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Friday 12th June, Kytelers Inn

From www.sinnerboy.co.uk

Guitarist and singer Barry Barnes is one of Europe’s most active enthusiasts working to keep alive the music and memory of Rory Gallagher. Since 1996 Barry has organized the annual Rory Gallagher tribute gig at Dukinfield Town Hall, near Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire, making this the first, and the longest running Rory Tribute in the world. Currently established as one of the main events on the Rory calendar, and forced to re-locate to Sheffield, it continues to grow and now ‘The Rory Gig’ attracts audiences in excess of four hundred people from throughout the UK and abroad.

The same impetus to celebrate Rory’s genius led Barry to form a tribute band with two like-minded musicians - bassist Dave Burns and, more recently drummer Steve Tansley. Both Dave and Steve are lifelong Rory fans, not just some rhythm section that Barry has cobbled together, and it shows! Together as Sinnerboy and driven by belief, enthusiasm and passion, it’s the bands stated aim to be amongst the best Rory Gallagher tribute acts in the world.

Sinnerboy are ever-presents at all the major Rory festivals throughout the world and were Donal Gallagher’s choice of band for the first London festival at Hammersmith (Donal calls them his favourite ‘boy’ band!)

Playing live is what Sinnerboy do best. Anyone who has seen them will tell you, it’s all about energy and passion, strong songs played with verve. But how else could you approach playing Rory’s music?

Their repertoire numbers over forty songs (and rising), with material from every stage of Rory’s career including his early days with Taste. Bullfrog Blues, Walk On Hot Coals, Tattooed Lady, Shadow Play, Moonchild and many more are the essential ingredients of every Sinnerboy set.
For Sinnerboy, keeping the music of Rory Gallagher alive and live for people who love to hear it is all that matters …and don’t look for three guys on stage poncing about in wigs trying to look like three other guys, what you get with this band is all out passionate Rory Gallagher music!

Attention all Kilkenny photographers, photography enthusiasts and anyone with a camera. Introducing fotoireland.com, a website that intends to ‘promote Ireland through photography’.

How does it work?

Two ways. You promote your own photography and in turn, your county.  Fotoireland.com is a forum based website where you register a free account, select the forum/county you want to post into, post a new thread with your photography that links back to your website, blog, Flickr, Bebo account, anything really.

So the idea is when someone is looking to come to Kilkenny they can just look in the Kilkenny forum and see where’s good, what’s popular and how it exactly looks. It promotes the county and your own photography. And it’s all free.

You can find the forum here:

www.fotoireland.com

You can find the Kilkenny forum here:

www.fotoireland.com/kilkenny

You can register for free here:

www.fotoireland.com/register

TIM DAVIES

KILKENNY SHIFT

May 2 – June 14, 2009

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Kilkenny always had a very distinct lack of forums, where it’s members can meet and chat, debate and agree about anything they want. There are a few forums out there in Kilkenny but they tend to be dedicated to a certain area. So we decided to create our own forums. The idea is to provide an interactive experience for it’s members.

Have a look:

www.onlinekilkenny.com/forum

Register an account for free:

www.onlinekilkenny.com/forum/register

What can I do?

Anything really. You can talk about club and county hurling, recent matches. What promotions are in local shops. Share photos of Kilkenny. Talk about the Kilkenny music scene. Politics. Agree. Disagree. Ask questions. Anything you want. If you are a business you can advertise there for free. Contact us for more details.

Online Kilkenny is your number one resource for information and services for the county of Kilkenny in the south east of Ireland. Remember, Online Kilkenny is 100% free. If you want to advertise with us, get your website listed or have your company or band featured please contact us for more details.

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Yesterday (Wednesday) was the launch of this year’s annual ‘Guinness Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots Festival’. Featuring over 80 acts from several countries, this music festival is sure not to disappoint.

From Friday 1st May to Monday 4th May, Kilkenny is bound to have a unrivalled atmosphere in the country for the May bank holiday weekend.

Here is a list of the gig guide and the current line up for the festival.

www.kilkennyroots.com/gigs

Not all gigs are free so remember to book early if tickets are involved.

• Website: www.kilkennyroots.com
• Email: info@kilkennyroots.com
• Phone: 056 7794828

Des Bishop. John Bishop. Lewis Black. Jason Byrne. Neil Delamere. PJ Gallagher. Rich Hall. Tommy Tiernan. Adam Hills. Maeve Higgins. Andrew Maxwell. Colin Murphy. David O’Doherty. Ardal O’Hanlon. Karl Spain.

