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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Our dear little island lives up to its name

By Kilkenny Now 22nd July 2020 0

I have been on staycation in Galway with three generations of my family. We should have been in Malta – but sure we all have to make sacrifices in these troubled times. Anyway, I love Galway. And what, I asked my sceptical family, has Malta got that the West of Ireland can’t match? Well, prices […]

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SPONSORED: Cork Airport – your holiday starts here!

By Kilkenny Now 31st October 2019 0

MORE and more sunseekers and commuters from Kilkenny and across the South East are choosing to fly from Cork Airport. And it’s not hard to see why. Just over a 90-minute drive from Kilkenny, Cork Airport is the fastest growing airport in the country with 10 new routes added over the past 12 months – […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: A hot red from the black soil of Sicily

By Kilkenny Now 12th July 2019 0

LAST week I wrote about the wines of Gozo. From the north of that Maltese island, you can – if the day is clear and your eyesight good – see the coast of Sicily. What you are looking at is the region of Avola (the town of that name is a bit to the west) […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Little holiday island with some nice, big wines

By Kilkenny Now 5th July 2019 Post a comment

THE island of Gozo lies between Sicily and Malta. Politically it is part of Malta, but it is very different from the bigger island with its traffic jams and crowded urban centres. Malta always seems in a hurry. On Gozo they don’t know what the word means. It’s a gem of a place with sandy […]