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COVID-19: Calls for people not to stockpile fall on deaf ears as Kilkenny supermarket shelves empty

By Kilkenny Now 12th March 2020 0

Kilkenny people are being urged not to stockpile items or panic buy in the aftermath of the emergency measures to combat the spread of coronavirus announced by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this morning. However, this advice seems to have been largely ignored with massive queues forming in supermarkets and shelves being cleared of what the public […]

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Over to you: Government commit €130 million to Ferrybank’s North Quays Development putting ball in developers court

By Kilkenny Now 31st January 2020 0

The Government has put the ball of the North Quays Development project in Ferrybank firmly back in the court of the Saudi Arabian developers after committing over €100 million in state funding to get the project rolling. While campaigning in Waterford yesterday, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said the North Quays Development “needs both funding and policy […]

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Kilkenny passport boom: over 5,000 new passports issued locally this year

By Kilkenny Now 28th December 2019 0

More than 5,000 new passports were issued to citizens in Kilkenny this year, new figures reveal. Over 900,000 Irish passports were issued in 2019, a new record and a 7% increase on 2018. A total of 5,216 of these were issued in Kilkenny, making it the 17th highest county in terms of the number of […]

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No deal Brexit would ‘decimate’ South East agri-food sector: Kilkenny TD

By Kilkenny Now 31st January 2019 0

EVERY effort must be made to avoid a nightmare ‘no deal’ Brexit, which would “decimate” the agri-food sector that employs thousands of people in Kilkenny and the South East, a local TD has claimed. Fianna Fáil deputy Bobby Aylward spoke out as tensions between the Irish and British governments deepened after prime minister Theresa May […]

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BREXIT BREAKING: Theresa May limps on after surviving vote of no confidence

By Kilkenny Now 16th January 2019 0

THERESA May has won a vote of no confidence in her government even as the embattled British prime minister struggled to make progress on breaking the Brexit deadlock in parliament. Mrs May survived the attempted coup by 325 to 306 votes in the House of Commons tonight. Both Conservative Eurosceptics and the Democratic Unionists MPs who […]