EYE ON THE PAST 1065 LAST week I had occasion to reflect on the writers I have enjoyed over the years and the persons who for one reason or another I have admired. It’s an exercise which had not previously...
EYE ON THE PAST 1058 RESEARCH which I carried out in recent years gave me the names of only two...
PART of Athy’s developing cultural heritage is the Heritage Centre located on the ground floor of the town’s 18th century...
THE recent death of Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin sent me searching amongst my sports books and in particular amongst the...
WITHIN the space of a few weeks Athy has lost two of its most stalwart campaigners. You may think it...
DAVID Neill was half a generation ahead of me and so, although we were both of Offaly Street, we never...
PORTERS Directory and Guide published in or around 1909 carried an alphabetical list of names of Athy businesses associated with...
WE are facing into a series of centenary commemorations over the next 10 years or so. These will include the...
TWO people with whom I shared a friendship in recent years passed away last week. Pat Henshaw, born in Malta...
ONE of the most important events of any year for the local authority was the business of striking a new rate and the year 1963 was no exception. The headline in a local newspaper read ************Naas rate up by four...
CONTINUING our look at the council chamber snippets we find that in April a special meeting of the UDC was...
Tales from the Town Hall BY contrast with the beginning of the century the start of the second decade (1910)...
IN the 1950 Urban District Council Bill Callaghan was elected for the first time and subsequently was continuously elected at...
By Mick Mulvey IN the old ballroom of the Town Hall, which is now the Naas Town Council chamber,...
IN perhaps one of the great ironies of human civilisation, mechanical devices to truly magnify human power came along as soon as we didn’t need them. Pedal-powered devices like bicycles only appeared after coal had already begun to transform the...
SAY solar power” and everyone thinks of photovoltaic cells, and investing in these would be a boon to the world...
MANY local gardeners had their worst year ever in 2012, with the near-constant rain washing away soil, waterlogging roots and...
