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Enterprising Kilkenny company wins top national export award

By Kilkenny Now 31st May 2019 Post a comment

AN innovative county Kilkenny business has won a prestigious national export award. Mechanical Modular Solutions (MMS) in Castlecomer won the ‘Best Export Business’ title at this year’s National Enterprise Awards, which was organised by the Local Enterprise Offices to celebrate Ireland’s best small businesses. Set up by Michael McGuire in 2017, MMS designs and manufactures

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Castlecomer GAA girls chosen to take part in new nationwide sports campaign

By Kilkenny Now 29th May 2019 0

CASTLECOMER Community School students were jumping for joy after the school was confirmed as one of 26 across the country chosen to take part in the LIDL #SeriousSport initiative. The initiative, created in association with the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and LIDL, is aimed at showing girls the benefits of playing sport both on and […]

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PÁIDÍ MANNING: Crunching the numbers – where Kilkenny local elections were won and lost

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

By PÁIDÍ MANNING IN an election where Fine Gael was hammered by the opposition over rural broadband and the Children’s Hospital even before the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Maria Bailey put their feet in it (and out of it in Maria’s case), remarkably it was Sinn Féin who fell off the swing. There are […]

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‘The sooner the better’ – poll topper Pat Fitzpatrick looking forward to General Election

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

CASTLECOMER poll topper Pat Fitzpatrick is already looking ahead to the next General Election in the wake of Fianna Fáil’s dominant performance in the local elections. The party captured 11 of the 24 seats on Kilkenny County Council, two more than their Fine Gael rivals. Cllr Fitzpatrick was the first councillor past the post in […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: New dawn for Kilkenny County Council, but status quo remains

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2019 0

By SHANE DORAN NATIONALLY, the story of the 2019 local elections was undoubtedly the so-called ‘Green wave’ that swept across the country, with Sinn Féin the biggest loser in the shake-up of our local authorities. In Kilkenny, councillor Malcolm Noonan rode the crest of the wave, recording the second highest vote in the city behind […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: First new faces elected to Kilkenny County Council

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

THE FINAL count is in for Castlecomer – and Kilkenny County Council has its first new members. The last count in North Kilkenny saw newcomer Fianna Fáil candidate Michael Delaney elected after transfers gave him a total vote of 1,520. And Labour’s Denis Hynes (pictured above with outgoing Cllr Maurice Shortall) took the final seat […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Counting resumes, FF account for six of eight councillors elected so far

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

COUNTING has resumed this morning to elect the remaining 16 candidates to Kilkenny County Council. After a day of drama at Cillín Hill yesterday, and into the small hours, a third of the 24 positions on the council have now been filled. And so far Fianna Fáil has dominated the proceedings locally, taking six out […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: First tallies in, see how the parties and candidates are faring

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2019 0

COUNTING is well underway and the first tallies for Kilkenny’s four electoral areas have come in. The final picture, of course, won’t be known until the final votes and transfers are in and there may still be a few twists in the 2019 local election tale. But we are seeing a broad picture emerging, and […]

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Tyre slash yob leaves county Kilkenny man deflated

By Kilkenny Now 21st May 2019 0

A COUNTY Kilkenny man woke up to discover one of the tyres of his car had been slashed overnight. The incident happened on Patrick Street in Ballyragget overnight between last Tuesday, May 13 and the following morning. Gardai in Castlecomer are investigating the incident. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact 056 […]

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Heroin seized in raid on drug den in county Kilkenny town

By Kilkenny Now 20th May 2019 0

GARDAI seized €7,000 worth of heroin during a planned raid on a house in Castlecomer. Members of the Kilkenny-Carlow Divisional Drugs Unit swooped on the house in the Church Avenue area of the north Kilkenny town just after 5pm last Friday. Gardai confirmed a quantity of heroin with a street value of just under €7,000 […]