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Kilkenny GAA club unveils exciting new expansion plans

By Kilkenny Now 8th November 2024 0

Piltown GAA club is looking to increase the size of its main playing pitch as part of new development plans. In a planning application to the local authority, the club is seeking permission to “lengthen and widen our existing main front pitch, remove and reinstall new goal posts, remove and reinstall new ball stop nets, […]

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‘We’ve wanted this for so long’ – former Ireland soccer star says winning Kilkenny camogie crown tops her sporting achievements

By Kilkenny Now 23rd October 2024 0

Multi-talented soccer star and RTÉ pundit Karen Duggan says helping her local GAA club to win its first ever camogie title tops the list of her sporting achievements so far. Duggan, 33, is best known for her exploits with Peamount United, as well as in her capacity as a pundit for the national broadcaster. And […]

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Carlow-Kilkenny emerging as key General Election battleground

By Kilkenny Now 7th October 2024 0

The Carlow-Kilkenny constituency is gearing up to be one of the key battlegrounds that will decide the next government. The Coalition’s bumper giveaway Budget – and the decision to bring forward the Finance Bill by a week – has reignited speculation Taoiseach Simon Harris will go to the country early. And pressure from Mr Harris’s […]

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Dog of Kilkenny woman killed by tree branch stayed by her side

By Kilkenny Now 21st November 2022 0

A tragic Kilkenny farmer was killed after she was pinned by a falling tree branch. The body of Mary O’Shea, who was in her early 60s, was found at her home in Raheen, Piltown on Saturday evening. However, she was last seen on Friday morning and it is believed she died later that day. According […]

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‘Cian would brighten your day’ – moving tributes to Kilkenny teen killed in road tragedy

By Kilkenny Now 16th April 2022 0

Warm tributes have been paid to the Kilkenny teenager who tragically lost his life in a car crash earlier this wek. 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 on Wednesday. Two other young men […]

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Teenager killed in county Kilkenny collision, road closed off overnight

By Kilkenny Now 14th April 2022 0

A teenager was kilkenny when the car he was travelling in crashed in county Kilkenny last night. The tragedy occurred at Dowling in Piltown shortly after 8pm. Gardai confirmed the one of the passengers in the car, a male teenager, was later pronounced deceased at the scene. His body was later taken to the mortuary […]

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Burglar breaks-into house in Kilkenny village through bedroom window

By Kilkenny Now 12th April 2022 0

A burglar broke into a house in a Kilkenny village after gaining entry through a bedroom window. The break-in occurred at a property in the Jamestown area of Piltown at around 3.40pm on Thursday. However, nothing was taken from the house. Gardaí have asked anyone who may have noticed any suspicious activity in the area […]

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Kilkenny producer seals spud-tacular €100m deal with supermarket giant

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2022 Post a comment

Kilkenny-based Iverk Produce has secured a masive €100 nillion deal with Aldi Irleand to supply the supermarket giant with potatoes. The Piltown fruit and vegetable supplier gas partnered with Aldi since 1999 and currently supplies its Irish stores with potatoes and carrots. As part of the new contract extension, Iverk will supply 24,000 tonnes of […]

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Kilkenny community left behind in National Broadband Plan builds its own connection

By Kilkenny Now 7th March 2022 2

It’s not every day a rural community decides to quite literally get down into the trenches and build its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. But Piltown and Fiddown, the growing hinterland close to the Kilkenny-Waterford-Tipperary border, is no ordinary community and nothing was going to get in its way. The community and, more particularly, the […]

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Horse play: Plans to build new equine training building at Kilkenny college

By Kilkenny Now 3rd March 2022 0

An agricultural college has unveiled plans to build a new equine education training building on its ground in county Kilkenny. Teagasc, the State agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food and rural development in Ireland, has also sought permission from Kilkenny County Council to build a new car park for 150 spaces […]