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Athletes from local schools had considerable success at the Leinster Schools track and field finals in Santry last week.

Rumours that long-serving Kilkenny hurling team members Michael Kavanagh and James Ryall are to hang up their boots and retire from senior hurling have been well and truly quashed and vehemently refuted by the Kilkenny County board.

Two Bennettsbridge men who have just celebrated their 90th birthdays recalled for me their involvement in what many people refer to as Dad’s Army, but which to them was a highly motivated force that stood between Ireland’s freedom and occupation by a foreign power.

Fianna Fáil TD for Kilkenny John McGuinness has welcomed the announcement of more than €16.5 million for Kilkenny County and Borough Council housing programmes for 2010.

The Kilkenny County ladies’ minor football trials will be getting under way next week and all clubs are asked to forward the names of their under 18 players.

A local election candidate is calling for a volunteer centre to be established in Kilkenny city that would assist the unemployed in gaining new skills while also volunteering for the benefit of others.

Trócaire has written today to councillors in Kilkenny urging them to table a motion asking the Government not to cut Ireland’s overseas aid budget any further.

As part of the celebrations of All Ireland Poetry Day 2009, Kilkenny County Council Library would like to invite local poets (who have been born or are based in Co Kilkenny) to submit a selection of their work for showcasing in John’s Quay Library.