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Kilkenny hosts concert to mark World Homeless Day

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY NEXT Thursday is World Homeless Day and a Kilkenny organisation is holding a concert to raise awareness about homelessness and raise money to help its efforts of creating accommodation. The Rafter Family and Friends of the Good Shepherd Choir are hosting two concerts in St Canice’s Cathedral to highlight homelessness and raise […]

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60 years in the making: Kilkenny Superintendent hails achievements of first female Garda recruits

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THIS year marks the 60th anniversary of women joining An Gardai Síochána. This week celebrations were held in Kilkenny to acknowledge all the women who have served in the local force over that time. In the 1950s, much controversy was caused, and many hours spent arguing in the male dominated Dáil, regarding […]

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Drop the mic: Irish radio stars flock to Kilkenny for gala awards night

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE great and the good of Irish radio will be stationed in Kilkenny this evening for the industry’s annual award show.​ The IMRO National Radio Awards are being held in Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate hotel tonight and will see up to 1,000 guests, presenters, producers, researchers, journalists from all over Ireland battle it […]

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Four teens arrested in Kilkenny over alleged rape in Wexford released without charge

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

FOUR teenagers arrested in Kilkenny yesterday morning in connection with a serious sexual assault on three teenage girls have been released without charge. Files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecution. The alleged incident took place at on a beach at Burrow in Courtown, Co Wexford around midnight on Sunday, July 28. Four […]

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A huge draw! Crowds flock to city for Kilkenny Animated festival

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY is set to draw a huge crowd this weekend for an event visitors have had pencilled in for a while now. Kilkenny Animated, the world’s foremost animation festival, is taking place around the city and county this weekend and has drawn its guests from the leading lights in the industry globally. […]

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WEEKEND WEATHER: Calm after the storm

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY WHILE the worst, if that is what you can call it, of Storm Lorenzo hit Kilkenny in the past couple of hours as we slept, the remnants of the weather front will linger for today before the weather picks up for the weekend. Today will be blustery and wet, with lots of […]

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Four teens arrested in Kilkenny over serious sexual assault

By Kilkenny Now 3rd October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY FOUR teenagers were arrested in Kilkenny this morning in connection with a serious sexual assault on three teenage girls. The alleged incident took place at Burrow in Courtown, Co Wexford around midnight on Sunday, July 28. Four males, three juveniles and one adult (over 18) have been arrested on suspicion of rape. […]

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Foster care services in Kilkenny understaffed and ‘chaotic’ – report

By Kilkenny Now 3rd October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE social care services in Kilkenny are “chaotic” and lacked “professional oversight” for the children in its foster  programme. And one in five of all children in Kilkenny in foster care services throughout Kilkenny have not being allocated a social worker to oversee their placement and ensure their needs are met. The […]

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BREAKING: Fire services battle blaze at landmark hotel on Kilkenny-Waterford border

By Kilkenny Now 3rd October 2019 Post a comment

EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a serious fire that erupted at a landmark hotel on the Kilkenny/Waterford border. Fire tenders rusged to the former Ard Rí and Jurys Hotel in Ferrybank after huge plumes of smoke were seen billowing out of the building’s roof. The drama unfoled just before just before 4pm this […]

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Sterling work: Kilkenny showcased to UK tour operators ahead of Brexit d-day

By Kilkenny Now 3rd October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY is using it’s ancient and medieval history to attract UK visitors to the county, while our closest neighbours are in the middle of making history of their own, Ahead of whatever happens with Brexit, people from the UK will still be going on holidays, so Fáilte Ireland invited Albatross Travel, a […]