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Suspended train service through county Kilkenny to resume next week

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2020 0

A train service, connecting south Kilkenny to the west of Ireland, suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic will return to service restarting next Monday. The Waterford to Limerick Junction rail service, which runs through south Kilkenny, has been suspended since March 30, but Irish Rail have decided to resume trains on the line with two […]

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WATCH: Route through Kilkenny named one of world’s ‘Top 10 Most Beautiful Roads to Cycle’

By Kilkenny Now 30th July 2020 0

A route which partially winds its way through county Kilkenny has been included in a new Top 10 list of the ‘World’s Most Beautiful Roads to Cycle On’. The Copper Coast road, which runs through Kilkenny in between counties Waterford and Wexford, has been included in the list compiled by the Global Cycling Network (GCN). […]

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€1,011 average rents in South Kilkenny rents among highest in the country

By Kilkenny Now 18th December 2019 Post a comment

Rents in south county Kilkenny are the highest in the country outside the commuter belt of Dublin and a handful of places in Cork, Galway and Limerick. The exceptionally high average monthly rents paid in the Piltown Local Electoral Area(LEA) makes it the latest to be designated a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) by the Housing […]

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Plans to build 25 new homes in Kilkenny village

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2019 0

PLAN for a development of 25 new homes in Kilkenny village have been received by the council. The new development in Dangan townsland, beside Kilmacow, would create living space for over 70 people. Dunkitt Properties Ltd submitted the planning application to the council last week for the construction of the houses close to both the […]

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British Lord loses right to live in €20 million Kilkenny mansion

By Kilkenny Now 10th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE long-running saga regarding the rights to live in one of Kilkenny’s most expensive properties appears to have finally concluded. Lord Magan, a member of the British House of Lords, today lost his case in the High Court in Dublin which ruled he is not entitled to tenancy of the €20m Castletown […]

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Picket suspended outside Kilkenny meat processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY FARMERS who had been picketing a meat processing site in south Kilkenny over beef prices have called off their protest for the time being. Last night representatives of the Beef Plan Movement and Meat Industry Ireland (MII) accepted a proposal aimed at ending the blockades at meat processing plants across the country. […]

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UPDATE: Protesting beef farmers threatened with legal action

By Kilkenny Now 8th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE MEAT processors have threatened the Beef Plan Movement with legal action to prevent the farmers inflicting what they call further damage to the Irish beef industry. Earlier today Dawn Meats laid-off 150 temporary workers at their plant in Grannagh in south Kilkenny in response to the ongoing Beef Plan Movement protests. […]

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150 workers laid-off in major escalation of beef crisis protests

By Kilkenny Now 8th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY Dawn Meats has laid-off 150 temporary workers at their facility in Grannagh, South Kilkenny as a result of on-going Beef Movement Plan protests. The protests started ten days ago with thousands of farmers picketing meat processing facilities around the country.  Protesters turned up at the Grannagh facility last Thursday. Since then, up […]

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Beef protests escalate outside Kilkenny processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 6th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY Today saw a major escalation of the protest outside a meat processing plant in Kilkenny. Up to 60 farmers supporting the Beef Plan Movement are protesting outside the gates of Dawn Meats in Grannagh, Co. Kilkenny today. The protesters were trying to prevent trucks from entering the facility on the banks of […]

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Port of Waterford sees increase in goods handled during first quarter

By Kilkenny Now 30th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE PORT of Waterford in Belview, Co Kilkenny handled more cargo in the first three months of this year, than in each quarter of last year. This amount of goods flowing through the Kilkenny port is likely to grow with the recent announcement of a direct route to Europort Rotterdam, the busiest […]