Munster Express Online

Anastasia Purcell (nee O’Neill), Irishtown, New Ross and Slievecorrig, Tullogher was interred in Rosbercon Cemetery.

Dr Bríd Lynch will launch her publication ‘A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland’.

An attractive book entitled ‘Kilkenny in Focus’ has been launched by award winning Kilkenny photographer Tom Brett.

Visiting theatre Group from Clonmel, Down the Rabbit Hole, who will be staging the hilarious comedy “Stags and Hens” by Willy Russell for two nights on Saturday December 3rd Sunday December 4th, 2011 at 8.15pm.

The recent announcement at the local Piltown Electoral Area meeting last Thursday that signage is to be put in place at Exit 11 of the M9 motorway that will read ‘’All trucks for New Ross please use the M9 and the N25”.

Kilmacow native and Piltown electoral area councillor Tomás Breathnach was elected chairman of the Association of Irish Regions at its recent AGM.

Earlier on this year a local voluntary group was created to produce ideas on how to raise funding for The Marie Keating Foundation.

Over the past two to three weeks South Kilkenny have again been badly hit by a series of very organised and well planned robberies, where in all of the cases money was taken, and in some, weapons were used.

A hearty congratulation goes to Kitty Walsh of Mullinavat village, who took the Rehab Person of the Year award for Kilkenny City and County.