KILKENNY TD Kathleen Funchion has welcomed the announcement that students who have suffered from a family bereavement around exam time will be allowed to sit them at a later date. Deputy Funchion, who is the Sinn Féin spokesperson for Education and Skills, said: “I have been calling for many years for flexibility on students who […]
RECORD numbers of people from Kilkenny walked from ‘Darkness Into Light’ this morning. Before dawn they came, marching in their thousands in Kilkenny city and Inistioge, which was hosting its very first charity walk in aid of Pieta House. They came together at 4.15am, an army of yellow tee-shirted walkers doing their bit to raise […]
THE people of Kilkenny are being urged to throw their weight behind an innovative new fundraising drive. TJ Reid Health and Fitness is hosting a LIFT 4 LIFE event at their gym in Cíllín Hill on Saturday to raised much needed funds for Teac Tom, the locally-based based suicide intervention and bereavement support charity founded […]