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A host of Easter activities are planned for Kilkenny Castle over the Easter weekend.

Badminton

A fun filled day for the family will take place in aid of Special Olympics on Easter Sunday from 2pm to 5.30pm in Breaffy House Resort. There will be lots of free Easter eggs, bunnies from Petworld, a bouncing castle, face painting, live music by Silver Circus, and an egg hunt. Admission is €5 per person or €20 per family (two adults and three children).

New York, Paris and Milan had better be watching, because the 14 new faces selected in MacDonagh Junction’s Model Search 2009 are preparing to glam it up for the south-east.

New York, Paris and Milan had better be watching, because the 14 new faces selected in MacDonagh Junction’s Model Search 2009 are preparing to glam it up for the south-east.

Pick up some impressive cooking tips and have lunch with the highly acclaimed chef, Garrett Byrne from one of Kilkenny’s top restaurants, Campagne.

Fundraising for Westmeath Special Olympics is in full swing, with just six weeks left in the campaign which runs to the end of May.

A geological phenomenon in southwest China is more than 400 kilometres of towering limestone rocks covered in vegetation. It’s a spectacular landscape. Thousands of these hills soar into the sky, weathered and carved by the wind and rain, often taking on the shape of a man fishing, an elephant drinking water, or a woman feeding her baby, or eager friendly creatures looking down at you (the Chinese are wonderful for encouraging you to look at natural shapes in caves and mountains and say; ‘use your imagination, what do you see?’). These cone-shaped wonders become in effect a ‘forest of hills’, and their beauty is doubled as they are reflected in the River Li, which winds though them like a blue silk ribbon.

Fianna Fail Councillor John Coonan is a proud Fianna Fail man and makes no excuses for his party.

So the race is finally on. All the months of planning, strategising and getting the make-up on for the photographers comes to fruition as the images appear on every pole and roadside inside and outside the borough boundary.