RESIDENTS IN CALLAN have started a petition calling for a greater number of Gardaí on the streets of the town following a spate of recent break-ins and robberies. A shop in the town had its door kicked in and a quantity of cash stolen on Sunday morning – the latest in a series of violent […]
IT is a bitterly cold Friday evening in Kilkenny city, two days after Ireland has been subjected to another in a series of equally chilly budgets, and David McWilliams is teetering on the brink of tears. He is telling of a time when his father, having been made redundant and terrified that his Glenageary neighbours […]
STUDENTS applying to Kilkenny County Council for grants to help fund their third-level education have the highest rate of approval of any area in the country. A total of 747 of the 762 applicants – approximately 98% – of student who applied to the Council for grants were deemed suitable for payment. Just 15 applicants […]
ST JOHN of God’s primary school in Kilkenny city will lose three teachers next summer as a result of cutbacks approved in last week’s Budget. Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, proposed the abolition of the Teacher Supply Panel scheme last week as part of his package to cut €4bn in expenditure from the public purses. […]
THE MEMBERS OF Kilkenny Borough Council have agreed to allocate a total of €70,000 for the development of The Closh park, opposite Kilkenny Fire Station, to include the eventual provision of a skate park for the city. However, despite a late increase to the Council’s income for the coming calendar year, the Council voted against […]
UNSCRUPULOUS rogue operators in Kilkenny are openly flaunting the city’s ban on the sale of bituminous ‘smoky’ coal undermining legitimate traders, it was alleged at the monthly meeting of Kilkenny Borough Council on Monday night. Cllr Joe Malone (Fianna Fáil) claimed that some illegal operators had exploited the downturn in the economy by selling imported […]
KILKENNY’S Prevent Poverty Action Group (PPAG) has condemned the decision to cut the Widows’ Pension in last week’s Budget. Minister Brian Lenihan proposed a cut of 8% in the Widows’ and Widowers’ pension, as part of widespread cuts in the country’s social welfare payments. Chairperson and founder of the PPAG, Teresa Mullen, was strongly critical […]
THE COUNTRY’S largest trade union, SIPTU, have attacked the Budget’s proposals to massively cut the wages of public servants. Speaking to the Kilkenny People, SIPTU’s Kilkenny branch organiser, Denis Hynes, said that the union was “very disappointed, to put it mildly” and heavily criticised local TDs and the Government for voting in favour of “absolutely […]
PUBLICANS in Kilkenny have welcomed the moves to cut excise duty on alcohol proposed in last week’s Budget, but believe that cuts in social welfare and pay for public servants mean tough times ahead for high street traders. Pat Crotty, a former Fine Gael member of Kilkenny Borough Council and proprietor of Paris Texas Café […]
FIANNA FÁIL TD for Carlow-Kilkenny John McGuinness has defended thesevere cuts to social welfare and public sector pay to be introduced following last week’s Budget. McGuinness did, however, express regret that the Budget did not contain a greater stimulus package for job creation. The Kilkenny city-based politician conceded that the Budget was a “very difficult […]
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