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WATCH: ‘So very grateful’ – Kilkenny hero cancer campaigner begins treatment in US as new Vice PresientKamala gets Covid jab next door

By Colin Bartley 27th January 2021 0

Hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has shared her excitement after receiving the first dose of experimental treatment at a US clinic. The Cervical check campaigner and mother of two from Mooncoin also tweeted her joy to find out recently inaugurated US Vice President Kamala Harris was in the same facility as Vicky to receive the […]

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BREAKING: Kilkenny cases continue to fall, huge spike in deaths nationally

By Colin Bartley 12th January 2021 0

There have been 46 Covid-19 related deaths recorded this evening, the highest number since the pandemic began last spring. There were also 3,086 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed this evening. It brings the overall death toll as a result of the virus to 2,397. There has now been 155,351 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the […]

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Work finally gets underway on new MRI scanner and 72 bed ward at Kilkenny hospital

By Colin Bartley 7th October 2020 0

Work has began on a number of projects at St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny in what is estimated to be a €32 million upgrade. This week ground was finally broken on the long-awaited MRI scanner project, as well as a new five-storey, 72-bed ward extension and a new facility for the testing and treatment […]

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179 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kilkenny: breakdown of latest figures

By Kilkenny Now 20th April 2020 0

Kilkenny now has 179 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The Department of Health last night confirmed there are now a total of 15,251 cases of Covid-19 in the country, with the vast majority of these in the east. Some 39 people have died in the past 24 hours after they contracted the virus, bringing the […]

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Family of four in West of Ireland test positive for coronavirus

By Kilkenny Now 4th March 2020 0

A family of four – two males and two females – in the West of Ireland have tested positive for coronavirus after returning from northern Italy. It brings to nine the total number of cases on the island of Ireland – six in the Republic and three in the North. “Tonight we can confirm there […]

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Second case of coronavirus confirmed in Ireland

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2020 0

A woman in the east of Ireland who recently returned from Italy has been confirmed with coronavirus. It is the second case of Covid-19 in the Republic after a teenager was diagnosed with it at the weekend. A third person in Northern Ireland also has the virus. Almost 400 people in the Republic have been […]

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Coronavirus confirmed in Republic as male patient in east of country receives ‘appropriate medical care’

By Kilkenny Now 29th February 2020 0

A man who is located in the eastern part of Ireland is being treated for coronavirus, the Department of Health has said. It is the first case of Covid-19 confirmed in the Republic of Ireland and the patient is currently receiving “appropriate medical care”. It is not believed that the man contracted the virus from […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Some good news, just for a change

By Kilkenny Now 1st January 2020 0

You would never guess from the Irish media in general, but we have a lot to be happy about this new year. For one thing, we are living longer. On average, an Irish man can now hope to live until he is a little over 80 and a woman until she is 84. That’s an […]

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Have a heart, Taoiseach! Local cardiac campaigners deliver powerful message to Leo

By Colin Bartley 3rd December 2019 0

Cardiac care campaigners from Kilkenny and across the South East have delivered a petition with 5,000 signatures to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office in Dublin. The signatures were collected in October following the high profile Hand On Heart campaign organised by the Health Equality For the South East (HEFSE) group. HEFSE is demanding that the Government […]

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3,000 respite bed nights taken out of service in Kilkenny in just three years

By Kilkenny Now 7th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY CLOSE to 3,000 bed nights, used to care for people with disabilities while their live-in carers take a break, have been taken out of service in Kilkenny and Carlow over the space of three years. The most recent figures received for 2019 shows no let-up in the decline in respite nights. New […]