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Would you like to improve your fitness levels in a fun, sociable environment? Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership have teamed up with various groups and individuals to offer a wide range of programmes to suit people of all ages and abilities.

Representatives from the College of Progressive Education, one of Ireland’s leading care training colleges providing courses in childcare, montessori, healthcare, special needs assistant and train the trainer leading to FETAC qualifications, will be in the Newpark Hotel from 5pm on February 9, 2011 to discuss the range of courses available.

Kilkenny communities have taken the bull by the horns in a bid to prevent borrowing from money lenders and other risky organisations in their locality by becoming involved in saving in community banks.

Kilkenny Lions Club has been running the Lions Club Wine Fair event for 12 years now and is hopeful that this year’s event will be the best so far.

The written word remains a strong attraction to Kilkenny’s children, even with the proliferation of television, DVDs, computer consoles, laptops and other technological temptations it appears.

Staff at Kilkenny’s family resource centres are hopeful this week that following a visit from Pat Carey, minister of community, equality and gaeltacht affairs, the future may be a little brighter for the troubled centres.

The residents of Newpark Close and the wider community have been praised for their response to a devastating house fire which forced four families out of their homes.

Slickflix in the Newpark shopping centre is not only a leading DVD rental shop but is also number one in gaming when it comes to Kilkenny.

The opening of the Old Golf Links Road and New Orchard Road Improvement Scheme on the Eastern environs of Kilkenny city will take place this afternoon.

At a Kilkenny campaign meeting against the public service proposals held at the Newpark Hotel on Thursday night last, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) warned that teachers have ‘nothing left to give” in terms of productivity and that the sector has already been ‘bled dry’.