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It’s the little things in life – doll’s house sells for €48,000 at Kilkenny auction

By Kilkenny Now 24th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY auction house was shocked when a doll’s house with a guide price of €3,000 – €4,000 was sold for 12 times that. An 1810 Travelling Baby house fetching an eye-watering €48,000 at the auction in Fonsie Mealy’s auction house in Castlecomer yesterday afternoon. The two-room mahogany doll’s house standing 44cm […]

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Oscar nominated film from Kilkenny’s renowned animation studio makes list of greatest children’s movies

By Kilkenny Now 24th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S world-famous animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, has just received yet another stunning endorsement of their work. The Cartoon Saloon’s Oscar-nominated film, ‘The Breadwinner’ just got a spot on a coveted list of greatest children’s films ever made. The Oscar-nominated ‘The Breadwinner’ was released in 2017 and received the nomination in 2018,

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Weather update: Long sunny spells, but some thundershowers expected

By Kilkenny Now 24th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY SPELLS of lovely sunshine will be mixed with heavy showers and thunderstorms over the next fewe days. Temperatures will remain up in the mid-20s, but it will be humid. This changeable weather is caused by yet another warm front moving across continental Europe from the Sahara. This is the second of such […]

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Garda Alert: Scammers prowling Kilkenny residents with dodgy bank emails

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY residents are being warned to look out for a scam email doing the rounds, claiming to be from their bank saying people’s accounts are frozen. Local gardai say a scam email targeting Bank of Ireland customers has been dropping into people’s inboxes over the last number of days. The scam email […]

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‘Absolutely outrageous’ – Kilkenny TD frustrated with ongoing delays in funding St Luke’s MRI scanner

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE LACK of urgency, and funding, involved in providing an MRI scanner for St Luke’s General Hospital has frustrated a Kilkenny TD and led him to become cynical about the Government’s guarantees. The issue of the non-provision of the MRI scanner was re-opened after the Minister of State with special responsibility for […]

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The place to be – six Kilkenny bars nominated for excellence awards

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY IT’S been an excellent day for the hospitality trade in Kilkenny as six establishments were nominated across nine categories for national and international awards in excellence. The nominations in two different bar and hospitality trade awards, the Bar of the Year Awards and the Irish Hospitality Global Awards, were announced this morning, […]

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Medical misadventure verdict returned in case of day-old baby who died in St Luke’s

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 0

AN INQUEST into the death of a baby girl at St Luke’s General Hospital returned a verdict of medical misadventure. Baby Livia Angel Urkova-Marini died following an attempt to perform a delivery by vacuum suction due to labour complications. Liva Angel was born at 12.04pm on May 18, 2014. She passed away at 7 pm […]

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‘We are beyond crisis point’ – Kilkenny TD reacts to waiting lists for child consultants

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY THE number of children on waiting lists to see consultants proves the health service “is beyond crisis point” according to a Kilkenny TD. Figures released this week show there are 47,255 children waiting to see a paediatrician for an outpatient appointment. Of these 19,000 are waiting over a year to see a […]

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Seven people found in possesion in drugs crackdown in city

By Kilkenny Now 22nd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI arrested seven people for minor drug offenses in the city on Saturday night. The Garda Divisional Drugs Unit and Kilkenny garda members arrested seven people for being in possession of various illegal substances. Cocaine, MDMA and cannabis were discovered during the six-hour period up until midnight on Saturday. Gardai stopped numerous […]

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Kilkenny becoming ‘Age- Friendly’ capital of Ireland

By Kilkenny Now 22nd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY Kilkenny is fast becoming the age-friendly capital of Ireland, and this effort was recognised today by the Government. The Minister of State with special responsibility for Older People and Mental Health, Jim Daly came to county Kilkenny today to run his eye over three innovative projects that make Kilkenny a more accessible […]