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BREXIT BREAKING: Kilkenny’s Big Phil lays down the law to British Government

By Kilkenny Now 14th August 2019 0

IRELAND’S EU Commissioner – the former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan – has bluntly told the British Government there will be no renegotiation of the withdrawal agreement. New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the backstop, the insurance policy to avoid a hard border, must be abolished in order to prevent a chaotic no-deal […]

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Kilkenny and South East most at risk in no-deal Brexit

By Kilkenny Now 1st August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY UP TO 100,000 jobs are at risk in the event of a no-deal Brexit, and the South East region is particularly vulnerable. The high reliance on the food and agriculture industry in the South East, the sectors most vulnerable to exposure due to a no-deal scenario, could see the region affected the […]

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EU trade deal with South America could be ‘catastrophe’ for Kilkenny farmers: TD

By Kilkenny Now 1st July 2019 0

THE proposed EU trade deal with South America could be “catastrophic” for local farmers, a Kilkenny TD has warned. Deputy Bobby Aylward spoke out after Irish farmers’ organisations expressed outrage over the announcement that negotiators from the European Union and the South American Mercosur trading block have agreed a trade deal that will “greatly damage […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Boris, Brexit and a taste for Bisto nostalgia

By Kilkenny Now 26th June 2019 0

THE roll-call of English prime ministers is long and distinguished, stretching back 500 years and more. It takes in my own namesake, the Great Cardinal, who was first minister to Henry VIII. It includes the Cromwells, Thomas and Oliver; Robert Walpole; the Pitts, father and son; Gladstone and Disraeli; Churchill and Atlee; Margaret Thatcher. You […]

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Are you ready for Brexit? Special free workshop for Kilkenny businesses this week

By Kilkenny Now 18th June 2019 0

A SPECIAL workshop to prepare Kilkenny businesses for the impact of Brexit will take place in the city this week. The Customs Training Workshop is designed to help businesses with importing and exporting when the UK leaves the European Union. It is taking place this Friday at the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel. The vent is free […]

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British Prime Minister Theresa May breaks down in tears as she announces resignation

By Kilkenny Now 24th May 2019 0

BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May broke down in tears as she announced her resignation today. Ms May’s fraught three-year premiership finally came to an end after she was threatened with a second no-confidence vote in her leadership if she refused to step down. Speaking at Downing Street today, she said: “I have done everything I […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Why England should take a lesson from its football clubs

By Kilkenny Now 15th May 2019 0

FOR the first time, four clubs from the same country will contest the finals of soccer’s two big European tournaments. The success of these Premier League sides has the English media singing Land of Hope and Glory. “Who needs a European super league?” scoffed The Mirror. “We have one already!” The Daily Express said the […]

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Councillor defends decision to contest elections in Kilkenny AND Waterford

By Kilkenny Now 26th April 2019 0

By SHANE DORAN A KILKENNY councillor who is fighting to win a seat on Waterford County Council has defended her decision to contest separate elections in different counties. Ferrybank-based Melissa O’Neill is an Independent representative in the Piltown Municipal District and is looking to retain her seat on Kilkenny County Council in next month’s local […]

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‘An unholy mess’ – EU Commissioner and ex Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan on UK crisis

By Kilkenny Now 24th April 2019 0

EU Agriculture Commissioner, the former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan, today described the deepening political crisis engulfing Britain as an “unholy mess”. Ireland’s Commissioner was speaking to reporters as he attended the announcement of a new €1 million investment by Kilkenny-based food crop company Beotanics at Mount Juliet. When asked about his view on where things […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: ‘When Britain finally leaves we should shut the EU door and change the locks’

By Kilkenny Now 13th April 2019 0

I WAS in Manchester on the day Theresa May first announced she had secured a deal with the European Union. I recalled the visit this week when the British prime minister reluctantly accepted the offer of a further six months to get that withdrawal agreement through parliament. I had been visiting Irish friends who are […]