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Talented Kilkenny student awarded prestigious bursary

By Kilkenny Now 31st October 2019 0

A COUNTY Kilkenny third-level student has been awarded a prestigious bursary for her work in Biotechnology. Aoife Walsh from Mooncoin received the 2019 Regeneron Ireland College Award, in collaboration with the University of Limerick (UL), at an event in Regeneron’s Industrial Operations and Production Supply (IOPs) facility in Limerick last week. The annual awards

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Inspirational Kilkenny heroes nominated for Book of the Year award

By Kilkenny Now 26th October 2019 0

KILKENNY is well represented in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 nominations. The written accounts of two inspirational Kilkenny figures, Eoin Larkin and Vicky Phelan, and the battles they encountered during their lives, are shortlisted for Ireland’s most prestigious writing award. Eight-time All-Ireland winner, Eoin Larkin sees his book “Camouflage – My Story”

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‘We’ve grown apart’ – hero cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan reveals her marriage has broken up

By Kilkenny Now 19th October 2019 0

HERO cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has revealed her marriage has broken-up, but says she is still happily living with her husband. The Kilkenny mother-of-two, who played a pivotal role in uncovering the CervicalCheck scandal last year, says she is still “great friends” with her husband Jim. The Mooncoin woman said they decided to stay […]

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Kilkenny’s Credit Unions remain Ireland’s best customer experience

By Kilkenny Now 9th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S six Credit Unions have come out tops in a survey of people’s customer experience. The Credit Union movement has been named as Ireland’s best customer service for the fifth time in a row in the CXi Ireland Customer Experience (CX) Report and has won the award in each of the years […]

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Crime gang terrorise vulnerable pensioners, four homes in Kilkenny ranscaked

By Kilkenny Now 13th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY gardai are hunting a gang who subjected vulnerable pensioners to terrifying ordeals during a spate of violent break-ins over the past 24 hours. Gardai are investigating the possibility the same gang is behind four separate robberies in South Kilkenny and three robberies in neighbouring county Waterford yesterday. Four homes were broken […]

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A life less ordinary: brave Kilkenny campaigner Vicky’s memoirs hit the shelves

By Kilkenny Now 12th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S inspirational cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan will see her first book go on sale today. ‘Overcoming’ is the moving memoir from the Mooncoin mother-of-two who rose to national prominence when she uncovered how hundreds of cervical smear tests had been misread. The 45-year-old was only diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017, […]

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Cash those chips! Kilkenny woman scoops €200,000 windfall from scratch card in her local takeaway

By Kilkenny Now 9th September 2019 0

A KILKENNY woman scooped an incredible €20,000 windfall on a National Lottery scratch card as she waited in line for a bag of chips at her local take-away. The woman, who wishes to keep her win private, admitted she is “absolutely dumbfounded” with the win on an All Cash Spectacular scratch card. She now plans […]

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Kilkenny’s River Nore comes out top in 2019 anti-litter league table

By Kilkenny Now 26th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY’S River Nore is an “excellent site” that has a “virtual absence of litter”, according to the 2019 Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) survey of coastal areas and waterways. The area of the River Nore examined in Kilkenny city received a glowing endorsement, just one of seven areas in Ireland the report […]

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Kilkenny has lowest level of 24-hour Garda cover in country

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY comes rock bottom of all the Garda districts in the county when it comes to 24-hour cover. The Kilkenny-Carlow division came joint last of all the Garda districts who have stations opened 24-hours a day. Just three of the 27 stations – Kilkenny, Thomastown and Carlow – in the division are […]

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ALLTOGETHERNOW: Heavy festival traffic expected in south Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 2nd August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY ONE of the biggest music and culture festivals of the year kicks off today just a puck of a sliotar away from Kilkenny. ALLTOGETHERNOW is in its second year, after earning rave reviews from festival-goers for its first incarnation in 2018. Held in the stunning grounds of Curraghmore Estate in Portlaw, the […]