Communities in Freshford and Kilkenny City are in mourning following the sudden death of popular parish priest Monsignor Kieron Kennedy.
Msgr Kennedy was the parish priest in Freshford since 2018 and died at his home in the parochial house yesterday afternoon. Tributes have been flooding in from across the county.
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Gardaí in Kilkenny have launched an investigation into whether a fire at a vacant building in the Callan over the weekend was started deliberately.
Kilkenny Fire & Rescue Services were alerted to a fire at approximately 8.14pm on Sunday evening, June 8, at a former nursing home in Callan, Co Kilkenny.
Fire crews from Callan and Kilkenny City, along with local Gardaí, rushed to the scene.
Aperee Living Ltd, a private nursing home in Callan, was taken over by the HSE/South East Community Healthcare in November of 2023, when the licence of the private operator was cancelled by the health regulator, HIQA, following inspections and a HIQA report.
The report at the Kilkenny based nursing home found that residents’ money was being used to fund operational costs at the home and also highlighted fire safety risks and issues with staff shortages.
A Status Yellow Thunderstorm Warning by Met Eireann remains in place locally.
The public are being warned of heavy showers and scattered thunderstorms with localised flooding and lightning damage possible. Drivers are also being warned of potentially poor visibility and difficult travel conditions.
A leisure centre in Co Antrim has been badly damaged in an attack linked to racist violence in Northern Ireland.
Masked youths attacked Larne Leisure Centre around 8pm last night.
Two ethnic minority families, which included a pregnant woman, had been forced from their homes in nearby Ballymena the previous evening and had been offered temporary overnight shelter there
And, Home and Away star John Palmer aka Shane Withington sampled a piece of Kilkenny life this week, visiting Kilkenny Castle before stopping off for some lunch in Kytelers Inn.
Withington joined the Home and Away cast in 2009 as the lovable but at times contrary and unlucky in love John Palmer. (Clip)
Outbreaks of heavy, thundery rain and a chance of spot flooding today with highest temperatures of 16 to 21 degrees.
Showers will become more isolated at first on Thursday night before further outbreaks of heavy rain spread across the country from the south with a chance of thunderstorms. Mild and humid with temperatures of 10 to 14 degrees
