By COLIN BARTLEY IN A break with tradition, the GAA are to hold the first of this year’s All Ireland hurling semi-finals on a Saturday evening, and Kilkenny could be playing. Today the GAA confirmed the times and dates of the remaining fixtures in this year’s hurling championship. The first semi-final will feature All Ireland […]
KILKENNY has been included in a new Status Yellow rainfall warning issued by Met Éireann. The warning comes into effect from 6pm this evening until 6am tomorrow and covers all of Leinster, and also counties Waterford and Cork. The gloomy outlook comes after national forecaster earlier delivered some good news on the weather front – […]
By SINÉAD CONNOLLY LEADING Kilkenny company Connolly’s Red Mills have been confirmed as sponsors of the Irish Laurels for a three-year period. The Irish Greyhound Board announced that the fifth generation Goresbridge family business will assume sponsorship of the event until at least 2021. Connolly’s Red Mills previously sponsored the event, which was held in […]
A MAN has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Kilkenny man Peter ‘Rocky’ Donnelly. The suspect (28), who is originally from Cork but had been living on Dublin’s northside, is currently in Garda custody after he was taken to hospital to receive treatment for minor injuries. Mr Donnelly (39) had been socialising […]
COUNTY Kilkenny’s O’Shea’s Farms received the second highest payment under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) last year, newly released figures reveal. The Piltown farm, which recently secured a major contract to supply Aldi with potatoes received €229,633.96 in CAP payments last year. This was second on the list top CAP payments behind representatives of Nicholas […]
THE final list of elected candidates for the Ireland South constituency will not be known until June 21 after Sinn triggered a full recount in the European Parliament election. The recount will begin at 9am next Tuesday morning in Cork and could cost the State up to €1m. The recount decision was made after it […]
KILKENNY hurling legend DJ Carey has expressed his disappointment at the lack of exciting contests that the hurling Championship has served up so far. While praising some individual team performances, particularly Tipperary, he said the games themselves have fallen far short of the excitement levels experienced at the same stage last year. And the Gowran […]
EXCLUSIVE By COLIN BARTLEY THERE could be a vote for a directly-elected mayor in Kilkenny before the end of 2021, Minister John Paul Phelan said this evening. Minister Phelan was speaking after the controversial proposal for a directly-elected mayor was narrowly defeated in Waterford and Cork, but comfortably carried in Limerick. Minister Phelan put the […]
By SINÉAD CONNOLLY A BITTER turf war has erupted between rival Fine Gael European election candidates in Kilkenny. KilkennyNow.ie has learned that Ireland South candidate, the Wicklow TD Andrew Doyle, has lodged a formal complaint to the party’s Director of Elections about his colleague, the sitting MEP Sean Kelly. Doyle’s campaign team, led by Carlow-Kilkenny […]
HISTORY was made in Callan yesterday evening as the county Kilkenny town played host to a ‘secret’ challenge match between All-Ireland football champions Dublin and their Cork rivals. The game, which took place yesterday evening at John Locke Park, was largely kept under wraps. And the so-called ‘friendly’ was an extremely competitive affair