Enable Ireland is asking the people of Kilkenny to take part in its Wheel 100 Challenge next month. The challenge encourages participants to wheel 100 times in their own way and raise vital funds for the charity – either cycle, skate, wheel, scoot, push a walker or buggy! It’s up to you whether you do […]
Enable Ireland is appealing to the people of Kilkenny to help them raise funds after they were forced to temporarily close their 21 charity shops, including its shop on St Kieran’s Street, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The charity is now facing a potential loss of €1.5 million income in 2020 and is asking members […]
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 […]