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‘Toiletry thieves’ fail to make a clean getaway thanks to Kilkenny gardai

By Kilkenny Now 5th June 2019 0

A THIEVING couple with a penchant for tanning goods and toiletries were arrested by gardai after they were caught speeding down the M9 with a boot full of stolen items. Local gardai and members of the Armed Support Unit stopped the couple after their vehicle was clocked speeding down the motorway at around 2.40pm last […]

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Ciao Bella! Kilkenny’s top dog is crowned Puppy of the Year

By Kilkenny Now 5th June 2019 0

A BEAUTIFUL – and very well behaved – puppy called Bella is Kilkenny’s top dog! Samoyed Bella was confirmed as Kilkenny’s winning puppy at Petmania’s Grand Final Puppy of the Year event in Limerick. Bella, who lives in Thomastown with her proud owner Helen Shanahan (pictured above) is described as being “very calm and well-behaved” […]

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Maria Bailey compo controversy did swing Kilkenny voters, says FG councillor

By Kilkenny Now 29th May 2019 0

THE Maria Bailey swing compo scandal did affect Fine Gael in the run-up to the Kilkenny local elections, the party’s local councillor and General Election candidate Patrick O’Neill said today. The Bennettsbridge-based politician was re-elected to Kilkenny County Council after he received 1,399 first preference votes in the Callan-Thomastown electoral area.

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‘I’m proud of you mam’ – musician pays moving tribute to mother after she lost Kilkenny Council seat

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

MUSICIAN and former Voice of Ireland contestant Fionn Gardner has paid a special tribute to his mother Breda after she narrowly lost her seat on Kilkenny County Council. The outgoing Independent councillor missed out on the last seat in the Callan-Thomastown electoral area to Fianna Fáil’s Deirdre Cullen. Gardner also contested the European elections – […]

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PÁIDÍ MANNING: Crunching the numbers – where Kilkenny local elections were won and lost

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

By PÁIDÍ MANNING IN an election where Fine Gael was hammered by the opposition over rural broadband and the Children’s Hospital even before the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Maria Bailey put their feet in it (and out of it in Maria’s case), remarkably it was Sinn Féin who fell off the swing. There are […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: New dawn for Kilkenny County Council, but status quo remains

By Kilkenny Now 27th May 2019 0

By SHANE DORAN NATIONALLY, the story of the 2019 local elections was undoubtedly the so-called ‘Green wave’ that swept across the country, with Sinn Féin the biggest loser in the shake-up of our local authorities. In Kilkenny, councillor Malcolm Noonan rode the crest of the wave, recording the second highest vote in the city behind […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Breda Gardner loses seat to newcomer Deirdre Cullen, Patrick O’Neill and Joe Lyons elected

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

THE final results are in for Callan-Thomastown and it’s a major upset for Brenda Gardner as the sitting councillor and Kilkenny’s only European election candidate has lost her seat to Fianna Fáil newcomer Deirdre Cullen. Bennettsbridge-based councillor Patrick O’Neill and his FG colleague, newcomer Joe Lyons, were also elected on the final count, making

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ELECTIONS 2019: FF and FG tied on six council seats each in Kilkenny as Michael Doyle is elected

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

FINALLY, after what seemed like an eternity, we have another elected member of Kilkenny County Council. Inistioge-based Michael Doyle has been elected in the Callan-Thomastown area on the sixth count after 39 transfers from John Kelly pushed his vote up to 1,569. But the result has sounded the election death knell for Cllr Doyle’s Inistioge […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: FG win two more seats as John Brennan and David Fitzgerald elected

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

AND then there were 10… Fine Gael have claimed another two seats on Kilkenny County Council. Sitting councillor John Brennan was elected on the third count in the Castlecomer area with 1,493 first preference votes. Meanwhile David Fitzgerald has taken the fourth seat in Kilkenny City after he picked up enough transfers from the second […]

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ELECTIONS 2019: Counting resumes, FF account for six of eight councillors elected so far

By Kilkenny Now 26th May 2019 0

COUNTING has resumed this morning to elect the remaining 16 candidates to Kilkenny County Council. After a day of drama at Cillín Hill yesterday, and into the small hours, a third of the 24 positions on the council have now been filled. And so far Fianna Fáil has dominated the proceedings locally, taking six out […]