Kilkenny Press

02/01/2025

MILO WAS EVERYONE’S FRIEND

STANDING in a long queue to say goodbye to a lifelong friend was a…

02/12/2024

The death has occurred of Michael John Cummins of Cricklewood, London and formerly of…

02/12/2024

Son of Kilkenny dies in London

12/11/2024

In loving memory of the late Maureen Rhatigan, 24 Fatima , Kilkenny who would…

12/11/2024

In memory of Maureen Rhatigan

In loving memory of the late Maureen Rhatigan, 24 Fatima , Kilkenny who would…

05/11/2024

OPINION - John McGuinness rocks the boat

I did vote for Kilkenny politician John McGuinness many times.  There were elections when…

24/10/2024

OPINION - White blackbirds and honest politicians

It never ceases to amaze me. Come election time, local or national, politicians always…

03/10/2024

OPINION: CUNNING BUDGET DESIGNED TO FOOL US

TRYING TO sell the Budget to an electorate that appears to be waking from…

03/10/2024

OPINION: Jimmy Rhatigan
CUNNING BUDGET DESIGNED TO FOOL US
TRYING TO sell the Budget to an electorate that appears to be waking from its slumbers has to be as difficult as selling sand to the Arabs.
The offering from the notorious trinity of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and The Greens is riddled with flaws and is a disingenuous package geared towards us believing that we are getting the sun, moon and stars while all we are being proffered is a well decorated and much lauded Christmas Bonus with a few frills in dodging dressing.
Reality is that the Budget is a rich man’s wallet-filler designed as a poor man’s bag of tricks.
The three tricksters cannot disguise the fact that they are once again filling the pockets of landlords while boxing the ears off of under pressure tenants.
Nothing has changed. Both FF and FG are conservative parties with wily ministers and smarmy TDs pandering to the wants and the needs of those who have while pretending to be on the side of those who have not.
The Greens are unsure where they stand, trapped on the middle of the road and battling with themselves on whether or not to use a cycling lane or a hybrid roadway.
They promote lettuce plants but one suspects they would be much more at home with a platter of caviar.
The very fact that Government Parties insulted us with this shady budget shows just how much contempt they have for the plebs of Ireland, as they would brand us, the good people they are supposed to represent in the Dáil.
That they had the gall, the temerity to present their vote buying mishmash to us shows just how rude and disrespectful they can be to us citizens who pay their exorbitant wages.
In giving us the two fingers the message they have sent us is to live horse and eat grass.
Their underhand politics should be thrown back into their faces.
We have a glorious opportunity to do just that in the forthcoming General Election.
If we don’t react and accept the political pittances with bowed knee then we deserve the manure that is being hurled at us by male and female politicians who totally overrate their value to our country that is riddled with underhand skullduggery like our children’s hospital scandal and the Dáil bicycle shed.
We should keep in mind that the cunning budget was designed to fool us.
That in itself should stir our emotions.

25/09/2024

75 YEARS MARRIED

The late Jimmy Rhatigan, centre, with his late wife Maureen Dunne who were wed…

19/09/2024

Although there is still no date on the next General  Election, politicians and wannabe…

18/09/2024

OPINION: Sneering at our innocence

Although there is still no date on the next General  Election, politicians and wannabe…

18/09/2024

The Life of Brian Cody

This year marks the 140th anniversary of the founding of the GAA.  To mark…

15/09/2024

Love and respect were sky high

IT WAS a poignant scene as family members shouldered the remains of a wonderful…

09/09/2024

Sound, sincere and kind

YOU WOULD travel a long way to find another man as sound, sincere and…

02/09/2024

Singing scythe by scythe

Callan’s historic Abbey Meadow dominated the town’s Heritage Week activities this year.  A week was…

29/08/2024

Going in the write direction

Fennelly’s of Callan served as the venue for two eagerly-awaited book launches. Etaoin Holahan, celebrated curator of the…