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A dangerous bend on the Castlecomer Road at Damerstown/Julianstown is to be realigned following proposals by Kilkenny County Council this week.

Positivity filled the air with some 40 businesses attending the official launch of Castlecomer Business Association at Ballycomey on Friday evening.

Good news for the local road network in north east Kilkenny has arrived through the Restoration Improvement Supplementary Funding 2011.

Maurice Shortall C.S.Sp. has been elected Community Leader of the 18-strong Irish Spiritan group in Brazil, with effect from May 2010.

Labour MEP for Ireland East, Nessa Childers will visit Kilkenny today Friday, February 26.

Junior Education Minister Sean Haughey’s announcement that school bus charges are to go up in September represents the first in a new batch of stealth charges, according to north Kilkenny Cllr Maurice Shortall.

A series of traffic accidents has prompted a north Kilkenny councillor to draw attention to a dangerous bend on the N78 road at Damerstown.

The N78 will be closed all this week due to road resurfacing at Ballyhimmin, Castlecomer.

It’s that time again and for the fifth consecutive year, Ballyragget Vintage Road Run takes to the highways and byways of north-east Kilkenny clocking up the miles in aid of local charities. To date, the event has raised over €70,000 and every euro collected goes directly to the chosen beneficiaries. Benefiting this year are the Carlow –Kilkenny Home Care Team, O’Gorman Home, Ballyragget, Kilkenny Alzheimers Society, the Susie Long Hospice Foundation and the Ballyragget Day Care Centre.

The former coalminers of Castlecomer, under the auspicies of The National Coal Miners Group (NMG), have called for the establishment of a compensation tribunal for persons who have suffered injury as a result of their exposure to coal dust particles in the course of their work as coal miners.