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Kilkenny’s Fianna Fail Deputy John McGuinness has reaped the benefits of his loyalty to new party leader Micheal Martin having been awarded a front bench spokesperson position this week.

It’s bad news for business once again this week with weather forecasters predicting another cold snap for the weekend and into next week.

The Fianna Fáil regional conference that took place in Kilkenny last weekend was a resounding success according to local Fianna Fáil TD and chair of the agriculture session at the event, Bobby Aylward.

Kilkenny Fianna Fáil TD and member of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee, Bobby Aylward, has welcomed the news that following the commencement of payments under the Disadvantaged Area Scheme and the Grassland Sheep Scheme on September 22, the payments will all be made before the end of the year.

In the largest campaign of its kind, the National Campaign for the Arts was marked in Kilkenny along with several other locations around the country last Friday.

Today Friday September 17, is National Day of Action for Arts and Culture and arts organisations in Kilkenny city and county will be taking part in a bid to highlight the importance of the arts to the local economy.

New sign posts for Kilkenny have finally been approved for the newly laid out Grannagh Junction in South Kilkenny.

TDs from the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency recently visited Merck Sharpe and Dohme Carlow to tour the new facility and get an updated briefing from company management on MSD’s preparations for commencing operations in the first half of next year.

Members of Kilkenny Borough Council expressed their sympathy to the Aylward family following the death of Mrs Kitty Aylward, the mother of local politician Bobby Aylward TD and Liam Aylward MEP and the widow of the late Fianna Fáil Senator Bob Aylward.