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COMMENT: Schoolchildren are being taught in a world of virtual insanity

You might remember a successful musician from the 1990s called Jamiroquai. I didn’t like him much — and not just because he was going out with Denise Van Outen and I wasn’t. No, his music was a bit too slap-bass funkadelic for my taste. That said, ...

25 Feb 2017 at 09:00

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COMMENT: Last weekend shows we need more anti-drink driving checkpoints in Kildare

Kildare Gardai staged a massive swoop on road traffic offenders last Saturday night. Four drivers were arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Two cars were impounded as their drivers didn’t have insurance. More were done on road traffic law ...

03 Mar 2017 at 09:00

Features

COMMENT: Deep divisions on the future look of Naas

Deep divisions are emerging over how to rejuvenate the centre of Naas town. The litany of business closures has been well documented by now - 40 or so and counting (though many have opened up as well and more, like a sushi bar at New Row ...

03 Mar 2017 at 15:51

Features

COMMENT: Can we cope with another building boom in Kildare?

Building is booming again in County Kildare. It’s starting to feel like the mid-noughties all over again. Those tracking planning applications in Kildare have seen evidence of developers starting to apply for multi-unit residential ...

26 Mar 2017 at 08:30

Features

COMMENT: There is more needed in Naas than residential development

Nothing in Naas comes as well planned as residential development. New houses are coming on to the market at Kilcullen Road, Dublin Road, Sallins Road and Caragh Road. Many more are in the pipeline as Naas’s population is set to ...

12 Mar 2017 at 10:30

Features

COMMENT: The sums must add up on rates and rent for Kildare businesses

When I was slightly younger than I am now, about 50 years ago, a lot of folk tended to call the the school subject of maths by a simpler name — sums. It has been a while now since I heard the word ‘sums’ but I was reminded of ...

15 Apr 2017 at 14:00

Features

COMMENT: Commercial rates are rising in Kildare at the wrong time

To paraphrase one of the characters in the movie No Country For Old Men, if this ain't a mess it’ll do till the mess shows up. The changes in the way businesses pay rates has provoked much comment in recent weeks, almost all ...

09 Apr 2017 at 11:00

Features

Naas needs more parking spaces — as well as cycle lanes

More than a year has passed now since the possibility of parking spaces being lost on the Kilcullen Road was first aired. This was followed last January by a very vocal public meeting, attended by many angry local people ...

02 Jul 2017 at 09:00

Features

Comment: Your Christmas drinks aren't worth a family's grief

A most extraordinary television interview took place on the Ray D’Arcy television show last Saturday night. Gillian and Ronan Treacy, from just over the Kildare border in Portarlington, were guest on the programme to ...

02 Dec 2016 at 12:44

Life

Kildare heatwave: We've gone from freezing Game of Thrones to sizzling Love Island weather

Cast your mind back just four scant months, and we were all shivering under a blanket of ice and snow here in Kildare. There wasn’t a sliced pan to be had from the north to the south of the county, and people in ...

29 Jun 2018 at 16:33

Local News

COMMENT: 'Stories for Girls'? Just Let It Go...

A couple of weeks ago, in a Kildare supermarket, I was looking for some bubblegum reading — you know, the kind of five quid crime thriller or light, funny novel that wipes a tough work week from your brain. And ...

25 Nov 2016 at 12:23

Features

COMMENT: Why Kildare County Council takes a 'softly softly' approach to tackling derelict sites

The Naas Tidy Towns group has — in a sense — been doing more to open new business enterprises in the town than any other organisation. Its volunteers took to painting some of the vacant premises in the town, ...

16 Jan 2017 at 11:40

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