A man in his 70s has been arrested by gardaí investigating the 1984 murder of 34-year-old Marie Tierney.

Kilkenny‘s city centre has been declared safe after army bomb disposal experts confirmed that a suspicious device found this morning was a hoax.

A 33-year-old man is being questioned by gardaí investigating a drug seizure in Kilkenny.

A 31-year-old man has been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court accused of the murder of his partner, Rita Apine, in her Co Kilkenny home.

Four people have been arrested following an attempted armed robbery in Co. Kilkenny.

The partner of a mother, aged 29, who was fatally injured last Sunday at her home, has been remanded in custody after being charged with her murder.

A man is to appear in court charged with the murder of a 29-year-old mother who was found fatally injured at the bottom of her stairs last Sunday, writes Conor Kane of the Irish Examiner.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man arrested in connection with the death of a woman in Kilkenny.

Gardaí mounted a massive assault on criminal activity in the Carlow/Kilkenny region yesterday, with a total of 64 people arrested during a “day of action” as part of Operation Thor.

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A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed outside a busy shopping centre in Kilkenny.

A Dominican priest was yesterday charged with 39 counts of sexually assaulting a boy at various locations in Munster on dates between 1986 and 1994.

A father and daughter have been remanded in custody in relation to the discovery of €1.5m worth of cocaine and cannabis and €399,000 of cannabis, respectively, at two addresses in Co Kilkenny.

A man has been arrested after a cannabis grow house was discovered in County Kilkenny.

A 21-year-old man has died following a stabbing in Kilkenny city, gardaí said.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man is “extremely lucky to be alive” after being stabbed just metres from his Kilkenny apartment, which he shares with his mother and sister.

Two people remain in Garda custody in connection with the kidnapping of bank official and former Kilkenny hurler Adrian Ronan and his family last year.

Two men were being questioned tonight over a failed tiger-kidnap robbery which targeted a Kilkenny All-Ireland hurler.

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with the false imprisonment of a bank official and his family in Kilkenny earlier this month.

A SECOND person was arrested yesterday in connection with the deaths of a mother and her two children on Christmas Day in Co Kilkenny.

A teenager is among two people being questioned by detectives today over the deaths of a mother and her two young children in a Christmas Day house fire.

Detectives are today questioning a man in connection with the deaths of a mother and her two young children in a Christmas Day house fire.

Gardaí have arrested an 18-year-old woman as part of their investigation into the death of a young man at a house in Co Kilkenny this morning.

A Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a post office raid is an asylum seeker who said he had no money, could not get a work visa and was suffering from depression, the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.

DOZENS of while balloons were released into the sky yesterday as families bereaved by traffic accidents gathered to remember their loved ones and appeal for greater effort to reduce the toll on the country’s roads.

SEARCHES were continuing last night for a gang who rammed gardaí manning a checkpoint after a robbery at a scrap metal compound.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy yesterday set up an internal inquiry into how the force dealt with the tragedy in Co Wexford.

Passengers on a Bus Éireann bus could hold vital clues to the murder of Kilkenny postmaster Alan Cunniffe, it emerged today.

A MAN has found himself quite literally crying over spilt milk when he parted with €700 for four litres of the stuff.

A young man has been found dead in a holding cell at Youghal Garda station in Co Cork.

THE man who is alleged to have used a razor blade to circumcise a 29-day-old baby which later died has been branded a “baby killer” by fellow prisoners.

THE husband of Olympic swimmer, Michelle de Bruin, yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing chicken breasts, vitamins and cod liver oil tablets at his local Dunnes Stores supermarket.

GARDAÍ have arrested an African man in his 30s after uncovering a sophisticated cocaine laboratory in a house in Kilkenny yesterday.

GARDAÍ have launched separate investigations after two men were killed in a bloody start to the new year.

Gardai in Kilkenny have arrested a 20-year-old man after an envelope containing white powder was posted to St Luke’s Hospital in the city this morning.

A man in his twenties has been arrested in connection with the death of another man during a row in Kilkenny in the early hours of this morning.