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Force to be reckoned with: event celebrates 60th anniversary of women joining gardai

By Kilkenny Now 18th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI past and present from the Kilkenny-Carlow division were honoured at a recent event to mark the 60th anniversary of women joining as Garda members. In July 1959 the first 12 women joined An Garda Siochana and were allocated to Pearse Street Station. There are currently 3,780 females making up 27% of […]

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Pedestrian bridge in county Kilkenny town set to be built next year

By Kilkenny Now 18th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A PEDESTRIAN bridge required to safely link a major tourist site in Kilkenny to a town centre could begin construction next summer. The €900,000 Castlecomer Pedestrian Bridge connecting the town centre to the popular Discovery Park is going to the planning stage. The bridge over the River Dinin is required to take […]

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Vandals wreck roof of county Kilkenny building and leave their underwear behind

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY BRAZEN vandals had the bare cheek to leave their underwear behind them after thrashing the roof of a county Kilkenny brass band’s practice rooms. The practice room’s roof of Graiguenamanagh Brass Band, Ireland’s oldest brass band, was ruined in an act of wanton sabotage on Saturday night last. The culprit then left […]

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South Dublin and Wicklow included in Kilkenny’s new regional health board

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY has been grouped in with South Dublin and Wicklow, as well as its South East neighbours, in the largest restructuring of the Irish health system since the creation of the Health Service Executive (HSE) 15 years ago. Minister for Health Simon Harris today announced the restructuring of the HSE, which is […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Wolf whistles are out of tune with the modern world

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

IT was seven in the morning and journalist Sinead O’Carroll was heading to work when some men in a car started cat-calling and wolf whistling at her. She was annoyed that it happened at all and shocked that the incident occurred early in the morning on an otherwise quiet Dublin street. When she told the […]

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Kilkenny man who laid down the law in Tipperary retires from the bench

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY Judge laying down the law in Tipperary for the past 13 years, has retired. Judge Tom Teehan from Castlecomer, spent six decades in the legal profession. Judge Teehan has presided over Nenagh Court in Tipperary for the past 13 years. He started practicing law back in the 1960s, before becoming […]

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Playground shut due to €20,000 worth of damage caused by mindless vandals

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY A COMMUNITY playground has been forced to close down after vandals caused €20,000 worth of damage to the facility. Kilkenny County Council made the unavoidable decision to close down the playground at the Fr McGrath Centre on St Joseph’s Road in the city. The decision to temporarily close the playground was made […]

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I’ll drink to that’ – Dáil bar re-opens after fixing Oireachtas rat issue

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY The MOST secretive and most talked-about bar in all of Ireland is set to re-open after dealing with its resident rat. The Public and Members Bars at Leinster House has been closed for two weeks, ever since Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin reported encountering a large rodent, to Leinster House staff. The […]

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Tragic Kilkenny man murdered in London six-weeks ago will finally be laid to rest this weekend

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE TRAGIC Kilkenny man whose death has sparked a murder inquiry in the UK is to be laid to rest in his home city this weekend. Adrian Murphy (43), from Maudlin Street in Kilkenny, is set to be buried next to his parents. The body of the seven-times All-Ireland dance champion and […]

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Primary school crisis – two out of every three Kilkenny kids in overcrowded classrooms

By Kilkenny Now 17th July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY TWO OUT of every three Kilkenny primary school children are being taught in overcrowded classrooms. Class sizes in Kilkenny are some of the highest in the country with more than 67% of classes containing 25 pupils or more. The statistics provided by the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) show Irish classrooms are […]