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Bodies of man and woman found at house in Cavan

By Kilkenny Now 8th February 2021 0

Gardai are investigating the discoveryt of the bodies of a man and woman at a house in county Cavan. The remains of the man and woman, who were both aged in their 40s, were discovered in the Cloverhill area of Belturbet yesterday evening. A Garda spokesperson confirmed: “The scene has been preserved for a technical […]

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Funding and special retreats on offer for Kilkenny artists

By Kilkenny Now 16th December 2020 0

By Jayde Maher The Kilkenny Arts Office has announced their open call for people to apply for the Arts Act Grant, Tyrone Guthrie Bursary Award and the Moth Bursary Award 2021. Individual artists and groups and organisations that promote the arts are eligible to apply for the Arts Act Grant. This grant allows local authorities […]

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BREAKING: Teenage girl killed as weekend death toll on our roads rises to seven

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2020 0

A teenage girl has become the latest victim of the carnage on our roads and the seventh person to die in collisions over the weekend. The young woman died after the car in which she was a passenger struck a wall at around 1.15am in the townland of Porridgetown, Oughterard, Galway., Galway. She died at […]

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Two killed in separate road tragedies

By Kilkenny Now 8th December 2019 0

Two men have been killed in separate weekend road tragedies. Grdai this morning confirmed that a pedestrian in his 30s was fatally injured near the M9 southbound in the townland of Greenhills, Kilcullen, Co Kildare late last night. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has been removed to Naas General Hospital. […]

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Kilkenny drivers getting the point, speeding convictions plummet

By Kilkenny Now 23rd June 2019 0

SPEEDING convictions have fallen drastically in Kilkenny over the past three years. Newly-release official figures reveal the number of speeding convictions in Kilkenny district court area have plummeted by more than two thirds, from 244 in 2016 to just 73 last year. The huge reduction in local speeding convictions comes against the backdrop of a […]