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WINE O’CLOCK: Red or white? Or how about a glass of yellow?

By Kilkenny Now 21st February 2020 0

In eastern France, up near the border with Switzerland, they have been celebrating La Percée du Vin Jaune,  the Opening of the Yellow Wine. The festival is usually held in February;  the exact date varies to coincide with the release of the new vintage of this region’s unusual wine. I was  inroduced to it down […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Would you like to say ‘hola’ to red wine with cola?

By Kilkenny Now 24th January 2020 0

Spain devotes more land to growing vines than any other country in Europe but produces considerably less wine than France or Italy. The discrepancy is largely down to climate. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain, or so the song has it, but not a lot falls on the baked plains of La […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: We’ll miss RTÉ when it’s gone

By Kilkenny Now 13th November 2019 0

A lot of important GAA club matches have been played in recent weeks – county and provincial finals for both hurling and football. RTÉ radio has covered them all and RTÉ television has shown extracts from many of them. RTÉ doesn’t get much thanks for this service and that, I suppose, is fair enough. It’s […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Raise a patriotic glass to Paschal Donohoe

By Kilkenny Now 6th September 2019 0

IN France, Spain or Portugal it is easy to buy a perfectly decent bottle of wine for a fiver or less. In Ireland you can only do this if a supermarket has a struck a deal with the supplier or decided, for some reason of its own, to subsidise the cost. That’s because Irish excise […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: The last of the summer rosé

By Kilkenny Now 16th August 2019 0

AUTUMN is on the horizon, but for the last of the summer wine let me return to rosé, the great staple of barbecues, picnics and garden parties. It used to be looked down on as a sweet summer drink for people who could not decide between white and red. But I read that it has […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Come on ye girls in green, show us how it’s done

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2019 0

IT has been a very good year for women’s sport, culminating in some thrilling contests at Wimbledon. For me, it started last summer with the World Cup exploits of the Irish hockey team. I was in Spain at the time and watched several of their games in a bar where people of all nationalities seemed […]

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HEATWAVE: Europe braces itself for ‘hell’, Kilkenny basks in 27C heaven

By Kilkenny Now 27th June 2019 0

THERE are fears many could die in a deadly heatwave engulfing Western Europe this week, but here in Kilkenny we’re set to experience perfect summer temperatures of up to 27 degrees over the coming days. Europe is bracing for an intense, dangerous, and possibly even deadly heat wave this week, with temperatures due to soar […]

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Kilkenny to sizzle this week, but thunderstorms also on the horizon: Met Éireann

By Kilkenny Now 24th June 2019 0

IT was another pretty miserable weekend weather wise, culminating in a rainfall warning for Kilkenny from Met Éireann which was only lifted at 6am this morning. However, the national forecaster says the weather will turn increasingly mild and humid over the coming days and it will also become increasingly unsettled as a warm front moves […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Turning water into wine spritzers

By Kilkenny Now 21st June 2019 0

I’M a-going where the water tastes like wine, sang Woody Guthrie. Never been there myself. Sadly, I have been to places where the wine tastes like water, but nobody writes songs about them. Generally speaking, water and wine are best kept apart. They shared top billing at the Wedding Feast of Cana – but they […]

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Revenue seize €36,100 of illegal cigarettes at South Kilkenny port

By Kilkenny Now 27th March 2019 0

REVENUE officers uncovered evidence of an international smuggling operation after they seized €36,100 worth of illegal cigarettes from a ship at Bellview Port in South Kilkenny. The haul was found during a search of the ship, which arrived at the port this week. The vessel arrived into Irish waters from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on […]