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Spanish police want to quiz Kilkenny man over murder of drug dealer: report

By Kilkenny Now 30th August 2020 0

Gardai are set to question a Kilkenny man as part of the investigation into the murder of a convicted drug dealer in Spain, a report today claims. Carl Carr (pictured) was brutally beaten to death at an apartment in Alicante before his body was buried in a shallow grave off a roadway in September 2018. […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: A good screw to pop your cork

By Kilkenny Now 25th October 2019 0

I AM not certain what constitutes a callow youth but I’m pretty sure I was one, way back in the day, when I got a summer job in what passed for a posh restaurant in the Belfast of the late 1960s. I served a very glamorous woman, dining with equally glamorous friends, but told her […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: It just rolls off the tongue …

By Kilkenny Now 11th October 2019 0

SOME years ago I was given a present of a wine called Gewurtztraminer which, because of its unpronounceable name, I took to be German. A Riesling, I imagined, or something similar. I was wrong on both counts. It is from Alsace, in France (although, come to think of it, Alsace has been in Germany a […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: The grape that got banished by royal command

By Kilkenny Now 27th September 2019 0

FRANCHE Comté is a region of Burgundy close to the border with Switzerland. For centuries, control swung between France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Philip II of Spain was the man in charge back in the mid-sixteenth century and he took a strong exception to the Pinot Blanc style of grape from which they […]

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WINE O’CLOCK: Why we all like to chill with a Chilean

By Kilkenny Now 20th September 2019 0

I HAVE an instinctive, and probably somewhat snobbish, preference for European wines over those from the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In particular, I believe the best wine comes from France. But that sweeping statement can be hard to justify given that French production is often inconsistent and the product tends to be more […]

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Boy (4) fights for life after holiday swimming pool accident

By Kilkenny Now 12th August 2019 0

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Irish boy is fighting for his life after a swimming pool accident in Spain. The boy, who was on holidays with his family near Alicante, was found floating in a pool this morning. According to reports, the boy was found shortly after he had breakfast with his family. He was discovered when relatives […]