Information: Christmas Open Hours for Kilkenny and Carlow Services

Here’s some handy local information for you over the festive season.

Emergency Services

An Garda Síochána: emergency line 999 or 112 or find details for your local station here
St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow and Kilkenny: 056 778 5000
Amber Women’s Refuge can be contacted via 0818 42 42 44
Carlow Women’s Aid helpline: 1800 444 944
Good Shepherd Centre, Kilkenny: 056 7722566
Caredoc is an out-of-hours family doctors service for patients with urgent medical problems who need to contact a doctor after surgeries close.
Find a local pharmacy here

County Council Services and Offices

Festive Parking

Post Office

An Post offices across the country are set to keep to these opening hours with these delivery and collection dates while here are the postal dates;

Social Welfare

If you get a social welfare payment, the date which you receive your payment may change during the Christmas and New Year period. Details of all payment arrangements for this period are provided below.

If you receive a weekly social welfare payment, you will get your payment as usual during the week commencing Monday 18^th December, and an advanced payment for the following week.

This applies to payments made at post offices, by cheque or directly into your financial institution account.

If you are leaving the state over the Christmas period and you are getting income support from the Department of Social Protection you should let us know of your absence in advance of travel, you can do this by visiting your local Intreo Centre or Branch Office.

All department offices, including Intreo Centres and Branch Offices, will be closed on Monday 25, Tuesday 26 December 2023 and Monday 1 January 2024.