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Thieves steal cabling from building site at Kilkenny hospital

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2020 0

A spool of heavy duty electrical cable has been stolen from a building site at a hospital in Kilkenny. The theft occurred overnight between 8pm Monday, August 24 and 8am Tuesday, August 25 from a building site at St Canice’s Hospital, just off the Kilkenny Ring Road. Around 150mts of cabling in total was taken […]

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No codding: Slippery thieves steal pet fish from garden of Kilkenny home

By Kilkenny Now 26th August 2020 0

Gardai are casting their net wide after a large number of pet fish were stolen from a Kilkenny garden. The thieves entered the garden of a house on Kilkenny’s Dublin Road sometime between 11pm on Friday, August 21 and 6am on Saturday, August 22. Once inside, they made their way to a pond in the […]

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Blooming annoying: Green fingered thief makes off with garden ornaments from county Kilkenny home

By Kilkenny Now 6th August 2020 0

Gardai are on the lookout for a light-fingered thief they believe may have green-fingers. Two black cast iron flowerpots were stolen from outside a house in Garryduff, Gowran between 6pm on Monday and 10am on Tuesday. The homeowner noticed the heavy flowerpots had vanished when they left their house Tuesday morning and reported it to […]

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Shocking: Gardai hunt gang behind thefts of electric fences and equipment from Kilkenny farms

By Kilkenny Now 16th July 2020 0

Gardaí are on the hunt for a gang who have been trespassing on farms in county Kilkenny and literally pulling equipment up out of fields. Two farms in Knockroe, near Windgap were targetted over the last number of days and the thieves are stealing fencing and electrical wires. The first incident happened between 8pm on […]

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Cheeky thieves steal vital equipment from back of a trailer parked on Kilkenny road

By Kilkenny Now 29th June 2020 0

Thieves stole essential transporting equipment straight off the back of a trailer parked up on a road in county Kilkenny. The theft occurred when the trailer was parked on the roadside at Cloughabrody, Thomastown, between 7pm on Saturday and 7am last Monday. Three rachet straps, three hydraulic pipes and an adjustable spanner were taken from […]

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Gang targets Kilkenny homes, emptying oil tanks, during Covid-19 crisis

By Kilkenny Now 5th April 2020 0

Gardai are on the hunt for a gang of slick operators who have been going around the county emptying fuel from tanks outside homes. Earlier this week gardai were contacted by a homeowner in Laurel Hill in Inistioge who discovered the tank had been emptied. When they turned on the heating the boiler wouldn’t work. […]

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Slick burglar makes off with home heating fuel and engine oil from county Kilkenny home

By Kilkenny Now 18th February 2020 0

A slippery burglar managed to get away with fuel and machine oil after breaking into a yard in county Kilkenny. The burglary happened at Pollagh, Skeoughvosteen, Goresbridge between midday on Friday, February 7 and midday on Wednesday, February 12. The intruder made their way to the boiler house in the yard, where they broke a […]

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Scenes of chaos in Kilkenny city estate, car windscreen smashed and wheel stolen

By Kilkenny Now 8th January 2020 0

There were chaotic scenes at a Kilkenny city housing estate after a thief smashed the front windscreen of a car parked in the driveway outside the owner’s home. The vandal also stole a spare wheel from the vehicle before leaving the scene. The bizarre incident occurred outside a house in Burrell’s Walk, College Park last […]

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Thief makes off with stash of power tools as just as owner turned their back

By Kilkenny Now 7th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY AN OPPORTUNISTIC thief made off with an array of power tools after targeting a garden shed, just after the owner turned their back The burglar broke into the shed in the Lavistown area of Kilkenny, last Friday between 9.45 am and 10.10am. In that very short space of time, the burglar managed […]