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The Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith has been accused of trying to backtrack on his promise to allocate unused funds to the Irish sheep sector.

A community partnership between Kilkenny Social Services active retirement group and the Fr McGrath Community Centre, supported by the community Garda team, will see a new group formed to support the growing number of vulnerable or elderly men living alone in the city.

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At just after 3pm on Tuesday, a middle aged man heard his phone ringing. He picked it up to answer.

A case in which a man persistently harassed members of a neighbouring family threatening to kill one of them has been adjourned so that proper treatment and services can be made available to him.

A man, believed to have now fled the country, was sentenced to two years for a theft at a local school after fooling unsuspecting staff into believing that he was enrolling his child.

The chairman of Kilkenny County Council Cllr Tomas Breathnach is to travel to Charleston in South Carolina for St Patrick’s Day.

Despite the much hoped for change, war in the Middle East and troop movements through Shannon have not ceased under President Barack Obama’s administration.

On the evening that France and Britain declared war on Germany, September 3 1939, the 13,500-ton liner SS Athenia, chartered by the Cunard Line, and bound for Montreal with 1,418 passengers and crew was torpedoed, without warning, 250 miles northwest of Malin Head in the North Atlantic*. The following day the Norwegian vessel, Knute Nelson, was steaming towards Galway with 367 shocked and injured survivors, and asked that the city be prepared to receive them. Other survivors were picked up by British naval vessels and brought elsewhere for treatment, but in total 112 passengers and crew were killed in the attack, 28 of them Americans sailing for home as war was declared in Europe.

Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has called on the people of Kilkenny to vote ‘Yes’ in todays referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.