KILKENNY athlete Mary FitzGerald did her county proud as she took home two gold medals from the 2019 IWAS World Games in UAE. The Callan native and Gowran AC member won gold in the women’s javelin event on day one of the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports event. She followed this up with another gold […]
CERVICAL cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will lead the city’s annual St Patrick’s Day Parade next month. The Mooncoin mother-of-two has campaigned tirelessly on behalf of women who have been caught up in the Cervical Check controversy since emerged last year smear tests of 221 women failed to identify abnormalities. Councillor Joe Malone, who is Chairperson […]
A CRACK canine cop helped Kilkenny gardai to sniff out a cannabis ‘grow-house’ just over the county border in Tipperary. Just over €40,000 worth of cannabis plants were discovered in the raid on the premises in Mallinahone, along with €1,200 of cannabis herb. The planned raid involved members of the Kilkenny Detective Unit backed by […]
SOME of Kilkenny’s best-loved landmarks and businesses have been singled out for praise in a special feature on Ireland’s Ancient East tourism initiative published by the global travel bible National Geographic. The in-depth article identifies Kilkenny as one of 10 towns in the east of the country that are “saturated in stories of the past”. […]
GARDAI have seized up to €60,000 in separate cocaine busts in the city in less than a week. Yesterday Kilkenny gardai seized €30,000 of cocaine during an intense day-long crackdown on organised criminals which involved up to 80 local and specialist gardai. At least 12 people have been charged with criminal offences. Some are due […]
THIRTY people were arrested and €80,000 worth of drugs seized in a major crackdown on Kilkenny criminals involving up to 80 gardai in the city and county today. The arrests and drugs seizures are part of the ongoing Garda Operation Storm investigating organised criminal activity in the Kilkenny area. The high-profile operation involved up to […]
KILKENNY’S multi Oscar nominated studio Cartoon Saloon has signed a new deal to create a major new animated series that will be broadcast across the world on the global kids’ network Nickelodeon. The series, Dorg Van Dango, is an Ireland-Canada co-production from Cartoon Saloon and DHX Media, in association with Family Channel in Canada and […]
GLANBIA Co-operative Society has announced that a total of €10.9 million will be paid to milk supplier members this month as part of its Trading Bonus Scheme. The payment will be made to qualifying members with their January milk payment and is based on 2018 milk supply volumes. A total of 3,755 Glanbia Co-op members […]
KILKENNY will today host a meeting of some of the region’s finest marketing minds. Professionals from the tourism, hospitality, retail, food and drink industries will take part in the innovative event which has been organised by the South East Marketing Forum (SMF) and its co-host and main sponsor, Kilkenny Design Centre. SMF was established by marketing […]
A MAJOR crackdown on organised crime in Kilkenny involving up to 80 gardai from local and specialist divisions is getting underway in the city this morning as part of Operation Storm. KilkennyNow.ie can reveal a number of arrests and drug seizures have already been made as part of a series of “planned and targeted” Garda […]