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Kilkenny records huge slump in property sales

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2020 0

Kilkenny recorded a massive drop in property sales in 2020. New figures reveal there has been a 30% drop in both the number of properties changing hands and the total money spent on property purchases in the first nine months of 2020. The latest report from the Residential Property Price Register shows €38.5 million less […]

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Local pubs and restaurants to close at lunchtime on Christmas Eve, inter-county travel banned from St Stephen’s Day: report

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2020 0

Restaurants and gastro pubs will be shut again from around lunch time on Christmas Eve under new plans to be put before Cabinet tomorrow. And inter-county travel will be bannedagain from midnight 26 December, the Irish Independent reports this morning. The newspaper also reports the ban on travel to and from Britain is expected to […]

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Absentee British lord loses last ditch bid to claim ownership of Kilkenny mansion

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2020 0

A British lord who once owned and later rented one of Ireland’s finest palladian mansions – Kilkenny’s Castletown Cox House – has lost his last ditch attempt to claim ownership of the estate. The Court of Appeal (CoA) yesterday ruled that Lord George Magan (74) has failed to establish any legal right to occupy the […]

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Kilkenny gardai issue warning after bogus tradesmen con elderly couple out of ‘substantial amount of money’

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Gardaí in Kilkenny have urged people to beware of bogus callers after receiving new fraud complaints in recent weeks. Officers are specifically urging people to be wary of any tradesperson who calls to your door offering to carry out works. The recent case involves an injured party living in the south east who paid “a […]

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LATEST: 51 new cases of virus confirmed in Kilkenny, first vaccines due in Ireland this Saturday

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 Post a comment

There has been no further coronavirus related deaths but 727 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. It brings the overall death toll as a result of the virus to 2,158. There has now been 80,267 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the country, according to the latest daily briefing from the National Public Health […]

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Kilkenny girls who founded mental health group win prestigious national award

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Two young Kilkenny girls who set up a suicide awareness group have won a prestigious national award. Holly Farrell and Laura Delaney from Ballyragget, the founding members of the Light Up the Night Kilkenny Truck & Tractor Run, were named winners of the group award at the Garda National Youth Awards 2020 yesterday evening. Holly […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Fiona CANTWELL St. Patrick`s, Kells Road and Upper Waterbarrack, Kilkenny City Fiona Cantwell (St. Patrick’s, Kells Road and Upper Waterbarrack, Kilkenny) December 18th 2020 (peacefully) at St. Luke’s Hospital. Beloved daughter of the late Maura and Ignatius. She will be sadly missed by her brothers Pat, Mark and Fergal, sister Ruth, aunts, uncles, nephews,

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ALERT: Kilkenny householders targeted by conman pretending to be Revenue official just days before Christmas

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Kilkenny householders are being targeted in a new phone scam by fraudsters falsely claiming to be Revenue officials. Local gardai issues a warning about the latest scam which they said is “currently impacting on people”. The contact is being made from a landline number with a 051 prefix, the code for Waterford and parts of […]

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Touch of class: State-of-the-art extension to replace prefab at Kilkenny school

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

 A local primary school has been granted permission to build a state-of-the-art extension in the place of prefabs currently used to educate young children. Kilkenny County Council has approved the plans put forward by the Board of Management of St Brendan’s National School in Newmarket, near Hugginstown, to build a permanent new structure, A brand […]

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FESTIVE FORECAST: Kilkenny’s in for a ‘dry and bright’ Christmas Day

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Kilkenny and the south east can look forward to a “dry and bright” Christmas Day, Met Éireann predicts. In its festive forecast, the national forecaster said Friday will be a cold day, “but mainly dry and bright” with Kilkenny and neighbouring counties escaping “patchy rain and drizzle” predicted for the northwest later in the day. […]