THIS is the lucky – and now extremely wealthy – Irish couple who won a staggering €127,483,852.86 when they hit the EuroMillions jackpot Frances and Patrick Connolly are in their 50s and from the small town of Moira, Co Armagh. They won the New Year’s Day lottery draw and spoke to the media about their […]
GARDAI are checking ports and airports as part of an international manhunt for the partner of a woman found murdered in her home in the UK who has family links in the South East. Murder detectives at the British West Midlands Police are leading the search for “dangerous” Michael Foran, who is wanted in connection […]
THE number of Irish people arrested abroad rose by almost 20% last year. End-of-year figures released by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reveal 371 Irish people were arrested abroad in 2018. This is up from the 316 arrests recorded the previous year. According to the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas, a support group for […]
A PREGNANT woman was among two people who were injured in a notorious accident blackspot in county Kilkenny yesterday. The accident occurred at the cross in Goresbridge at around 1.30pm. Gardai and emergency services rushed to the scene and traffic diversions were put in place for over an hour. Two females, including the pregnant woman, […]
KILKENNY gardai are hunting a gang behind a heist at the old ESB site on the Dublin Road who made off with a mini-digger and thousands of euros worth of power tools and construction equipment over the festive period. The theft was reported on January 1 after a member of the public noticed that the […]
A MAN was rushed to St Luke’s General Hospital after he was brutally assaulted in the city-centre. The victim was discovered lying on the ground on John Street at around 3am on Saturday by gardai who were patrolling the area, a local Garda source confirmed to KilkennyNow.ie. It appeared the man, who is in his 30s, […]
A LUCKY Kilkenny Lotto player has had a dream start to the New Year after they were among the top-tier prize winners in this week’s National Lottery Millionaire Raffle. The lucky punter bought his €100,000 ticket in the SuperValu on Main Street, Ballyragget. They joined fellow winners from from Offaly, Roscommon and Kerry who also […]
RTÉ’s South East correspondent Damien Tiernan has confirmed he is leaving the national broadcaster. Mr Tiernan has reported on almost all of the major news stories in Kilkenny and across the region for more than 20 years. The journalist will hang up his RTÉ microphone at the end of next week after he accepted one […]
A NEW law proposed by Transport Minister Shane Ross that would have set a minimum passing distance for drivers overtaking cyclists has been abandoned after the Government’s top lawyer raised concerns. The proposal, contained within the Road Traffic (Minimum Passing Distance of Cyclists) Bill 2017, would have made it an offence to pass a cyclist […]
DRIVERS in Kilkenny have been warned to get ready to defrost their cars from tomorrow morning as temperatures plummet across the country, signalling an icy end to the unseasonably mild temperatures we’ve experienced over the festive and new year period. Met Éireann has forecast come bitterly cold nights ahead, starting tonight with temperatures dropping below […]