Today the Academy of Jewellery and Goldsmithing Centre of Excellence was opened officially in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. The Sessions House building, a former Courthouse in the centre of Thomastown has been transformed into a new home for the jewellery academy. This project, funded under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund, together with a contribution from […]
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Tithe Wars nó as Gaeilge Cogadh na nDeachúna
The Statute of Kilkenny were a set of laws made by the English Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lionel of Antwerp. They were passed at a meeting of the Irish parliament held at Kilkenny. It was to ensure that the English colonisers here did not adopt Irish customs and that the Irish must adopt English ones. […]
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‘Pause’ on refugees needed
Fr. O’Shea’s family had been evicted from their own home when he was a baby himself.
Say SIPTU must give vote
Tithe Wars nó as Gaeilge Cogadh na nDeachúna. People were obliged by law to pay Tithes for the upkeep of the Church of Ireland, which was the official state sanctioned Church. What was ‘owed’ could be taken in the form of money, land, rent, produce or livestock. Struggling farmers did not want to be forced […]
Fr. O’Shea’s family had been evicted from their own home when he was a baby himself.
Deputy McGrath said that the organisation were “again crossing the line and are abusing their status”
An Taisce has once again succeeded in annoying many people over its ongoing objection to a proposed cheese processing plant in Kilkenny. The project which will potentially create a large number of much needed jobs has been approved by Kilkenny County Council and An Bord Pleanala and survived a High Court challenge last week. However, […]