You’re reading The Week on KCLR, highlighting some of the stories you may have missed on-air and online.
Just as we thought the country was about to open up a little further, things were pushed out another few weeks. And then came a stark warning.
There was good news for Glanbia’s South Kilkenny plans while Pride in Carlow proved positive, but not with everybody.
Kilkenny was the centre of a global golfing focus and we heard of wonderful outdoors adventures in Carlow.
As always, you can join our news team across the day, seven days a week, read the stories on kclr96fm.com and scoreline.ie or take us with you on the KCLR app.
Covid Continues
The country’s opening up, though not as fast as we would like.
As has been the case quite a bit recently, there was talk early enough of indoor hospitality not reopening on July 5th as had been anticipated.
Ahead of the confirmation, we heard from some business owners in Carlow and Kilkenny on Tuesday’s KCLR Live with Eimear Ní Bhraonáin …
That lunchtime An Taoiseach Micheál Martin addressed the nation, his speech carried on the KCLR News lunchtime bulletin with Sinéad Burke:
Kilkenny City restaurateur and publican Pat Crotty was among those to react to the announcement.
He outlined his views on The Way It Is with Sue Nunn:
There was a knock-on effect too for certain religious ceremonies, as Sinéad Burke of KCLR News discovered:
But Kilkenny based priest Fr Willie Purcell then told KCLR that there was some confusion – listen back here:
On Wednesday’s The Way It Is Edward Hayden who was sitting in for Sue Nunn spoke with Carlow woman and journalist Ciara Phelan about it all …
But on Friday’s The Way It Is there was a stark warning from the Clinical Director at St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow and Kilkenny:
Irish Open
The great and the good of the golfing world descended on Kilkenny this week for the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
It’s taking place at Mount Juliet Estate until Sunday.
Ahead of proceedings, Carlow Golf Pro Damien McGrane spoke to our Eimear Ní Bhraonáin on KCLR Live of the preparations at the local course …
Team KCLR set up on the grounds for the opening day – see some of that coverage here
Then we had right craic with our competition ‘No Ifs, Ands or Putts ‘ which offered listeners a chance to win an hourly prize of €500 across Friday’s programming – have a listen to a sample of that here:
We wound down the day with the Kilkenny star who had been taking part in the main golfing event – Mark Power joined Sue Nunn on The Way It Is:
Blackstairs Eco Trails
On last weekend’s The Saturday Show our Edward Hayden spoke to former politician Mary White who now runs Blackstairs Eco Trails about the wonderful outdoor adventures you can enjoy in Carlow …
Glanbia Belview
On Friday KCLR News revealed the latest update in Glanbia’s bid to set up a cheese processing plant in Belview, South Kilkenny (Read about that here)
An Taisce told our team that they are considering the judgement with a spokesperson saying they will take legal advice before deciding if they will take their challenge further. (Read An Taisce’s blog on the sequence of events here).
Meanwhile, the Chair of Kilkenny IFA joined Sue Nunn to discuss the development on Friday’s The Way It Is:
Pride
June was Pride month and we carried a number of news stories and interviews on how the LGBTI+ community are being supported locally.
Sadly, not everything has been positive – last Sunday the crew at Cafe de Mode in Ballon, County Carlow discovered their rainbow-coloured flag in tatters and Eimear Ní Bhraonáin spoke to some on KCLR Live:
Catch Up
There’s plenty more from across the week here on KCLR.
You’ll find our news stories here while regular key features from programmes covering a range of topics, including travel, fitness, health care, as well as repeats of our talk shows and more can be found in our Catch Up section.
Best of all, you can read and listen to everything in the KCLR app.
