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Kilkenny publicans to host coffee mornings as part of new campaign to reopen doors

By Kilkenny Now 5th September 2020 0

Pub owners in Kilkenny are set to ramp up their activities in an effort to get their businesses back open again. Publicans across the county this week received an email from the Chief Executive of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, (VFI) Padraig Cribben, informing them of the new campaign. In the email – seen by […]

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Two out of three Kilkenny pubs closed due to Covid-19 could be out of business by 2021: report

By Kilkenny Now 24th August 2020 0

Two-thirds of Kilkenny’s pubs that have not yet re-opened due to the Covid-19 pandemic believe they will not be in business next year if they are not allowed to open their doors soon. These are the stark findings of a survey of pub-owners outside of Dublin published the Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI). The survey […]

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A pint of pain: Lack of guidelines leaves 94 Kilkenny pubs in the dark just days before they are due to re-open

By Kilkenny Now 10th July 2020 Post a comment

With just 11 days to go until pubs are allowed to reopen in Kilkenny, publicans have called on the government to publish the guidelines under which they are allowed turn on the taps again, and say time is running out to be able to implement the changes. Of the close to 160 pubs in county […]

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Glass half empty: More than 4,500 of Kilkenny’s pub workers in danger of losing their job: report

By Kilkenny Now 8th July 2020 0

More than 4,600 jobs are at risk in Kilkenny’s pubs and hospitality sector after it emerged that consumer demand for the pub will be lower due to the impact of Covid-19. These startling figures were revealed in a report released by Drinks Ireland, an umbrella group consisting of the Licensed Vintners Association (LVA), Vintners Federation […]

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Burglars break-into Kilkenny pub and strip premises of all its wiring

By Kilkenny Now 1st December 2019 0

The owner of a Kilkenny bar that had closed down was shocked to find that someone had broken into the premises and stripped it bare of all its wiring. The former bar on the Castlecomer Road in Kilkenny was broken into sometime between Wednesday, November 20 and Wednesday, November 27. It was only when the […]

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REVEALED: Full extent of rural pub closures in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 22nd August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A TOTAL of 34 pubs in Kilkenny city and county have been forced to call time over the past decade. New figures published today reveals the extent of pub closures in Kilkenny since 2005. According to the figures released by the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI), one out of every eight […]