By COLIN BARTLEY IT has cost the taxpayer €150,000 to keep a Kilkenny boy with intellectual disabilities in a hospital bed because funding has not been provided to move him to a permanent home. The boy has been left languishing in a ward at St Luke’s General Hospital since last November because of an ongoing […]
By COLIN BARTLEY THERE are just 50 disabled parking spaces in Kilkenny city and gardai have been told dish out on-the-spot fines if people are parking in them without permits. The warning to drivers comes on the back of numerous complaints received by the gardai regarding illegal parking in disabled bays and loading bays around […]
REHAB services in Kilkenny will not be lost after the groups confirmed it has received an extra €2 million in funding following negotiations. Around 60 adults in Kilkenny currently use Rehab’s resource and outreach centres. There had been fears that these services would be lost due to a lack of funding. However, the group today […]