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A biker, a baker and a credit payment maker represent Kilkenny in entrepreneur battle

By Kilkenny Now 19th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A MOTORSPORT fanatic, a specialty dessert maker and an IT whiz from Kilkenny are fighting it out to be named Regional Winner of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE). The IBYE’s will see the three Kilkenny entrepreneurs face off against competition from Wexford, Carlow and Wicklow to claim a place in the national […]

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Kilkenny councillors reverse ban on press and public from policy meetings

By Kilkenny Now 18th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY County Councillors have rowed back on their decision to ban the public and press from their policy meetings. On Friday, June 7th the city and county’s newly elected councillors voted by 19 votes to five to exclude the public and press from all its strategic policy committees (SPCs). Apart from Cllr […]

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Kilkenny farm received €230,000 in CAP payments last year

By Kilkenny Now 2nd June 2019 0

COUNTY Kilkenny’s O’Shea’s Farms received the second highest payment under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) last year, newly released figures reveal. The Piltown farm, which recently secured a major contract to supply Aldi with potatoes received €229,633.96 in CAP payments last year. This was second on the list top CAP payments behind representatives of Nicholas […]

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Little Pug found wandering alone on M9 adopted by her Garda carer

By Kilkenny Now 1st June 2019 0

THE cute little Pug puppy who was rescued by Kilkenny gardai after she was found wandering alone on the motorway has won over the hearts of her adopted Garda carers. Officers picked up the distressed dog after she was spotted “making a bid for freedom” on the M9 between the Piltown and Kilkenny exits. Earlier […]

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Ruff justice – pitiful Pug found wandering alone on M9 taken into custody

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

THIS cute little Pug puppy was rescued by Kilkenny gardai after he was found wandering alone on the motorway. Officers picked up the distressed dog after he was spotted “making a bid for freedom” on the M9 between the Piltown and Kilkenny exits. The curious canine is currently a guest of Kilkenny Garda Station, but […]

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PÁIDÍ MANNING: Crunching the numbers – where Kilkenny local elections were won and lost

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

By PÁIDÍ MANNING IN an election where Fine Gael was hammered by the opposition over rural broadband and the Children’s Hospital even before the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Maria Bailey put their feet in it (and out of it in Maria’s case), remarkably it was Sinn Féin who fell off the swing. There are […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Three more seats for ‘big two’ as Eamon Aylward, Fidelis Doherty and Ger Frisby elected

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

THE final results are in for Piltown, where the remaining three seats have again been hovered up by the ‘big two’ parties. Fianna Fáil’s Eamon Aylward and Fidelis Doherty were both elected on the sixth and final count after they exceeded the quota. And they have been joined by Ger Frisby, who was elected without […]

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Councillor who contested Kilkenny and Waterford elections loses her seat

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

A SITTING councillor who contested the local elections in both Kilkenny and Waterford has lost her seat. Former Sinn Féin councillor, Independent Melissa O’Neill, was knocked out of the race in the Piltown electoral area after she managed just 291 votes after the fifth count. Ms O’Neill’s Ferrybank neighbour, Fine Gael candidate John Hayes, has […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: FG win two more seats as John Brennan and David Fitzgerald elected

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

AND then there were 10… Fine Gael have claimed another two seats on Kilkenny County Council. Sitting councillor John Brennan was elected on the third count in the Castlecomer area with 1,493 first preference votes. Meanwhile David Fitzgerald has taken the fourth seat in Kilkenny City after he picked up enough transfers from the second […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Counting resumes, FF account for six of eight councillors elected so far

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

COUNTING has resumed this morning to elect the remaining 16 candidates to Kilkenny County Council. After a day of drama at Cillín Hill yesterday, and into the small hours, a third of the 24 positions on the council have now been filled. And so far Fianna Fáil has dominated the proceedings locally, taking six out […]