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Kidney keeps faith with starting 15 for Italian job

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:02:21 +0000

The Ireland team to play Italy in the RBS 6 Nations Championship at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday has been named and coach Declan Kidney has opted for an unchanged lineup.

Kilkenny Walkers Club

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:13:28 +0000

ON Sunday members of Kilkenny Walkers Club will be heading for an outing in the Galtees.

Cats to work off fluid panel in League

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:25 +0000

KILKENNY will swing into the new Allianz National Hurling League with a fluid squad; the make-up of the League is not for discussion now and there will be no Henry Shefflin until the summer.

Drennan ready to tackle Turkey

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

KILKENNY’S Mikey Drennan is all set to tackle Turkey.

New club joins county ranks

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000

THE success of last year’s Gaelic for Girls programme in Graignamanagh and the primary schools league has borne fruit with a new girls’ Gaelic football club in South Kilkenny.

Cats lead Leinster into final

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Leinster 3-14

Record maker O’Brien is a Supreme champion

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:09:35 +0000

THE high achievers in sport in Kilkenny during 2011 were honoured through the Hotel Kilkenny and Kilkenny People sports star scheme at a glittering annual gala dinner in Hotel Kilkenny on Friday night.

This week’s GAA results and fixtures

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Kilkenny GAA Fixtures

Soccer Scoreboard

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Umbro Kilkenny & District League

Tyrrell itching to get back into action

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:19:24 +0000

HE MAY have 11 tough, demanding, high pressure and successful inter-county seasons behind him already, but Jackie Tyrrell can’t wait for the 2012 campaign to begin, writes John Knox.

Shaky Saints book final shoot-out with city rivals

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:19:04 +0000

St Kieran’s College0-15

Ireland ready to kick start Six Nations Challenge

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:19:29 +0000

Ireland’s rugby squad finally get the opportunity to bounce back from the opening Six Nations defeat to Wales this week.

Kilkenny GAA Results

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:59:32 +0000

Leinster Colleges Senior Hurling A semi-finals

Draw made for Maher Shield semi-finals

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

AN ALL-PREMIER or all-First Division final? Those are two of the possible permutations after the draw was made for the Maher Shield semi-finals.

Crowds gripped by cross-country drama

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

DRAMA and excitement were in full flow at the County Juvenile Cross-Country Relay Championships, which were held in Bramblestown on Sunday.

Quel Esprit books Gold Cup berth at Leopardstown

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000

THE Willie Mullins-trained Quel Esprit made sure he is in the running for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with a workmanlike success in the Grade One Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Raggett brace sends ’Booters into final four

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Freebooters A 2

Moved by the sight of poverty, gems to raise funds for charity

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:56:59 +0000

The speaker is James Stephens clubman, Liam Mullen, in the aftermath of his eleventh trip to the African Township where 120 new houses were handed over, courtesy of the Mellon Trust.

More departures and a few more surprises

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:21:32 +0000

The late John B. Keane wrote a poignant play incorporating a heart-breaking song about young Irish men heading abroad to seek their fortune, with a heavy heart knowing they would, most likely, never return to their native country.

The hurling highs consign the recession to the ha’penny place

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:13:28 +0000

SUCCESS and the enjoyment harvested through it on the hurling fields of Ireland have made Ballyragget people almost recession proof, and they barely know it is winter, writes John Knox.