Kilkenny City hasn’t been as badly affected by high-street vacancies as some other towns and cities but has seen a rise in the number of vacant commercial spaces, from 3.3% in early 2014 to 7.7% in the first quarter of this year.

SIX shopping centres, including the largest in the Midlands, have been put up for sale in one lot, guiding at €115 million. The mix, in one lot only and called the Cornerstone Portfolio, has almost 170 shop units plus 150 apartments, and 670,00 sq ft of retail in all.

Forty jobs have been created by Sky as it expands its retail store network in Ireland, bringing to 100 the number directly employed.

Gardaí at Graiguenamanagh in Co Kilkenny have appealed for help in tracing a 15-year-old girl missing from her home for the past week.

DUBLIN-BASED Adwalker, which supplied wearable advertising, has been wound up and a liquidator has been appointed to the Ark Retail fashion group.