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Thursday’s highlight, the Guinness Galway Hurdle, is the richest race of its kind in the land and a total of 74 entries greeted senior handicapper Noel O'Brien who awarded last year’s controversial beaten favourite The Real Article top weight of 11st 10lbs, 5lbs above last year’s hero Moon Dice, with the Edward Harty trained Captain Cee Bee just one pound lower in the ratings.

A bicycle scheme similar to that which is in place in Dublin city would be ideally suited to Kilkenny according to Labour Party councillor Sean O’ hArgain.

“I believe Kilkenny city is possibly the wettest place to shop,” said Fine Gael Councillor Betty Manning at Monday night’s meeting of Kilkenny Borough Council.

The newly designed Parade has taken centre stage in Kilkenny city over the last couple of weeks, but not for the right reasons.

Local contractors in Kilkenny are not getting a ‘look-in’ in the bid for local authority development projects as bigger developers from further afield are being chosen instead.

Since the re-establishment of the Galway Borough Council in 1937, very few women have been elected to the Galway City Council or Galway Corporation, as it was then known.

An opening ceremony for the new Parade in Kilkenny city is to be organised for the end of November in the run-up to the festive season and hopes are high that Christmas markets will fill the vast space in the lead-up to Christmas.