The Johnston Press media group has sold its fourteen regional newspaper titles to Iconic Newspapers Limited, a company run by British advertising executive Malcolm Denmark.

The Kilkenny County Board have confirmed that Brian Cody is to take an enforced break from managing the county's senior hurling team.

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Advertising revenue at Johnston Press’ Irish operations fell by just over 19% last year, to £8.9m (€11m).

Aidan Fogarty has been ruled out of contention for Kilkenny's upcoming Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final clash with Cork.

NEWSPAPER groupJohnston Press Ireland significantly reduced its losses last year as it continued a number of cost-cutting measures.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has launched an investigation after two hungry children were found scavenging in bins in Waterford city centre.

THERE are fears one of the country’s top provincial newspapers, the Limerick Leader, will have its operations scaled back if it is printed outside the country by its British owners.

REDUNDANCY costs totalling €4.1 million at one of Ireland’s largest media groups, Johnston Press Ireland Ltd, resulted in the group recording a pre-tax loss of €6m last year.

REGIONAL newspaper publisher Johnston Press returned to profit in the first half of 2010 but still saw advertising revenues in its Irish operations fall by 29% on a year-on-year basis.

The publisher of the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post newspapers, as well as the Limerick Leader and Kilkenny People, today said advertising trends had improved on the back of a resurgent property market in the UK.

Printing staff at the Kilkenny People have announced plans to mount strike action on Friday over the company's decision to close its printing facility with the loss of 46 jobs.

Staff at the printing facility for the Kilkenny People newspaper are due to embark on all-out industrial action this Friday.

LEADING sports organisations are engaged in emergency talks with Setanta Ireland after the company’s UK arm went into administration yesterday.

A NEW deadline of May 5 has been set for final bids for the Irish portfolio of titles currently owned by Edinburgh-based regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press.

REGIONAL newspaper owner, Johnston Press declined to comment on speculation that it may be a takeover target as its shares surged by 20.26% yesterday.

A serious muscle injury could be about to bring the inter-county career of Kilkenny defender James Ryall to a premature end.

Young Kilkenny star Conor Phelan has been told by a top London heart specialist that he can resume his hurling career, but only at club level.

JOHNSTON Press, the largest regional newspaper publisher in Ireland, has bought The Scotsman newspaper group in a €235 million (£160m) deal.

JOHNSTON PRESS, the Scottish newspaper group, has splashed out more than €240 million to become the largest regional publisher in Ireland with the takeover of the Leinster Leader Group and Northern Ireland’s Local Press company.

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.

Media group Emap today said it had agreed a £391m (€587m) deal to take over Scottish Radio Holdings, owner of Today FM and newspapers such as The Kilkenny People and The Longford Leader.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings has snapped up Donegal Highland Radio, its third Irish takeover in five years.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings, the parent company of Today FM and a number of Irish media assets, said yesterday that profits had risen by 12.7% in the last 12 months.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings, (SRH) owner of Today FM and the Kilkenny People, expects revenues to increase by close to 15% this year.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings has had its €26 million bid for FM104 cleared by the Competition Authority, with stringent conditions attached.

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) earned almost €8m last year from its Irish radio and newspapers interests, which include Today FM, the Kilkenny People and the Tyrone Times.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings, the media group that owns Today FM, said yesterday that full year profits had fallen by nearly 20%.

TODAY FM owner Scottish Radio Holdings’s Irish businesses are not performing as well as its British assets, where full year sales are expected to rise 18% for the full year.

SCOTTISH Radio Holdings (SRH) still have strong designs on the Irish market, despite incurring sharp overall losses last year.