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BREAKING: M9 Motorway closed following serious accident, ploughing traffic diverted

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE M9 has been shut down in both directions following a serious accident in the last hour. The emergency services are asking people attending the Ploughing Championship to avoid the M9 and find alternative routes. Gardai rushed to the scene and immediately closed the motorway between Junction 4, Castledermot and Junction 6, […]

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Blockades continue outside Kilkenny meat plants as farmers dispute vote result

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY PROTESTERS remain outside a meat processing plant in Kilkenny despite a vote being passed to lift the blockade. Despite earlier reports that protesters have lifted the blockade outside the ABP foods plant in Ferrybank, protesters remain on the gate blocking trucks from entering or exiting. The protesters at the plant this morning […]

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ALERT: Kilkenny emergency services rush to scene of accident, car bursts into flames on M9

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a road accident in South Kilkenny. Fire units from Thomastown rushed to the scene on the M9 Motorway at around 9.30am this morning after a vehicle burst into flames. The invident occurred just outside Waterford city near the M9/N9 roundabout northbound between Junction 12 at Grannagh and Junction […]

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SPONSORED: Great Lengths – turning heads at the Mane Event

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

THE main event was the Dublin Horse Show but The Mane Event, which followed, was the one that turned heads. The evening saw a host of stylish ladies descend on HOUSE in Dublin’s Leeson Street to take part in a best dressed competition, celebrating all things hats and hair. It was organised by Great Lengths, […]

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‘A real life hero’ – Garda who dived into River Nore to save drowning man is honoured

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A HERO local Garda who risked her life by jumping into the River Nore to save a man from drowning was honoured by Kilkenny County Council this week. In the early hours of July 7, Garda Caroline O’Brien was on duty when she was made aware of a man in the river. […]

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Raising the bar! Renowned Kilkenny pub named best in the entire region

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A FAMOUS Kilkenny bar will represent the South East region at the Irish Pub Awards. Paris Texas Bar has just been announced as the Best Innovative Pub in the region. It is the second Kilkenny pub representing the South East in the Irish Pub Awards after Malzards Bar in Stoneyford was recently […]

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Balaclava-clad men join protestors blockading Kilkenny meat processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 18th September 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY PROTESTERS in balaclavas have been seen amongst the farmers blockading a meat processing plant in county Kilkenny. Earlier today Dawn Meats said it contacted gardai after becoming aware of protestors wearing full-face masks or balaclavas outside their facility in Grannagh, South Kilkenny, in what it described as a ‘sinister development.’ The plant […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Don’t get your liquors in a twist, Mr Harris

By Kilkenny Now 18th September 2019 0

IN February 2015, the Government announced its intention to curb the sale of cheap booze by introducing minimum pricing. It also said it would bring in a law forcing shops to partition off the areas in which they sold alcohol. Some people saw these measures as an assault on their civil liberties while others just […]

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Top economist David McWilliams to advise Kilkenny businesses on how to prepare for Brexit

By Kilkenny Now 18th September 2019 0

DAVID McWilliams, one of Ireland’s most recognised and influential economic and social commentators, will advise local businesses on how to prepare themselves for Brexit at a special event at Hotel Kilkenny next month. He will be the keynote speaker at the ‘Ready, Set, Brexit’ event on October 2, which has been organised by Local Enterprise Office Kilkenny. […]

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US cyber-security company chooses Kilkenny for European HQ, 50 jobs created

By Kilkenny Now 18th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THERE was more good news on the employment front for Kilkenny this morning as a US company announced it is to set up its European headquarters in the city. Security Risk Advisors (SRA), a cybersecurity consulting company is to create 52 jobs at its new headquarters and Security Operations Centre (SOC) in […]