MEMBERS of the public are invited to attend a special ceremony at Kilkenny’s World War 1 memorial, which has been fully repaired after it was vandalised earlier this year. CCTV cameras – which are directly linked to the local Garda station – have also been installed at the memorial in a bid to prevent a […]
A SENIOR Government minister today issued a defiant message to the vandals who caused extensive damage to the World War 1 Memorial in Kilkenny. There has been an outpouring of public outrage this week after it emerged that the carved stone face of the fallen soldier statue at the centre of the monument had its […]
A POLITICIAN has decried the actions of the vandals who defaced the Kilkenny World War 1 Memorial, describing the incident as “an attack on the whole community”. Denis Hynes, the Labour Party General Election candidate for the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency, said the attack was an insult to all the Kilkenny people who, like his own, had […]