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Waste not: Kilkenny businesses join scheme to repair and recycle discarded goods

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

41 businesses in Kilkenny have been included in an initiative that encourages people to reduce the amount of goods that they discard every year. RepairMyStuff.ie is an online directory of over 800 authorised repair professionals across Ireland who can repair everything from watches to washing machines, mowers to mobile phones. The directory aims to make […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

Hannah DUNNE (née Shanahan) Cherrymount, Stoneyford Hannah died peacefully on Tuesday, 3 November 2020 at her home in the loving care of her family. She was predeceased by her husband Michael and her daughter Mary. Deeply regretted and sadly missed by her loving family, daughters Jo and Catherine, son Philip, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren,

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5-star Kilkenny resort’s golf course plans back on track as objection is withdrawn

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 Post a comment

A development at one of Kilkenny’s most exclusive golf resorts can now go ahead after an objection lodged against the plans was withdrawn. The owners of Mount Juliet Estate in Thomastown, MJBE Investments 3 Limited, made an application for the retention of planning permission that allowed them to remove the putting green course at Mount […]

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Kilkenny fast foodies urged to back favourite local takeaway for 2020 awards

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

Does your favourite Kilkenny chipper or fast food restaurant have what it takes to be crowned champion of Ireland’s Takeaway Awards? Entries have just opened for the  Just Eat National Takeaway Awards and fast foodies are being invited to support their favourite local takeaway by nominiating them in the national showdown. The winning takeaway will […]

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Have you seen Bruce? Fears grow for welfare of missing Kilkenny pet

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

Local gardai have joined a public appeal to help track down a beloved family pet who has been missing from his Kilkenny home since the weekend. ‘Bruce’ is a seven-year-old male Jack Russell miniature who was last seen in the Steeple Court/New building Lane area of Kilkenny city on Sunday night. Anyone with information about the […]

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On yer bike: Kilkenny people urged to get out and explore our wheely great county

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

Kilkenny residents are being urged to join the growing trend of ‘bicycle boomers’ and get out and explore some of our county’s spectacular cycling routes. Although Covid-19 has impacted cycling in several ways, Outdoors Kilkenny is encouraging people to take up the opportunities to cycle during the lockdown, as long as cyclists stay within 5kms […]

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A special project: Kilkenny school gets green light for new extension

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2020 0

Plans to extend a local primary school have been given the green light. Kilkenny County Council has granted planning to the Board of Management of St Beacon’s National School in Mullinavat after they sought permission to build an extension onto its existing building. The new building will be made up of two special education needs […]

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Man brutally assaulted in unprovoked attack as he sat on bench in Kilkenny city

By Kilkenny Now 4th November 2020 0

A group of people looked on in horror as a man was brutally assaulted as he sat on a bench in Kilkenny city. The unprovoked attack occurred in the Canal Square area of the city at around 6pm on Monday. A local Garda source told KilkennyNow.ie that the attacker approached the victim  and asked him […]

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LATEST: Kilkenny among 444 new cases of virus as eight further deaths confirmed

By Kilkenny Now 4th November 2020 0

A further eight more people have died after contracting the coronavirus as 444 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. It brings the overall death toll from the virus to 1,930. There are now 63,483 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the country, according to the latest daily briefing from the National Public Health Emergency […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: I don’t understand Americans. Maybe I never did.

By Kilkenny Now 4th November 2020 0

America has been part of my life for almost as long as I have had a life. Through my childhood, Uncle Sam was the distant puppeteer whose strings moved my imagination. The USA was the land of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Ford cars and Hoover vacuum cleaners. As I […]