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Kilkenny’s Credit Unions remain Ireland’s best customer experience

By Kilkenny Now 9th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S six Credit Unions have come out tops in a survey of people’s customer experience. The Credit Union movement has been named as Ireland’s best customer service for the fifth time in a row in the CXi Ireland Customer Experience (CX) Report and has won the award in each of the years […]

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Chaos as four gardai hospitalised after attempting to arrest man

By Kilkenny Now 8th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY FOUR gardai were hospitalised after they were attacked by a man they were attempting to arrest. The incident occurred just off Rice Bridge in Waterford city in the early hours of this morning. The gardai, who were on duty at the time, were called to a public order disturbance on Bridge Street […]

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Third time lucky? Now former Kilkenny councillor to contest Wexford by-election

By Kilkenny Now 8th October 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY A FORMER Kilkenny councillor who also contested the local elections in Waterford will now contest the Wexford by-election for the seat left vacant by MEP Mick Wallace. Melissa O’Neill was first elected to the Piltown Municipal District of Kilkenny County Council in 2014. In doing so she became the first Sinn Féin […]

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BREAKING: Fire services battle blaze at landmark hotel on Kilkenny-Waterford border

By Kilkenny Now 3rd October 2019 Post a comment

EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a serious fire that erupted at a landmark hotel on the Kilkenny/Waterford border. Fire tenders rusged to the former Ard Rí and Jurys Hotel in Ferrybank after huge plumes of smoke were seen billowing out of the building’s roof. The drama unfoled just before just before 4pm this […]

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Five years in the making: work finally gets underway on county Kilkenny community park

By Kilkenny Now 1st October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY WORK is set to begin on a Kilkenny community park that has been five years in the making. The sod will finally be turned on the Ferrybank Neighbourhood Park this week. The €350,000 park will create a much needed central amenity facility for the Ferrybank area including a children’s playground, walking route, […]

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State funding ‘imminent’ for Ferrybank’s €350m North Quays project

By Kilkenny Now 29th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE Government has committed to providing substantial funding for a development project in Ferrybank which could transform the South East region. Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy gave the commitment to partially fund the North Quays Development to Waterford TD David Cullinane during a Dáil debate this week. The commitment to funding, which could […]

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Garda divisions: Minister claims changes are ‘win-win’ for Kilkenny, but fears grow over rural crime

By Kilkenny Now 26th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE announcement that Kilkenny will be the headquarters of the newly formed Eastern Garda region has been described as a ‘win-win’ by a local Minister, despite the county losing the divisional headquarters to Waterford. Another Kilkenny TD has called the loss of the divisional HQ “disappointing” but will accept the decision if […]

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Blockades continue outside Kilkenny meat plants as farmers dispute vote result

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY PROTESTERS remain outside a meat processing plant in Kilkenny despite a vote being passed to lift the blockade. Despite earlier reports that protesters have lifted the blockade outside the ABP foods plant in Ferrybank, protesters remain on the gate blocking trucks from entering or exiting. The protesters at the plant this morning […]

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Crime gang terrorise vulnerable pensioners, four homes in Kilkenny ranscaked

By Kilkenny Now 13th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY gardai are hunting a gang who subjected vulnerable pensioners to terrifying ordeals during a spate of violent break-ins over the past 24 hours. Gardai are investigating the possibility the same gang is behind four separate robberies in South Kilkenny and three robberies in neighbouring county Waterford yesterday. Four homes were broken […]

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Beef stock: Kilkenny shoppers set to feel effects of protests

By Kilkenny Now 13th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY shoppers are about to feels the effects of the beef crisis after a supermarket announced they are having difficulties sourcing Irish meat supplies. Aldi today announced they will be re-labelling some Irish beef as “processed in the UK” due to the ongoing crisis in the Irish beef industry. The German supermarket […]