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Break with tradition – Saturday evening semi-final for Kilkenny’s side of All Ireland draw

By Kilkenny Now 5th July 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY IN A break with tradition, the GAA are to hold the first of this year’s All Ireland hurling semi-finals on a Saturday evening, and Kilkenny could be playing. Today the GAA confirmed the times and dates of the remaining fixtures in this year’s hurling championship. The first semi-final will feature All Ireland […]

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Cody’s Cats 7-1 outsiders to lift Liam McCarthy this year after thrilling draw at Wexford

By Kilkenny Now 17th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY DESPITE Kilkenny’s thrilling draw with Wexford on Saturday, Galway being dumped out of the championship by Dublin was the most significant development this season so far. Brain Cody, calmness personified, knew the draw was good enough to see Kilkenny into another Leinster decider as he walked onto the Innovate Wexford Park turf […]

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WEATHER ALERT: Batten down the hatches – Storm Hannah is coming

By Kilkenny Now 25th April 2019 0

LAST weekend’s glorious Easter Bank Holiday weekend will be sadly long forgotten by tomorrow night when Storm Hannah hits Kilkenny. Met Éireann today issued separate orange and yellow wind warnings covering most parts of the country, and a small craft warning for the Irish Sea. Kilkenny is among the counties included in the Status Yellow […]

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Kilkenny man George Clooney meets his Irish cousins!

By Kilkenny Now 22nd April 2019 Post a comment

By SARAH SLATER and KILKENNYNOW.IE REPORTER HOLLYWOOD A-lister George Clooney, whose ancestral family hails from Windgap, spent a few days in Ireland over Easter getting to know his Irish cousins. The family get-together was organised by George’s parents, the renowned broadcaster Nicholas (85) and his writer wife Nina (80). The couple hosted the family reunion […]

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Teenage girls injured in serious road crash rushed to St Luke’s and Midlands hospitals

By Kilkenny Now 20th March 2019 Post a comment

FIVE people were rushed to St Luke’s and the Midlands Regional hospitals after a serious road crash. The single vehicle collision occurred at around 11.50am in Ballinabranagh, Co Carlow. The five were injured, two seriously, in the crash which involved only one vehicle. A man in his 20s and four teenage girls were taken to St […]

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Eddie Brennan: ‘Limerick are beginning to look like my old Kilkenny team’

By Kilkenny Now 6th March 2019 0

HURLING legend Eddie Brennan says Limerick are beginning to resemble the great Kilkenny team he starred in at the height of its powers. His former teammate Jackie Tyrrell recently expressed doubts about their ability to retain the All-Ireland title they won for the first time since 1973 last year. But Brennan (pictured above in his […]