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Kilkenny residents to fork out average of €408 on Christmas presents this year: poll

By Kilkenny Now 23rd December 2018 0

RESIDENTS in Kilkenny will fork out an average of just over €400 each on Christmas presents for family members this year. The finding has emerged in a new Sunday Independent/Kantar Millward Brown opinion poll which reveals Irish householders will spend an average of €1,200 throughout the festive season. The poll findings come as Ireland’s Christmas […]

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Booze burglars target local golf club

By Kilkenny Now 23rd December 2018 0

GARDAI are investigating a break-in at Castlecomer Golf Club. The incident occurred sometime during a 12-hour period between 9pm last Tuesday, December 18, and the following morning. Kilkenny gardai confirmed the back door of the clubhouse was “forced open” and the thieves made off with a quantity of alcohol. No arrests have been made in […]

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Net loss: Rural parts of Kilkenny face more broadband delays

By Kilkenny Now 23rd December 2018 0

RURAL parts of Kilkenny still without high speed internet access face another delay before the roll-out of the crisis-plagued National Broadband Plan. The latest setback came as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admitted a decision on the embattled project may not be made for another two months. The broadband plan has been engulfed in controversy over the […]

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Kilkenny householders to benefit from lower electricity bills in New Year

By Kilkenny Now 23rd December 2018 0

KILKENNY householders have received an early Christmas gift as it emerged that electricity bills are set to drop in the New Year. This is because the cost of supplying backup electricity to the market has fallen by more than €200m a year. EirGrid has said that payments to generators to provide power in periods of […]

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M9 Motorway bust: Armed gardai arrest pair found with drugs in car

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2018 0

KILKENNY gardai backed up by members of the Armed Support Response Unit arrested two young men after their car was stopped and searched on the M9 Motorway. The pair were arrested and detained at Thomastown Garda Station after officers discovered €1,000 worth of illegal drugs in their car yesterday. The two men, who are both […]

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33-year-old mystery surrounding missing Kilkenny man is finally solved

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2018 Post a comment

THE family of a Kilkenny man who disappeared over 30 years ago will finally have closure this Christmas after his remains were formally identified using advanced DNA analysis. A “one-in-a-billion” DNA match on a body buried that was buried in Wales 33 years ago has finally been confirmed as the remains of missing Brendan Dowley. […]

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Key health service projects in South East could be shelved for years due to rising cost of new National Children’s Hospital

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2018 0

POTENTIALLY lifesaving health service investments in the South East could be shelved for up to five years because of the escalating cost of the new National Children’s Hospital, according to a confidential Government report. The total bill for developing the facility at St James’s Hospital is now expected to be more than €1.73 billion, an […]

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John McGuinness urges FF colleagues to ‘raise your voice’ and ‘demand change’

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2018 0

OUTSPOKEN Kilkenny TD John McGuinness has heaped further pressure on his leader Micheál Martin after he urged Fianna Fáil party members to “raise your voice” and “demand change”. Deputy McGuinness has been a vocal critic of Mr Martin’s recent decision to back the Fine Gael-led minority government for another year. In an email sent to […]

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BREXIT BREAKING: Hard border looks inevitable as UK moves to strike deals outside EU

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2018 0

A HARD border now looks inevitable as soon as Britain moves to strike trade deals with countries outside the EU. The nightmare scenario of a ‘no deal’ Brexit is looming as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today admitted Ireland will “get into real difficulties” once the UK government changes its customs rules and regulations. The Irish Government […]

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Kilkenny Co-op Mart Director Michael Parsons honoured with prestigious award

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2018 0

FORMER chairman and current director of Kilkenny Co-operative Mart and former director of Glanbia Co-operative, Michael Parsons, has been awarded the prestigious Plunkett Award. According to a statement from the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS), Michael received the award for his “outstanding lifelong contribution to the Irish co-operative movement”. Michael,