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WEATHER ALERT: Batten down the hatches – Storm Hannah is coming

By Kilkenny Now 25th April 2019 0

LAST weekend’s glorious Easter Bank Holiday weekend will be sadly long forgotten by tomorrow night when Storm Hannah hits Kilkenny. Met Éireann today issued separate orange and yellow wind warnings covering most parts of the country, and a small craft warning for the Irish Sea. Kilkenny is among the counties included in the Status Yellow […]

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Country’s longest bridge – linking South Kilkenny and Wexford – to open this year

By Kilkenny Now 17th April 2019 0

THE COUNTRY’S longest bridge – which will connect South Kilkenny and Wexford – will be open to traffic before the end of the year. The New Ross Bypass Bridge will span 900 metres and connect the N25 at Glenmore with Strokestown on the Co Wexford side. The senior engineer overseeing the project, Sean Dobbs, today […]

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Kilkenny’s commuters: 20,000 leave region every day to work in Dublin

By Kilkenny Now 22nd March 2019 0

MORE than 20,000 people commute every day to Dublin from Kilkenny and neighbouring counties Carlow and Wexford. The figures are revealed in new research carried out on behalf of Vodafone Ireland which was released  to coincide with its launch of three high-speed broadband hubs in the South East. The information was compiled from the combined Vodafone network […]

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Cats go down fighting in bad-tempered final round of Hurling League in Wexford

By Kilkenny Now 10th March 2019 0

Wexford 1-19 Kilkenny 1-12 DAVY Fitzgerald’s side battled back from a five-point half-time deficit to overcome Kilkenny at Wexford Park today. Brian Cody’s men looked to be in a comfortable position at the break, but with the wind at their backs Wexford producing a barnstorming comeback in what was an often-ill-tempered clash. The final round […]

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More than one-in-five Kilkenny drivers have clocked up penalty points: new figures

By Kilkenny Now 1st March 2019 0

MORE than one out of every five Kilkenny motorists have clocked up penalty points on their licence. New figures published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) reveal a total of 15,019 (20.4%) local drivers had points on their license in 2017. This is higher than the national average of one-in-six drivers who were recorded as […]

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Soccer in Nowlan Park? Congress vote paves way for county grounds to be used for non-GAA games

By Kilkenny Now 23rd February 2019 0

THE way has been cleared for Nowlan Park to be used for games other than hurling and football. The decision to open it, or any other county ground, will now rest with the GAA’s central council. The move was taken at the GAA’s annual congress, in Wexford, where delegates voted overwhelmingly to lift the ban on […]