The Raw Juice Company is 100% Irish owned business, a thriving food producer of health filled, natural, cold pressed juices made with only whole food ingredients. Andy Pratt has been making juices and advising others in all things juicy for well over twenty years. He says “I’ve been very fortunate in my journey and have […]
Supports of up to €10,000 per month available From today, Monday, December 5, businesses in Kilkenny can claim under the Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS), Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan, has confirmed. The scheme was the largest single measure announced on Budget day to help businesses throughout the winter months. Deputy Phelan […]
Delegates to COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt, heard stark evidence this month about the change in the world’s climate and the deterioration of our environment. Irish representatives joined others in promising to mend our ways and take urgent steps to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. But the fear of environmentalists is that, […]
Small companies in Kilkenny city and county will benefit from a huge change which will make more companies eligible for Government export grants, according to Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan. Deputy Phelan made his comments after Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, announced the transformative move yesterday which extends the […]
An internationally renowned chef and an award-winning nutritionist are joining forces in a competition to encourage not just healthy eating but family eating. Gennaro Contaldo, the Italian maestro and mentor of Jamie Oliver, and Laura Warren, the woman behind Elite Living Nutrition, are judges of the Family Cook-Off. Families are asked to plan and cook […]
Proposals aim to put an end to wasteful uses of packaging such as mini shampoo bottles and excess packaging in supermarkets, with binding targets and further restrictions on single use packaging. Irish MEP Grace O’Sullivan will negotiate the measures in the European Parliament. (30 November 2022) The European Commission today announced a series of ambitious […]
Callan resident, Kristina Doyle was awarded the honourable Robert Frederick Holmes (1803) Award last week during the Carlow College, St. Patrick’s Conferring Ceremony for 2022. Kristina, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Social, Political & Community Studies, received the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the student body. The award is named […]
Symbolic votes in support of Ukraine are significant, but ultimately concrete measures alone will save lives and help Ukraine to rebuild, reacts Grace O’Sullivan, MEP for Ireland South following the vote in Parliament today. The European Parliament today voted in favour of a resolution, calling for the designation of the Russian Federation as a ‘State […]
A new book by a Kilkenny-based author has detailed the State’s struggle to combat Ireland’s deepening domestic abuse problem. In Safe, journalist Shane Doran tells the story of one mother and daughter’s long struggle to escape from their abuser before setting up a frontline organisation dedicated to helping others in similar situations. In July 2016, […]
Sinn Féin TD for Carlow-Kilkenny TD Kathleen Funchion has welcomed the publication of the report by the Child Maintenance Review Group which was established in 2020. The report concluded that child maintenance is in need of immediate and radical reform, urgency the local Sinn Féin TD says she has repeatedly sought from Government on this issue. These reforms will […]