THE Government’s botched handling of the health and housing crises have contributed to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s popularity levels plummeting to an all time low. Approval ratings for the Government and the Taoiseach remain both below 40% in the latest Behaviour & Attitudes poll published in The Sunday Times. The Taoiseach dropped 10 points to 38% […]
IT’S getting hard to know what to wear these days. Friday’s Spring sunshine and record-breaking high temperatures for this time of the year was followed by yesterday’s wind and heavy showers. Today? Well, according to Met Éireann it’s going to brighten up gradually with sunny spells developing across Kilkenny and most parts of Leinster, it […]
LIMERICK are not in the top three teams in the country and won’t win the All-Ireland this year, Kilkenny legend Jackie Tyrell has predicted. The nine-time All-Ireland winner also said Brian Cody’s current crop of players are also not among the elite just yet. Tyrell was speaking ahead of tomorrow’s much-anticipated Allianz HL Division 1A […]
RTÉ’s Marty Morrissey has lent his support to the campaign to find Kilkenny’s next Rose. The GAA presenter and ex Dancing With The Stars contestant was in Kilkenny last night along with RTÉ colleague Evanne Ni Chuillin to take part in the Valentine’s themed fashion show at the James Stephens GAA Club. Marty, as MC […]
KILKENNY could have a new millionaire after one lucky Lotto player scooped the €1,000,000 jackpot in Friday’s Daily Million draw. The winning ticket was sold in the Londis Callan Co-Op shop. The numbers, which have made this winner the third to take the Daily Million jackpot prize of €1,000,000 in 2019, were 10, 11, 17, […]
KILKENNY received one of the lowest number of IDA-assisted visits from multinational companies last year. It was one of 17 counties to receive 10 or less visits from multinationals looking to set up or expand their operations in Ireland in 2018. Our neighbours in Carlow, Laois, Wexford and Tipperary are also included in this group, […]
HOUSING Minister Eoghan Murphy descended on Kilkenny for a whistle-stop tour of various housing projects throughout the city and county yesterday. Minister Murphy was accompanied by local Minister of State and Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan as they posed for a series of photo-ops while checking on the progress of several building projects that will […]
CERVICAL cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will lead the city’s annual St Patrick’s Day Parade next month. The Mooncoin mother-of-two has campaigned tirelessly on behalf of women who have been caught up in the Cervical Check controversy since emerged last year smear tests of 221 women failed to identify abnormalities. Councillor Joe Malone, who is Chairperson […]
GARDAI say they are not treating as suspicious the tragic discovery of an elderly woman’s body at her home in Castlecomer. The woman’s body was discovered when the driver of a food delivery van attempted to drop groceries at her home. The man alerted the emergency services and gardai arrived at the scene a short […]
LEGEND has it that the first Champagne was made by the monk Dom Perignon in the seventeenth century. That’s probably not true, but I don’t want to spoil a good story by inquiring too closely. Winters are chilly in northern France and, apparently, the monk left his wine to ferment in deep cellars where the […]