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ALERT: Kilkenny Garda warning after local person loses €1,300 in WhatsApp scam

By Kilkenny Now 30th March 2022 0

Gardai have issued a warning about a new WhatsApp scam targetting people in Kilkenny. The latest scam alert comes amid the launch of Fraud Awareness Week, a Garda information campaign. Locally, it has emerged one person was lost €1,300 after they got a message from someone falsely claiming to be a family member who lost […]

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Big Brother comes to Kilkenny town

By Kilkenny Now 18th July 2021 0

A new CCTV system has come into effect in Urlingford. The efforts of the local community were praised during the launch of the CCTV system this week. Chief Superintendent Padraig Dunne of the Waterford-Kilkenny-Carlow Division praised the work of the local committee in successfully getting the CCTV system up and running. Chief Superintendent Dunne also […]

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Store wars: Kilkenny gardai helps shops to combat criminal attacks

By Kilkenny Now 14th July 2021 0

Gardai have joined forces with local businesses to help protect them from criminal attack. Killkenny Superintendent Derek Hughes joined Crime Prevention officer Peter McConnon and Sergeant Conor Nolan of Kilkenny Community Policing Unit at MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre to launch the Kilkenny Retail Security Checklist Challenge this week. MacDonagh Junction Shopping

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WARNING: Kilkenny people targeted in raft of online scams, one local business hit for ‘six figure sum’

By Kilkenny Now 30th November 2020 5

Kilkenny people have been urged to be on the alert for a raft of online scams doing the rounds in the countdown to Christmas. Local gardai say an increasing number of businesses and householders have been targeted by fraudsters in recent weeks. Business have been the victim of a so-called ‘redirection fraud’, where con artists […]