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Kilkenny County Council is to receive a funding boost of over €195,000 to deal with the aftermath of the severe weather this winter.

A drunk ex-army motorcyclist, caught driving while disqualified and nearly three times the legal limit, has received a road ban of six years and a three month jail sentence.

Presidential hopeful, and one of Ireland’s most famous scholars, Senator David Norris, launched his presidential campaign in Kilkenny last week and his first port of call in the city was to meet fellow young scholars in the Fr McGrath Family Resource Centre.

The shop window is full of old LPs of Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and other fifties rockers. Inside there are a couple of motorbikes, a wall covered in army caps and helmets, and two tailor’s dummies dressed in full military uniforms. Is it a small museum or antique shop?

Abolish the Senate — YES — John Fitzgerald

The cold snap which is due to return today and for the upcoming week is a cause of concern to many people who are resident in rural areas who become housebound when conditions deteriorate.

Gardai in Athlone are urging members of the public to check on elderly and vulnerable neighbours to ensure they are safe and warm, as freezing weather conditions continue to grip Athlone town and the surrounding area.

Tony O' Malley attributed to Callan a quality of inwardness. “It was a feudal town with a wall around it”, he noted, speculating that this helped create a sense of detachment.

In the late 1980s a number of innovative ideas were introduced to industry and business, that cleared the runway for the Celtic Tiger take off. The one that made great sense, and had an energy about it, was the inventory strategy known as just-in-time. A Japanese idea that spread through Europe like a Spanish forest fire in a heat wave. Instead of stockpiling raw products for manufacture or for sale (with all the attendant headaches of storage costs, temperature, accounting, etc, etc,) the management skill was to wait until stocks were low, and then pick up the phone and make sure your supplier gave you exactly what you needed at the right time, in the right place, and the exact amount just-in-time. Suddenly, everyone was doing it. Suppliers were kept on their toes, trucks delivered through the night, and a bit of excitement was injected into the work place.

A Galway man caught up in the New Zealand earthquake which devastated the city of Christchurch and surrounding areas has spoken of the shock and sheer bewilderment still felt by tourists and by residents, many of whom have lost their homes and livelihoods.