A MAJOR crackdown on organised crime in Kilkenny involving up to 80 gardai from local and specialist divisions is getting underway in the city this morning as part of Operation Storm. KilkennyNow.ie can reveal a number of arrests and drug seizures have already been made as part of a series of “planned and targeted” Garda […]
AFTER weeks of freezing nights and chilly days, it’s finally starting to warm up. And temperatures will reach a positively balmy high of 13 degrees in parts of Kilkenny and throughout Leinster today. Met Éireann said today will be largely dry, but with cloudy skies and only occasional sunny interludes. “Feeling mild despite a strong […]
GARDAI are closing in on the vandals who destroyed the Thomastown GAA Club pitch over the weekend. Gardai confirmed one male in his late teens was arrested in connection with the incident in the city yesterday evening. He is currently being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act at Thomastown Garda Station. Local Garda sources […]
A YOUNG Kilkenny man who is allegedly wanted in connection with the murder of an Irishman in Spain was spotted in the city last week, KilkennyNow.ie has learned. Reports earlier today claimed a European Arrest Warrant has been issued for the suspect, who is in his 20s. Another Kilkenny man, who is in his 30s, […]
THE massive overspending of the National Children’s Project – which is set to rise to at least €1.7 billion – must not interfere with spending that has been earmarked for health services in Kilkenny and throughout the South East, a local TD has warned. Kilkenny Fianna Fáil TD Bobby Aylward has challenged embattled Minister for […]
MEMBERS of the public will this week be able to get a rare insight of what it was like to live in parts of county Kilkenny almost 200 years ago. Well-known historian and genealogist Frank Clarke from Glynn, St Mullins, is giving a talk on “everyday life in 1830s” at the library in Graiguenamanagh on […]
THIS was the magical moment when Dunnamaggin’s oldest parishioner brought the All-Ireland cup back to the community. Ray Cody Snr was flanked by his grandsons Michael and Ray and the rest of the jubilant team as they paraded the cup to the sound of cheers and applause as the Maggin’ celebrated their hard-fought victory over […]
THE High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA) in which a massive €343,785 mortgage debt was reduced by more than half. The case involves a woman who ran into mortgage arrears because of her husband’s gambling problem. Permanent TSB had objected to the deal. It argued that the write-down to €160,000, the current […]
THIS was the moment members of the Kilkenny Garda Community Engagement Team and Callan gardai met with the new Syrian and Iraqi community who recently arrived in the county. The Syrian and Iraqi refugees are living in Callan and Urlingford after they were forced to flee their war-torn countries. The meet and greet was facilitated […]
HOSPITAL services in Kilkenny will resume as normal this morning after a dramatic eleventh-hour breakthrough in talks put the brakes on a three-day national nurses’ strike. Nurses in Kilkenny were due to return to the picket line outside St Luke’s General Hospital and Kilcreene hospital from this morning, which threatened to cripple patient services. However, […]