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BREAKING: Brexit likely to be delayed as May suffers second humiliating defeat

By Kilkenny Now 12th March 2019 0

BRITISH Prime Minster Theresa May has suffered a second humiliating defeat on her Brexit deal in a move that is expected to delay the UK’s exit from the EU. MPs voted by a margin of 391-242 to reject her withdrawal agreement, which had been bolstered by an eleventh-hour deal with Brussels designed to assuage British Eurosceptics. […]

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Beef farmers’ confidence ‘at all time low’, warns Kilkenny councillor

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2019 0

BEEF farming has never faced such an uncertain future and farmers’ confidence is at an “all time low”, a Kilkenny councillor and General Election candidate said today. Councillor Patrick O’Neill (pictured below) spoke out in the wake of a recent Teagasc report which reveals beef farmers are earning an annual income of just €12,000, far […]

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Brexit shakes confidence of local hotel industry: conference

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2019 0

BUSINESS sentiment at  hotels and guesthouses in Kilkenny and the South East has deteriorated sharply in the past year, a major conference has heard. The Irish Hotels Federation says the same trend is evident across the country. A survey it commissioned reveals that only 40% of hoteliers now have a positive outlook for their business over the […]

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Now Brexit fears are delaying roll-out of broadband to rural parts of Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2019 0

GROWING fears and uncertainty over the fallout of Brexit is causing new delays to the roll out of vital broadband services to rural parts of Kilkenny. The Government has said it will not proceed with the plan to connect half a million rural homes and businesses across Kilkenny and the rest of the country to […]

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Cllr Patrick O’Neill to contest General Election and fight local poll alongside father

By Kilkenny Now 27th February 2019 0

KILKENNY councillor Patrick O’Neill has been unveiled as Fine Gael’s third candidate in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency to contest the next General Election. And the 31-year-old former Mayor of Kilkenny will battle it out in the looming local elections alongside his father Pat Snr, a former Senator who is a Fine Gael candidate in the Castlecomer […]

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‘No-deal Brexit will decimate our farming and food sector’ – Kilkenny TD

By Kilkenny Now 22nd February 2019 0

THE Government must put contingency plans – including a financial aid package – in place to protect the local and national food industry as the threat of a no-deal Brexit looms, Kilkenny TD Bobby Aylward said. Deputy Aylward spoke out as reports emerged that Britain is planning to open their market to South American beef. […]

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‘I won’t be bullied or intimidated’ – John McGuinness hits back at FF colleague

By Kilkenny Now 13th February 2019 0

OUTSPOKEN Kilkenny TD John McGuiness was involved in a heated row with a senior Fianna Fáil colleague during a stormy parliamentary party meeting this week. The row erupted after Barry Cowen, Fianna Fáil’s spokesman on public expenditure, criticised some figures in the party for speaking in a “personal capacity” in recent interviews on subjects such […]

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EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan defends meetings with local lobby groups

By Kilkenny Now 11th February 2019 0

EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan has defended the number of meetings he has held with local lobby groups. The former minister has been named among a handful of EU commissioners who had a “disproportionately large” number of meetings with lobbyists and business groups from their home countries, according to a group that […]

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No deal Brexit would ‘decimate’ South East agri-food sector: Kilkenny TD

By Kilkenny Now 31st January 2019 0

EVERY effort must be made to avoid a nightmare ‘no deal’ Brexit, which would “decimate” the agri-food sector that employs thousands of people in Kilkenny and the South East, a local TD has claimed. Fianna Fáil deputy Bobby Aylward spoke out as tensions between the Irish and British governments deepened after prime minister Theresa May […]

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South East food producers in firing line as May reneges on backstop vow

By Kilkenny Now 30th January 2019 0

FOOD producing companies throughout the South East along with small local businesses who export to the UK will begin to shed employees during the second half of this year unless Britain can negotiate an orderly exit from the EU. Doomsday predictions on the impact of a no-deal Brexit compiled by the Department of Finance have […]