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More apprenticeships for Kilkenny school leavers

By Kilkenny Now 7th November 2021 Post a comment

Enhancements to the CAO website will include further education and apprenticeship opportunities for school leavers in Kilkenny, a local TD has said. The CAO website, which went live on Friday, for the first time include options across higher education, further education and training and apprenticeships for school leavers and other applicants. Welcoming the new options,

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Warm tributes to young Kilkenny man killed in car crash

By Kilkenny Now 7th November 2021 0

Tributes have been paid to a young Kilkenny man who tragically died in a car collision. Martin Burke died in the crash between Urlingford and Freshford early on Friday morning. The 20-year-old was a hugely popular young man in his local community, with many emotional tributes paid to him over the weekend. Local GAA club […]

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Driver high on drugs with no license or insurance overtakes Garda car on busy Kilkenny road

By Kilkenny Now 6th November 2021 0

A drug driver was caught red handed after he overtook gardai on patrol on Kilkenny’s Ring Road. The incident occured over the weekend, local gardai confirmed. Gardai pursued the suspect after he overtook the squad car and ordered him to pull over. The officers then discovered he had no driving license or insurance. And he […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 6th November 2021 0

Christine (Chris) BERGIN (née Darcy) Summerville Avenue, Waterford City/Piltown, Kilkenny Christine (Chris) Bergin née Darcy Summerville Avenue Waterford Thursday 4th November 2021 Formerly of Milltown, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny Late of Bergin’s The Quay & Lords, Arundel Lane Predeceased by her daughter Louise Sadly missed by her loving husband Stephen, son Mark,

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LATEST: 3,685 new cases of virus but hospital numbers drop

By Kilkenny Now 6th November 2021 0

A further 3,685 more people have tested positive for Covid-19, the Department of Health confirmed this evening. On Twitter, the department said 444 Covid-19 patients are now in hospital, of whom 74 are in intensive care units. There are 19 fewer people in hospital than at the same time yesterday, while the number in ICU […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Want to be a soccer star? Get yourself a hyphen

By Kilkenny Now 6th November 2021 0

There was a time when you could safely assume that anyone with a double-barrelled name was a chinless wonder, an upper-class toff like Britain’s former prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, or its would-be prime minister, Jacob Rees Mogg. Now he (or, indeed, she) is more likely to be a professional footballer. You can accelerate with the […]

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Kilkenny man launches campaign for Ireland to rejoin UK

By Kilkenny Now 6th November 2021 0

A Kilkenny man is on a mission to get Ireland back into the UK. Tristan Morrow says he hopes to get all 32 counties back under the British Crown. And the Kilkenny-born farmer claims his Irish Unionist Party will be trying to woo voters on that basis at the ballot box from 2025. The 19-year-old […]

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Young man (20) killed in county Kilkenny road tragedy

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2021 0

A young man has been killed in a road tragedy in county Kilkenny. Gardai this evening confirmed the victim, who was aged 20, was the passenger in a car involved in ‘a traffic incident’ that occurred on the R693 at Tobernapaiste, Freshford in the early hours of this morning. The young man’s remains were removed […]

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LATEST: ‘Very worrying’ – almost 4,000 new cases of virus confirmed

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2021 0

A further 3,903 more people have contracted Covid-19, the Department of Health confirmed this evening. There are now 463 patients being treated in hospital for the virus, a rise of five from yesterday. Of these, 76 are being treated in ICU, a drop of 14. Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan this evenig described the […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2021 0

William (Billy) DOOLEY  Sunhill, Cuffesgrange William (Billy) Dooley, Sunhill, Cuffesgrange, Co. Kilkenny. Billy died peacefully at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny on Thursday, 4th November 2021. Predeceased by his wife Breda. Deeply regretted and sadly missed by his loving family, Ethel, Fiona, Ger, John, Maria and Áine, sons-in-law Thomas and Tyler, daughter-in-law Carol,