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€5k for 5k! Kilkenny youth group gets funding to organise fun run for local kids

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 Post a comment

A Kilkenny youth group has been given a €5,000 grant aimed at empowering young people, culminating with a 5k fun-run. Ossory Youth, a youth group located in Kilkenny city, was awarded the funding by VHI to deliver a ‘Run for Fun’ for over 100 young people from under-resourced communities locally with the aim of getting […]

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IN VINO VERITAS: All in a label’s work (Part II) – Morgan Vanderkamer

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

As you peruse a wine list you may find yourself flicking through an endless sea of pages and wines you don’t recognize. As you scan through some of the figures beside certain wines it may leave you begging the question: who would pay such a price for a bottle of wine? In the same breath, […]

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WATCH: Kilkenny teen set for superstardom as Disney releases trailer of new blockbuster

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

It’s all becoming very real for a 15-year-old Kilkenny boy who is just weeks away from global superstardom. Kilkenny teenager Ferdia Shaw will explode onto the big screen as Artemis Fowl this summer. Disney, the company behind the film, this morning released a two-minute trailer of the upcoming blockbuster and let’s just say it doesn’t […]

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GAA ROUND-UP: All the latest local results and tables

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

Kilkenny Citroen Centre Minor A Football Championship Sun, 01 Mar, (Round: Q/Final C), Kilmacow 7-8 O’Loughlin Gaels 1-1   Kilkenny Citroen Centre Minor B Football Championship Sat, 29 Feb, (Round: Q/Final C), Kilmoganny W/O Carrickshock  –   Kilkenny Citroen Centre Minor C Football Championship Sat, 29 Feb, (Round: Q/Final B), Barrow Rangers W/O

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Dancing With The Stars: Kilkenny hurling legend Aidan ‘back in the game’ as Glitterball champ John Nolan crashes out

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

Hurling legend Aidan Fogarty is left flying the flag for Kilkenny on TV’s Dancing with the Stars after John Nolan and his celebrity partner Mary Kennedy crashed out of the show last night. John won the coveted Glitterball last year with TV presenter Mairéad Ronan, but his DWTS journey for 2020 ended after he and […]

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Top Kilkenny company named one of Ireland’s best places to work

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

One of Kilkenny’s leading companies has been named one of the best places to work in the coutnry. Taxback Group was listed in the Top 20 list of Ireland’s Best Large Workplace at a gala awards ceremony in Dublin this week. It is the fifth year in a row the Kilkenny-city based company has made […]

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WEATHER FORECAST: No Spring in our step yet as more rain, sleet and snow forecast for Kilkenny this week

By Kilkenny Now 2nd March 2020 0

Hopes the onset of March would herald a new Spring dawn have been dashed by Met Éireann as it forecast more wet, cold and unsettled conditions for the next week at least. A relative calm returned to Kilkenny yesterday with the passing of Storm Jorge, but the miserable month we endured in February is likely […]

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Burglar breaks into home in Kilkenny village after forcing back window open

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2020 0

Gardai are investigating another break-in at a county Kilkenny village. The latest incident occurred at a house in Johnstown sometime between 7.20pm and 8.20pm last Saturday, February 22. A local Garda spokesperson confirmed the thief gained entry to the property by forcing a back window open. However, the burglar left empty handed and nothing was […]

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School in east to close for 14 days after first confirmed case of coronavirus

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2020 0

A secondary school in the East of the county will close for 14 days following the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the country, it was confirmed this evening. The Department of Health said that staff and pupils at the school are being treated as close contacts of the first case that was detected here […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2020 0

James FANNING Glenballyvally, Tullogher Fanning; Glenballyvally, Tullogher, Co. Kilkenny. 29th February 2020 peacefully in his 76 year James (Jimmy). Deeply regretted by The Cummins family Tullogher, relatives, neighbours and friends. Reposing in Doyle’s Funeral Home, The Old Rectory, Rosbercon, New Ross from 5pm on Monday, 02nd March, conculding with Rosary at