In Kilkenny People

KILKENNY -- You can learn more interesting things about the city of Kilkenny by reading its local paper than from any other source this week, Some things I will affirm from the pages of the current edition:

• Kilkenny Mental Health could extend its services with some new volunteers. Sheila Dalton makes that point when accepting her award as Kilkenny's Person of the Year.
• Kilkenny hurlers learn more of their skills from the inherited habit of practise, practise, practise.¹
• Teenaged mothers amount to 6.5% of the antenatal population in southeastern Ireland and that figure is increasing.
• Both the Watergate Theatre and the Butler Gallery have very good exhibitions on currently. Catherine Green, Polly Donnellan and Elma Khareghani are in the Watergate with work exploring man's inhumanity to man. Nick Miller is in the Butler where his "Genre" show integrates rich diversity.
• A "Vox Pop" poll² found people who correctly identify some of Kilkenny's best restaurants. I've had consistently good food in Italian Connection and Kytler's. Zuni served me the best meal when in a goup. Fleva and Propylon are the best intimate spots. Rinuccini is the most sophisticated and Roma the most pedestrian.
• Patrick Moloney from Ballyhale was presented with the Dyson Ireland Design Award after he made an innovative device for setting broken bones.
• The second week of most months produces some of the most interesting accounts from the local courts. This week's edition is no different. Along with the accounts is a handsome artistic rendering of Michael Lanigan, the Kilkenny soicitor who represents many of the defendants in the local court. Laniga's image, sketched by Etain Holohan, is part of an exhibition in County Hall.

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¹Katherine Blake -- "Nature or Nurture?"
²Edwina Grace -- "What is your favourite Kilkenny reastaurant?"
via the Kilkenny People, November 12, 2004.
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