The teenage Kilkenny girl who was reported missing over the weekend has been located. Katie Blake (17), from Callan, has been found safe and well. She was located in Cork city. Kate had been last seen in Callan on Saturday.
CORK Airport, Ireland’s fastest-growing airport just 90 minutes drive from Kilkenny, today welcomed the news that Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is to expand its Cork-Zurich service for Summer 2020. The airline will operate an Airbus A220-100/A220-300 offering four flights per week – on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday – commencing on March 29 and
By SHANE DORAN DOZENS of victims of domestic abuse have come forward to seek help since a powerful new play about one family’s harrowing experience was brought to life on stage this month. Some Names Have Changed is based on the life real story of Priscilla Grainger and her 21-year-old daughter Ainie, who are also […]
A NUMBER of people suspected of paying for sex in Kilkenny and Carlow have been questioned by gardai as part of a nationwide sting operation. A total of 38 people across the country were stopped and spoken to by gardaí last week on suspicion of having paid for prostitution services. Some of the suspects are […]
KILKENNY’S location – just over an hour’s drive from the capital – and more flexible working arrangements have helped to significantly increase the sales of local homes in the first half of the year. Property sales in Kilkenny rose by over 20% in the first six months of the year, according to a new survey […]
GARDAI are investigating the suspicious death of a man whose body was discovered at a farmhouse this morning. The 29-year-old was found dead at the farmhouse in Shanavagoon, Ladysbridge, Co Cork, at 7am. The man reportedly had a number of injuries. His body was removed to the morgue at Cork University Hospital where a post-mortem […]
By COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI have discovered the body of man in a house in Cork City this afternoon. The man’s body was found in a house on the Bandon Road just before midday and gardai are treating the circumstances surrounding the man’s death as suspicious. It’s understood the man is in his 50s. The State […]
A NEW regional laboratory will be developed in Kilkenny which will further improve animal diagnostic services for the county, Minister John Paul Phelan confirmed today. The new facility is included as part of Project Ireland 2040, details of which were confirmed by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed. The development of the Department of Agriculture, Food and […]
THE heartbroken parents of a teenager who died after taking an illegal substance at a music festival have urged young people not to experiment with drugs. Elaine Downey, who is from Callan, told RTÉ’s Marian Finucane programme today: “I would have never have thought it would happen to me. I would never have thought my […]
A PREGNANT woman was this morning charged with the murder of a two-year-old child earlier this year. Karen Harrington (35) appeared before Judge Mary Dorgan at Cork District Court this morning and was charged with the murder of the two-year-old Santina Cawley, who died after being found with critical injuries at a flat complex in […]
