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Plans for new community leisure centre in heart of Kilkenny town

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2020 0

A community group in a county Kilkenny town is pushing ahead with plans to create a major leisure development for local residents. Gowran on the Move, a community group set up last year, has applied to Kilkenny County Council to build the leisure and sports development on lands in the Clover area, close to the […]

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WATCH: Heart-lifting video of Kilkenny teen hugging grandma with new invention goes viral on Fox News USA

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

A Kilkenny teenager and his grandmother have become internet sensations after a video posted online of a device the teen invented to give his cocooning grandparent a hug has gone viral across the world. The video of Jody Brooks (13), from Graiguenamanagh, hugging his Grandmother May for the first time in months was posted online […]

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No new deaths for first time in over two months, hairdressers preparing for ‘safe’ early reopening

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

No further deaths have been reported due to coronavirus over the past 24 hours for the first time since early March. The hugely welcome news came as just 59 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed by the Department of Health at its daily briefing. The overall death toll as a result of the virus remains […]

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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: Africa Rising needs your help

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 Post a comment

Few corners of the world have escaped the devastation of Covid-19. One of the biggest mistruths about the rogue microbe is that it treats all its victims equally, discriminating nowhere. While people of all backgrounds and dispositions are hit by Covid-19, it is those souls in the lower socio-economic brackets who, with the elderly, are […]

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Number of local volunteers who answered country’s call since crisis hit revealed

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Just under 400 people from Kilkenny and Carlow signed up to volunteer on the Government’s I-VOL app in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Figures provided by local Fine Gael TD John Paul Phelan show 189 people volunteered via the app in Kilkenny, with a further 200 answering the country’s call since the coronavirus pandemic hit. […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Frances FITZPATRICK Rioch St./Tommy Martin Place, Kilkenny City Fitzpatrick (15A Rioch Street and 1 Tommy Martin Place, Kilkenny) 23rd May 2020, unexpectedly, at her home. Frances, pre-deceased by her father Frankie, much loved mother of Craig, Ava, Nicky and Hazel, sadly missed by her loving childen, her mother Betty, partner Patrick, sisters Margaret, Helen, Mary, […]

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Three due in court on murder charges over death of Carlow teenager in Australia

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

An Irish teenager who died after falling from the fourth-storey of an apartment in Queensland, Australia was being chased by three-men high on stolen prescription drugs, local police believe. Cian English (19), who was originally from Carlow and had moved to Australia with his family a number of years ago, was discovered lying prone and […]

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Scenes of chaos as gardai break-up mass brawl involving more than 25 youths in Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Gardai are investigating a mass brawl involving more than 20 teenagers on the main street of a village in south Kilkenny over the weekend. One juvenile was found to be in possession of a weapon when searched by gardai in Piltown in the wake of the carnage that eripted on Saturday afternoon. It is understood […]

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Trocaire makes urgent appeal for return of boxes from Kilkenny as donations expected to fall 60% from last year’s €88k

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Trocaire has made an urgent appeal for supporters in Kilkenny to return donations from their Trócaire boxes online or over the phone as it faces a 60% drop in revenues for its Lenten Appeal. The appeal raised €88,143.35 last year in Co. Kilkenny through the Diocese of Ossory. The charity’s biggest fundraising campaign has been […]

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Scam alert: Con-artists have Kilkenny on their mailing lists

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Several new online scams have surfaced in Kilkenny as con-merchants try to take advantage of the Covid-19 crisis. People have been offered face masks, gloves and hand sanitiser from dodgy or non-existent companies. One scam even offers a cure for the virus. Another scam on the increase involves messages claiming to be from courier companies […]