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
Well done to all the children who took part in the recent concert in Dublin. Two of my granddaughters played in the 'B' Orchestra so I was delighted to see your coverage of the event as I live in Kent, England.
Distance has sometimes been a bit of a problem keeping abreast of the girls' school events. Not anymore, thank you Kilkenny Alive.
Yours etc
Deborah McMillan
Kent
England
St Kieran’s man in Dublin
Dear Kilkenny Alive,
An enterprising project indeed! I am amazed that so many people far and wide already know of your existence. Many moons ago I was at St Kieran's, so greetings to any similar in many corners of the planet.
Yours etc,
Mike Doyle in Dublin
Our city is the loo-ser!
Dear Editors,
Amazing we had many City Fathers and our Mayor abroad for St Patrick's Day, promoting tourism...
Yet we have not a public loo in the whole of Kilkenny City.
Forget the junkets and put the money saved into providing a public toilet in Kilkenny.
Yours etc,
Anne Ryan
High Street
Kilkenny City
'I love surfing the net'
What a breath of fresh air. I was really delighted to come across your online newspaper, Kilkenny Alive. I love surfing the net and to be able to peruse our own Kilkenny newspaper is wonderful. I like in particular your GAA writer whose style is light and easy. He or she is obviously, like myself, an avid supporter of the game of hurling.
Your news service is quite impressive too. The fact that we get details of events almost as they happen is a huge plus.
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