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Relief as €2m funding boost rescues Rehab services in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 22nd May 2019 0

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 […]

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John Needs Pembro: campaign demands face-to-face showdown with minister

By Kilkenny Now 16th May 2019 0

THE campaign on behalf of a Kilkenny man who needs access to a life-changing drug has demanded an immediate face-to-face meeting with Health Minister Simon Harris. The John Needs Pembro campaign today said it was “heartened” that Kilkenny TDs John McGuinness and Kathleen Funchion successfully highlighted John Holmes’ case in the Dáil on Tuesday. Campaign […]

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‘You are a cold, callous Government if you allow John Holmes to die’ – TDs raise plight of Kilkenny man

By Kilkenny Now 15th May 2019 0

OUTSPOKEN Kilkenny TD John McGuinness has challenged the Government not to be “cold” and “callous” by standing back and letting a local man who badly needs access to a life-saving drug to die. Deputy McGuiness and his constituency colleague, Sinn Féin TD Kathleen Funchion, both raised the plight of Kilkenny man John Holmes (pictured above) […]

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‘He showed very bad judgement’ – Kilkenny TD hits out at Minister’s attack on gardai

By Kilkenny Now 1st April 2019 0

KILKENNY TD John McGuinness said Disability Minister Finian McGrath “showed very bad judgement” by attempting to “politicise” the gardai. The Fianna Fáil TD joined a growing chorus of condemnation from Government and opposition politicians after Minister McGrath accused gardai of carrying out unnecessary breathalyser check-points because they opposed controversial new