Two well-known stores in Kilkenny have closed with immediate effect in the latest retail blow to the city. It comes after Dixons Carphone, the owners of Carphone Warehouse which has outlets at the MacDonagh Shopping Centre and Market Cross Shopping Centre, annoucned it is ceasing operations. Some 486 workers are being made redundant across the […]
KILKENNY was a boom town in the early fourteenth century. A wealthy merchant class had made it the largest inland town in Ireland. It bustled with traders and dealers and there was a brisk trade in wine, salt, wool, hides. timber, metals and all sorts of foodstuff. In 1335, the Market Cross was erected as […]