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In 1941, the deadly Foot and Mouth disease spread rapidly through parts of County Kilkenny, including the Callan district. It especially threatened the Modeshill area in neighbouring County Tipperary.

Most farmers in the Kyle district, Nell Leahy noted, had dairies. As a rule, a farmer with 60 acres kept up to 18 cows, while a farmer with 40 acres tended to confine his herd to about 14.

Big feeds of colcannon and sausages, a profound self-belief, and a rigorous training routine that would have put the old East German Athletic Association to shame!

In the first instalment of the story of the Emergency in County Kilkenny (our last mega recession!), we joined Callan teenagers Sean Holden and Seamus O’Brien in Croke Park, awaiting the commencement of the famous September 1939 All-Ireland final between Kilkenny and Cork. As the whistle blew and the ball was thrown in, Sean looked up nervously.

For most the trip to Croke Park is arduous enough - (albeit worth it if your team is playing), but a group of charitable north Kilkenny cyclists are making the trip even more difficult by opting to cycle the distance from Castlecomer.

Explaining how his wife managed to cook white bread with all the restrictions imposed by rationing, the farmer told Seamus O’ Brien that she had “hit” upon a cooking method that many other women around the country were quietly adopting in the kitchen: They packed quantities of the flour into silk stockings and sieved all the unwanted bran out of it, so the flour could once again be used to produce the finest of traditional Irish white bread.

Castlecomer District Hospital day-care centre is to benefit to the tune of some €10,000 following a charity cycle organised by a local group.

In the summer of 1940, following the fall of France to the Germans, thousands of young men enlisted in the Irish Army to defend their land against aggression, training at the Curragh and then being deployed to military barracks around the country.