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Motorist caught driving on Kilkenny road high on cocaine

By Kilkenny Now 7th June 2021 0

A motorist was arrested when he tested postive for cocaine after he was stopped by gardai on a Kilkenny road. The driver was arrested last night by members of the Kilkenny Roads Policing Unit. It came as gardai in Kilkenny and Carlow conducted several mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints in both counties over the Bank Holiday […]

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Kilkenny TD calls on Mother and Baby Homes commissioners to ‘urgently’ appear before Dáil committee she heads up

By Kilkenny Now 3rd June 2021 0

A Carlow-Kilkenny TD has called on the Mother and Baby Homes commissioners to “urgently” appear before the Oireachtas Children’s Committee. Deputy Kathleen Funchion, who heads up the Dáil committee, spoke out after it emerged one of the commissioners who headed up the inquiry, Professor Mary Daly, took part in a Oxford University discussion about the […]

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Over 4,000 car parking tickets issued in Kilkenny since pandemic: report

By Kilkenny Now 19th May 2021 Post a comment

Kilkenny County Council dished out more than 4,000 parking tickets to motorists throughout the pandemic, new figures reveal. The figures are revealed in a report published in the Irish Independent, which found local authorities across the country fined motorists more than €6.6 million after handing our over 168,000 parking tickets since last March. Kilkenny accounted […]

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Kilkenny Garda warning as kids as young as three hospitalised after eating ‘cannabis sweets’

By Kilkenny Now 19th May 2021 0

Children as young as three-years-old have been taken to hospital after they consumed cannabis infused sweets, Kilkenny gardai have confirmed. Local gardai seized another batch of cannabis sweets during a planned search of a house in Carlow last week. This follows a similar earlier seizure in Kilkenny. Gardai said there has been “a noted increase […]

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Vaccination rollout accelerated in Kilkenny as 40-49 age group get choice of jabs

By Kilkenny Now 17th May 2021 0

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccine programme is to be accelerated Kilkenny. It also emerged today that people in 40-49 year old bracket will be given the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, and will only be given the AztraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson vaccine if none of the former are available. RTÉ this morning reported that strict […]

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Kilkenny people invited to help shape ‘historic legislation’

By Kilkenny Now 16th May 2021 0

A local TD has urged people to “come forward” and be part of shaping “historic legislation” to give everyone a legal right to access their birth certs. The Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration has agreed to invite written submissions from interested groups and individuals on the General Scheme of the Birth Information

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Local gardai recover pups stolen by dognapping gang, Kilkenny owners urged to come forward

By Kilkenny Now 15th April 2021 0

Local gardai have recovered a number of puppies that were stolen locally and are seeking to reunite them with their owners. The pups were recovered during a number of operations conducted by gardai in Kilkenny and Carlow over the past week. The dogs recovered included numerous Spaniels, Cockers, Springers, Cavaliers and King Charles, Bichon Frise, […]

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‘Some harsh lessons were learned’ – how Kilkenny avoided surge in Covid cases across south east

By Kilkenny Now 7th April 2021 0

Kilkenny has managed to avoid a huge surge in Covid-19 cases across the south east. The county has not recorded more than 50 cases in a week since February 14, putting Kilkenny only behind Leitrim in the national Covid incidence rate table. Cases soared locally in the countdown to Christmas and a large outbreak was […]

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Kilkenny and Carlow education body gets €435,000 funding boost

By Kilkenny Now 29th March 2021 0

Kilkenny and Carlow Education & Training Board (KCETB) will  get an additional €435,000 in funding this year. The extra funding for the two counties is part of a national ETB investment of €8 million in Devolved Capital Allocation for improvement works for Further Education and Training (FET) provision. Local Fine Gael TD John Paul Phelan […]

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Local gardai launch investigation after pups stolen from home outside village

By Kilkenny Now 28th March 2021 0

Gardai are investigating yet another theft of puppies from a house in the local Garda district. The latest theft occurred in the Ballon area of south county Carlow on Thursday. A local Garda spokesperson confirmed: “Gardaí in Carlow are investigating the theft of a number of pups from the Ballon area. Please contact us on […]