Important works on local roads, laneways, cycle and footpaths are underway or about to commence. A comprehensive road works update was provided by Kilkenny County Council engineers at the Callan/Thomastown Municipal meeting yesterday. At the meeting, councillors were told that the next phase of footpaths at the Woodlawn estate in Bennettsbridge are due to get […]
High-speed broadband will be delivered to 10 rural ‘hubs’ across Kilkenny in 2020. The news comes after the Government yesterday announced it will invest €72 million to deliver high-speed broadband to 18,092 locations in Kilkenny by 2025. Fine Gael Councillor Patrick O’Neill defended the cost of the project, saying the rollout of high speed broadband […]
BEEF farming has never faced such an uncertain future and farmers’ confidence is at an “all time low”, a Kilkenny councillor and General Election candidate said today. Councillor Patrick O’Neill (pictured below) spoke out in the wake of a recent Teagasc report which reveals beef farmers are earning an annual income of just €12,000, far […]