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Glanbia CountryLife strike gold at customer loyalty awards ceremony

By Kilkenny Now 1st April 2019 0

GLANBIA CountryLife, which has centres in Ballyhale and Castlecomer, has won a prestigious customer loyalty award. The Glanbia CountryLife Loyalty Scheme came out tops in the Irish Loyalty Awards 2019, winning the award for ‘Best Customer Experience’. CountryLife  were finalists in the ‘Best Retail (non-food) Loyalty Programme of the Year’ category as well as the […]

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A breakfast fit for champions! Ballyhale’s hurling heroes tuck into Billy’s ‘Full Irish’

By Kilkenny Now 18th March 2019 Post a comment

IT was a breakfast fit for champions! Ballyhale’s hurling heroes – and what seemed like half the parish – crammed into Billy’s Tearooms & Shop this morning for a hearty breakfast in the aftermath of the Shamrocks’ emphatic victory in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Club Final at Croke Park yesterday. The staff and volunteers at […]

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Glanbia CountyLife shortlisted for two customer loyalty awards

By Kilkenny Now 18th March 2019 0

GLANBIA CountryLife’s Loyalty Scheme has been shortlisted in two categories in the prestigious Irish Loyalty Awards 2019. CountryLife has been selected as finalists in the ‘Best Retail (non-food) Loyalty Programme of the Year’ and ‘Best Customer Experience’. In Kilkenny, CountryLife has centres in Ballyhale and Castlecomer. CountryLife’s

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Brilliant Ballyhale outclass St Thomas to be crowned All-Ireland club champs for seventh time

By Kilkenny Now 17th March 2019 2

Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-28 St Thomas (Galway) 2-11 OH how Brian Cody will be glad to welcome back his Ballyhale boys. The Shamrocks became the second Kilkenny club after Dunnamaggin to be crowned All-Ireland club champions this year as the South Kilkenny club easily overcame Galway’s St Thomas at Croke Park. The victory marks an incredible […]

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Joey Holden: ‘Kilkenny can be a match for anyone in the Championship’

By Kilkenny Now 7th March 2019 0

JOEY Holden is confident Kilkenny can be a match for anyone in this year’s Championship. Most bookies have Limerick Galway, Tipperary and Cork down as the leading contenders to lift the Liam McCarthy Cup in 2019. Holden hasn’t been part of the Kilkenny set-up so far this season, but the Ballyhale man is adamant they […]

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After Nationwide, now Billy’s Tearooms is nominated for Ireland’s ‘food Oscars’

By Kilkenny Now 28th February 2019 0

ONE of Kilkenny’s most celebrated community initiatives – Billy’s Tearooms and Shop – has received three nominations for Ireland’s ‘food Oscars’ The highly popular Ballyhale eaterie has been nominated in the Best Café, Best Customer Service and Best Newcomer categories in the Leinster region of the 2019 Irish Restaurant of the Year awards. It’s a […]

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€100,000 prize up for grabs in exciting new search for ‘Kilkenny’s Energy Town’

By Kilkenny Now 18th February 2019 0

KILKENNY is leading the way in a new nationwide sustainable and renewable energy competition with a €100,000 plus prize fund up for grabs. And the organisers are hopeful the exciting initiative will catch on not, just in Ireland, but also on the international stage. Kilkenny LEADER Partnership has teamed up with the internationally-renowned and locally […]

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A Kilkenny Valentine’s Day tale: Why Henry Shefflin’s father-in-law did not cheer for their match

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 0

HENRY Shefflin would never have married his wife Deirdre if she had listened to her father. He was worried their courtship might interfere with Henry’s hurling. “I told my mother that I had met Henry,” she recalled. “And when I told my father, he said: ‘You stay away from him, he has a busy year […]

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US visitors get a taste of South Kilkenny hospitality – and a lesson in local policing!

By Kilkenny Now 9th February 2019 0

SOME American visitors to South Kilkenny were given a taste of true Irish hospitality – and a lesson in local community policing – when they visited Billy’s Tearooms and Shop in Ballyhale earlier this week. The Munson family from South Minneapolis were in the area tracing their Irish roots when they dropped into Billy’s Tearooms […]

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Lights, camera, action! RTÉ TV crew begin filming in Billy’s Tearooms in Ballyhale

By Kilkenny Now 23rd January 2019 0

BALLYHALE will be a hive of excitement and activity today when a TV crew from RTÉ popular Nationwide programme descends on the village. Presenter Anne Cassin (pictured above) will be in town to film a series of interviews for a special programme on the success of a special non-profit venture that has been a lifeline […]