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A man who indecently assaulted and raped a 10-year-old boy in Galway city 35 years ago while he was a Redemptorist student priest has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final two and half years suspended.

The summer festival season in Kilkenny has been tempered this year by the news that the city’s annual Cat Laughs Comedy Festival has lost its sponsor.

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Problems at the Pancake House, the Kilkenny promotional duo renowned for delivering some of the most essential idiosyncratic and innovative music the city has seen, return this July.

The Billy Cleere anniversary gig takes place in Ryans on Friary St on Friday May 21.

Ireland’s foremost roots music festival returns to Kilkenny for the May Bank Holiday weekend with a mixture of revered favourites and new treasures to unearth.

Clive Barnes has committed to a long awaited gig in Cleere’s which will take place on Friday week February 17.

Keeping up the trend of introducing more new acts to Kilkenny, the One Take Sessions returns this Thursday to Cleere's Theatre with three newcomers in the form of El Scamperino!, Walkperson and The Lions Mane (Kilkenny) all set to take the stage along with previous guest, Michael Whelan (Wexford).

Kilkenny intermediates ran out deserving winners in their Leinster final against Dublin at Nowlan Park on Saturday. Michael Grace who came on as a sub scored 6 super points from play to help his side to victory. It was tit for tat throughout with the game resulting in extra time. However, Kilkenny’s strength and stamina proved to be the real difference as the clock ticked down in added time. Well-taken points from Michael Grace, Patrick Hogan and Niall Walsh all added to the difference. The Dubs kept the pressure on until the final whistle but the Cats held on to record a deserved victory. They will now face Galway in the semi-final in Tullamore this Saturday.

A group of Kilkenny writers will showcase their local literary talent at ‘Aloud’, a lunchtime reading in Cleere’s pub, Parliament Street on Saturday, August 9 at 12.30pm.