Plans by Glanbia for a €140m cheese manufacturing facility in Kilkenny have to be put on hold following objections against the development by two leading environmental groups.

Three suspects are currently in custody at garda stations in the southeast and nine individuals have been bailed to appear in court.

Ireland has 99 species of bees but one third of them are currently threatened with extinction due to a reduction in food sources (wildflowers) and safe nesting sites.

Phil Hogan will not be the first Irish politician to find redemption and to have carved out an international reputation in Brussels.

The Kilkenny minor and senior hurlers were welcomed back to the Marble city by several thousands of members of the public despite their heavy losses to Galway and Tipperary.

The Mount Juliet Estates Residents Group in Kilkenny claims the removal of a putting course modelled as a mini-Augusta in Georgia, USA, should not have taken place without planning permission being obtained first.

A local authority is to reverse a move to exclude the media and public from policy meetings.

A new digital innovation hub in Kilkenny can drive the digital transformation of Europe’s agri-food sector.

A former mayor of Kilkenny has said that opposition to the planned mosque and Islamic centre in the city was not an issue of religion, but one of traffic management.

The Islamic community wanted to build on a site at the Hebron Industrial Estate on the edge of Kilkenny city.

A Co Kilkenny dairy farmer is showing the way forward to low carbon agriculture, with his own solar farm, on course to reduce his annual dairy farm electricity bill by 20%.

The owners of Mount Juliet have run into difficulties with planning authorities over plans to build housing on its par 3 golf course.

Would-be presidential candidate Kevin Sharkey has said he was called the N-word just six weeks ago and made a plea to be nominated as “Ireland’s first black president” to send out a message to racists.

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President Michael D Higgins was among the mourners at the funeral Mass for former Ceann Comhairle and 46-year veteran of the Dáil Seamus Pattison who was buried in his native Kilkenny this afternoon.

A group of councillors who are members of the Southern Regional Health Forum are planning a Dáil protest to highlight their disgust at the “pointless” manner in which it operates.

Over 500,000 emergency alerts were seen by people since Sunday using an extreme weather alert service developed by a former council official.

A company which teaches skydiving has today launched a High Court action over an order by Kilkenny County Council that the firm ceases operations.

TV3 and the Irish Daily Mail have apologised to former Minister Phil Hogan for "untrue and damaging" publications.

The effects of Storm Frank are still being felt following the latest severe weather event to lash the country.

Three counties in the SouthEast have submitted their joint bid for the European Capital of Culture title for 2020.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has predicted that the Carlow- Kilkenny byelection will be decided on transfers.

Officially, Friday’s Carlow/Kilkenny byelection is all about replacing former Fine Gael TD Phil Hogan, who was ‘promoted’ to Europe after the Irish Water debacle.

Seven retiring local authority chiefs executive last year enjoyed a pensions bonanza walking away with a combined pension lump sum of €1.8m.

One of the last major infrastructural projects to be unveiled in Ireland in recent years is to be named after the patriot who first raised the green, white and orange tricolour which became our national flag.

Enda Kenny isn’t the only one having his commitment to "new politics" questioned these days. Look at poor Phil Hogan, who thought he had sailed away from all that stuff, into the lucrative waters of the EU Commission.

The High Court has ordered that construction work on two bridges, one of which has been the scene of protests by local people, in Kilkenny City be halted.

Kilkenny County Council has been ordered to halt the construction of two new bridges over claims the work is causing very severe and possibly irreversible environmental damage.

Independent MEP Nessa Childers has said the nomination of Phil Hogan as Ireland’s Commissioner-designate is a step backwards for equality and told the European Parliament’s second largest grouping of MEPs that she has serious reservations considering his appointment to the Commission.

The 24-hour picket mounted by opponents of the controversial new bridge in Kilkenny is likely to end today although there is now speculation a legal challenge will be taken against the project.

Taxpayers are being hit with a bill of more than €100,000 as extra gardaí have been drafted in to police a six-week long protest over the building of a new bridge in Kilkenny city.

Two protesters picketing against the construction of a new bridge in the centre of Kilkenny were arrested yesterday by gardaí under the Public Order Act.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan is suing TV3, claiming he was defamed after he was allegedly described by broadcaster Vincent Browne as a "bigoted racist".

Labour councillor Maurice Shortall has topped the poll in Kilkenny, bucking the national trend which saw the party decimated in many areas.

Officials have moved to reassure the public that a large sinkhole which appeared close to a former zinc and lead mine shaft at the weekend does not present a danger.

The Department of Energy and Natural Resources has confirmed that a sinkhole has developed near Galmoy Mine in Co Kilkenny.

The Taoiseach said he does not know if former local authority staff with “generous” pensions and lump sums have taken up new senior management positions in Irish Water.