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Epic feature set in medieval Kilkenny scoops first gong of awards season

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

The new feature film from Kilkenny’s globally renowned animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has finally broken its duck at for this season’s film awards, picking up ‘Wolfwalkers’ first gong. Wolfwalkers won Best Animated Feature at the PETA Oscats last night where it picked up a Golden Feline. Every year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals […]

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‘Family carers feel completely abandoned’ – Kilkenny TD challenges all parties to back new charter

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

A Kilkenny TD has launched a new charter to ensure family carers get the “financial and emotional support” they need to do their jobs. And Deputy Kathleen Funchion urged all parties to back Sinn Féin’s A Charter For Family Carers so that our carers are given the support “they are enetitled to”. Launching the document, […]

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Popular Kilkenny restaurant opens new quality takeout premises in city

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

One of Kilkenny’s best known restaurants has opened a new market produce and take-away premises. La Rivista this week opened its doors at its new location on 17 Parliament Street, offering customers a wide range of new produce as well as traditional favourites. The restaurant said the new premises will cater for the growing demand […]

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Kilkenny GAA club gets green light for big expansion plans

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

A county Kilkenny GAA club has been given the green light for ambitious plans to more than double the size of its clubhouse. Kilkenny County Council has given Graiguenamanagh GAA permission to build an extension to its current dressing rooms at their pitch in Harristown. The new two-storey building will see the club double the […]

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Motorists clocked speeding through Kilkenny residential areas up to 40kph over limit

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

Four motorists were clocked speeding in residential areas of county Kilkenny last night. The four were all caught doing between 74kph and 89kph at two locations in Kilkenny, both with 50kph speed limits. Two cars were detected over the limit in the Bennetsbridge area. The others were caught speeding on the Castlecomer Road in Kilkenny […]

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LATEST: Kilkenny among 431 new cases of virus as 12 new deaths confirmed

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

A further 12 people have died after contracting theb coronavirus as 431 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. Kilkenny recorded its highest daily figure in more than two weeks, as five new cases were reported overnight. The overall death toll as a result of the virus has now reached 4,812. There have now […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Slow down minister, we don’t need more speed limits

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

A push to reduce speed limits on Dublin’s roads to 30km an hour is being backed by Transport Minister Eamon Ryan who also wants the law changed to allow for variable speed limits on motorways. That change is aimed mainly at the M50 and would apply at times of heavy congestion, or very bad weather, […]

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Glanbia reveals latest milk prices it will pay Kilkenny farmers

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

Locally-based food giant Glanbia has confirmed it will pay its Kilkenny milk suppliers 34.6 cent per litre (cpl) for March. Glanbia Ireland said it will pay a base milk price for February of 34.18 cpl (including VAT) for creamery milk at 3.6% fat and 3.3% protein. This is an increase of 1.5 cpl from the […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

Moira MURPHY (née Lennon) Tinnecarrig, Borris, Carlow/Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny Peacefully in the care of the wonderful staff of Borris Lodge Nursing Home surrounded by her loving family. Predeceased by her loving husband Michael and much loved mother to Tom, Breda, Liam and Sean. Sadly missed by her sons ,daughter, son-in-law Kieran, daughters-in-law Julie, Geraldine and

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Doing the right thing: Kilkenny reporting lowest number of new Covid cases in country – CSO

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2021 0

Kilkenny residents are doing all the right things in the battle against the spread of Covid-19. A new report reveals the county has registered the largest fall in the number of new Covid-19 nationally, a new Central Statistics Office report on Covid-19 Deaths and Cases reveals. The county registered either one case per day or […]