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HOW DOES A midweek escape with the family sound for a treat as the summer holidays begin?
We’ve teamed up with Lyrath Estate in Kilkenny to give one lucky reader of TheJournal.ie‘s Family Magazine a chance to win a midweek break. The prize includes a one-night break away with breakfast for two adults and two children at the hotel, along with dinner for the adults.
Spread across 170 acres of Irish countryside, the 17th century estate house sits alongside its modern extension and is surrounded by picturesque lakes, historic gardens and beautiful woodlands.
Families are sure to be kept busy at the estate, with swimming pool, snooker room, a new playground and complimentary use of bicycles for adults and children to tour around in the estate. Plus, the hotel’s 22-seater private cinema can be booked for families and groups. Movie night, anyone?
The leisure centre facilities include a gym, a 17-metre swimming pool with a steam room and jacuzzi, or if you’re looking to unwind a little more, the hotel’s award-winning Oasis Spa is sure to do the trick, with ten treatment rooms, a thermal suite and an outdoor pool.
For those who are able to drag themselves away from the tranquility of the estate, Kilkenny city is just a five-minute drive away.
Simply email your name and location to competitions@thejournal.ie with ‘Family Magazine – Lyrath Estate Summer 2019’ in the subject line. Don’t forget to subscribe to our Family Newsletter below too!
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Horrendous act of pure evil. With guns available so readily any person with a grievance or psychotic motive can commit a mass murder at any time, anywhere.
5th a mass KILLING this year alone, it’s 23 January. That’s a mass shooting every 4 days or so.
There’s actually been 33 Mass Shootings in January – That’s almost 1.5 mass shootings per day!
Any other country experiences a mass shooting and the next day they are putting into place stricter gun controls. Not America, they want to put guns in everyones hands to protect others against a mass shooter… what a weird way of thinking…
‘Murica.
@Rafa Condron: they live in different world over there.
So sad to think of all the needless deaths and suffering. I am not sure that gun control would even be enough – but it might be a start. However, something in the US physic seems to create an element of self entitlement which manifests in many ways and not just in mass shootings. Still we hope and pray.
National Rifle Association – I hope you’re happy. As long as you resist reasonable legislation to curb gun control, these events will continue.
No doubt more weapons would sort out this type of problem, maybe even a few tanks. Yeah, let them have tanks. Freeeedoom!
There are more guns than people in the US. Literally.
@Bert Carolan: I can’t remember the exact statistic, but it would take an incredible amount of time to decommission all the guns owned in America. I think it was beyond decades and into hundreds of years. The logistics that would be involved are staggering.
The article states this is the fifth mass shooting of 2023. However, according to CNN who reference Gun Violence Archive this is in fact number 33.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/23/politics/mass-shootings-in-2023-what-matters/index.html
@Steve: 5th mass killing. There have been of course 33 mass shootings as I said in the comments already.
Not a bit surprised. It’s the norm in Amercia to go around shooting people.
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