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Snake dies after fire breaks out at National Reptile Zoo in Gowran

By Kilkenny Now 6th April 2019 0

A SNAKE died after a fire broke out at the National Reptile Zoo in Gowran this morning. The blaze broke out in the venomous snake section of the zoo at around 9.30am. It is understood the fire was caused by an electrical fault in a heated pad inside the cobra’s enclosure. The zoo’s director and […]

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€500,461 funding boost for Kilkenny, Castlecomer, Gowran and Danesfort community groups

By Kilkenny Now 21st March 2019 0

COMMUNITY groups in Kilkenny, Castlecomer, Gowran and Danesfort will receive more than €500,000 in new Government funding. Details of the funding were announced by Kilkenny councillor Patrick O’Neill (pictured), who was recently added to the Fine Gael ticket in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency for the next General Election. Six local groups will receive a total of […]

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Kilkenny’s Nore Valley named in new list of Ireland’s Top 10 scenic road trips

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2019 0

KILKENNY’s stunning Nore Valley has been included in a new list of Ireland’s Top 10 drives. It was one of the few inland routes to make the list, with most of the others being well-known coastal drives such as the Achill Island stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way and the Giant’s Causeway in Co Antrim. […]

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Kilkenny motorists warned to expect delays as three sets of road works get underway

By Kilkenny Now 7th March 2019 0

KILKENNY motorists have been warned to expect delays as more road works get underway in the county. Kilkenny County Council has announced a temporary road closure on the L6707 between 8am and 1pm today. Diversions will be put in place at Rathcash West, between the R702 Gorwan Road and L6706 at Blanchvillestown. The council said […]

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30 arrested in major Garda crackdown on criminals in South Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 27th February 2019 0

THIRTY people have been arrested for a wide range of criminal activities as part of a major Garda operation involving up to 60 gardai in the Thomastown area today. The arrests are part of the latest Garda Operation Storm – the 30th such crackdown in the Carlow-Kilkenny Garda division over the past four years. Nineteen […]

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History in the remaking: get a taste of what life was like in county Kilkenny in 1830s

By Kilkenny Now 12th February 2019 0

MEMBERS of the public will this week be able to get a rare insight of what it was like to live in parts of county Kilkenny almost 200 years ago. Well-known historian and genealogist Frank Clarke from Glynn, St Mullins, is giving a talk on “everyday life in 1830s” at the library in Graiguenamanagh on […]

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Gardai roll out neighbourhood text alert scheme in Gowran

By Kilkenny Now 23rd January 2019 0

KILKENNY Garda Crime Prevention Officer Sergeant Peter McConnon will address a special community meeting in Gowran tonight as part of the ongoing rollout of the hugely successful neighbourhood text alert scheme. Sgt McConnon will be joined by Sgt Ted Hughes and Margaret Quinn of community development group Muintir na to explain how the text alert system […]

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Fighting back: Garda text alert scheme sees local burglaries plummet by two thirds in five years

By Kilkenny Now 12th December 2018 0

BURGLARIES across Kilkenny city and county have plummeted by almost two thirds since local gardai began rolling out a hugely successful neighbourhood text alert scheme five years ago, new figures obtained by KilkennyNow.ie reveal. Meanwhile, a unique text alert mapping system pioneered by the Kilkenny/Carlow Garda Division has also proved to a major success in […]