FOOD producing companies throughout the South East along with small local businesses who export to the UK will begin to shed employees during the second half of this year unless Britain can negotiate an orderly exit from the EU. Doomsday predictions on the impact of a no-deal Brexit compiled by the Department of Finance have […]
KILKENNY gardai have urged householders to be aware of dodgy door-to-door sales people who are ‘cold calling’ to private homes offering trade services. The warning was issued after an elderly woman, who lives alone in a rural area, was “pressurised into paying an extortionate price” for 12 chainsaws, 11 generators, seven power washers and “assorted […]
OVERCROWDING figures at St Luke’s General Hospital rose significantly today as patients across the country braced themselves for tomorrow’s nurses’ strike. A total of 21 patients at St Luke’s were treated on trolleys at the hospital today, almost double the 11 recorded by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) less than a week ago […]
MET Éireann has updated its current weather warning, warning “significant accumulations” of snow are expected this week. However, Kilkenny may escape heavy blizzards as worst of the snowfall is forecast for the North and West regions. The national forecaster said there will be showers of hail, sleet and snow today, heaviest in the South-West, West […]
THE Wine Centre in Kilkenny is celebrating an incredible SEVEN Leinster Off-Licence of the Year award wins in a row. The John Street based-business received its latest accolade at the NOFFLA (National Off-Licence Association) Awards night in Dublin last week. It is the seventh consecutive year The Wine Centre team have scooped the Leinster accolade. […]
KILKENNY women have been urged to look out for the symptoms and signs of cervical cancer in the wake of the tragic death of inspirational local woman Alice Taylor. Alice (26) tragically lost her fight against cervical cancer after she passed away last Friday in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. Tributes have poured in for […]
THIEVES are targeting private properties throughout rural Kilkenny disguised as hunters to conceal their criminal activities, a Kilkenny TD has claimed. Fianna Fáil Deputy Bobby Aylward made the claim as he called for an overhaul of Ireland’s trespass laws. Deputy Aylward said: “At present, anyone who engages in illegal trespassing is dealt with by way […]
THE four young Donegal men who were killed in a horror road crash had met up to say goodbye as one of them was due to leave the country to start a new job abroad. Daniel Scott (23), John Harley (24), Michael Roarty (24) and Shaun Harkin (22) were killed instantly when the silver Toyota […]
KILKENNY could experience snow this week after the county was included in a new five-day nationwide yellow weather warning. Met Eireann issued the weather warning, which will come into effect from 6am tomorrow until 6pm on Saturday, earlier today. Snow is expected across the country. The national forecaster warned “some accumulations of snow are expected” […]
WITH so many supplements on the market, it can be very confusing to know what vitamins and supplements you really need to take, particularly as the first real cold snap of the Winter takes us in its icy grip! It seems as if there’s a pill for absolutely everything these days, whether you want to […]
