Glenmore and Piltown among rural locations offering work/life balance benefits New data shows that demand for Kilkenny’s six rural Connected Hubs and its five established Business Centres has increased as a growing number of professionals are now hot desking while remote working two to three days a week – and...
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Cakeface Kilkenny
Cakeface Kilkenny
Cakeface is the brainchild of the Ballymaloe trained pastry chef duo Laura and Rory Gannon. After meeting and training at the renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, the young couple headed to Europe and honed their skills and refined their craft with some of the best pastry teams and kitchens in France and...
Determined Kilkenny join neighbours in final four
Determined Kilkenny join neighbours in final four
Kilkenny 2-21 Waterford 0-21 Brian Flannery Kilkenny finished top of Division 1B of the Allianz National Hurling League after this determined and well merited six-point victory to claim the bragging rights over neighbours Waterford. Waterford A goal in either half from Cillian Buckley and Billy Ryan ultimately...
Late Judge Peter Smithwick
Late Judge Peter Smithwick
Eddie Synnott The death took place on Tuesday last, March 8th, of Judge Peter Alexander Smithwick, at the age of 85. The late Judge Peter Smithwick. Born on February 15th 1937, into the famous family who brewed Smithwick’s ale for several generations in Kilkenny City until it was acquired by Guinness (Diageo) in...
Greenway links to Glenmore and Slieverue villages
Greenway links to Glenmore and Slieverue villages
Eddie Synnott Roadplan Consulting Ltd have been commissioned by Kilkenny County Council, in association with Kilkenny Leader Partnership, to seek to form links and create connectivity from the South East Greenway to Glenmore and Slieverue villages, to “drive activity” and allow local access to the Greenway. Roadplan...
Piltown’s pandemic progress
Piltown’s pandemic progress
Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, significant progress has been made during the pandemic in proactive Piltown Kieran Foley The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent imposition of various restrictions presented many unforeseen obstacles for community groups across Ireland. Current projects, future...
TUSE to still go ahead
TUSE to still go ahead
Eoghan Dalton The application for the proposed merger of Waterford Institute of Technology and IT Carlow will go ahead this week as originally planned, a meeting involving college management heard yesterday morning (Monday). Although doubts had been expressed after academic staff at WIT voted against terms for the...
TUSE HQ in Waterford ‘very unlikely’
TUSE HQ in Waterford ‘very unlikely’
Kieran Foley Eleven Waterford Councillors say they will not support the application process for the Technological University of the South East (TUSE). The group, comprised of Independent and Labour Councillors from across the city and county, believe “it will not deliver the shift required to allow the region reach...