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Kilkenny TD calls on State watchdog to clampdown on price gouging at pumps

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2022 Post a comment

A Kilkenny TD has challenged the State consumer watchdog to police price gouging at petrol stations as motorists are hit with soaring fuel costs. Deputy John Paul Phelan is among several Government backbenchers who have called on the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to get tough on forecourts and to check semi-State companies that […]

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Kilkenny top table as Cats overcome Waterford at Nowlan Park

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2022 0

Kilkenny overcame Waterford to clinch a place in the Allianz League semi finals. The Cats beat the Déise 2-21 0-21 in front of a packed UPMC Nowlan Park today to leave them top of the Division 1 B Group table. More details to come.

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2022 0

Maura RENEHAN (née Rowe) Upper Street, Kilmacow Maura passed away peacefully on Friday at her residence surrounded by her loving family. Deeply regretted by her loving husband Ollie, daughters Ann-Marie and Olive, their partners Shane and Sean, grandchildren Aoibheann, Bethany and Taylor, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Arriving on Monday at St. Senan’s Church,

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Specsavers Kilkenny outline vision for store makeover

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2022 0

One of Kilkenny’s best known opticians have been given the green light to expand and revamp its store in the Market Cross Shopping Centre. Kilkenny Specsavers Limited has been granted planning permission, with conditions, to amalgamate its retail units 4 and 5 by the local authority. In its planning application, Specsavers said the development would […]

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Plans to demolish old Kilkenny pub for major new housing development

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2022 0

Plans to demolish a well-known former pub and restaurant in Kilkenny and build more than 30 new homes on the site have been lodged with the local authority. The development by MJ McGuinness would see the existing former pub on O’Loughlin Road torn down to be replaced by a new scheme of apartments and houses. […]

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Ireland rugby heroes see off Scots to capture Triple Crown

By Kilkenny Now 19th March 2022 Post a comment

Ireland finished their Six Nations campaign with an impressive victory over Scotland to capture the Triple Crown on home soil for the first time in 18 years. The 26-5 bonus point triumph at the Aviva Stadium follows impressive earlier victories over Wales and the English at Twichenham, capping a successful campaign for coach Andy Farrell […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 19th March 2022 0

Catherine BROGAN Pill Road, Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary/Piltown, Kilkenny Formerly of Clonmore, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. Pre-deceased by her partner Mickie, their baby daughter Lynn, and her sister Josephine. Our Catherine slipped away peacefully surrounded by her loving family at South Tipperary General Hospital under the kind care of the staff in Medical 4. Catherine will

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: How a dark horse helped Charlie beat the bookie at last

By Kilkenny Now 19th March 2022 Post a comment

Work was scarce when I was growing up and a lot of men, with nothing better to do, divided their days between the bookmaker and the pub. Once a week they collected the dole – the buroo, they called it, Belfast-speak for the employment bureau. Battle-hardened wives would swoop quickly to get some family money […]

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Good Samaritan comes to help of elderly lost visitor to Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 19th March 2022 0

A big-hearted woman went to the aid of an elderly tourist who wandered off and got lost during a visit to the city this week. The man, who is in his 80s, arrived in Kilkenny on a bus trip from the UK. It is understood he got separated from his group and ended up five […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 18th March 2022 0

Patricia GORMLEY (née Gunnell) Ossory Hill, Johnswell, Kilkenny/Roscrea, Tipperary Gormley (nee Gunnell) (Ossory Hill, Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny and formerly of Carrick, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary) 16th March 2022, peacefully, in the presence of her family, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, after a long illness borne with dignity, Patricia, predeceased by her father Tom