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Car-azy: Drug driver caught speeding and driving dangerously on Kilkenny road

By Kilkenny Now 16th December 2020 0

A driver caught speeding byh gardai in county Kilkenny was also found to be high on drugs. The motorist was arrested by members of the Kilkenny Roads Policing Unit while they were on a routine patrol in Clara on Sunday evening. Gardai stopped the car after they clocked the vehicle doing speeds of 120kph in […]

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Investigation underway after break-in at business premises in Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 17th August 2020 0

An investigation has been launched following a break-in at a commercial premises in Clara over the weekend. The owners raised the alarm on Saturday when they discovered the building on the Carlow Road had been broken into on. The side door of the building had been damaged and the front door had been left wide […]

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Gardai appeal for witnesses to crash that resulted in death of former Kilkenny star

By Kilkenny Now 11th June 2020 0

Gardai have re-issued a public  appeal for witnesses to the tragic accident over the weekend which resulted in the death of former Kilkenny hurler Lester Ryan. The 61-year-old Clara clubman was killed in a collision involving a tractor on Church Road in Gowran last Saturday afternoon at 3.45pm. Mr Ryan was laid to rest this […]

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‘A gentleman’ – warm tributes paid to former Kilkenny hurler killed in road tragedy

By Kilkenny Now 7th June 2020 0

Tributes have been paid to the former Kilkenny hurler Lester Ryan Snr, who died in a tragic road accident yesterday. Lester (61) died after an accident involving his bicycle and a tractor near his home in Gowran at around 3.45pm. In a statement, Kilkenny GAA said “all associated with Kilkenny GAA were deeply saddened to […]

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Landmark Kilkenny pub to be reborn as community hub

By Kilkenny Now 9th April 2020 0

An iconic Kilkenny landmark that has fallen on hard times looks like it could be reborn as a local group investigates whether it can be transformed into a community hub. The Fox and Goose pub and restaurant in the Carlow Road at Clara has been derelict for a number of years but now a group […]

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UPDATE: Ballyhale Shamrocks call off all fixtures following tragic death of young hurler

By Kilkenny Now 5th October 2019 0

BALLYHALE Shamrocks have cancelled all of their senior and junior fixtures this weekend following the tragic death of a young hurler overnight. The club posted the following message on social media this morning: “Due to a tragic bereavement within the club all matches Juvenile & Senior are all called off.” Kilkenny GAA also confirmed the […]

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A Kilkenny man and his robot are lining out the GAA world games

By Kilkenny Now 27th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY man who programmed a robot to line seven pitches for an international GAA tournament just walked away and ‘let the robot do its job.” Intelligent Marking Ireland’s Mícheál Nolan who lives in Clara, Co Kilkenny, used the robot to line the seven pitches in use for the Renault GAA World Games […]

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Lowry lands British Open

By Kilkenny Now 21st July 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY OFFALY’s Shane Lowry has won the 148th edition of golf’s British Open, the final major of the year. The hugely popular Offaly man becomes the fifth Irish man to lift the famous Claret Jug. Lowry managed to keep his head in difficult conditions in Royal Portrush, while all the challengers around him […]

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Father-of-three who died in Kilkenny air crash tragedy is laid to rest this morning

By Kilkenny Now 4th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE KILKENNY man who died tragically in an air accident last Friday is to be laid to rest this morning. Father-of-three Richard ‘Dick’ O’Connell will be buried after 11 o’clock mass St. Colman’s Church, Clara. The popular stonemason was killed when his micro-light plane crashed into power lines near Gowran Cross, last […]

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Kilkenny builder killed in aircraft tragedy will be buried this week

By Kilkenny Now 1st July 2019 0

THE well-known builder and businessman who died in the fatal light aircraft crash near his county Kilkenny home will be buried on Thursday. Richard ‘Dick’ O’Connell, who was in his 50s, died from his injuries after his aircraft crashed in a field close to his home at Rathcash, Clifden, at around 9pm last Friday night. […]