Above is only a small list of the extremely talented comedians making their appearance at the annual Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival here in Kilkenny.

www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com
Information: info@carlsbergcatlaughs.com
Tickets: tickets@carlsbergcatlaughs.com

Yes, it’s that time of the year again folks.

The comedy festival will run from the 28th May to the 1st of June. Tickets are priced between €22 - €29 (excluding the final show), and tickets are available in person or by phone in the Box Office in Kilkenny from Monday, April 27th, 2009.

But here’s the punchline.

Tickets are available online RIGHT NOW.

And you can get them here…

www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com/events

But act quickly as traditionally, these tickets do not take long to sell out.

From Monday, April 27th, 2009

Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival Box Office
St Francis Abbey Brewery
Parliament Street
Kilkenny.
Phone: 056 776 3837 or Intn’l: +353 56 776 3837

Information: info@carlsbergcatlaughs.com
Tickets: tickets@carlsbergcatlaughs.com

Don’t forget the soccer match as the comedian’s take sides in an epic battle!

Ireland V The Rest Of The World

Fairgreen, Sunday 31st May, 2.30pm

Admission: Free

Useful Links/Downloads

Festival Programme 2009

Festival Planner 2009

Festival Map 2009

Thousands lined up the streets for the 2009 annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Kilkenny yesterday.
Luckily enough, great weather was to be had for the parade that lasted for about an entertaining hour and a half.

The parade’s route was: MacDonagh Junction > John St. > Rose Inn St. > Parade > High St.
Parade Marshal turned out to be none other than Johnny Barry, of local broadcaster fame.

Extra entertainment was provided with in-parade demonstrations from O’Loughlin Gaels & Dicksboro GAA clubs with O’Loughlin Gaels playing mini games of hurling with a pair of goals as part of the parade. Kilkenny Storm, Kilkenny’s Ice Hockey team also provided a entertaining demonstration of ground hockey without any injury to player nor spectator alike. Finally, fair play to the guys at Extreme Pizza who provided free pizza to unsuspecting spectators throughout the parade.

Surely, a great day was had by all.

Click on the image to view enlargement.

Click here to view the rest of the photos from the 2009 St. Patrick’s Day Parade Kilkenny…

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Have you got a laptop, iPhone, ipod Touch or some other wireless internet enable device? If so, you can pick up free internet on the go in Kilkenny. It’s very easy, just search for the network and conect!

Here’s a list of the current free & paid WIFI locations in Kilkenny.
The date represents the last known date of it’s listed status.

• Bollard’s Bar and Bistro, Kieran St. Kilkenny.
• Breathnach’s, John St. Kilkenny.
• Café Sol, William St. Kilkenny.
• Chez Pierre, Parliament St. Kilkenny.
  
• Clubhouse Hotel, Patrick St. Kilkenny.
• Crotty’s Coffee House, High St. Kilkenny.
• Daly’s B&B, John St. Kilkenny.
• Hibernian Hotel, Ormonde St. Kilkenny. (FREE, 08/4/09)
• Hotel Kilkenny, Callan Rd. Kilkenny.
• Inglewood Hotel, Patrick St. Kilkenny.
  
• Kilkenny Café, Market Cross SC, Kilkenny. (FREE, 16/3/09)
  
• Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde St. Kilkenny. (FREE, 17/3/09)
• Kyteler’s Inn, Kieran St. Kilkenny.
• Lacken House, Dublin Rd. Kilkenny.
  
• Lawlor’s Pub, John St. Kilkenny.
• MacDonagh Junction, Dublin Rd. Kilkenny. (FREE, 19/3/09)
• McDonald’s Kilkenny, Upper Patrick St. Kilkenny.
• Mount Juliet Hotel, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.
• Mug Shot, James St. Kilkenny. (FREE, 10/5/09)
• Newpark Hotel, Castlecomer Rd. Kilkenny.
• Paris Texas, High St. Kilkenny.
• Rafter Dempsey’s, Friary St. Kilkenny.
• Rivercourt Hotel, John St. Kilkenny.
• Springhill Court Hotel, Waterford Rd. Kilkenny.

We’ll try and update the above list shortly about which internet connections are reliable, which are not, which connection is free and which you have to pay for, so keep checking back to this post regularly to view updates.

Please feel free to inform us about the conditions/prices of any of the above locations to help us update our lists.