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Kilkenny tenants now paying €930 a month

By Kilkenny Now 12th November 2018 0

RENTS in Kilkenny soared by almost 10% in the year to September 2018, with no slowdown in sight. The average rent in Kilkenny city and county now stands at €930, a new nationwide rental survey has found. The 9.4pc rent rise in Kilkenny for the period is lower than the national average of 11.3% recorded […]

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Council paid €7m for ‘library’ building that was never used – report

By Kilkenny Now 12th November 2018 0

KILKENNY County Council paid €7 million for a building to house a library at the height of the economic boom that has since remained largely vacant. The revelation is contained in a 2017 Local Government Audit Service report on Kilkenny County Council. The report also criticised the council for awarding contracts for housing maintenance, valued […]

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Remembering Kilkenny’s fallen World War 1 soldiers

By Kilkenny Now 12th November 2018 0

SPECIAL events are taking place in Kilkenny today to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1. Thousands of local soldiers fought in the Great War, many of them never returning home. A service will be held at 11am this morning at St Canice’s Cathedral, which will begin with 35,000 poppies floating down […]

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Fears of family feuds delay changes to Fair Deal Scheme

By Kilkenny Now 12th November 2018 0

FEARS over the potential for family feuds have delayed changes to the Fair Deal Scheme that had been promised as a massive boost to Kilkenny business owners and farmers. The Government is preparing new legislation that will limit the financial burden of nursing home fees for parents who pass on the family business or farm […]

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Bellview Port zone now supports 1,000 full time jobs, study reveals

By Kilkenny Now 12th November 2018 0

THE Belview Industrial Zone in South Kilkenny now supports a total of almost 1,000 full-time jobs, a new economic impact study commissioned by the Port of Waterford reveals. The industrial zone provides 632 full-time jobs directly, a further 348 indirectly, a total of 980, according to the study. Last year the 265-hectare zone generated turnover […]

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Met Éireann: Rain, hail and thunder … with a few sunny spells in between

By Kilkenny Now 11th November 2018 0

THERE will be no let-up in the miserable weather that plagued Kilkenny and most other parts of the country last week, with forecasters predicting more heavy showers, hail and thunder over the coming days. Met Éireann said tomorrow will start brightly enough, remaining dry over much of the eastern half of the country. Heavy showers […]

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‘We’ve had no justice’ – family of young Kilkenny man stabbed to death at party

By Kilkenny Now 11th November 2018 0

THE family of a young Kilkenny man who died after he was brutally stabbed through the heart with a butcher’s knife have claimed the justice system failed their brother. Michael O’Dwyer (25) died after he was savagely knifed in the chest at a house party in January 2014. His killer Tadhg Butler (37), who was […]

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Cats throw away 14-point lead as Galway shoot their way to victory Down Under

By Kilkenny Now 11th November 2018 0

KILKENNY missed out on the first Wild Geese trophy after they were edged out by Galway in the narrowest of margins Down Under. Galway took the spoils after they overcame the Cats following a free-taking competition after a dramatic draw in Sydney’s Spotless Stadium. The contest between the 2017 All-Ireland champions and the 2018 National […]

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Lights, camera, action: Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon to produce new Netflix feature

By Kilkenny Now 10th November 2018 0

NETFLIX has commissioned Kilkenny’s world-beating animation company Cartoon Saloonto produce a new feature, titled My Father’s Dragon. Nora Twoney, who received an Oscar nomination earlier this year for Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner, will direct the adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s children’s novel. “To have the kind of creative encouragement Netflix are

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Revealed – all 44 companies shortlisted for 2018 Kilkenny Business Awards

By Kilkenny Now 9th November 2018 0

FORTY-FOUR local companies of all sizes, from all walks of business life and representing every corner of the city and county, have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2018 Kilkenny Business Awards. Judges had a tough task whittling down the shortlisted companies (all listed below across 19 separate categories) from the 400-plus businesses who were nominated […]