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Save Our Shops: Kilkenny people urged to support local businesses during lockdown

By Kilkenny Now 22nd October 2020 0

Local tourism chiefs are urging people to support businesses throughout Kilkenny city and county as the nation prepares for life under lockdown for the second time this year. From this morning, many businesses across Kilkenny have switched to online trading in a bid to keep afloat as the pandemic drives the economy deeper into recession. […]

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‘Our players come first’ – Waterford GAA pull out of league clash due to Covid fears

By Kilkenny Now 22nd October 2020 0

Waterford have forfeited this Saturday’s Allianz League Division Four clash away to Antrim due to concerns over Covid-19. A lengthy statement released by Waterford GAA this morning reads: “At the outset, we want to first of all acknowledge the efforts by all concerned in getting the inter county season up and running, which has been […]

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‘A kind quiet gentleman and a loss that will always be felt’ – warm tributes to former Kilkenny hurler after his untimely death

By Kilkenny Now 22nd October 2020 0

A local GAA club has paid a warm tribute to a former Kilkenny minor hurling player after his untimely death earlier this week. St Patrick’s Ballyragget GAA club took to social media to express their deepest sympathy to the family of clubman Eoin Bergin. Eoin was a pacy forward who played a key role in […]

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Dawn Garda operation enforcing new lockdown swings into action in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 22nd October 2020 0

A major high visibility Garda operation in support of the newly imposed public health measures is in full swing throughout Kilkenny city and county this morning. Members of the local garda units are out engaging Kilkenny communities and commuters in their effort to assist the public and enforce the new rules for the duration of […]

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Appeal from Kilkenny gardai as they prepare to enforce Level 5 lockdown from midnight

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 0

Kilkenny gardai have urged people “to play our part” in fighting the spread of Covid-19 as the new Level 5 lockdown comes into effect from midnight tonight. Gardai have maintained a more visible presence on our roads in recent weeks as Kilkenny came under Level 3 restrictions. Local Garda sources have said the vast majority […]

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LATEST: Kilkenny among 1,167 new cases of virus as three further deaths confirmed, sharp rise in outbreaks in our schools

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 Post a comment

A futher three more people have died after contracting the coronavirus as 1,167 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed this evening. It brings the overall death toll from the virus to 1,868. There are now 53,422 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the country, according to the latest daily briefing from the National Public Health Emergency […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: The GAA is not elite and I hope it never will be

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 0

In these Covid-haunted times, the things that make the GAA great are also the association’s biggest weakness: the men and women who play its sports are all amateurs and they compete in every part of the country. They have been classed as elite under the new guidelines for virus control, which gives them the same […]

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REST IN PEACE: Kilkenny Death Notices

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 0

Eoin BERGIN  Earlsgarden, Attanagh, Laois/Kilkenn Unexpectedly, beloved son of Martin and Noreen and dear brother to Liam and Aisling; deeply regretted by his loving family, grandparents, uncles, aunts, sister-in-law Laura, niece, nephew, relatives and a large circle of friends. Funeral Mass will take place in the Church of the Assumption, Ballyouskill (max. 25 people) on

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The big cheese! Check out Kilkenny food giant’s amazing new $470m plant in US

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 0

Operations got underway today at Kilkenny-based Glanbia’s new state-of-the-art cheese and whey plant in the US. The local food giant released these pictures (above and below) of the US€470 million facility in St Johns, Michigan, this morning to mark the occasion. Commissioning operations at MWC will take place over the next eight months. When fully […]

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‘Their stories must be heard’ – Kilkenny TD slams ‘disgraceful’ treatment of abuse survivors

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2020 0

A Kilkenny TD has urged the Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman “to respect survivors’ wishes” and ensure the Mother and Baby Homes records are not sealed for 30 years. Deputy Funchion, who is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on children, said ahead of a Dáil debate today: “The way that this Government has attempted to rush through the