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Could it be you? Mystery Kilkenny punter scoops almost €100k in lottery draw

By Kilkenny Now 12th April 2020 0

A lucky local punter had a very Good Friday when they scopped €97,604 after matching five numbers in the EuroMillions draw. The National Lottery has appealed for its players in Callan, Co. Kilkenny to check their tickets as this winning Quick Pick ticket was sold in Glynn’s Daybreak store at the Friary Walk Retail Park. […]

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Council to make call on large new housing development in county Kilkenny town

By Kilkenny Now 12th April 2020 0

A decision on whether a large housing development in a county Kilkenny town will be given the go-ahead will finally be made next month. The Cois na Bearu development in Graiguenamanagh would create homes for more than 130 people. Corestone 4 Ltd is awaiting a decision from Kilkenny County Council on their planning application to […]

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Kilkenny Castle to be lit up as locals asked to Shine a Light for frontline workers at 9pm

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 Post a comment

Kilkenny Castle is to be lit up at 9pm and locals are being asked to shine a light out of their windows as part of the national tribute to those who have died or have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and to frontline workers fighting the pandemic. As part of the campaign Government buildings and other […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: Death toll rises by 33 as 553 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 0

Thirty-three more people have died after contracting Covid-19 as 553 more cases of the coronavirus were confirmed this evening. It brings the overall Covid-19 death toll to 320. A total of 8,928 people in the country have now contracted the virus after a further 286 older cases of Covid-19 were reported by a laboratory in […]

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Bullock naked: Man arrested after crashing car, running into field, scaring cows before being chased by Gardai … all in the nip

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 Post a comment

A man has been arrested after crashing a car into a ditch, emerging naked and chasing cows around a field near the Waterford Ring Road. Several videos being circulated on Whatsapp then show him being chased down the road and cut off by a car before a plain-clothes Garda gets out and continues to chase […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 0

Ann Marie HOGAN Chapel Avenue, Thomastown, Kilkenny / Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny Hogan (Castle Avenue, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and formerly of Burnchurch, Cuffesgrange) 9th April 2020, unexpectedly, at her home, Ann Marie, beloved mother of Michelle, Steven and Ian, sadly missed by her loving children, brothers Tom, Seamus and Andy, sisters Margaret and Mary, granddaughter

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WIT to stage ‘virtual open days’ for new Kilkenny students this month

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 0

Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is staging a special week of ‘virtual open days’ this month to help local prospective undergraduate students with their going-to-college questions. Last year over 1,600 of the 5,000 plus new higher education-going students in Kilkenny and the South East region in 2019, or almost one in three, chose WIT. When […]

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Covid-19 crisis puts halt to major new housing development in Kilkenny city

By Kilkenny Now 11th April 2020 0

The Covid-10 emergency has put the brakes on plans for a large housing development in a much sought after location on the outskirts of Kilkenny city. Torca Developments had applied directly to An Bord Pleanála to construct 36 houses and 84 apartments at the Sion Hermitage on Sion Road. As the Sion Hermitage development has […]

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Scammers ringing Kilkenny residents threatening them with arrest for ‘failing to isolate’

By Kilkenny Now 10th April 2020 0

People in Kilkenny have been receiving sinister and bogus calls preying on people’s fears and threatening them with arrest as they are failing to isolate during this Covid-19 crisis. Local gardai have been receiving reports all day from the public saying they have received calls from the Health Service Executive saying they could face arrest […]

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COVID-19 LATEST: A further 25 die as number of confirmed cases rises by 480

By Kilkenny Now 10th April 2020 0

A further 25 people lost their lives from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours, the HSE said this evening. The total now stands at 288 in the Republic. The number of confirmed cases has now reached 7,054 after another 480 were diagnosed. The total of deaths in Northern Ireland has […]

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Could it be you? Mystery Kilkenny punter scoops almost €100k in lottery draw

Council to make call on large new housing development in county Kilkenny town

Kilkenny Castle to be lit up as locals asked to Shine a Light for frontline workers at 9pm

COVID-19 UPDATE: Death toll rises by 33 as 553 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed

Bullock naked: Man arrested after crashing car, running into field, scaring cows before being chased by Gardai … all in the nip

REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

WIT to stage ‘virtual open days’ for new Kilkenny students this month

Covid-19 crisis puts halt to major new housing development in Kilkenny city

Scammers ringing Kilkenny residents threatening them with arrest for ‘failing to isolate’

COVID-19 LATEST: A further 25 die as number of confirmed cases rises by 480