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Net gain: Kilkenny-based company to create 50 new jobs as it delivers broadband to rural Ireland

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2020 0

A Kilkenny-based compnay is celebrating after it secured a lucrative contract with the State’s National Broadband Plan. The deal will allow local telecommunications firm Entegro to create up to 50 new jobs. The company is headquartered in Kilkenny and has offices in Dublin and Athlone. Under the new contract, Entegro will survey and design fibre […]

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‘In the back of my mind I know my body is not there anymore’ – Kilkenny legend calls time on glittering career with club and county

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2020 0

Kilkenny legend Michael Fennelly has finally called time on his glittering hurling career with club and county. The 35-year-old won no fewer than eight All-Ireland SHC medals with the Cats as well as five All-Ireland club titles with the Ballyhale Shamrocks. However Fennelly, who has been plauged by injuries in recent months, said he does […]

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Gardai out in force on Kilkenny’s roads ahead of Bank Holiday: region’s top cop

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2020 Post a comment

Gardai will be out in force on Kilkenny’s road in the countdown to the busy June Bank Holiday weekend. The warning comes from the most senior Garda in the Eastern Region, which includes Kilkenny, made a personal appeal to local motorists to never drink under the influence of alcohol or drugs ahead of the Bank […]

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Kilkenny misses the cut: Just one of our golf courses makes Ireland’s top 100 list

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2020 0

Just one golf course in county Kilkenny was deemed good enough to make the Top 100 Golf Courses in Ireland list for 2020. The bible of world golfing, the magazine Golf Digest, this week released their Top 100 in Ireland list and it was meager pickings Cat’s chippers as just Mount Juliet Estate and Golf […]

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Woman (30s) attacked by youths at county Kilkenny playground

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

A woman was subjected to a horrific and unprovoked attack from two youths as she walked home after dark in a county Kilkenny town. The young woman, who is in her late 30s was walking through the playground at Bolton Woods in Callan shortly after midnight on Monday, May 25 when the attack occurred. The […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: A further 17 pass away as Holohan says two-metre social distancing must remain

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

A further 17 people lost their lives 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 1,631 while the number of confirmed cases has now reached 24,803 after another 73 were diagnosed. Meanwhile, RTE is reporting that Chief Medical Officer […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Things I’d like to banish along with the virus

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

The Parting Glass is one of my favourite songs, but I would be happy not to hear it again for a couple of years. A similar moratorium on ‘the new normal’ would be welcome and I would be delighted never again to hear someone declare that ‘we’re all in this together’ . I am bored […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

Geraldine Aherne (née Rockett) Castleroberts, Adare, Limerick Geraldine Aherne (nee Rockett) late of Castleroberts, Adare, Co Limerick and Janesboro. Died 25th May 2020, peacefully, surrounded by her family at University Hospital Limerick. Sadly missed by her loving husband Mike, her sons Eoin, Gearoid, and Paraic, daughter-in-law Nina, sisters Mary, Helen, Margaret and

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I’m lovin it: McDonald’s to reopen Kilkenny restaurant next week

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

Kilkenny’s McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant will reopen next week, the company has announced. After opening six restaurants in Dublin last week to trail working at reduced capacity and within Covid-19 guideline, the global fast-food giant has announced they are set to open all their 51 drive-thru restaurants in Ireland between Tuesday and Thursday of next week.

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Increased Garda presence on Kilkenny’s roads for bank holiday as report reveals pedestrian deaths have doubled this year

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

Gardai in Kilkenny will be out in force this June Bank holiday weekend as they expect to see a jump in the amount of people on the roads due to the good weather and easing of Covid-19 restrictions. The local units will be targeting people driving while under the influence of drink or drugs, people […]