By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY will give a big welcome home to our Senior Camogie team, with or without the O’Duffy Cup. The Kilkenny ladies team is in the All-Ireland Camogie final for the fourth year in a row and hopes to regain the cup it last won back in 2016, beating Cork. The Rebellettes turned […]
A MEMBER of An Garda Síochána is due to appear in court this afternoon on corruption charges. The officer was arrested this morning as part of an investigation into alleged corruption involving gardaí. A second man was also arrested. The arrests and charges are in relation to an investigation by Special Crime Operations into alleged […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A FAMOUS but now derelict pub, in the heart of county Kilkenny could give a new lease of life to local families. The Good Shepherd Centre in Kilkenny is looking to build 12 new apartments for homeless families and individuals, on and beside the site of The Red Barn pub in the […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A LEARNER driver, nine times over the drink driving limit, was arrested after he was stopped at a garda checkpoint in a Kilkenny town. The 39-year-old man was stopped on suspicion of drink driving at a checkpoint in Castlecomer yesterday evening. After taking a breath sample, he was found to be nine […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A VERITABLE galaxy of horse racing superstars galloped into Kilkenny this week to launch an event raising money for new cancer trials and treatments. Ruby Walsh, AP McCoy, Paul Carberry and Charlie Swan joined Joseph O’Brien at his Piltown yard as they prepare for the Pat Smullen Champions Race for Cancer Trials […]
By COLIN BARTLEY Don’t put away the shorts and shades just yet as this weekend could give us one last blast of summer with the Sun coming out and the temperatures hitting 21 degrees. Not this morning though, as today will start cloudy with some rain. It will brighten before afternoon bringing sunny spells with […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A GANG of arsonists sparked more chaos in Kilkenny city overnight after they set alight a HSE building earmaked to provide much needed accomodation. It is the second time in as many weeks that that the HSE House in Wetlands has been torched by vandals. Sources told KilkennyNow.ie the drama unfolded at […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A NEW hospital building promised by the Government for county Kilkenny could yet be built by 2021. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has lodged a planning application with Kilkenny County Council to build a 95-room community nursing and residential care unit in the grounds of Thomastown’s St Columba’s Hospital. A report published […]
By COLIN BARTLEY THE diggers have moved in on Kilkenny Castle as a major search for the 800-year-old Castle Gatehouse gets undereway. The Office of Public Works this week began an archaeological dig in front of Kilkenny Castle looking for the exact location and shape of the early 13th century Castle Gatehouse. The dig will […]
By COLIN BARTLEY ONE of the Kilkenny arts community’s most anticipated annuals, The 19th Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet, has been released by the Kilkenny County Council Arts Office. The poetry broadsheet aims to give Kilkenny writers, born or based in Kilkenny city and county, a platform for their work. This year 95 poems by 50 poets were […]