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Plans for huge 95-room care facility at county Kilkenny hospital

By Kilkenny Now 5th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A NEW hospital building promised by the Government for county Kilkenny could yet be built by 2021. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has lodged a planning application with Kilkenny County Council to build a 95-room community nursing and residential care unit in the grounds of Thomastown’s St Columba’s Hospital. A report published […]

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Thieves on the prowl targeting cars in Kilkenny town while owners sleep

By Kilkenny Now 3rd September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THIEVES have been prowling around a county Kilkenny town targeting cars while their owners are asleep in their homes. On one night last week three cars parked close to each other were broken into in Thomastown. Thieves broke into two cars in Maudlin Court and one car in Dunan between 9pm last […]

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Thieves break into car parked in driveway of Kilkenny home as owners sleep

By Kilkenny Now 31st August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY CASH and jewellery were stolen from a car parked in a driveway of a county Kilkenny house. The thieves struck while the owners were asleep inside the house at Maudlin Court in Thomastown. The incident happened between 9pm on Thursday and 8.45am yesterday morning. The owner went to get into her car, […]

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Kilkenny businesses nominated for food and hospitality ‘Oscars’

By Kilkenny Now 30th August 2019 0

A LOCAL hotel, restaurant and trout farm have all made the shortlist of Ireland’s premier food, tourism and hospitality awards. Kilkenny’s Newpark Hotel, the Restaurant Lady Anne at Creamery House in Castlecomer and Goatsbridge Trout Farm in Thomastown have made the shortlist for the Georgina Campbell 2020 Irish Food and Hospitality Awards, in association with […]

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APPEAL: Concern for elderly lady (80’s) missing in Kilkenny since this morning

By Kilkenny Now 23rd August 2019 0

GARDAI have issued an urgent appeal for help in finding an elderly Kilkenny lady who has been missing since this morning. The woman in her 80’s was last seen driving a car in Graiguenamanagh at 11.30 am. She was spotted before this driving the silver Toyota Yaris, with an 06-D registration plate, in the Rower-Inistioge […]

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Car crashes into county Kilkenny house, woman rushed to hospital

By Kilkenny Now 20th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A WOMAN was rushed to hospital this afternoon after the car she was driving smashed into a house. The crash happened at Seven Houses Cross on the Kells-Kilkenny road early this afternoon. The car the woman was driving was involved in a crash with another car before hitting the house. The woman […]

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Kilkenny has lowest level of 24-hour Garda cover in country

By Kilkenny Now 19th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY comes rock bottom of all the Garda districts in the county when it comes to 24-hour cover. The Kilkenny-Carlow division came joint last of all the Garda districts who have stations opened 24-hours a day. Just three of the 27 stations – Kilkenny, Thomastown and Carlow – in the division are […]

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BREAKING: Clueless internet scammers attempt to hustle Garda at Kilkenny station

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY INTERNET scammers got a bit of a shock when they discovered the person they were trying to scam was in fact a garda on duty in a Kilkenny Garda station. The online hustler was cold calling and thought they had hit upon an unsuspecting member of the public. Instead, they dialed Thomastown […]

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Drippy burglar makes off with everything but the sink

By Kilkenny Now 8th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI are looking to tap up some information and find the person who burgled a new build and made off with the bathroom fittings. The burgled house is under construction in Summerhill, Thomastown and is nearing completion.  The burglar broke in through the front door, took the fittings and then left through […]

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Ten-day celebration of the arts starts in Kilkenny town

By Kilkenny Now 7th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY THE KILKENNY Arts Festival is not the only display of creativity, imagination and artistry happening in the county this week. Tomorrow, the Thomastown Creative Arts Festival / TCAF19 begins a ten-day celebration of the work of the talented and gifted artist from in and around the Thomastown area. This year’s theme is very […]