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Although a draft capital budget has been drawn up and presented to the members of Kilkenny County Council for the county’s capital expenditure for 2011 - 2013 the county manager Joe Crockett has warned, ‘we have to assume that a lot of this plan will not go ahead’.

The much-loved Irish actress Maureen O’Hara was in Kilkenny this week for the launch of the Kilkenny Age-Friendly County Strategy, in the Ormonde Hotel on Tuesday afternoon.

December, 2010 will long be remembered as the coldest month experienced in Co Kilkenny. Sustained low temperatures and unseasonably early snowfall made life very difficult for householders but also for commuters and those trying to go about their daily business in the county.

A bid to boost the local ecomony by over €30,000 next year is to be put to a meeting of interested people next week.

The conditions are to remain below freezing in Kilkenny for another couple of days with a thaw not due until St Stephen’s Day.

Members of Kilkenny County Council have this week unanimously approved the motion by the council to further investigate the development of the old Dunmore landfill site as a possible training ground for Kilkenny’s hurling teams.

The Kilkenny County Council is examining the possiblity of creating a seasonal winter wonderland for the Parade Plaza in Kilkenny this Christmas.

Kilkenny had a visit from the Naked Street Consultant this week. Ben Hamilton Baillie was in Kilkenny at the invitation of the Kilkenny City Centre Business Association (KCCBA) to assess Kilkenny’s streetscapes and traffic management system.

Kilkenny’s controversial Central Access Scheme (CAS) has been resurrected with a new bridge design for its river Nore crossing, but it appears unlikely to appease its strongest critics.

Buisnesses in Kilkenny are commissioning a leading UK specialist to examine Kilkenny streetscapes with a view to implementing a traffic system that works for both businesses and pedestrians in Kilkenny city.