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€35 million granted for two new secondary schools

By Kilkenny Now 28th July 2019 0

KILKENNY is set to get two-new secondary schools in a €35 million investment in education. The project will see the Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training board create the new schools on a single campus on a greenfield site in the western part of the city. The first school is a 500 student multi-denomination co-educational school, […]

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Emergency meeting called by Mayor to address business closures in city

By Kilkenny Now 28th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY THE WORRYING increase of business closures in Kilkenny City is to be discussed at an emergency public meeting called by the Mayor. Kilkenny Mayor Martin Brett is calling on the public to join business owners, representative bodies and council members to create a plan to deal with business closures. The meeting will […]

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Cartoon Saloon’s hit series to get a movie make-over

By Kilkenny Now 28th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE GOOD news just keeps coming for the world-renowned Kilkenny animation studio, Cartoon Saloon. This time, their hugely popular pre-school series, Puffin Rock, is set to be made into a feature-length film. The award-winning animation has received over 170 million hits on Youtube and already the story about Oona and her friends […]

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Kilkenny upset the odds in an enthralling match – beat Limerick by a point

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY WRITE off the cats at your peril. In an epic encounter, as tough as they come, Kilkenny came out on top by the barest of margins. Leading by as much as eight points at stages, Limerick persisted and chipped away at the lead. But the Cats never stopped fighting. An Eoin Murphy […]

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Seven out of ten drivers speed through city estate

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY MORE than half of Kilkenny drivers are ignoring speed limits in certain residential parts of the city. The spat of speed violations has led to Kilkenny County Council creating 20 new speed ramps in certain parts of the city. The cost of creating the 20 speed ramps is €45,000 excluding VAT. The […]

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County Kilkenny €9million flood relief project ready to go to design stage

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE €9 million Graiguenamanagh flood relief scheme is one step closer to starting as the project has gone for design tender. Last year funding was confirmed for the project immediately in the aftermath of the damage caused by Storm Deirdre. This project is a joint undertaking by Kilkenny County Council and Carlow […]

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ALL-IRELAND SEMI-FINAL PREVIEW: A Treaty-bridge too far

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY IT’S not often Kilkenny travel to Croke Park in trepidation, and Brian Cody is too wily an old cat to allow that happen this team. The Kilkenny manager has little influence over the support, and the word jumping out at me is trepidation. Cody’s treated Cat supporters to some of the toughest, […]

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A Kilkenny man and his robot are lining out the GAA world games

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY man who programmed a robot to line seven pitches for an international GAA tournament just walked away and ‘let the robot do its job.” Intelligent Marking Ireland’s Mícheál Nolan who lives in Clara, Co Kilkenny, used the robot to line the seven pitches in use for the Renault GAA World Games […]

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Kilkenny man dies in horror crash on Australian highway

By Kilkenny Now 26th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY man has died following a horrific crash in Australia overnight. Seamus Walsh, 38, from Kilcready, Ballyhale was killed when the truck he was driving collided with another truck on a New South Wales highway. Mr Walsh had been living in Australia for the past 12 years. He was married and […]

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Vandals smash new windows at state-owned building

By Kilkenny Now 26th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A STATE-owned building, currently undergoing renovation, was targeted by vandals in Kilkenny this week. A Health Service Executive (HSE) building known as HSE House in the Wetlands had a lot of its newly inserted windows smashed in a mindless attack. The culprits didn’t enter the building, and nothing was taken from the […]