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Gardai given powers to turn Kilkenny people away from holiday homes in Easter crackdown

By Kilkenny Now 8th April 2020 0

An Garda Siochana have been given sweeping new powers that allows them to turn Kilkenny people to holidays homes and coastal regions for the Easter weekend. Minister for Health Simon Harris has signed regulations to give members the authority to enforce Covid-19 restrictions including forcing people to return to their homes and to arrest or […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: Sharp spike in deaths as 36 lose their lives while number of confirmed cases rises by 345

By Kilkenny Now 7th April 2020 0

A further 36 people lost their lives from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours, the HSE said this evening. The total now stands at 210 in the Republic. The number of confirmed cases has now reached 5,709 after another 345 were diagnosed. A total of 42,484 tests have been carried […]

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PAUL HOPKINS: Life in the time of coronavirus: A diary of self-imposed isolation. Easy riders and human kindness

By Kilkenny Now 7th April 2020 0

My deepest heart-felt thanks to all those people, of all guises, who, locally, nationally and globally have risen to the occasion and are showing, in however small or big way, that good will always prevail, triumph even. From the organised community helpers to the supermarkets putting aide shopping times for the elderly to the willingness […]

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Driver high on cocaine had toddler in back of car when stopped in Kilkenny city

By Kilkenny Now 6th April 2020 0

A motorist who was travelling with a female and a three-year-old child tested positive for cocaine when he was stopped at gardai on a Covid-19 patrol in Kilkenny city. Gardai arrested the drug driver in the early hours of this morning after tests confirmed he had taken the drug. Meanwhile, members of the Kilkenny Roads […]

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COVID-19 LATEST: 16 more die as 370 new cases of Coronavirus are confirmed

By Kilkenny Now 6th April 2020 0

Sixteen more people have died after contracting Covid-19 as 370 more cases of the coronavirus were confirmed this evening. It brings the overall Covid-19 death toll to 174. A total of 5,364 people in the country have now contracted the virus. Earlier it was confirmed there has been a further seven deaths due to Covid-19 […]

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COVID-19 LATEST: 21 more die as 390 new cases confirmed, Taoiseach registers to join frontline health workers

By Kilkenny Now 5th April 2020 0

Twenty-one more people have died after contracting the coronavirus as 390 new cases of Covid-19 in the Republic were confirmed this evening. It brings to 158 the overall death toll in the country. The number of confirmed cases in the republic now stands at 4,994. There has been seven more Covid-19 deaths in the North, […]

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Save our cheese, please: Kilkenny shoppers urged to buy local

By Kilkenny Now 5th April 2020 0

Consumers in Kilkenny are being asked to favour local varieties when doing their shopping after concern was raised about the future of some cheesemakers in the county. Cáis, the Association of Irish Farmhouse Cheesemakers, is appealing to the retail sector to continue to stock its product and encouraging consumers to support the industry at this time. Irish […]

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COVID-19: Kilkenny pensioner is first to die locally after contracting virus

By Kilkenny Now 5th April 2020 0

The coronavirus has claimed the life of the first local victim to die from Covid-19. It is understood the victim is an 80-year-old man who died after a short illness at St Luke’s General Hospital. Health authorities would provide any further details about the man. He is among 331 people in the Republic who have […]

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Google is watching you: Technology giant releases Kilkenny travel stats as we trade work for home

By Kilkenny Now 4th April 2020 Post a comment

If anyone was wondering whether the global technology giants were really watching our every move, the answer would appear to be yes. Google has released information harvested from our devices which use its software, such as Google Maps on smart phones, to show the extent to which Covid-19 restrictions are changing our usual movements in […]

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COVID-19 UPDATE: Another 17 lose their lives as number of confirmed cases reaches 4,604

By Kilkenny Now 4th April 2020 0

A further 17 people lost their lives from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours, the HSE said this evening. The total now stands at 137 in the Republic. The number of confirmed cases has now reached 4,604 after another 331 were diagnosed. In the North, eight died since yesterday while […]