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BREAKING: Clueless internet scammers attempt to hustle Garda at Kilkenny station

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY INTERNET scammers got a bit of a shock when they discovered the person they were trying to scam was in fact a garda on duty in a Kilkenny Garda station. The online hustler was cold calling and thought they had hit upon an unsuspecting member of the public. Instead, they dialed Thomastown […]

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Picket suspended outside Kilkenny meat processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY FARMERS who had been picketing a meat processing site in south Kilkenny over beef prices have called off their protest for the time being. Last night representatives of the Beef Plan Movement and Meat Industry Ireland (MII) accepted a proposal aimed at ending the blockades at meat processing plants across the country. […]

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ESB urge Cats supporters not to hang Kilkenny colours from poles

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

Flying the Black and Amber around houses and estates is as much part of the All-Ireland build up as hunting for tickets. Flags and bunting bring great colour to the weeks leading into the final, but Kilkenny residents are being asked not to take risks around electricity poles. The main providers of electricity in the […]

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‘Women have been failed again’ – Kilkenny CervicalCheck campaigner on latest scandal

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan says women have been failed yet again by the health service. The Mooncoin mother-of-two took to twitter to vent her deep frustration at the latest CervicalCheck revelations which reveal consistent failures in the screening and reporting process. “Lessons do not appear to have been learned,” Ms […]

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Kilkenny youths suspected of horror sex attacks on teen girls ‘still in Ireland’

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI believe the main suspects in the alleged sexual assault carried out on teenage girls at a county Wexford beach recently are still in the country. Despite questioning a number of males, and carrying out a raid in Kilkenny last weekend, no arrests have been made in connections with the alleged triple […]

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Kilkenny TD accuses Agriculture Minister of hiding away from the escalating beef crisis

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A LOCAL TD, and farmer, has put the welly into the Minister of Agriculture accusing him of hiding away from the issues at the centre of the beef crisis protests. Kilkenny’s Fianna Fáil TD Bobby Aylward is calling on Agriculture Minister Michael Creed to find a way of opening dialogue between all […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Where a glass of wine is good for your art

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

PADDY McKillen started his business life in Belfast with the family’s motor repair business. He moved to Dublin where he specialised in the supply of car exhausts. He went into property and, later, the hospitality industry. He is a hotelier with a major reputation world-wide. His son, also Paddy, owns many clubs and pubs across […]

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Ryanair pilot strike to cause chaos for Kilkenny holidaymakers

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY THE PLANS of Kilkenny holidaymakers could be plunged into chaos later this month after Ryanair pilots voted overwhelmingly to back strike plans. Unions representing the Ryanair pilots have given Ryanair management until next Monday to accept their demands for improved pay and work conditions or face a grounding of part of its […]

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St Luke’s consultant at centre of patient consent controversy put on leave

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE CONSULTANT at the centre of a controversy at St Luke’s Hospital, where procedures were carried out on five women without their consent, has been placed on administrative leave. Professor Ray O’Sullivan, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Luke’s previously said he did not feel he needed to obtain consent for […]

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Much ado about the weather – storm halts opening night performance of Shakespeare play

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THIS year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival has a theme of illumination running through it, and unfortunately for the organisers last night did not disappoint. The opening night of Rough Magic’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ had to the halted just before the second act due to the threat of lightning storms […]