May the year 2026 meet you with good health, steady joy and people who make your ordinary day feel lighter. May you have courage for the hard bits, gratitude for the good bits and plenty of reasons to find laugher along the way.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
Lyrics: Russian-born American composer and songwriter, the late Irving Berlin, (1888–1989). Vocals: American singer and actor, the late Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr.(1903–1977).
The Late Bing Crosby.
Watch Fred Astaire’sdance routine featured in the video hereunder, which demonstrates his dancing brilliance. Playing an inebriated guest; he acts loose and soft at the knees, showing slightly delayed reactions and swaying off-balance, yet his timing stays locked perfectly to the music. Classic Astaire clarity in this staging, so you can read the full-body movement and the rhythm in his feet; one of the reasons Astaire dance numbers feel so musically satisfying.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
One minute to midnight, One minute to go, One minute to say goodbye, Before we say hello. … Let’s start the new year right, Twelve o’clock tonight, When they dim the light, Let’s begin. Kissing the old year out, Kissing the new year in. Let’s watch the old year die, With a fond goodbye, And our hopes as high, As a kite. How can our love go wrong if, We start the new year right?
One last bit of Christmas magic before the Christmas tree is taken down this Year.
❤️ Turning a simple family photo into a nostalgic, storybook-style keepsake is pure heart.
Before you take down the Christmas tree, take one last photo of the kids in front of it, then try the following. Having dropped your image into ‘chatGPT‘, request the advanced AI chatbot, to “Please turn this photo into a Norman Rockwell-style painting“.
Christmas 2025.
Norman Rockwell’s work is famous for warm, detailed scenes of everyday family life, the kind that feel instantly nostalgic. The result can be a beautiful, print-ready keepsake for your wall, and even better, a perfect start on next year’s Christmas cards. [Please view HERE]
🎄✨ For expected result see above picture. Same will be returned with properties of over 3.00 MB in size, suitable for a high quality 10 X 8in print. If you try it, post your copy on our facebook, we would love to see your Christmas memories turned into something timeless.
Driver arrested after attempting to evade Mandatory Intoxicant Checkpoint in North Tipperary.
A pregnant female motorist was arrested yesterday in North Tipperary, following an incident at a Mandatory Intoxicant Checkpoint.
Gardaí observed a vehicle attempting to avoid the checkpoint. Members attached to Killaloe Garda Station stopped the car and spoke with the driver. A roadside drug test returned a positive indication for cocaine. Checks also indicated the vehicle was uninsured.
The pregnant driver was arrested in connection with the alleged road traffic offences and was brought to Nenagh Garda Station. The vehicle was seized and enquiries are ongoing. The results of the blood sample are currently being awaited.
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary first win remembered as jockey Mr Paul Kavanagh is to be laid to rest on Saturday next
Jockey Paul Kavanagh, who recorded his first winner for Enda Bolger at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, is to be laid to rest this weekend following his tragic death in a road traffic collision on Christmas Eve last. The 20-year-old, of College Green, Tuam; Athlacca, Co. Limerick and formerly of Ballybrone, Corofin, Co. Galway, died after a collision involving a car and a lorry on the N20 in the Bruree area, between 1:40am and 2:15am on Wednesday, December 24th 2025.
In a notice, his family have said their “treasured” son will be “forever loved and missed” by his parents Kevin and Alison, sister Grace and brother Ryan, as well as his wider family, friends, colleagues at Enda Bolger’s yard and the wider racing community.
Funeral arrangements. Mr Kavanagh will be reposing at Grogan’s Funeral Home, Barrack Street, Tuam, on Friday from 5:00pm to 8:00pm, followed by removal to his home. Requiem Mass will take place at 11:30am on Saturday in the Cathedral of the Assumption, Tuam, with burial afterwards in Tuam Cemetery.
The family has requested house private, family flowers only, with donations in lieu, if desired, to the Injured Jockeys Fund.
As stated, Mr Kavanagh had been riding out with Mr Bolger in Co. Limerick for the past two years and notched his first winner for the trainer at Clonmel last June, partnering ‘Gimme A Buzz’.
Gardaí confirm that the driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene, while the lorry driver, a man in his 20s was taken to University Hospital Limerick with non-life-threatening injuries. Anyone who travelled on the N20 in the Bruree area between 1:40am and 2:15am is asked to contact investigating gardaí. Road users with camera footage, including dash-cam, are also asked to make it available. Gardaí can be contacted at Newcastle West Garda Station TEL: 069 20650, the Garda Confidential Line TEL: 1800 666 111, or indeed any garda station.
Pre-deceased by her beloved husband Mick, daughter Anne-Marie, parents Tom and Katie and brother Philip; Mrs Dooley passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family, while in the care of staff at Fennor Hill, Care Facility, Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny.
Her passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her sorrowing family; loving sons Murty, Aidan, Philip, Mikey, daughters Cathy, Caroline, Sinéad and Maria, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, great grandchild Max, brothers Neddy, Paddy and Thomas, sister Annie, nieces, nephews, extended relatives, neighbours and a wide circle of friends.
For those persons who would wish to attend Requiem Mass for Mrs Dooley, but for reasons cannot, same can be viewed streamed live online, at a link to follow.
The extended Dooley and Lawlor families wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
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