It Says in The Bridge - September 2024
We have some extra colour in the September issue, to make the most of what has been a very colourful couple of months in the town, writes Brian Byrne.
The magic and music of the Fairy Trail family day, the 50th anniversary of community childcare in Kilcullen, Nora Breslin's Papal award, and the annual trundle of tractors and rumble of trucks that are the Mac & Norman Vintage Run. Not to mention that a rare Jack Yeats painting of Donnelly's Hollow, about which Sean Landers muses, would have been visually unintelligible in black and white.
It all makes for brightly hued back to school as we eased into autumn and a summer that was less than sunny stellar. On that, there are no schools pages this month as is normal, they will return to the Bridge in October.
But we have all the other regulars. Billy Redmond has views (of course!) on committees and those who serve, and on our dependence on so-hackable technology. Mary Orford looks back on the humble potato and its importance in Ireland, Julie Felsbergs offers a paws for thought on God and Dog, and John Duffey reflects on the value of the simple stitch in an era when no item of clothing was discarded until it was absolutely unmendable. The fascinating ecology of Bull Island in Dublin is reported in Noel Clare's Out and Away, and the Bridge Bit of Business from Gillian Rea this month is on The Potting Shed.
There are features on local heritage 'detective' Dr Michael O'Connell's presentations for Heritage Week, the summer's annual return to Dún Ailinne, and a visit to the Pet Vet Lab whose team of scientists helping with the health of pets are led by a Kilcullen woman.
Main sport interest this month is the presentation in the summer to Kilcullen GAA stalwart Billy Aspell. The Community Centre page concludes the look back to the past of recent issues, with a hint of some exciting projects in the future.
All in The Bridge. Fifty-four years and counting. You know where to go to get yours.
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