What it Says in The Bridge: April 2019
It's about the signing of of an agreement between the town and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to make Kilcullen a Sustainable Energy Community. This kickstarts a process which will begin with an audit of energy use in the town.
The unique aspect is that Kilcullen partnered with Kildare County Council to get the process going, by which the Council fronts the €15,000 fee and also carries out the tender process to hire the auditor.
The story is just one of a number of Kilcullen Community Action initiatives highlighted in the magazine, which include the exceptionally busy St Patrick's festival weekend that saw the Valley Fairy Trail opened, the St Patrick's Day Parade, and the official Twinning with Saint-Contest in France.
That last is the theme of the editorial in this Bridge, which suggests a number of ways in which everyone in the community can make the most of the Twinning, including student and family exchanges, business links, and more.
Other news in the magazine includes an account of volunteer work in the Bridge Camphill Community by employees of Pfizer in Newbridge, on a day when they put in new raised beds and carried out repairs and painting on the farm.
Awards for Crean's Place feature in the Business section, as does an account by a visiting Australia about Kalbarri Cookery School — he was intrigued by the Aboriginal name.
Cross and Passion pupils looking for knitted teddy bears for a children's charity is another subject covered, while pictorially there's lots of GAA material including the Club's Table Quiz and the Awards Night.
There are features about the possibilities of eventually getting the link road between Knockbounce and the Curragh Road completed, about Kilcullen 100 years ago as found by Mary Orford in a trawl of the newspapers of that time, and the work in the TCD Walton Club of some CPC students who could be future Einsteins. Dec Lavin writes about the 'media graduate problem', with some home truths about the internship system, and the Legal Matters column looks at pitfalls in mortgage agreements.
The regulars have Billy Redmond musing on a variety of matters including the National Children's Hospital and more locally how future parades might be run. Julie Felsbergs's column is about ways of finding personal peace in a troubled world, and Sean Landers looks at the start of the toll roads network in which Kilcullen was a key throughway. The main heritage piece this month is a reprint of a 1973 article by Brian Keyes about New Abbey and its Past.
Schools news comes from Brannoxtown CNS, Scoil Bhride, St Joseph's in Halverstown and the Kildare Steiner School. Improvements at St Bridget's Pitch and Putt, those GAA Awards, and an update on the busy activity of Kilcullen Badminton Club are the sports interest.
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