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Setback for Kilkenny City Bus service on just second day of operation

By Kilkenny Now 19th December 2019 0

There has been a setback for the Kilkenny City Bus Service on just its second morning of operations as some of the services have had to be curtailed. The stop at the beginning of route KK2, Purcellsinch is currently out of service. All buses on that route are are now starting and finishing at Leggetsrath. […]

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13-year-old girl left an orphan week before Christmas after mother is killed in crash

By Kilkenny Now 19th December 2019 0

A 13-year-old daughter of a woman killed in a car crash in the countdown to Christmas has been left without parents following her tragic death. Annmarie Hooper (34) died along with Dean Coleman (25) when the car he was driving smashed into a lamppost on Butterfield Avenue on Dublin’s southside at 1.30am on Tuesday. Moments […]

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Childcare crisis: Growing fears Kilkenny créches will be forced to close in New Year

By Kilkenny Now 19th December 2019 2

A short-term emergency fund is needed to cover the insurance crisis facing over a thousand créches to ensure their doors stay open in the New Year, a Kilkenny TD has said. Deputy Kathleen Funchion, who is Sinn Fein’s children and youth affairs spokesperson, has warned childcare services in Kilkenny and across the country faces an […]

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Gardai swoop on organised crime gang suspected of spate of Kilkenny burglaries

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 0

Gardai have made what they are calling “a very significant arrest in relation to ongoing burglaries” in the Kilkenny area. A house was broken into close to Carlow town late last night and as the gang were making their getaway in a silver car with English registration plates, they were intercepted by gardai. The four […]

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€1,011 average rents in South Kilkenny rents among highest in the country

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 Post a comment

Rents in south county Kilkenny are the highest in the country outside the commuter belt of Dublin and a handful of places in Cork, Galway and Limerick. The exceptionally high average monthly rents paid in the Piltown Local Electoral Area(LEA) makes it the latest to be designated a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) by the Housing […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: The holy show where angels fear to tread

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 0

This is a Nativity story. It is not my story and I must admit that the man who told it to me is prone to exaggeration. But so, I suspect, were Matthew and Luke who gave us the original. No doubt there’s a core of truth to all their tales.

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Just the ticket – Kilkenny City Bus service carries its first passengers

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 Post a comment

The wheels of the Kilkenny City Bus are finally going round and round as the new public transport service carried its first passengers this morning. At 7am the first buses pulled up to the new bus stops at PurcellsInch and Loughboy, the doors opened and the passengers hopped on. Despite the driving rain and high […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 0

Eleanor CUDDIHY (née O’Brien) 28 Bishop Birch Place, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny Cuddihy (nee O’Brien) (28 Bishop Birch Place, Kilkenny) 17th December 2019, unexpectedly, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Eleanor, beloved wife of the late Paddy and much loved mother of Catherine, Lena, Paddy, Tyrone, Siobháin, Lee, Keeley, Christian and the late James, sadly missed by

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Scene where body of man (40s) discovered in Kilkenny remains closed

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 Post a comment

The scene of the discovery of a body in Kilkenny remains closed off this afternoon and is being preserved for an examination by the state pathologist. Gardai remain at the apartment in the Hawthorne Walk area of Pairc na Gowan on the Waterford Road in Kilkenny city where the body of a man in his […]

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Car-azy! More than 700 vehicles broken into in Kilkenny-Carlow: new crime figures

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 0

More than 700 local car owners have had their vehicles broken into over the past four years. The figures were revealed this week as gardai appealed to motorists to “park Smart” over the busy Christmas period. According to gardai, a total of €30.6 million worth of items such as tools, cash, sunglasses, electronics and jewellery […]