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Kilkenny Castle named Ireland’s top free tourist attraction for 2018

By Kilkenny Now 4th August 2019 0

KILKENNY Castle has been named Ireland’s top free visitor attraction. The latest accolade for our stunning medieval marvel is another significant boost to Kilkenny’s tourism sector. It came out tops again in Fáilte Ireland’s latest annual survey of the Ireland most popular visitor attractions for 2018 published today. A total of 799,032 visitors descended on […]

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€6 million project to create new home for the Butler Gallery

By Kilkenny Now 30th July 2019 0

A NEW addition to Kilkenny tourism and home to valuable historical collections is set to open to the public early next year. The new Butler Gallery at Evan’s Home is a €6 million project that will house a large contemporary gallery for major temporary exhibitions, the Butler permanent collection, the Tony O’Malley collection, a media […]

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Stunning new exhibition which brings to life Kilkenny skeltons’ officially opens today

By Kilkenny Now 25th July 2019 10

By COLIN BARTLEY THE EXHIBITION featuring the bodies of three people discovered during the excavation of Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Museum three years ago will open to the public today. 3 lives, 3 deaths, One life unlived tells the story of three women, the lives they led, their cultural identity, and whether they viewed themselves as […]

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‘Kilkenny captures the wonders of Ireland’ – leading travel writers lavish praise on city and county

By Kilkenny Now 22nd June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY tourism received a major boost this week after the city and county received glowing reviews from two highly influential North American publications. The city’s medieval charms cast a spell over Canada’s biggest selling newspaper and one of Boston’s leading dailies. Boston Herald writer Moira McCarthy said of the city: “A friend

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Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 was most sucesssful ever: festival director

By Kilkenny Now 8th June 2019 Post a comment

By SINÉAD CONNOLLY AFTER a quarter century of laughs, Kilkenny’s internationally-renowned comedy festival is still getting bigger and better. The Cat Laughs’ silver jubilee thrilled fans with some of the best international and Irish comedians including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Ed Byrne, Neil Delamere, Zoe Lyons, Rosie Jones, Dara Ó Briain, Rich Hall, Angela Barnes […]

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600-year-old skeletons given final resting place at Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Musuem

By Kilkenny Now 3rd May 2019 0

THE bodies of three people discovered during the excavation at Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Museum three years ago will be given a final resting place in a specially-constructed burial vault. The skeletal remains of the two women, and a young person between the age of 11 and 14 of so far indeterminate gender, will be buried […]

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Kilkenny to benefit from new €156m tourism investment

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2019 0

KILKENNY County Council and the country’s local authorities have announced new plans to invest €156 million in new tourism initiatives as the threat of Brexit looms. A recent conference held in Cork, headlined ‘Tourism is Everyone’s Business’ and organised by the County and City Management Association (CCMA) in association with Fáilte Ireland, brought together local […]

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Two ‘undiscovered’ Kilkenny towns to receive €500,000 tourism funding boost

By Kilkenny Now 27th March 2019 0

TWO “undiscovered” county Kilkenny towns are set to receive up to €500,000 in funding to boost their tourist potential. Kilkenny County Council has been given the green light to bid for funding to develop towns that have the potential to become a ‘destination town’ for visitors. A total of 62 towns across the country will […]

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Kilkenny venues named in new ‘Fab 50’ list of Ireland’s best places to stay

By Kilkenny Now 17th March 2019 Post a comment

TWO very different type of accommodation providers in Kilkenny have been listed in a new Fab 50 list of Ireland’s best places to stay. Mount Juliet and it’s Thomastown neighbour Legan Castle Farmhouse (pictured above) were named in separate categories in the annual Fab 50 list, compiled by the Irish Independent in association with Fáilte […]

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Cats have last laugh as iconic Kilkenny festivals get €126,000 funding boost

By Kilkenny Now 23rd January 2019 0

THREE iconic Kilkenny festivals have received a significant funding boost. Fáilte Ireland has allocated a total of €126,000 to Cat Laughs, the Arts Festival and Kilkenny Animated as part of its 2019 Regional Festivals & Participative Events Programme. Confirmation of the funding will come as welcome news for the three landmark festivals, which combine to […]