Kilkenny LEADER Partnership (KLP) is supporting rural communities struggling with cripplingly slow broadband speeds and is encouraging them to consider setting up their own community owned and operated future proofed broadband networks through a series of regional workshops across County Kilkenny beginning in Freshford on Tuesday, October 25, culminating with a joint
Two males were seen fleeing the scene after they caused damage to electric gates and a van in south Kilkenny. The incident occured betwen 1pm and 3.30pm in the Ballymountain area of Carrigeen on Monday. A Local Garda spokesperson said: “Two males fled the scene in a grey Ford Focus. Anyone who noticed this vehicle […]
Gardai have renewed a public appeal for information in relation to a fatal road crash that claimed the life of a young Kilkenny student. Cian Mooney (17), a student at Kildalton College who was from Castlecomer, died after the car in which he was a passenger crashed outside Piltown at around 8pm last Wednesday. In […]
Hero Kilkenny’s cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will not be able to take part in the journey to Croagh Patrick for the charity Climb with Charlie Bird next month. The Mooncoin mother-of-two took to social media to say she’s endured a difficult few weeks with radiotherapy and has been very unwell as a result. Earlier this […]
More than 40 tyres were found dumped in a forested area in the south of the county. Gardai confirmed they found “upwards of 40 tyres” discarded in a forest at Mullinakill, near Tullogher, last Saturday. They have asked anyone who noticed anyone acting suspiciously in the area to contact gardai in in Mullinavat or Mooncoin.
A thief made off with a power washer worth €2,500 after he broke into a property in rural Kilkenny. The red Honda power washer was stolen from an outhouse on a farm in the Ballinaraha area of Mullinavat sometime between Thursday, November 25 and Thursday, December 2. Gardai are investigating the theft. A local Garda […]
A green-fingered burglar broke into a house in the south of the county and made with some valuable gardening machinery. The break-in occurred at the house in the Davidstown area of Slieverue on Friday, November 10, ar around 10.30am. Gardai confirmed a lawnmower, a Black and Decker hedgetrimmer and a Black and Decker strimmer were […]
Vandals caused damage to the gates of a yard in a Kilkenny village but were caught in the act by the owner. The incident occurred shortly before 2am on Saturday morning. A local Garda spokesperson confirmed: “Gardaí in Mooncoin received a report of damage to gates at a yard in Corloughan, Piltown in the early […]
A motorist was caught driving dangerously in a car with bald tyres that hasn’t been taxed for more than four years. It also emerged the car, which was stopped by gardai in Mooncoin on Thursday, was fuelled by illegal green diesel. Gardai seized the vehicle, which had last been taxed in March 2017. A local […]
Kilkenny’s hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan is coming home in two weeks for a break from her ongoing trial treatment at a clinic in the USA. And it could not come at a better time for the Mooncoin mother-of-two, who has endured an extremely tough couple of weeks in the States suffering from the side […]