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SPONSORED: Want to live in Kilkenny? Pack your bags and bring your job with you! There’s a work revolution afoot

By Kilkenny Now 23rd June 2020 Post a comment

Julia comes to her desk at New Work Junction in Kilkenny every day at 2pm. For the next seven hours or so, she solves her clients’ IT problems. That’s her job. Julia’s clients are in Chicago. Her employer is in New York. When she moved back to Kilkenny, she brought her job with her. John […]

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WARNING: Bogus tradesmen targeting vulnerable in Kilkenny during lockdown

By Kilkenny Now 29th May 2020 0

Bogus tradesmen are targeting vulnerable residents across Kilkenny while the Covid-19 restrictions remain in place, local gardai have warned. It follows a number of “very recent” reports to gardai in Kilkenny and neighbouring Carlow involving thieves posing as handymen calling to homes in parts of both counties. A local Garda spokesperson said: “We urge

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Living in Kilkenny during Covid-19: KCLR survey provides interesting snapshot of life in the time of coronavirus

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2020 0

Locals may not by going on their usual holidays this summer, but generally people are knuckling down, staying upbeat and looking forward to a shopping splurge later this year once the restrictions are lifted. That’s according to a new online survey – called Living in Carlow and Kilkenny During Covid-19 – released by KCLR this morning […]

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Number of local volunteers who answered country’s call since crisis hit revealed

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2020 0

Just under 400 people from Kilkenny and Carlow signed up to volunteer on the Government’s I-VOL app in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Figures provided by local Fine Gael TD John Paul Phelan show 189 people volunteered via the app in Kilkenny, with a further 200 answering the country’s call since the coronavirus pandemic hit. […]

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Local gardai bust drug driver high on cocaine and opiates

By Kilkenny Now 22nd May 2020 0

Members of the Kilkenny-Carlow Garda Division arrested a motorist after they tested positive for cocaine, opiates and benzodiazepines. The driver was arrested after he was stopped on a local road this week and to be making a ‘non-essential’ journey. A local Garda spokesperson confirmed: “Subsequent oral fluid test proved positive for cocaine, opiates and

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Sadness as body of missing young man is found

By Kilkenny Now 14th May 2020 0

Gardai have stood down the search for a missing local man after his body was discovered yesterday evening. The family of Joseph Savagh (32) from Bagenalstown, had issued a public appeal through the glast gardai after he had been missing since Monday. However, gardai last night confirmed: “Following the discovery of a body this evening […]

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REVEALED: The inter-county player who failed a drugs test in February

By Kilkenny Now 28th April 2020 0

The inter-county player who failed a drugs test in February has been revealed as Carlow footballer Ray Walker. The 35-year-old has confirmed that he will serve a four-year ban but added that his acceptance of the ban is not an admission of guilt, and maintains he “did not intentionally take any banned substance”. Walker, the […]

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Gardai find €1.24m worth of cannabis in hedge just over border from Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 25th April 2020 0

Gardai have seized €1.24m worth of cannabis herb in a hedge just over the Kilkenny border in County Laois. Gardaí from Arles and Ballylinan supported by Laois Divisional Drugs Unit located the 62kg stash as a result of an intelligent-led operation along a secondary road on the Carlow/Laois border. Investigations are ongoing, no persons have […]

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Young woman (20s) treated at Kilkenny hospital after horror crash dies

By Kilkenny Now 20th April 2020 0

A young woman who was being treated at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny after she was seriously injured in a car crash has died. The woman, who was in her 20s, was one of three occupants of a car that collided with a house on the cross road of Rathoe Road and Castlemore Road in […]

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Three young people in serious condition at St Luke’s Hospital after early morning crash

By Kilkenny Now 9th April 2020 0

Three young adults remain in a serious condition at St Luke’s General Hospital after they were involved in a serious road accident yesterday. The three victims, who are all in their 20s, were injured after the car they were travelling in left the road and crashed into the corner of a house in Tullow in […]