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Kilkenny festival goers to Savour feast of culinary and artistic treats

By Kilkenny Now 13th October 2024 0

Art lovers attending this year’s Kilkenny’s Savour Food Festival can look forward to a visual feast to compliment the culinary treats on show. Organisers said this year’s festival, which takes place on the October bank holiday weekend, will feature “a range of art-themed events at Butler Gallery” that are “designed to engage and

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Man due in Kilkenny court over €2.5m drugs bust

By Kilkenny Now 12th October 2024 0

A man will appear in Kilkenny District Court this evening charged in connection with the seizure of €2.5m of drugs at Rosslare Europort. Gardai confirmed the man, aged in his 50s, will appear before a special sitting of the court at 5pm this evening. A Garda spokesperson said investigations into the drug seizure at the […]

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Class act: Growing Kilkenny school unveils exciting expansion plans

By Kilkenny Now 11th October 2024 0

A county Kilkenny primary school has unveiled plans for a significant new extension. In its planning application, the Board of St Senan’s Senior National School in Kilmacow is seeking permission to build a new one and two-storey extension, with “a total floor area of 1,019m²”. The development will comprise of four new classrooms, two ET […]

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Inspiring innovation: Tourism industry leaders gather in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 11th October 2024 0

More than 200 of Ireland’s top visitor attractions and visitor experience operators will gather in Kilkenny this weekend. The operators are in town for the seventh annual AVEA (Association of Visitor Experiences and Attractions) conference, under the heading ‘Innovation – Agility – Inclusion’. Global experts in the areas of innovation, agile business operations and

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Works to disrupt water supplies in Kilkenny city and outskirts this weekend

By Kilkenny Now 10th October 2024 0

Major maintenance works on the water network will cause significant disruption to water supplies in Kilkenny city and surrounding areas from tomorrow night. Uisce Éireann said the works on the water network at Troyswood Water Treatment Plant will impact customers in parts of the city, Freshford, Cooleshal, Threecastles, Tulla, Rathmoyle, Thornback, Talbotsinch, Freshford

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Fears of all out strike at Kilkenny hospital as winter season approaches

By Kilkenny Now 10th October 2024 0

The threat of strike action at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny looms amid fears staff will be overwhelmed during the busy winter period. From next Monday, Fórsa members at St Luke’s Hospital and other Health Service Executive (HSE) run facilities in the region will be balloted for industrial action – up to and including strike […]

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Kilkenny legends dominate ‘greatest hurling team of all time’

By Kilkenny Now 9th October 2024 0

Kilkenny hurling legends account for almost half of the starting 15 ‘dream team’ compiled in a new book about the GAA and its greatest figures. In an extract from ‘Pulse of the Nation: GAA 140 Years Rankings, Ratings, Tales & Drama,’ top GAA journalists Martin Breheny (Irish Independent) and Donal Keenan (Irish Mail on Sunday) […]

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Kilkenny community raise over €50,000 for family after devastating blaze

By Kilkenny Now 9th October 2024 0

A big-hearted county Kilkenny community has raised more than €50,000 to help a local family whose businesses were destroyed in a devastating fire earlier over the weekend. Inistioge farmer Dermot Prendergast and his son John’s contracting business went up in smoke after the blaze broke out on the family farm shortly after midnight on Friday. […]

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Kilkenny house prices rising at slower rate than other counties in Leinster

By Kilkenny Now 8th October 2024 0

Average house prices in Kilkenny have risen by €5,000 to €250,000, according to a new survey carried out by MyHome.ie and Bank of Ireland. Prices in neighbouring Carlow also rise by 2% over the past year, with the average asking price for a home rising to €255,000. However, the rate of house price growth was […]

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Rural regeneration: Eight Kilkenny projects get €270,000 funding boost

By Kilkenny Now 8th October 2024 0

Eight Kilkenny projects have been awarded a combined €269,232 in the latest round of CLÁR funding. The latest funding under the scheme – a targeted investment programme for small infrastructural projects in rural areas that experience disadvantage – is part of an overall €472m investment announced by the Department of Rural and Community Development. Coolagh