KCLR News

It happened on Wednesday evening on the Link Road

It's a huge weekend of county finals action on KCLR, with silverware up for grabs across Kilkenny and Carlow on Saturday October 17th and Sunday October 18th. Camogie Two Kilkenny camogie finals take place at UPMC Nowlan Park on Saturday. Emeralds meet Mooncoin in the Abbott Kilkenny Intermediate Camogie Final...

The long-awaited building will provide the school with additional mainstream and specialised classroom space and is among the Education and Youth projects itemised in the National Development Plan

13,000 have been lost or discarded at Center Parcs Longford Forest this year alone, including a number of air-fryers, a full sized camping bed and an exercise bike

Cllr McGuinness is calling for anybody with information on any such incident to contact Gardaí

The funeral for Philip, Kim, Callum and Jayden will take place on Monday

Each year on the 15th of October, a wave of light floods the world to mark the month of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness

Waterford Gardaí have arrested a man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s for alleged offences in connection with the arson attack and murder of a married couple and two of their children at their home in the Birchwood residential development, two miles from the city centre.  Both...

There's a new clinic open in Kilkenny for people looking for expert footcare with the opening of Kilkenny Podiatry Clinic on Coote's Lane.  The clinic, led by podiatrists Lorcan O'Brien and Abigail Egan offers professional assessment, treatment and advice on all kinds of foot health concerns including ingrown toenails, verrucae,...

Businesswomen, industry experts and representatives from a number of supporting organisations are gathering at the Woodford Dolmen Hotel in Carlow today to mark National Women's Enterprise Day. This year marks two decades of the event and is coordinated by Carlow and Kilkenny's Local Enterprise Offices (LEO)s, focusing on the overall...

St Colman's National School in Conahy, St Kieran's College, Kilkenny city, Ardattin National School and Palatine GAA are among the local contenders

There is a huge weekend ahead for Carlow club football, with three county finals taking place at Netwatch Cullen Park. The action gets underway on Saturday evening when Ballon face Tinryland in the Talbot Hotel Carlow Intermediate Football Championship final, with throw-in at 6pm. Sunday sees O’Hanrahans take on Palatine...

Four members of the English family, Philip and Kim with two of their children Jayden and Callum, died in Tuesday's early morning blaze at their home in Birchwood, while two other children remain critically ill in hospital

Brian Tracey, Paul Doyle, Fiachra Fitzpatrick, James Doyle and Martin Kavanagh are recognised after Carlow’s run to the final, with Laois claiming seven places on the selection. Carlow and Laois finished at the top of the round-robin standings before meeting in an entertaining final at Croke Park. While Carlow were...

Cllr Andrea Dalton is to contact Iarnróid Éireann

Working under the auspices of Barrow Valley Community Development, it has its own committee formed from a group of residents with a shared ambition to deliver quantifiable reductions in the level of fossil fuel consumption and dependency

Something similar happened in May to 20 Carlow schools

A nationwide public sector work stoppage is continuing as we move into the evening. More than 300,000 workers are manning up to 2,000 picket lines at schools, hospitals, courts and local authorities. It comes amid a pay dispute with the Government, after unions declined an invitation to attend talks this...

SIPTU members would rather be working today, though industrial action is necessary to get things moving. That's according to Colm Kennedy, SIPTU representative for the technical section at Teagasc's Oak Park research facility in Carlow, where staff are taking part in today's industrial action. He says there is a strong...

He filmed Cirlce of Friends in Inistioge & Kilkenny city in the 1990s