A KILKENNY man scooped €20,000 when he appeared on RTÉ’s Winning Streak last Saturday – just six years after his wife appeared on the same show. They say lightning never strikes twice, but for the family of Liam Breslin from Loughboy it has struck three times since 1994 when it comes to the Winning Streak […]
FREELANCE journalist Conor Kane has been appointed RTE’s South East Correspondent, which will see him covering Kilkenny and neighbouring counties Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and South Tipperary for the national broadcaster. Conor, from Clonmel in Tipperary, will be very familiar with the Kilkenny beat as he has covered high profile stories throughout the city and county
HERO campaigner Vicky Phelan has slammed ongoing delays in the cervical cancer screening process as “unacceptable”. The Kilkenny mother-of-two spoke out a year after she was awarded €2.5m in a High Court action over the alleged misreading of her cervical cancer smear. The Mooocoin woman was recently forced to take a step back from campaigning […]
KILKENNY is set to sizzle over the Easter bank holiday weekend, with temperatures rising to as high as 21C today. The miserable start to the week we endured will seem like a memory from a different season as the county basks in “long spells of hazy sunshine”, according to Met Éireann. And the national forecaster […]
By SINÉAD CONNOLLY A KILKENNY couple who plan to wed ‘in sickness and in health’ are on a mission to promote organ donation. Elaine Murphy and her fiancé Mark Kavanagh, who is on dialysis for up to nine hours a night as he awaits a kidney transplant, are due to get married in July 2020. […]
AN Bord Pleanála has refused permission for the controversial Barrow Blueway. The proposed Barrow Blueway, an initiative by Waterways Ireland, would have seen the construction of a 112km walking and cycling track connecting St Mullins (pictured above) in Carlow through Graignamanagh to Lowtown in county Kildare. The plans included the development of the old towpath, […]
A BIKER gang rolled into Ballyhale, but the locals needn’t have worried. The Coast 2 Coast Motorcycle Club weren’t in the South Kilkenny town to raise hell, they just wanted a taste of Billy’s Tearoom’s legendary ‘Full Irish’. They politely parked their hogs outside of the popular non-profit cooperative, which recently featured on RTÉ’s Nationwide, […]
THERE’LL be a distinctly Kilkenny flavour to tonight’s Ray D’Arcy Show. Fresh from their stunning victory on Dancing with the Stars, our very own superhoofer John Nolan and his celebrity partner Mairéad Ronan will be talking about taking the coveted Glitter Ball trophy home – and what’s next for the queen and king of the dance floor. […]
KEN Livingstone was London’s first directly-elected mayor. Although he loved the job he thought the position should never have been created. “I was always opposed to having a directly elected mayor because it concentrates all the power in one person and there’s a huge potential for corruption,” he told RTÉ. In an interesting interview with […]
KILKENNY dancing star John Nolan said he and celebrity partner Mairéad Nolan were left “speechless” at the massive support the popular duo received during their visit to his home city yesterday. On the eve of the finale to this year’s Dancing with the Stars, John and Mairéad came back to Kilkenny to thank the many […]