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BREAKING: Anger as Castlecomer councillors vote to halve their number of meetings

By Kilkenny Now 17th June 2019 0

By SHANE DORAN THE newly elected members of the Castlecomer Municipal District have voted to halve the number of meetings they will hold for the next 12 months, KilkennyNow.ie can reveal. The controversial proposal to reduce the monthly meetings to bi-monthly meetings was put forward by Fine Gael’s Mary Hilda Kavanagh at the municipal’s first […]

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Kilkenny Council under fire over vote to ban public and press from policy meetings

By Kilkenny Now 9th June 2019 0

KILKENNY County Council has come in for criticism over its controversial decision to ban members of the public and the media from its policy meetings. On Friday the city and county’s newly elected councillors voted to exclude public and press from all its strategic policy committees (SPCs). The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) criticised the […]

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Kilkenny schools to get 13 new Special Needs Assistants next year

By Kilkenny Now 31st May 2019 0

KILKENNY schools will get 13 extra Special Needs Assistants from September. The welcome news was confirmed by Kilkenny councillor and Fine Gael General Election candidate Patrick O’Neill (pictured). The badly-needed supports are part of a national allocation of 800 new Special Needs Assistants announced by Education Minister Joe McHugh this week. This brings the total […]

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EURO ELECTIONS: Battle for Ireland South to drag on for up to four more weeks

By Kilkenny Now 30th May 2019 0

THE final list of elected candidates for the Ireland South constituency will not be known until June 21 after Sinn triggered a full recount in the European Parliament election. The recount will begin at 9am next Tuesday morning in Cork and could cost the State up to €1m. The recount decision was made after it […]

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Fine Gael ‘soliders’ ready for General Election battle: Minister Phelan

By Kilkenny Now 29th May 2019 0

MINISTER John Paul Phelan said he is delighted with Fine Gael’s performance in the Kilkenny local elections. And he warned the party’s “soldiers” are ready to do battle if a General Election is called soon. Minster Phelan told KilkennyNow.ie: “The party membership are ready, the soldiers are on the ground and ready to go when […]

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‘The sooner the better’ – poll topper Pat Fitzpatrick looking forward to General Election

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

CASTLECOMER poll topper Pat Fitzpatrick is already looking ahead to the next General Election in the wake of Fianna Fáil’s dominant performance in the local elections. The party captured 11 of the 24 seats on Kilkenny County Council, two more than their Fine Gael rivals. Cllr Fitzpatrick was the first councillor past the post in […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Half Kilkenny Council members now elected – but still no new faces

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

LABOUR have claimed their first seat in the Kilkenny 2019 local election. Tomás Breathnach has become the twelfth elected councillor after he was elected in the first round of voting in Piltown behind Fine Gael’s Pat Dunphy, who topped the local poll with 1,579 first preference votes. It’s taken some time for the Piltown votes […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Counting resumes, FF account for six of eight councillors elected so far

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

COUNTING has resumed this morning to elect the remaining 16 candidates to Kilkenny County Council. After a day of drama at Cillín Hill yesterday, and into the small hours, a third of the 24 positions on the council have now been filled. And so far Fianna Fáil has dominated the proceedings locally, taking six out […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: First tallies in, see how the parties and candidates are faring

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2019 0

COUNTING is well underway and the first tallies for Kilkenny’s four electoral areas have come in. The final picture, of course, won’t be known until the final votes and transfers are in and there may still be a few twists in the 2019 local election tale. But we are seeing a broad picture emerging, and […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Fianna Fáil polling strongest in Kilkenny city, Green wave sweeps across country

By Kilkenny Now 25th May 2019 0

AS a ‘Green’ wave sweeps across the country, closer to home it’s the green of Fianna Fáil which appears to be polling strongest in the Kilkenny local elections, according to early tallies. In Kilkenny city, Green Party councillor Malcolm Noonan’s seat is safe, and he is likely to be joined by three Fianna Fáil elected […]