A Kilkenny TD has welcomed new measures to provide expanded dental healthcare services for medical card holders. The announcement by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly clears the way for an expanded Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS). Minister Dnnelly also confirmed his commitment to review the scheme to ensure its future viability. He approved an […]
EirGrid, the national electricity grid operator, has awarded more than €200,000 to community groups and not-for-profit organisations in Kilkenny and neighbouing Laois. A total of €204,600 funding has been allocated to the Laois-Kilkenny Reinforcement Project. It is the first of three phases of funding available in the areas adjacent to the project, of a total […]
Niall COUGHLAN Rossinan, Mullinavat/Rosbercon Niall passed away, suddenly, on Thursday, at his home in Shanbough, Rosbercon. Brother of the late Mark. Sadly missed by his heartbroken fiancée Louise, his loving parents Danny and Angela, brothers David, Michael, Paul and Daniel, sisters Diana and Denise, Louise’s parents John and Breda & family, aunts, uncles,
I was scrolling through television listings when I noticed the BBC was running some of the old St Trinian’s films. Not the 2009 version, with Colin Firth and Talulah Riley, but the originals, with Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole . I vaguely remembered having watched them as a child, maybe a teenager, with […]
Warm tributes have been paid to the Kilkenny teenager who tragically lost his life in a car crash earlier this wek. Cian Mooney (17), a student at Kildalton College who was from Castlecomer, died after the car in which he was a passenger crashed outside Piltown at around 8pm on Wednesday. Two other young men […]
Cian MOONEY Moneenroe, Castlecomer Tragically taken aged 17 years. Cian is survived by his broken hearted parents, Sylvia and Eamon, and his sisters, Beibhinn, Caoimhe, Saidhbh, and Méabh, his grandparents, Eamon and Mary Mooney, and Norman and Dorothy Leeper, his uncles, aunts and cousins. Sadly missed by a wide circle of friends and his classmates. […]
Local diary giant Glanbia has confirmed it will pay Kilkenny farmers 47.08 cent-per-litre for milk supplied in March. In a statement, Glanbia said this includes a base milk price for March of 46.58 cpl, including VAT. This is an increase of 5 cpl from the February base price of 41.58 cpl. The company said a […]
Kilkenny and the south east faces an unsettled Easter Bank Holiday weekend, with wet conditions and temperatures set to drop from Sunday. In its latest forecast, Met Éireann said today, Good Friday, will start ‘mostly cloudy with further scattered outbreaks of rain’. But it added; “It will brighten up and become drier through the day […]
A man kicked the wing mirror off a car as he cycled through Kilkenny city during busy morning traffic. The incident happened at Upper New Street at around 8.30am on Monday. A local Garda source said a male cyclist kicked the wing mirror off a silver Kia Creed before cycling off. Anyone who witnessed the […]
Agnes O’SHEA Viewmount, Waterford/Piltown, Kilkenny The death has occurred of Agnes O’Shea, resident of St. Joseph’s Nursing Home (Little Sisters of the Poor) and formerly of Garnarea, Piltown and Viewmount, Waterford. Agnes passed away peacefully at University Hospital Waterford surrounded by close family on April 12th 2022. Predeceased by her sisters
