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Kilkenny-made cartoon to premiere at prestigious international film festival

By Kilkenny Now 10th September 2020 11

The latest feature from the award-winning Kilkenny studio Cartoon Saloon will have it world premiere at the 45th Toronto International Film Festival. Wolfwalkers is the fourth feature from Cartoon Saloon, and the studio’s third film directed by Tomm Moore, who previously helmed the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. Wolfwalkers follows Robyn

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Kilkenny studio’s Oscar nominated masterpiece is in top five animated film of the decade

By Kilkenny Now 13th December 2019 0

KILKENNY’S world-famous animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has received yet another stunning endorsement of their work. With the decade coming to a close, many take time to reflect on what has just gone by, which is exactly what one of the most influential magazines in the movie business has just done. They have decided Cartoon Saloon’s […]

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New website to attract investors to Kilkenny and South East

By Kilkenny Now 26th November 2019 0

A new website has been launched in an attempt to attract businesses to Kilkenny and the South East. Developed as a marketing tool, http://www.irelandsoutheast.com hopes to showcase the region to investors and professionals as a great place to live, work and invest. “I think there is strong familiarity about the South East as an affordable […]

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Come work in Kilkenny! 800 exciting career roles on offer at Christmas jobs market

By Kilkenny Now 23rd November 2019 Post a comment

Up to 800 new career opportunities in Kilkenny will be up for grabs at jobs fair being held in the city over Christmas. The jobs exhibition is being run at Christmas to showcase the hundreds of jobs and the array of positions available in Killenny, to people coming home for Christmas, as well as people […]

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A huge draw! Crowds flock to city for Kilkenny Animated festival

By Kilkenny Now 4th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY is set to draw a huge crowd this weekend for an event visitors have had pencilled in for a while now. Kilkenny Animated, the world’s foremost animation festival, is taking place around the city and county this weekend and has drawn its guests from the leading lights in the industry globally. […]

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Dreaming of a green Christmas: Festival to transform city through art and recyling

By Kilkenny Now 2nd October 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY SAY it quietly – Chrismas is coming. And this year a Kilkenny festival is trying to turn the festive season green, rather than red. Yulefest Kilkenny is asking the public to think about sustainability in the run-up to Christmas and aims to brighten up the city with festive shopfront transformations, all made […]

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Kilkenny Animated festival needs volunteers to help draw a crowd

By Kilkenny Now 29th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY AN international festival being held in Kilkenny, which has attracted Netflix as a partner, is looking for volunteers to assist. Now in its second year, Kilkenny Animated needs bodies over the festival’s duration and help maintain its place as the world’s leading animation festival. Kilkenny Animated celebrates the best of Irish and […]

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Cartoon Saloon’s hit series to get a movie make-over

By Kilkenny Now 28th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE GOOD news just keeps coming for the world-renowned Kilkenny animation studio, Cartoon Saloon. This time, their hugely popular pre-school series, Puffin Rock, is set to be made into a feature-length film. The award-winning animation has received over 170 million hits on Youtube and already the story about Oona and her friends […]

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Stunning new exhibition which brings to life Kilkenny skeltons’ officially opens today

By Kilkenny Now 25th July 2019 10

By COLIN BARTLEY THE EXHIBITION featuring the bodies of three people discovered during the excavation of Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Museum three years ago will open to the public today. 3 lives, 3 deaths, One life unlived tells the story of three women, the lives they led, their cultural identity, and whether they viewed themselves as […]

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Oscar nominated film from Kilkenny’s renowned animation studio makes list of greatest children’s movies

By Kilkenny Now 24th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S world-famous animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has just received yet another stunning endorsement of their work. The Cartoon Saloon’s Oscar-nominated film, ‘The Breadwinner’ just got a spot on a coveted list of greatest children’s films ever made. The Oscar-nominated ‘The Breadwinner’ was released in 2017 and received the nomination in 2018,