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Kilkenny city and county has been hit hard by the Nordic weather conditions that have taken a large proportion of the country by storm this week. Significant snowfalls hampered travel throughout the county with many local routes deemed impassable.

Kilkenny Girls football under 13 Development squad commenced training four weeks ago in preparation for a Leinster Development Blitz which is taking place later this month and will provide a stepping stone to county under 14 panels over the next two years.

As part of the next round of recruitment, MSD announced 65 full-time jobs up for grabs at its new Carlow facility.

Kilkenny has the second largest number of classes with 30 children or more in the country.

Kilkenny and the south-east region can expect to benefit treblefold from investment into the new M9 motorway, which opened its final phase yesterday.

Tragedy struck a Gowran family this week when 17-year-old Shane Breen was killed in a horrendous road accident on the N9 near Paulstown in Co Kilkenny in the early hours of Sunday.

TDs from the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency recently visited Merck Sharpe and Dohme Carlow to tour the new facility and get an updated briefing from company management on MSD’s preparations for commencing operations in the first half of next year.

School budgets have been slashed by a whopping €2billion in the government’s Capital Expenditure Programme.

Many of the bright ideas that Mr Snip has recommended have neither been popular or practical in the eyes of the public and the most recent announcements in regard to saving government resources are equally unpopular it seems.

The merger of a number of councils, including those of counties Carlow and Kilkenny, has been mooted in a new report on the efficiency of local government in Ireland.