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Fill her up, guard! Kilkenny cops come to rescue of driver who ran out of fuel outside city

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

Kilkenny gardai came to the rescue to this driver who ran out of fuel while he was making an essential journey. The unfortunate break-down occurred just outside Kilkenny city yesterday. Big-hearted members of the Kilkenny Roads Policing Unit on Covid-19 patrol purchased fuel for the relieved driver to help him on his way.

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

Nora MOLONEY (née Conway) Mullinavat, Kilkenny/O’Callaghans Mills, Clare Mother of Robina Jones Silvergrove O Callaghans Mills, Co. Clare. Peacefully at Pairc na Coille Ennis. Sadly missed by her loving family daughter Robina sons John and Peter, grandchildren Siobhan, Caitlin, Niamh, Jessica, Max, Lily and Archie, brother Shom, sisters Babs, Mai and Bid, son-in-law

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Rents in Kilkenny tumble as result of pandemic: report

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 Post a comment

A long period of rising rents in Kilkenny has come to an end, new figures reveal. Rents in Kilkenny showed a year-on-year increase of more than 6% but have tumbled since the Covid-19 crisis set in. The latest report from Daft.ie finds that, even before the Covid-19 crisis, rents nationally had started to fall. It follows […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: 14 new cases of virus in Kilkenny, ‘300,000 will be out of work for years to come’

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

Fourteeen new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded locally since the beginning of the week. The number of coronavirus cases in Kilkenny has risen to 291, according to the latest county-by-county breakdown of Covid-19 figures. Meanwhile, concerns at the economic fallout as a result of the pandemic were highlighted in a stark report this morning […]

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Sadness as body of missing young man is found

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

Gardai have stood down the search for a missing local man after his body was discovered yesterday evening. The family of Joseph Savagh (32) from Bagenalstown, had issued a public appeal through the glast gardai after he had been missing since Monday. However, gardai last night confirmed: “Following the discovery of a body this evening […]

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Get your start: Kilkenny software company hiring on back of Covid-19 demand for its product

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

An award-winning Kilkenny-based software company is to expand its workforce in an effort to meet increased demand because of its work on Covid-19 response programmes for small and medium enterprises. Veri, which is based in the Kilkenny Research and Innovation Centre at St Kieran’s College in the city, is looking for software engineers for an […]

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Caught red-handed: Man (53) found with €60,000 worth of cocaine on Kilkenny border

By Kilkenny Now 13th May 2020 0

A man had nowhere to hide after being found in possession of €60,000 worth of cocaine close to the Kilkenny border after being spotted acting suspiciously. Gardai arrested a 53-year-old man at an outdoor location between Mullinahone and Ballingarry, just a couple of kilometres from the Kilkenny border yesterday afternoon when he was found in […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: Number of deaths falls to lowest since March as Taoiseach says opening schools ‘among safest things’ to do

By Kilkenny Now 13th May 2020 0

A further 10 people lost their lives from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours – the lowest since the end of March –  the HSE said this evening. The total death toll here is now 1,499 while the number of confirmed cases has now reached 23,401 after another 159 were […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Carry on borrowing, there’s method in the madness

By Kilkenny Now 13th May 2020 0

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, warned Shakespeare’s Polonius. He was a counsellor to the king of Denmark. It’s well he is not advising our present Government. They are borrowing at a rate that would give the old bore a seizure. My mother would have agreed entirely with Polonius. She had a horror of debt and liked to pay for services as soon […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 13th May 2020 0

Liam (Billy) Lupton Coolkerry, Rathdowney, Laois / Crosspatrick, Kilkenny Liam Lupton, Coolkerry, Rathdowney, Co. Laois and formerly Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny. May 12th 2020. Peacefully at home, predeceased by his wife Kathleen and his brother Peter. Sadly missed by his daughter Julianne, his brother Joe, sister Joan, sister-in-law Mary, nephews, neighbours, realtives and