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Cllr Fintan Phelan's been telling The KCLR Daily of the county council's ambitious plan for Carlow town and while on he also touched on this morning's traffic issues locally and in Dublin city centre ...

As part of a nationwide recruitment drive, Bluebird Care's set to hire fifty people in Carlow and Kilkenny - local Managing Director and Callan native Brian Egan told The KCLR Daily's Francis Nesbitt more ...

County Carlow Cllr William Paton's been speaking with KCLR News' Stephen Byrne re the statement issued on Saturday by Rathwood Home & Garden World Ltd ...

Christian Brothers College Kilkenny was officially opened by Education Minister Hildegarde Naughton yesterday, with retired staff joining the current teaching team along with other invited guests for an afternoon of festivities. The new school features 37 classrooms, a multi-purpose hall, library and fitness suite and can cater for up to a thousand students. A full-sized all-weather playing pitch...

Legendary trainer John 'Shark' Hanlon remembers the late John Fleming ...

Liam Carroll of the Environment Department at Carlow County Council's been telling KCLR News of the discovery of more than 200 tyres on Mount Leinster ...

Sgt PJ Griffin outlines details of the theft of gates from a property close to Dunnamaggin village in county Kilkenny recently ...

Cllr Deirdre Cullen who teaches at Kilkenny City Vocational School raised a funding issue for the premises with the Education Minister when she visited yesterday ...

Full interview with Seán Molloy of Tírlán. An edited version was broadcast on the Farm Show on 23/4/2026

The KCLR Farm Show, brought to you by Tirlán, broadcasts on KCLR every Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. with the programme repeated on Sunday mornings at 7:00 a.m. It is an agriculture based programme, focusing on current farming events, the people involved in farming, the Agri-sector and rural issues affecting the people of Carlow and Kilkenny. Matt O'Keeffe is your host, and you can contact the sho...

Minister for Education and Youth Hildegarde Naughton (FG) was on hand to officially open Christian Brothers College in Kilkenny City today, where she unveiled a commemorative plaque alongside the school's main entrance.   The school boasts 37 classrooms, a multi-purpose hall and a host of new indoor and outdoor facilities which could not have been delivered at its former home on James's Street. Pr...

Carlow Councillor Brian O'Donoghue's been telling KCLR News' Dermot Keyes of his views on his former party leader's controversial comments ...

Cllr Ger Frisby has been speaking to KCLR News's Dermot Keyes following recent vandalism at a Ferrybank playground ...

Máire George is a well-known figure in Ballon, County Carlow and has been reacting to the news that one of the two Irish tickets now worth €500,000 each after last night's EuroMillions Plus draw was sold in her locality ...

Following last night's sod-turning on the newest development at Carlow GAA's Centre of Excellence in Fenagh, our Brian Redmond was joined on The KCLR Daily by Chair of Carlow GAA John McDonald and Club Carlow Chair David Walsh ... (images: Pat Ahern)

General Manager of Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel Colin Ahern's been telling KCLR News' Edwina Grace of challenges for hospitality as leaders from the sector across the EU gather in Cork later ...

The Green Party leader is set to table a motion in the Dáil with a protest outside Leinster House due to follow as part of Earth Day. Senator Malcolm Noonan has more ...

Following a long-awaited meeting with Uisce Éireann representatives, Cllr Pat Fitzpatrick outlined to KCLR News' Dermot Keyes a key update he and fellow councillors were given ...

On this week's episode of the Garden Show, bought to you by Arboretum & Garden Heaven, we chat all things Spring and focus on daffodils with Dave Hardy of Esker Farm. Our plant of the week is the daffodil. We catch up with Anne Synnott of Arboretum Kilquade chatting all things spring. And, as ever, we answer your garden questions!

Acting Fire Chief for Carlow Fire Services Ben Woodhouse has been outlining his team's biodiversity garden offering to KCLR News' Edwina Grace ...

Carlow Mayor Paul Doogue worked at the Carlow Sugar Company and is set to host an event next week to mark the centenary of its set-up ...

Aisling Ward of Carlow Kilkenny Skillnet has been updating KCLR News' Dermot Keyes on today's Leadership and Sustainability conference ...

Mariana Duarte Santos has been telling KCLR News' Dermot Keyes of her stunning 29-panel artwork in Ferrybank, South Kilkenny ...

David Sinnott is among the contributors to today's Carlow Kilkenny Skillnet event - KCLR News' Dermot Keyes has been speaking with him at Lyrath Estate Hotel ...

A major wind farm project on the North Kilkenny/Laois boundary has been granted planning permission by An Comisiun Pleanala, despite considerable local opposition. The development at Ballynalacken will consist of 12 wind turbines with a rotor diameter of 117 metres, a hub height of 96 and a half metres for 11 turbines and one with an 84 metre height. This will mean an uppermost tip height of 155 m...