News

Four stand trial over murder of Kilkenny woman whose remains were found scattered across Wicklow Mountains

By Kilkenny Now 15th January 2020 0

Four people are to stand trial today facing various charges relating to the murder of a Kilkenny woman whose remains were discovered scattered around the Wicklow Mountains. Patricia O’Connor (nee Cooke), originally from Windgap was murdered at her home in Rathfarnham on May 29, 2017. The deceased’s daughter Louise O’Connor (41), of Millmount Court, Dundrum […]

Business News

Lust for life: Kilkenny activity and tourism projects share €82,000 windfall

By Kilkenny Now 4th December 2019 0

A windfall of more than €82,000 will be shared between five Kilkenny projects aimed at getting people out and while targeting tourism to their areas. The funding is part of the Government’s 2019 Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme, which will see €1.8 million shared by 109 projects nationwide. Activity tourism is becoming hugely important to the […]

News

Class news! 10 Kilkenny schools to undergo major improvement works

By Kilkenny Now 25th November 2019 0

Ten Kilkenny  schools will undergo major improvement works next Summer, it was revealed today. The funding is being provided by the Government as part of the 2020 Summer Works Scheme. Education Minister Joe McHugh has announced a total of 405 schools across the country will receive more than €30 million for projects that will be […]

News Sport

19 Kilkenny sports projects receive €806,000 in grant funding

By Kilkenny Now 16th November 2019 0

Nineteen sports clubs and organisations across Kilkenny city and county will receive more than €800,000 in grant funding announced today. A total of €806,000 was allocated to the clubs as part of the Government’s latest tranche of Sports Capital Grants. Announcing the funding, Kilkenny election candidate Cllr Patrick O’Neill said: “I am delighted that the […]

News

Gone in a flash: brazen thief legs it after stealing runner’s camera

By Kilkenny Now 27th October 2019 0

AN opportunistic thief managed to ‘run-off’ with an expensive camera, owned by a Kilkenny jogger – who had left it out of his sight for just a moment. The man had gone for a run at Knockroe, near Windgap, around 6pm on Tuesday, when the incident happened. He had brought his camera, a Sony RX […]

News

Kilkenny gardai probe mystery of missing pet dogs

By Kilkenny Now 20th October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY GARDAI are seeking the public’s help to track down two pet dogs who went missing from their home in Kilkenny four months apart of each other. Both dogs have mysteriously gone missing from a house Garryricken, Windgap, Co Kilkenny. The first dog, a Collie, went missing in July and has not been […]

Business News

Three rural Kilkenny communities share €115,000 funding boost

By Kilkenny Now 26th August 2019 0

THREE Kilkenny communities are celebrating after it was confirmed they will share just under €115,000 in funding under the Government’s CLÁR Programme. Minister and Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan today announced that Windgap, Black & Whites GAA and Community Centre and Tullogher Rosbercon GAA Club will benefit under the Government’s CLÁR Programme, which funds small […]

News

Tourists flock to Kilkenny Castle as it tops visitor list

By Kilkenny Now 15th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY Castle has topped the most visited site owned by the state list for 2018. Almost 1,000,000 people visited state-run sites around County Kilkenny last year. Almost 800,000 were drawn to the charms of Kilkenny Castle and grounds during 2018, according to figures released by the Office of Public Works (OPW) today. […]

News

EXCLUSIVE: Over 100 families of murder victims join Kilkenny man’s crusade for justice

By Kilkenny Now 9th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY MORE than a hundred families have joined a Kilkenny man’s crusade to reform the laws surrounding parole and day release of murderers. John Whelan, from Windgap, is Chairperson and co-founder of the Sentencing And Victim Equality (SAVE), a group for families whose loved ones have been victims of homicides. John’s sister Sharon (30) and her two

Business News

New Windgap tearooms opens this morning – with or without ancestral son George Clooney!

By Kilkenny Now 3rd June 2019 0

By SINÉAD CONNOLLY SO FAR there’s been no word back from George Clooney, but the show must go on and the much-anticipated opening of the community café in his ancestral county Kilkenny village will go ahead as planned this morning! There had been speculation (most of it, admittedly, of the wildly exaggerated variety …) that […]