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Friday Night Fever! Check out all the fantastic events happening in the Marble City tonight

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2019 0

Tonight – 18.00  Matt The Millers – Wildfire & DJ -Late Bar  Traditional Irish music starts off the night followed by fantastic music stylings by Wildfire & DJ till late.   Tonight – 19.00  – Newpark Hotel Kilkenny with Escape Health Club & Spa James Stephens GAA are proud to present “For the Love of […]

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Kilkenny ‘seer’ returns Nostradamus book 28 years later and escapes library fine!

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2019 0

IT was a feat worthy of the great Nostradamus himself! A Kilkenny book borrower took a leaf out of the great French astrologer, physician and seer, who is best known for his ability to predict great moments in history many years in advance. And it appears some of the seer’s psychic talents rubbed off on […]

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The long face of the law! Garda Mounted Unit are big hit with Kilkenny schoolkids

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2019 0

IT’S not all about drugs busts and chasing the bad guys! Kilkenny gardai also play a hugely important role in community policing and educating young people about the dangers of getting on the wrong side of law. And so this week, while up to 80 local and specialist gardai descended on Kilkenny as part of […]

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BREAKING: Thomastown gets €2m as part of major regeneration programme

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2019 Post a comment

THOMASTOWN will receive more than €2 million as part of a major regeneration programme. And €60,000 will be invested by Kilkenny LEADER Partnership in community shops across the county, Minister and local TD John Paul Phelan confirmed this morning. Thomastown has been granted a total of €2,080,486 as part of a significant Town Regeneration project. […]

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Here comes the sun: Kilkenny will be hotter than Barcelona and Milan this weekend

By Kilkenny Now 15th February 2019 0

KILKENNY will be hotter than Barcelona and Milan this weekend as temperatures soar across the country. After a beautifully mild St Valentine’s Day yesterday, today will see the mercury levels rise to highs of up to 15 degrees. Met Éireann has forecast “very mild” conditions over the weekend, accompanied by sunshine and largely dry spells. […]

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Canine cop helps Kilkenny gardai to sniff out cannabis ‘grow-house’

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 0

A CRACK canine cop helped Kilkenny gardai to sniff out a cannabis ‘grow-house’ just over the county border in Tipperary. Just over €40,000 worth of cannabis plants were discovered in the raid on the premises in Mallinahone, along with €1,200 of cannabis herb. The planned raid involved members of the Kilkenny Detective Unit backed by […]

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MINISTER JOHN PAUL PHELAN: ‘Why people of Kilkenny should be allowed to elect their own mayor’

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 Post a comment

LAST week on KilkennyNow.ie, the writer Michael Wolsey argued against the case for directly-elected mayors, basically intimating that they are waste of money. Michael, of course, is entitled to his opinion, but it appears his polemic was based on some inaccurate information out there about what is the most fundamental change proposed since local governments […]

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Witch husband? How beautiful Kilkenny noblewoman amassed a great fortune

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 51

THE local legend of Alice Kyteler is about to become immortalised in a new book. Alice was a beautiful 14th century noblewoman from Kilkenny who inherited a huge fortune from her three former husbands. The speed with which her spouses became ex-spouses aroused suspicion and when her fourth husband suddenly fell ill and died she […]

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Travel bible National Geographic falls for Kilkenny’s medieval charms

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 0

SOME of Kilkenny’s best-loved landmarks and businesses have been singled out for praise in a special feature on Ireland’s Ancient East tourism initiative published by the global travel bible National Geographic. The in-depth article identifies Kilkenny as one of 10 towns in the east of the country that are “saturated in stories of the past”. […]

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A Kilkenny Valentine’s Day tale: Why Henry Shefflin’s father-in-law did not cheer for their match

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 0

HENRY Shefflin would never have married his wife Deirdre if she had listened to her father. He was worried their courtship might interfere with Henry’s hurling. “I told my mother that I had met Henry,” she recalled. “And when I told my father, he said: ‘You stay away from him, he has a busy year […]