Fine Gael’s nine years in power looks to be at an end after two shock polls found they have been overtaken by Sinn Féin. With less than a week to go before next Saturday’s election, Fine Gael’s slogan ‘a future to look forward to’ does not appear be chiming with voters. And the party looks […]
Gardai are looking for a man driving a Kilkenny-registered jeep who approached several girls in Waterford city in recent days. On Thursday night a 17-year-old girl who was out walking on the Ballytruckle Road had to make a run for it after she was stopped by a man who had followed her in a white […]
An €800 million investment in energy efficiency is needed in Kilkenny and neighbouring counties if we’re to meet 2030 climate targets and become a carbon neutral area. That was the message from Three Counties Energy Agency (3CEA) as it launched its Energy Transition Strategy which bids to produce surplus green energy in Kilkenny by 2030. […]
John DELANEY Late of Wetlands, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny / Dublin John Delaney (Dublin and late of Wetlands, Kilkenny) January 29th 2020 (unexpectedly). He will be sadly missed by his loving family. May John Rest in Peace ___________ Joe Millea Foxcover, Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny / Kilmanagh, Kilkenny Unexpectedly on Thursday 30th January 2020 in the wonderful […]
The funeral details for All-Ireland medal winner from the Kilkenny team of 1969 Joe Millea have been announced. Mr Millea, father of camogie star Tracy Millea, lined out for Graigue Ballycallan. His death notice said: “Deeply regretted by his sorrowing family, his loving wife Helen, daughters Tracy and Sinead, sons Seán and Niall, brothers Pat […]
Gardai will be out in force on Kilkenny’s roads for the month of February as part of a month of action to improve road safety. The initiative follows the news there was an increase in deaths on our roads in 2019 compared to 2018. Last year 148 deaths were recorded on Irish roads, up from […]
Kilkenny’s inspirational cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has seen her book “Overcoming” voted Irish Book of the Year. The book came out on top of a public vote from the list of category winners announced at the An Post Irish Book Awards last year. The Mooncoin mother of two won the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ […]
The wine world has lost one of its best-known names with the recent death of Georges Duboeuf, the man they called ‘le roi’ and sometimes ‘le pape’. French wine makers tend not to be good at marketing. A lot of their product is sold under the labels of obscure vineyards. They can be hard to […]
“Conor, Darragh and Carla. I love you, I love you, I love you.” Andrew McGinley said goodbye today in a heartbreaking eulogy delivered before the funeral mass of his children who died last Friday. The Church of The Holy Family in Rathcoole was packed as the Rathcoole boys football club formed a guard of honour […]
The Government has put the ball of the North Quays Development project in Ferrybank firmly back in the court of the Saudi Arabian developers after committing over €100 million in state funding to get the project rolling. While campaigning in Waterford yesterday, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said the North Quays Development “needs both funding and policy […]