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This Christmas saw 50 children from the most affected regions of the Chernobyl disaster spend their Christmas holidays in Ireland. Despite an eventful arrival of three flight diversions, snow blizzards and 3,000 miles of travel the children arrived safely and were welcomed by their host families at Dublin Airport.

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.

Local PR specialist Alma Feeley was recognised for her professional approach to business marketing when she was announced as a finalist in the recent Excellence in Female Entrepreneurship Awards.

At 17.59 this evening, millions of easily-led paddies will raise a pint of the black stuff to the sky and participate in the greatest laughing yer way to the bank exercise that the field of marketing has ever seen. It is a good thing that the roar will be heard around the world as it will conceal the equally loud kerr-chink of the tills as millions are spent on pints as the country engages in the greatest encouragement of skulling pints before teatime. Yes, the streets of every town and village in Ireland will ring to the cheers of the pint holders at teatime this evening, just one week after the common noise was the tut-tutting about the pint-skulling exploits of An Taoiseach.

Two Kilkenny support groups are set to benefit from funding awarded under a new Diageo aid scheme.

Contrary to recent media reports, job losses at St Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny are voluntary redundancies that had been agreed with employees and unions last year.

Despite widespread concerns from local people the new water eco-park mooted for the Midlands will not affect water levels of the Shannon. Speaking to the Advertiser Gerry Geoghan of RPS, a consultant firm to Dublin City Council, said that the water supply is not only for the people of Dublin, but also for those in the Shannon area.

Smithwicks ale which has been brewed for 300 years at St Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny city, has consistently increased sales over the past 15 months despite the downturn in the economy.

Kilkenny’s best known brew, Smithwick’s has been awarded two gold medals in the prestigious ‘Monde Selection Quality Selections 2010’ for both Smithwick’s Superior Irish Ale and the brand’s variant brewed for the American market.

To commemorate 300 years of brewing an official unveiling of the ‘300 years of Smithwick’s’ exhibition took place at Kilkenny’s historical St Francis Abbey Brewery, and the glitterati of Kilkenny were invited to join in the celebrations.