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65 hit with fines as Kilkenny Council deploys drones to combat litter louts

By Kilkenny Now 11th March 2019 0

KILKENNY County Council issued 65 fines to local litterbugs in January, new figures reveal. The council today confirmed a total of 65 fixed penalty fines were issued by Environment Enforcement Officers in the first month of the year. These fines were issued for offences such as littering around bottle banks, discarding cigarette butts from car […]

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Grants of up to €5,000 available to Kilkenny’s small festivals: Minister Phelan

By Kilkenny Now 11th March 2019 0

KILKENNY’S small festivals have been urged to apply for a new funding scheme that awards grants of between €1,000 and €5,000. While the amounts are small, Minister and Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan said the money can make “a huge difference” for volunteers running events throughout the city and county. The funding, which is available […]

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Kilkenny city-centre could hold the key to our housing crisis, event hears

By Kilkenny Now 11th March 2019 0

KILKENNY city-centre is a “huge untapped resource” to provide sustainable housing and accommodation for many more people and families, an event in the city has heard. Cllr Malcolm Noonan outlined a series of innovative urban housing initiatives at the recent ‘Talk of the Town’ event which was held in the Pembroke Hotel. He was joined […]

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Castlecomer’s first ever Rose is crowned

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

CASTLECOMER’S first ever Rose was crowned at a packed event in the county Kilkenny town last night. It was a tough call for the judges, but Niamh Balkin – sponsored by the Castlecomer Discovery Park – eventually won through. Niamh will now go on to represent Castlecomer at the Kilkenny Rose selection event at the […]

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Cats go down fighting in bad-tempered final round of Hurling League in Wexford

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

Wexford 1-19 Kilkenny 1-12 DAVY Fitzgerald’s side battled back from a five-point half-time deficit to overcome Kilkenny at Wexford Park today. Brian Cody’s men looked to be in a comfortable position at the break, but with the wind at their backs Wexford producing a barnstorming comeback in what was an often-ill-tempered clash. The final round […]

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Radio presenter shines spotlight on Post Natal Depression in new documentary

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

ASHAMED. Anxious. Allergic. Abnormal. Afraid. There are many ways to verbalise the emotions experienced by some new mothers, but few elicit the journey quite like So Much More than the Baby Blues– an audio documentary on Post Natal Depression produced by Beat 102-103’s Shonagh Lyons. Having brought her daughter Eve into the world on St. Stephen’s […]

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Anti-abortion group stage third protest outside county Kilkenny health centre

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

A THIRD anti-abortion protest has been held outside a county Kilkenny health centre that has previously been subjected to abusive phone calls and threatening letters. The latest protest was staged outside the Health Centre in Graiguenamanagh yesterday. A small group of up to a dozen protesters (pictured above at an earlier demonstration) held aloft signs with […]

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WEATHER ALERT: Kilkenny included in new snow-ice warning from Met Éireann

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

KILKENNY has been included in a new snow-ice weather alert that will remain in place until Monday morning. Met Éireann issued the Status Yellow snow-ice warning yesterday, urging householders and motorists in Kilkenny to beware of “scattered thundery showers of hail, sleet and snow” over the weekend. It also warned that “poor visibility, with slippery […]

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Scam warning: criminal posing as Garda trying to gain entry to pensioners’ homes

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2019 0

GARDAI are urging Kilkenny householders to beware of a new scam in which a man pretending to be a plain clothes Garda is attempting to gain entry into people’s homes. In one case last Thursday, a man posing as a police officer called to the house of an elderly lady in Bagenalstown claiming he had […]

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Beef farmers’ confidence ‘at all time low’, warns Kilkenny councillor

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2019 0

BEEF farming has never faced such an uncertain future and farmers’ confidence is at an “all time low”, a Kilkenny councillor and General Election candidate said today. Councillor Patrick O’Neill (pictured below) spoke out in the wake of a recent Teagasc report which reveals beef farmers are earning an annual income of just €12,000, far […]