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Gardaí assisted by the Garda National Drugs Unit swooped on a suspected cannabis factory in Freshford on Wednesday afternoon in a planned operation on a house at Sart.

Richard and Sally St George, whose family have lived at Kilrush House, Freshford, for more than 400 years, are opening their spectacular snowdrop display to the public for the first time.

It has been called many things — the inner relief road, the central access scheme, Kilkenny’s third river crossing — but whatever it is named, it is now imminent.

What’s done is done and now we must wait. It will be late this evening before we hear definitively who our new President will be. Will Sean Gallagher have defended his character well enough to have maintained his slot at the top of the poll? Or will Michael D tip him at the post? It has looked like a two-horse race to date and unless there are some great changes in the voting on the day, these are the two people who are competing for the role.

This weekend Freshford hosts the Irish Conker Championships 2011, with a three-day long programme of family-focused outdoor and indoor events.

Gardai are investigating the cause of a horrific car accident in Kilkenny on Wednesday evening, which left two people dead and three others in hospital with serious injuries.

Search parties recovered a body from the River Nore at Greensbridge on Wednesday last, believed to be that of missing local man Paddy ‘Kipper’ Phelan.

The adult county league continued this week with newly promoted Muckalee getting off to a great start with a big win over Tullogher.

The renowned annual Irish Conker Championship returns to Freshford for its 11th outing this Sunday, October 24, and the Kilkenny village promises to be a hive of activity over the weekend.

I could use this space to discuss the economy and the cross party talks with the leaders this week — but it is all too depressing. I’m not going to talk about deficits or banks or loans or bailouts.