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Disqualified driver app-rehended by gardai in Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 19th July 2020 0

A disqualified driver was caught red-handed by Kilkenny officers who were armed with the new Garda mobile device app. A local Garda spokesperson confirmed the driver was arrested in Mooncoin yesterday morning. The suspect was charged and is due to appear before court. The Garda mobility app helps frontline gardai to root out drivers who […]

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Plans to erect massive 18-metre mast in heart of Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 13th July 2020 0

Telecoms company Eircom plans to erect an 18-metre high mast in the heart of a Kilkenny village. The company has lodged an application with Kilkenny County Council to construct a free-standing “communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works”. The development will form part of its

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Heartless fraudsters target Kilkenny elderly in new Covid scam

By Kilkenny Now 6th July 2020 0

Elderly residents in Kilkenny are being targeted in a new Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) scam in which fraudsters try to con vulnerable people  into handing over their private bank details. KilkennyNow.ie has learned of reports over the last few days of elderly people in the South Kilkenny and East Waterford areas who have recieved […]

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Camera shy thieves make off with CCTV installed to monitor bins in Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 5th July 2020 0

Thieves stole a CCTV camera that was recently installed in a county Kilkenny village to monitor local recycling bins. The theft occurred at the Church carpark on Polerone Road, Mooncoin, sometime between 9am on Saturday, June 20 and 4pm on Monday, June 22. The camera is the property of Kilkenny County Council. Gardaí have urged […]

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Back to the future: €215,000 earmarked for vital works to protect Kilkenny’s heritage

By Kilkenny Now 15th June 2020 0

Fourteen Kilkenny buildings of historic importance are to share in a pot of close to €215,000, funds which will be used to pay for much needed upkeep and remedial work. The money earmarked for the 16 projects in county Kilkenny is part of the 2020 Historic Structures Fund and the Built Heritage Investment Scheme. These […]

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Wheels of justice finally turn for local boy whose bike was stolen on Christmas Day

By Kilkenny Now 6th April 2020 0

Kilkenny gardai have made a very late Christmas wish come true for a local boy whose bicycle was stolen just hours after he unwrapped it on the morning of December 25 last. Officers never gave up the search for the boy’s bike, which was stolen from the family’s front garden on the Kilkenny border near […]

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Kilkenny parents warned after reports emerge of teenagers coughing on elderly people in TikTok challenge

By Kilkenny Now 25th March 2020 0

Young people in Kilkenny who cough or spit at elderly people as part of the so-called TikTok Covid-19 challenge are breaking the law, a TD has warned. Parents also need to ensure their children behave themselves at all times, Fianna Fáil’s James Lawless has said, after unconfirmed reports emerged in recent days that two teenagers […]

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Fake plates, no tax, no insurance and banned: Disqualified driver nabbed by new Garda app on Kilkenny road

By Kilkenny Now 26th February 2020 0

The new Garda Mobility App is paying off for Kilkenny gardai already after a van they stopped was found to be out of tax and insurance and displaying fake plates, the driver was also disqualified. The incident happened on the N24, Waterford to Limerick road close to Piltown when gardai from Mooncoin stopped a white […]

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Hero Kilkenny campaigner Vicky has her eye on seat in the Seanad

By Kilkenny Now 16th February 2020 0

Kilkenny cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said she wants to become an independent senator. The Mooncoin mother-of-two, who published her best-selling memoir Overcoming last September, said she has been thinking of entering politics for some time, but needed to get approval from her doctors. Vicky, who is currently director of literacy development at Waterford

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Burglar smashed front door of home in Kilkenny village while owner was away

By Kilkenny Now 13th February 2020 0

Gardai are investigating an attempted break-in of a house in a county Kilkenny village. The incident happened at Comeragh View, Mooncoin between 7pm on Saturday, February 8 and 11am on Sunday, February 9. The homeowner, who was not at the property at the time of the incident, returned home to find a glass panel in […]