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Safety in numbers: Kilkenny city eligible for €40,000 funding based on population

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 0

Kilkenny city is now eligible for up to €40,000 in funding made available to respond to the new challenges associated with COVID-19 and support its economic and social recovery. The Marble City can now avail of a special tranche of payments being made available through the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. The projects that can […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 0

Patrick (Paudy) WALSH Rocklands, Ferrybank, Waterford/Ballyhale, Kilkenny Patrick (Paudy) Walsh, Rocklands, Ferrybank,Waterford, and late of Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny, who died on Wednesday, 19th August 2020, peacefully, at University Hospital Waterford, surrounded by his loving family. Paudy will be sadly missed by his loving wife Tess (née Hanrahan), sons James, John,

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Plans to build family homes on site of Celtic Tiger development in county Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 0

Plans to build new family homes on the site of a Celtic Tiger era development have been received by Kilkenny Council. Meadowcourt Homes Ltd is looking to extend a period of planning permission granted to it in 2015 to build five large family homes at a site in The Beeches estate in Ballyrobin, Ferrybank. Under […]

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Kilkenny tourism businesses invited to apply for €26 million restart fund

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 Post a comment

Kilkenny businesses involved in tourism and hospitality are being invited to apply for grants to cover the costs incurred in adapting their premises or operations for re-opening. Fáilte Ireland’s €26million COVID-19 Adaptation Fund is available to tourism businesses implementing Fáilte Ireland’s Guidelines for re-opening  and estimates 12,000 businesses nationwide will be

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STORM ELLEN: Over 2,000 homes and businesses in south Kilkenny without power

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 0

ESB crews are fighting to restore power to over 2,000 homes in county Waterford this morning after Storm Ellen left a trail of destruction in its wake. At least 195,000 homes and businesses across Ireland are currently without power this after the storm swept across the Ireland last night. In Kilkenny, ESB crews are battling […]

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Pony tale with a happy ending: Joy as ‘very kind’ family adopt distressed horse freed from pen in Kilkenny city

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2020 0

A distressed pony who was freed from an improvised pen at the Hebron Industrial Estate over the weekend will live out the rest of their days in the care of a kind local family. Kilkenny gardai freed the dishevelled pony from the pen on Saturday after receiving a call from a concerned member of the […]

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Gun fired by salmon poachers rumbled by fisheries officer on River Suir

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2020 2

Inland Fisheries Officers were fired upon after they came across poachers netting salmon in the River Suir on a stretch of the river that divides Kilkenny, Waterford and Tipperary. At least one shot was fired at the Inland Fisheries Ireland’s Fisheries Protection Officers after they respond to a report of illegal fishing in the upper […]

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Two deaths and 54 new cases as UK plans widespread testing of population

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2020 19

There were two deaths from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours, the HSE said this evening. The total death toll here is now 1,775 while the number of confirmed cases has now reached 27,547 after another 54 were diagnosed. Of the cases notified today: 24 are men / 29 are […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Predicted grades fail the test, so leave the Leaving alone

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2020 Post a comment

Final year exam results were greeted with dismay and anger in the North, and across Britain, because the marks predicted by teachers for some students had been downgraded. They had been adjusted in line with computer algorithms which took account of how schools performed in previous years and also favoured girls over boys, because girls […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2020 2

 Peter MINCHIN Hazel Grove, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny / Bagenalstown, Carlow  Minchin (Hazel Grove, Loughboy, Kilkenny and formerly of Ballinree, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow) 17th August 2020, unexpectedly, at University Hospital, Waterford, Peter, pre-deceased recently by his partner of 30 years Agnes (Purcell), sadly missed by his daughter Hilda and her husband John, sons