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Kilkenny Castle grounds to host Great Pink Run

By Kilkenny Now 11th July 2019 0

BREAST Cancer Ireland’s Great Pink Run returns to Kilkenny’s Castle Park on Sunday, 19 October. Registration for the popular family event is now open. Last year over 8,000 women, children and indeed men took part in the run, sponsored by Kilkenny’s own Avonmore Slimline Milk. Held both in Dublin and in the grounds of Kilkenny […]

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Ex Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan’s €300,000 EU job under threat – because he’s a man

By Kilkenny Now 11th July 2019 0

FORMER Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan’s dream of winning a second term as Ireland’s EU Commissioner could be scuppered over a gender row that has erupted at the highest levels of the union. Ursula von der Leyen, who has been nominated by the European Council to be the next president of the European Commision, yesterday said […]

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Huge drop in new car sales in Kilkenny, 100% rise in electric vehicle registrations

By Kilkenny Now 11th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY NEW car registrations in Kilkenny have plummeted in the first six months of the year, with only electric vehicles(EVs) bucking the trend, new figures reveal. The rise of the green car in 2019 has seen an over 100% increase in sales of EVs and hybrids in Kilkenny. Overall it has been a […]

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Thief snatched mourner’s handbag as she tended to grave of loved-one

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

By SHANE DORAN A BRAZEN thief jumped over the wall of a graveyard and snatched a mourner’s handbag as tended to flowers on the grave of a loved one. The shocking theft occurred at St Mary’s Cemetery in Thomastown at around 4pm on Sunday. Kilkenny gardai confirmed the opportunist thief struck after the woman temporarily […]

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Two Kilkenny water sources abandoned, 16,000 exposed to dangerous pollutants

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY TWO water sources in Kilkenny had to be abandoned after dangerously high levels of environmental pollutants were discovered in the water. Dangerously high levels of trihalomethanes were recorded at Kilkenny City’s Radestown Water supply and Inistioge (pictured above) from where 16,000 local residents get their drinking supplies. Trihalomethanes occur when

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Come on ye girls in green, show us how it’s done

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

IT has been a very good year for women’s sport, culminating in some thrilling contests at Wimbledon. For me, it started last summer with the World Cup exploits of the Irish hockey team. I was in Spain at the time and watched several of their games in a bar where people of all nationalities seemed […]

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‘We who are about to rock…’ – Dylan & Young announce Nowlan Park stage times

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE stage times for this Sunday’s Nowlan Park gig of two of the greatest musicians of all time have been announced. Gates will open at 4 pm on Sunday for one of the most anticipated events of the year – the Bob Dylan and Neil Young with Promise of the Real gig […]

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A life less ordinary – leading local journalist to address Network Ireland Kilkenny event

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

A KILKENNY native and one of Ireland’s most respected journalists will be holding a talk about her career and personal development on behalf of an organisation promoting women in business in Kilkenny. Miriam Donohoe, originally from Goresbridge, will join Network Ireland Kilkenny, a dynamic organisation supporting the professional and personal development of women, at

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WATCH: Kilkenny soccer star shows team-mates how a real game (hurling) is played!

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S Ireland soccer international was banging in the goals, as he brought some home comforts over to his club in England. Seanie Maguire’s teammates looked on amazement as he knocked in points and goals with a sliothar as Preston North End players tried their hand at hurling for their pre-season training. Some […]

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‘Wake-up’- Health Minister criticises Kilkenny parents who fail to vaccinate kids

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY HEALTH Minister Simon Harris said parents in Kilkenny must ‘wake-up’ after it emerged the uptake of the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine for infants under two had fallen well below World Health Organisation (WHO) targets. The 92% uptake of the MMR vaccine in Kilkenny falls three points below the world standard set […]

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