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‘I am more than willing to testify’ – Kilkenny campaigner Vicky to address Dáil hearings on assisted dying

By Kilkenny Now 16th November 2020 0

Kilkenny cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said she wants to testify to Dáil hearings on assisted dying as soon as possible. The Mooncoin mother-of-two and former Kilkenny Person of the Year, who is terminally ill, has been asked to take part in the first witness sessions on People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny’s Dying […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Time to bury some myths about government

By Kilkenny Now 17th June 2020 0

Before, during and since the talks on government formation a number of myths about the last general election have been regularly repeated. The first of these is that Sinn Féin won the election, or, as several of the party’s supporters told Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme, Sinn Féin “got the majority” of the votes. In fact […]

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Ignore the Yellow weather warning – it’s time to get out and vote!

By Kilkenny Now 8th February 2020 0

The posters are up, the debates are done and dusted and the canvassers have pounded the pavement which means the only thing left to do is vote. But Kilkenny people are being urged to get out and vote early as Met Éireann are expecting the weather to take a major turn for the worst. The […]

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Kilkenny election candidates turn to crowdfunding to back their campaigns

By Kilkenny Now 25th January 2020 0

General Election campaigns are not cheap to run and even more difficult for the candidates in Kilkenny who are not members of the big party machines. Because of this some of the candidates have turned to the public in an effort to level the funding playing field in an effort to get their faces into […]

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General Election 2020: All the candidates for the Carlow/ Kilkenny constituency

By Kilkenny Now 14th January 2020 0

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this afternoon visited Áras an Uachtaráin to ask President Michael D Higgins to dissolve the 32nd Dáil Éireann. We now face into 23 days of what will certainly be intensive, divisive and intriguing campaigning for the 159 available Dáil seats. Experts and analysts alike think this election could hark back to the […]

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Kilkenny election candidate subjected to vile ‘homophobic’ abuse, posters defaced

By Kilkenny Now 5th May 2019 0

A LOCAL election candidate in Kilkenny city has revealed she has been targeted by “homophobic” thugs who defaced her posters and subjected her to vile abuse online. Stephanie Hanlon discovered several of her election posters had been ripped apart and daubed with homophobic graffiti after she received a call from Kilkenny County Council saying they […]

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Local Euro election candidate calls on Minister to resign over ‘dead bodies on trolleys’ scandal

By Kilkenny Now 25th April 2019 0

A LOCAL European election candidate has called on Health Minister Simon Harris to resign over shocking revelations that dead bodies were left to decompose on trolleys at the regional hospital for the South East. The horrific conditions at the mortuary in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) emerged this week in a letter signed by four consultant […]

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‘We must act now’ – local Euro election candidate calls for complete ban on hazardous pesticides

By Kilkenny Now 23rd April 2019 0

A LOCAL candidate in next month’s European elections has called for a complete ban on hazardous pesticides. Adrienne Wallace, the People before Profit candidate for Ireland South, said: “We cannot ignore the science any more. Pesticides and antibiotics are polluting streams across Ireland.” Ms Wallace cited research published in the journal, Science of the Total […]

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Major public meeting to tackle health reform will take place in Kilkenny next week

By Kilkenny Now 20th April 2019 0

A PUBLIC meeting in the city next week will hear plans to make Kilkenny a national leader in providing disability facilities while discussing new ways of tackling health reform. The meeting, which will take place at the Clubhouse Hotel on Wednesday, April 24, will feature an impressive line-up of panellists who are involved in various […]

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‘Ban export of all military equipment to Saudi Arabia’ – local Euro election candidate

By Kilkenny Now 2nd April 2019 0

A LOCAL candidate in the forthcoming European elections has called on the Government to follow Germany’s example and ban the export of all military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Adrienne Wallace, who is People Before Profit’s candidate for the Ireland South area, also criticised what she described as the Saudi regime’s “barbaric” human rights records. Ms […]