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Retailers across Kilkenny city have asked that the St Patrick’s Day Parade which is planned for Saturday March 17, be held on Sunday March 18, in a bid to prevent a negative effect on retail sales in the city on the busiest retail day of the week.

Local Green Councillor Malcolm Noonan has called for a new tourism initiative linking the Watershed at Scanlon Park with a wider Kilkenny-led scheme.

A provisional timeline and cost for Kilkenny’s Central Access Scheme, including the new River Nore bridge crossing, was announced at this week’s meeting of the borough council.

Kilkenny City Hall was a divided house on Monday night, as four local councillors walked out of a borough council meeting to protest against a split between the executive and some of the elected members.

Kilkenny County Council and Waterford City Council must urgently develop a joint retail strategy which would include plans for one of the most populated areas of the city’s environs — Ferrybank.

The Green Party has announced a new front bench to mark 30 years since the party was founded.

As the details of Kilkenny Borough Council’s draft budget were discussed in the council chamber this week, the measures were welcomed by all members in a rare display of cross-party harmony.

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.

Kilkenny has been offered a resolution to some of the traffic problems that have been plaguing the city over recent years, following a decision by An Bord Pleanala this week to grant approval for a central access scheme and new bridge crossing.

A Winter-Ready Information Campaign has been launched by Kilkenny County Council following its launch at national level recently at the National Emergency Coordination Centre in Dublin.