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Kilkenny snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against Davy Fitzgerald’s Wexford

By Kilkenny Now 16th February 2020 0

There will be more questions than answers after Kilkenny’s two-point loss to Wexford in the National Hurling league – a defeat that seemed almost impossible with 25 minutes to play. This may go down to the changes on the park, and if we have to be bruatally honest, Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald won that battle […]

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Hero Kilkenny campaigner Vicky has her eye on seat in the Seanad

By Kilkenny Now 16th February 2020 0

Kilkenny cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said she wants to become an independent senator. The Mooncoin mother-of-two, who published her best-selling memoir Overcoming last September, said she has been thinking of entering politics for some time, but needed to get approval from her doctors. Vicky, who is currently director of literacy development at Waterford

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Kilkenny to benefit from promotion of new sergeants

By Kilkenny Now 16th February 2020 0

The Kilkenny/ Carlow Garda Division is set to benefit from the promotion of two of its members to the rank of sergeant. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris made the announcement this week. Both gardai promoted have already taken up their position. In total, 113 garda members nationally were promoted by Commissioner Harris at the end of […]

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Wanted: Skinny, short, bald, bearded, toothless, Kilkenny amputees to star in Hollywood blockbuster with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck!

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2020 2

Kilkenny may have missed out on landing the Hollywood blockbuster starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck but that doesn’t mean that Kilkenny people have to. The film, which is titled The Last Duel, is to shoot in Wicklow’s Ardmore Studios as well as locations in Meath and Tipperary from late March, as exclusively revealed by […]

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Hot Wheels: County Kilkenny fire stations get much-needed new vehicles

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2020 0

Two county Kilkenny fire stations have just received delivery of new response vehicles replacing old equipment that had served them so well but are now over 17-years-old. The stations at Callan and Freshford this week had a brand new fire jeep presented to each local service which will now be put to work as front-line […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2020 0

Michael Fitzgerald Knockbrack, Glenmore, Kilkenny Michael Fitzgerald, Knockbrack, Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny, who died on Friday, 14th February 2020, peacefully at University Hospital Waterford, surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his parents John and Ellen, brother Monsignor Paul. Michael will be sadly missed by his brother Sean, sisters Jo (O’Shea) and Mai

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ALERT: Kilkenny stores warned after local shop targeted in ‘change scam’

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2020 0

Kilkenny businesses are urged to be on the lookout for a fraudster who conned a store out of money in a “change scam”. The incident occurred at a shop in MacDonagh Junction last Wednesday, but the deception did not come to light until the store was doing up its tills for the day. A person […]

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Search for Kilkenny man missing in River Nore suspended until Storm Dennis passes

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2020 0

The search for a man reported missing in the River Nore since Monday will have to be put on hold until Storm Dennis passes. Emergency services will now have to wait until next week to resume a full search for the man after it was reported he went into the river close to John’s Bridge […]

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Con man who tricked elderly Kilkenny people out of cash by impersonating Gardai arrested

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2020 0

A man suspected of impersonating Gardai in an effort to con elderly people in rural Kilkenny out of money was finally captured by the law this week. The man who has been a major target for Kilkenny Gardai was arrested as part of Operation Storm earlier this week. There have been numerous reports of people […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Cheerful and still pretty cheap

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2020 0

I first visited Portugal in the late 1970s. The country had not long emerged from a right-wing dictatorship. It was under-developed, poor and very, very cheap. We bought a nice bottle of wine in a restaurant for next to nothing, then found one in a café for even nexter to nothing and another in a […]