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Kilkenny minister mobilises €1.35m war chest to combat invasive species

By Kilkenny Now 4th March 2021 7

Kilkenny TD and Minister of State Malcolm Noonan has picked a fight with invasive species. And he’s set aside a €1.35 million war chest to defeat the alien invaders. The Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform has made the funds available to local authorities to tackle Invasive Alien Species (IAS) such as Rhododendron […]

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Popular RTÉ presenter to front Kilkenny’s St Patrick’s Festival celebrations

By Kilkenny Now 4th March 2021 0

One of Kilkenny’s favourite daughters will host this year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the city and county, which will be first ever virtual March 17 event. RTÉ sports and news presenter Evanne Ní Chuilinn said she is “honoured” to be the face of Kilkenny’s Lá le Pádraig. Kilkenny city’s traditional weekend of music and […]

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Kilkenny motorist who posted dangerous driving videos on social media arrested

By Kilkenny Now 4th March 2021 0

A novice driver who posted videos of himself driving dangerously on social media has been taken off the road. Gardai in the south of the county had been made aware of a number of incidents of reckless driving in the area in recent days. Some of the incidents were posted online on Snapchat. In one […]

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Six pups stolen from Kilkenny house just moments after owner fed them

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

Six puppies have been stolen from a house in Kilkenny city. The seven-week-old Cardigan Corgi puppies were stolen from a dog house at a home in the Waterford Road area of the city at 10pm last night. A local Garda source confirmed the owner heard squealing coming from the dog house minutes after the six […]

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LATEST: Kilkenny among 566 new Covid-19 cases, 25 further deaths confirmed nationally

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

A further 25 people have died after contracting the coronavirus as 566 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. The overall death toll as a result of the virus has now reached 4,357. There have now been 221,189 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the country, according to the latest daily briefing from the National […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Flogging the trainer of a dead horse

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

They say you shouldn’t flog a dead horse. You shouldn’t sit on one either. If you must, you certainly shouldn’t get your picture taken. If you do, it will circulate on social media and millions of keyboard warriors will go out of their way to be offended. You won’t have offended the horse, of course. […]

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Snakes on the loose! St Patrick’s festival hunt for slithering serpents in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

Without St Patrick’s Day celebration for the last couple of years, it appears some snakes have managed to find their way back to a county Kilkenny town. A number of slithering serpents have been spotted amongst the trees and plants at Castlecomer Discovery Park recently. But there’s no need to call Samuel L Jackson just […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

Kathleen (Kitty) CASHIN (née Doherty) Kilmacow, Kilkenny/Waterford/Durrow, Laois Known fondly as Kitty, in her 98th year, she passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family. Wife of the late Connie and mother of the late John. Sadly missed by her sons Naois and Martin, daughters Jane, Mary and Anne, daughter-in-law Margaret, son-in-law Eamonn, grandchildren Brian,

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Father of four (30) appears in court in relation to firework attack on gardai at lockdown protest

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

A 30-year-old father of four has appeared in court in relation to a firework attack on Gardai during an anti-lockdown demonstration in Dublin last weekend. Jake Merriman of Meadowlands Avenue, Monkstown in Dublin appeared in court this morning. He is accused of being in possession of an eight cannon firework and firing it at gardai […]

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Man rushed to hospital after light aircraft crash in county Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2021 0

An investigation has been launched following a light aircraft accident in county Kilkenny. The aircraft came down near Woolengrange between Bennettsbridge and Thomastown at around 4.30pm yesterday. A man, the pilot, was the only person in the plane and received non-serious injures during the crash. He was taken to St Luke’s General Hospital to be […]