Kilkenny to get new weekly paper

KILKENNY is to have a second weekly newspaper before the end of the summer, a new regional newspaper which will battle for readers with the long-established Kilkenny People.

Well-known sports and news writer, Jimmy Ratigan, has already left the Kilkenny People to head up the new Kilkenny Voice newspaper as editor.

The publisher and key financial backer is John Sheils, former managing editor with the Sunday World.