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Plans for new €16m school in Kilkenny city

By Kilkenny Now 13th April 2021 0

Plans for a new €16 million school in Kilkenny city have moved a step closer. The Board of Management of the Presentation Secondary School in Loughboy recently lodged plans with Kilkenny County Council for a new building that will almost double the size of the current school. If granted permission, the existing school will be […]

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Kilkenny’s future business leaders to represent county at national awards

By Kilkenny Now 26th March 2021 0

The next generation of Kilkenny’s business geniuses have been chosen to represent the county in this year’s Student Enterprise Programme National Final. Three projects have been selected all aiming to be the Collison brothers (Stripe Payments) of Kilkenny. More than 540 students from across Kilkenny put their enterprising plans forward for the Local Enterprise Office […]

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Kilkenny school to build temporary classrooms while waiting for €7m works to begin

By Kilkenny Now 25th March 2021 0

A large school in county Kilkenny is looking for a temporary solution to find more space for their students. The Board of Management at Presentation Secondary School in Kilkenny city has made an application to local authority looking to add three more temporary classrooms to its campus in Loughboy. On the planning application to the […]

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Class news: Work on three new Kilkenny schools to get underway early next year

By Kilkenny Now 14th October 2020 0

Work to rebuild, extend and refurbish three Kilkenny schools will get underway early next year. This week the National Development Finance  Agency (NDFA), who have been commissioned to build a new school for Kilkenny CBS, to refurbish and extend both St Canice’s Primary School and Presentation Secondary School, announced they are looking for companies to […]

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Kilkenny secondary school decides to opt out of Junior Cert 2020 for sake of 140 student’s ‘health and wellbeing’

By Kilkenny Now 22nd April 2020 0

A secondary school in county Kilkenny has decided to opt out of this year’s Junior Certificate exams and will instead assess its 140 students due to sit the state exam this year in-house. Shane Halahan, Principal of Presentation Secondary School in Kilkenny says the school won’t be asking its  Junior Certificate students to sit the […]

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Talented Kilkenny girls lay down the law in New York

By Kilkenny Now 16th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A GROUP of Kilkenny students representing Ireland at an international legal competition in New York has picked up the award for being the most professional team. The 18 girls from Presentation Secondary School in Kilkenny have been awarded the Peter Meyers Spirit of Empire trophy, awarded to the team exhibiting the highest […]