David Walsh

1 week ago | kildare-nationalist.ie | David Walsh

The May bank holiday weekend sees the return of the Greenfields festival to Athy. Greenfields is Ireland’s first summer music festival and it promises to be an even bigger event than last year’s with over 70 musical acts performing in the fully covered big top stage, including Gavin James, The Stunning, Mundy, The Whistlin Donkeys, Gerry Fish, Aslan, Michael English, Fieldsy and Tally Mor to name just a few.

2 weeks ago | kildare-nationalist.ie | David Walsh

Swallows, swifts and sand martins, there is nothing more heart-lifting than seeing the first swallow against an azure sky on a spring day. The poet Charlotte Smith wrote ‘The welcome guest of settled Spring, The swallow, too, has come at last; Just at sunset, when thrushes sing, I saw her dash with rapid wing, And hailed her as she passed.’ So not having seen any yet this year I contacted the man who knows all about these things Chris McKenna from Suncroft.

3 weeks ago | kildare-nationalist.ie | David Walsh

An Athy man's acclaimed band has released its latest single. The Roving Crows are a multi-award winning Irish Folk Rock band fronted by Athy man Paul O’Neill, he of the Lower St Joseph’s Terrace musical dynasty of O’Neill’s. The band were formed in 2007 when Paul met fiddle player Caitlin Barrett at a music festival. Now based in Herefordshire; the four-piece band have toured extensively in the UK, France, Australia and the Netherlands.

1 month ago | bmj.com | Gerry McCartney |Lucinda Hiam |Katherine Smith |David Walsh

Gerry McCartney, professor1, Lucinda Hiam, Clarendon scholar2, Katherine E Smith, professor3, David Walsh, senior lecturer4 1College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 3Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde, UK 4School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to: G McCartney Gerard.McCartney{at}glasgow.ac.uk Cuts to...

1 month ago | kildare-nationalist.ie | David Walsh

Athy is to get new dog waste stations in an effort to combat the dog foul problem on the streets of the town. A meeting took place between local groups, state agencies and councillors on 12 March where it was agreed to purchase a number of dog waste stations in the coming weeks to be erected along walking routes. Along with the waste stations, Athy Tidy Towns Committee have agreed to launch a campaign to raise awareness around the issue.