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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Hands off our holiday homes, minister

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2021 0

I have just returned from staycation with my extended family in a house we rented through Airbnb. It was a lovely house and I would be happy to go back to it but I’m not sure if the Government will let me. The people who own the house, a couple in their seventies, live in […]

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Cloud funding: Airbnb invite Kilkenny groups to apply for €5,000 grants

By Kilkenny Now 23rd February 2020 0

Groups and organisations in Kilkenny are being invited by Airbnb to apply for funding as part of its new microgrants programme. ‘Áitiúil’ is a pilot scheme designed to provide funding to projects across the country that lead grassroots, cultural and community initiatives and it will award grants of between €500 and €5,000. The pilot and first […]

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Plans for large three-storey Airbnb complex beside Kilkenny’s Rothe House

By Kilkenny Now 7th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY County Council has received a planning application for an Airbnb style development to be built right beside one of our most historical medieval buildings. The application proposes to build a three-storey building adjacent to the 17th-century merchant’s house and popular Kilkenny city tourist attraction, Rothe House. Martin Gittens, who made

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Kilkenny is a top destination for Airbnb visitors

By Kilkenny Now 6th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY has come fifth in a new list of top destinations for Airbnb guests in Ireland. Rental website Airbnb this week unveiled their list of the most popular destinations for visitors outside Ireland’s main urban hubs in 2018. The high ranking will come as another boost to Kilkenny’s tourism sector. The Marble […]

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Kilkenny landlords no longer able to rent out other properties on Airbnb

By Kilkenny Now 3rd July 2019 0

LOCAL landlords will no longer be able to rent out second properties through Airbnb after a clampdown by Kilkenny County Council. The local authority is taking a hardline stance after the Government unveiled new rent rules earlier this week. Kilkenny owners of buy-to-let properties, which are not their primary residence, will now have to get […]

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Medieval marvel Kilkenny is Airbnb’s top trending destination in Europe

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2019 0

KILKENNY tourism received a major shot in the arm this week after the Marble City was named as Airbnb’s top trending destination for Irish holidaymakers and travellers this Summer. Kilkenny came tops of a list that included some illustrious sun-kissed holiday destinations, including Dubrovnik (pictured below), the setting for much of the hugely popular Games […]