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WINE O’CLOCK: Raise a patriotic glass to Paschal Donohoe

By Kilkenny Now 6th September 2019 0

IN France, Spain or Portugal it is easy to buy a perfectly decent bottle of wine for a fiver or less. In Ireland you can only do this if a supermarket has a struck a deal with the supplier or decided, for some reason of its own, to subsidise the cost. That’s because Irish excise […]

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Kilkenny building company named one of Ireland’s ‘Top 50’ contractors

By Kilkenny Now 12th June 2019 0

AN innovative Kilkenny building company has been named in the Construction Industry Federation’s ‘Top 50 Construction Contractors’ for 2019. Gaeltec Utilities Ltd ranked number 36 on the list, with a turnover of €44.9 million. The combined turnover for Ireland’s top 50 construction companies increased by 25% to €8.39 billion last year according to the CIF’s […]

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Kilkenny’s Big Phil backs rural broadband plan – despite €3bn price tag

By Kilkenny Now 29th April 2019 0

IRELAND’S EU Commissioner, former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan, has said rollout of high-speed broadband to rural areas must happen as soon as possible – despite the growing controversy over the estimated €3 billion cost of the project. The Sunday Independent today reports that the country’s most senior civil servants warned Cabinet ministers the €3bn National […]

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Hopes grow that Kilkenny patients will be spared three more days of strike action next week

By Kilkenny Now 8th February 2019 0

HOPES are growing that Kilkenny patients will be spared another three days without vital hospital services next week. According to reports last night, “intense efforts” are currently underway in a bid to find a resolution to the nurses’ strike that crippled services at St Luke’s General Hospital for the third 24-hour period of stoppages over […]