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The threat of another famine in 1879, within living memory of the horror and catastrophe of the Great Famine some 29 years earlier, brought renewed terror to the vulnerable tenant farmers in the west of Ireland. This time it was not just the humble potato, but severe weather conditions which devastated crops and feed stuffs over a three year period. Farm incomes dropped dramatically, landlords fussed that rents would not be paid. Whereas some landlords were patient, others warned that evictions would follow if rents were not paid on time.

The Coon-based drama group Kilquan Players will hold their annual production from Friday February 18 to Sunday 20.

The Kilquan Players theatre group based in Coon, Co Kilkenny are about to stage their 17th annual production.

A repeat offender pleaded guilty to a number of road-traffic offences at Castlecomer District Court last week.

A twenty-year-old man was sentenced to 160 hours community service in lieu of five months in prison for driving without insurance at Castlecomer District Court this week.

Fianna Fail has confirmed candidates for the up-coming local elections for Kilkenny County Council for the Kilkenny, Piltown and Thomastown local electoral areas.

With just four seats in what has been traditionally a five seater area, there was always going to be a fall out in Thomastown.

If any reader thought that spirituality was a dying aspiration of the Irish people, they might recall the 20,000 or so who climbed Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday of July, or go to Knock, Co Mayo, on August 15, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Assumed into Heaven, to see thousands of people, many in family groups, happily attending Mass, saying the Stations of the Cross, eating ice-cream and chips, thoroughly enjoying the day out.