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BREAKING: First case of coronavirus contracted by patient in Ireland who hadn’t travelled abroad

By Kilkenny Now 5th March 2020 2

A man in Cork who has tested positive for Covid-19 is believed to be the first person in Ireland to have contracted the disease without leaving the country. He was the seventh person in the Republic – and tenth on the the island – to have caught the highly contagious virus but the first not […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Red or white? Or how about a glass of yellow?

By Kilkenny Now 21st February 2020 0

In eastern France, up near the border with Switzerland, they have been celebrating La Percée du Vin Jaune,  the Opening of the Yellow Wine. The festival is usually held in February;  the exact date varies to coincide with the release of the new vintage of this region’s unusual wine. I was  inroduced to it down […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Would you like to say ‘hola’ to red wine with cola?

By Kilkenny Now 24th January 2020 0

Spain devotes more land to growing vines than any other country in Europe but produces considerably less wine than France or Italy. The discrepancy is largely down to climate. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain, or so the song has it, but not a lot falls on the baked plains of La […]

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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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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Out of the mouths of babes and crackpots

By Kilkenny Now 4th September 2019 0

WHEN I was 16 I knew just what was wrong with the world and how to fix it. Fortunately, the world wasn’t listening and so was spared the creation of an international Marxist super-state that paid surgeons the same as window cleaners and printed money for anyone who needed it. Looking back, I don’t think […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: The last of the summer rosé

By Kilkenny Now 16th August 2019 0

AUTUMN is on the horizon, but for the last of the summer wine let me return to rosé, the great staple of barbecues, picnics and garden parties. It used to be looked down on as a sweet summer drink for people who could not decide between white and red. But I read that it has […]

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Kilkenny to sizzle this week, but thunderstorms also on the horizon: Met Éireann

By Kilkenny Now 24th June 2019 0

IT was another pretty miserable weekend weather wise, culminating in a rainfall warning for Kilkenny from Met Éireann which was only lifted at 6am this morning. However, the national forecaster says the weather will turn increasingly mild and humid over the coming days and it will also become increasingly unsettled as a warm front moves […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Turning water into wine spritzers

By Kilkenny Now 21st June 2019 0

I’M a-going where the water tastes like wine, sang Woody Guthrie. Never been there myself. Sadly, I have been to places where the wine tastes like water, but nobody writes songs about them. Generally speaking, water and wine are best kept apart. They shared top billing at the Wedding Feast of Cana – but they […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Fizz may not be better but it’s usually dearer

By Kilkenny Now 5th April 2019 Post a comment

LAST week I mentioned, in passing, the two types of Prosecco on sale in Ireland – frizzante and spumante. A number of readers (well, one’s a number isn’t it?) have asked for more information. So … Prosecco is the name of a village where the sparkling wine is produced but that is not important since […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Pinto Gris and Pinot Grigio: neighbours divided by shades of grey

By Kilkenny Now 8th March 2019 0

PINTO Gris and Pinot Grigio are neighbours. Both wines come from the same white grape with a greyish skin (hence the French name ‘gris’). At one stage these wines must have been identical but different production methods have driven them apart. In Alsace, where most of the French Pinto Gris is made, the harvest is […]