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New roads and high-speed broadband vital to Kilkenny’s economic recovery: IBEC

By Kilkenny Now 9th June 2021 0

The delivery of world-class transport infrastructure is essential the economic success of Kilkenny and the South-East, the country’s main employer group has said. Ibec has warned that decades of chronic underinvestment in key infrastructure in Kilkenny and the region is threatening to undermine prospects for economic recovery. The group has called on the Government

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‘Chronic underinvestment’ in Kilkenny and south-east threatens recovery: IBEC

By Kilkenny Now 16th March 2021 3

Decades of chronic underinvestment in key infrastructure is threatening to undermine the prospects for economic recovery of Kilkenny and the south-east, the country’s largest employer’s group has warned. Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) is calling on the Government to deliver an ambitious programme of world class public services and

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Glass half empty: More than 4,500 of Kilkenny’s pub workers in danger of losing their job: report

By Kilkenny Now 8th July 2020 0

More than 4,600 jobs are at risk in Kilkenny’s pubs and hospitality sector after it emerged that consumer demand for the pub will be lower due to the impact of Covid-19. These startling figures were revealed in a report released by Drinks Ireland, an umbrella group consisting of the Licensed Vintners Association (LVA), Vintners Federation […]

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EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan defends meetings with local lobby groups

By Kilkenny Now 11th February 2019 0

EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan has defended the number of meetings he has held with local lobby groups. The former minister has been named among a handful of EU commissioners who had a “disproportionately large” number of meetings with lobbyists and business groups from their home countries, according to a group that […]