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Time to rethink Athy's parking policies - Life - Kildare Nationalist (opens the original)
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I AM reading comments, or more specifically complaints, on Facebook in relation to the ongoing issues concerning parking in the centre of Athy. There seems to be general unhappiness with the present parking system, particularly in so far as visitors to the Shackleton Experience are concerned who are limited to two hours paid parking. It is generally accepted that a tour of the Shackleton Experience can take up to a minimum of two and a half hours. Since we hope that visitors who travel to Athy w
A good book changes everything - Life - Kildare Nationalist (opens the original)
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‘IT all began with William’s aunt, who was in a good temper that morning, and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer’s.’ So begins Just William, the first of Richmal Crompton’s comic tales of a mischievous schoolboy. In this case, William buys some sweets, goes to the pictures, and decides to re-enact the melodramas he’s seen on the way home. It all goes downhill from there. I’m not sure if William’s escapades inspired all of my misadventures wi
A fond look back at school days in Athy - Life - Kildare Nationalist (opens the original)
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MY YOUNGEST grandchild started primary school today after spending two years in preschool. Hannah, named after her great grandmother who spent her adult life amongst the Irish speaking people of Connemara, is a pupil in the local Gaelscoil. Given my difficult schooling days as regards the Irish language, it is a pleasant surprise to find in the ancient town of Athy, positioned just outside the English Pale of medieval times, a school committed to teaching Irish as a living language. It is even o
Athy hurling revival rekindles proud tradition - Life - Kildare Nationalist (opens the original)
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THE recent announcement of the re-establishment of a hurling club in Athy prompted me to go through my GAA file to see what notes I had on Athy’s hurling clubs of the past. The first reference to hurling I came across in Athy was a newspaper report of Athy hurlers losing to a Monasterevin team in 1890. Three years earlier, Daniel Whelan of Fontstown was noted as making hurleys for Athy GAA Club. Athy Hurling Club’s first major success was in the 1928 county hurling final when Athy defeated Johns
Vanishing pubs & empty premises in Athy - Life - Kildare Nationalist (opens the original)
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I HAVE been back living in Athy since 1982 following an absence of 21 years which saw me sharing experiences with folk in Naas, Kells, Monaghan and Dublin. I returned to the town where I grew up in the second half of the 1940s and the treasured years of the 1950s. I remember Athy in those days as a thriving town with little or no vacant shop premises and a business life which revolved around a multiplicity of public houses, grocery shops and three excellent drapery shops, Shaws, M.G. Nolans and
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