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Kildare

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Conor McGregor refused planning permission for 'out-of-scale' six-bed house in Co Kildare

22 hrs ago

34.2k

Compulsory Redundancies

Intel to cut just under 200 jobs at Leixlip plant in Kildare

The company confirmed earlier this year that the number of jobs impacted by cuts would be made public in July.

Updated 30 Jun

22.2k

Courts

Man jailed for six years for manslaughter of Dylan McCarthy during melee outside Kildare pub

30 Jun

13.5k

Courts

Two charged after woman ‘dragged’ from Kildare home into car in apparent dog dispute, court hears

25 Jun

45.4k

into the west

Plan to expand DART to Kildare and Meath gets go-ahead after legal challenges dropped

24 Jun

18.1k

Celbridge

Two people arrested after woman falsely imprisoned last night in Co Kildare

24 Jun

16.6k

Kildare

Three arrested for €400,000 worth of vandalism at OPW site near Castletown House

20 Jun

23.1k

lilies in bloom

'There's a buzz around the county' - Joe McDonagh success and Kildare's hurling rise

13 Jun

1.9k

Kildare

OPW says it will make a report to gardaí after staff confronted by Castletown House protestors

10 Jun

8.4k

Housing minister

Developers behind almost 500 delayed social homes calls for 'urgent' meeting with Government

10 Jun

12.6k

Kildare

Locals block service vehicles at Castletown House in protest against OPW

9 Jun

20.8k

column

So, just how serious are we about hurling promotion?

Donating 20,000 tickets for children to attend the Leinster final was a fine gesture, but it also buttered up a potentially embarrassing attendance.

Declan Bogue

9 Jun

2.2k

climate action

Twenty-eight schools to undergo major retrofit works this summer

9 Jun

29.5k

Lilywhites

Kildare crowned Joe McDonagh Cup champions with victory over Laois

Paul Keane

Reports from Croke Park

8 Jun

3.4k

James Browne

Housing Minister pulls plug on almost 500 social homes across six sites over rising costs

Eoghan Dalton

Updated 7 Jun

106k

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Kildare

Teenager dies after single-vehicle collision and two motorcyclists hospitalised in separate incident

Updated 6 Jun

25.0k

local authority loans

Housing minister 'not happy' that affordable homes were priced above threshold for state loans

30 May

35.7k

Courts

Van stolen in burglary alleged to have rammed gardaí during three county chase

24 May

22.0k

Brian Ibe

Man (23) handed life sentence for murder of a man who had taken him and his mother into his home

Updated 19 May

18.8k

16m

castletown house

The Castletown saga: Legal battle looms in 20-month row over access at Co Kildare landmark

15 May

19.8k

Minor Matters

Louth hit 2-17 in win over Dublin to set up Leinster final against Offaly

7 May

5.3k

Kildare

Gardaí investigate €500k vandalism as OPW vehicles wrecked and CCTV wires cut near Castletown House

7 May

24.1k

armed support unit

Anger as Gardaí who qualified for Armed Support Unit two years ago still await deployment

A number of highly trained officers have effectively been “left on the shelf” according to the Garda union.

Eoghan Dalton

5 May

18.1k

Fixture Row

Brennan labels Leinster Council decision 'a disgrace' over double-header

2 May

5.8k

Leinster SFC

Louth v Kildare: The fight for the last All-Ireland spot - and a Leinster final ticket

27 Apr

1.7k

Celbridge

Castletown House reopening faces uncertainty amid ongoing protests at Kildare landmark

27 Apr

31.1k

Athy

Body of man discovered in Kildare apartment as garda investigation launched

24 Apr

27.9k

Leixlip

Fears Irish jobs may be at risk as Intel global quarterly earnings set to be released later

Andrew Walsh

reports from Leixlip

24 Apr

8.2k

GAA

Meath set up Leinster U20 football final rematch with Louth

22 Apr

3.8k

InvestigatesPlanning Submissions

Series of unusual planning objections to vet practices uncovered in Dublin, Meath and Kildare

“I came as close as I’ve ever come to having a nervous breakdown,” one vet said about the planning objections.

The Journal Investigates reveals that possibly unfounded objections led to financial losses and delayed businesses from opening

Objections were submitted by people living hundreds of kilometres away

Locations were masked by some who used mailbox addresses

Conor O'Carroll

19 Apr

46.0k

FactCheck

Debunked: Video of Army exercise in Kildare did not show someone arrested for planting a bomb

17 Apr

7.9k

curragh camp

Ireland's Special Forces are getting a new €45m state-of-the-art headquarters

15 Apr

21.5k

put your records on

Ireland's only vinyl record factory opens in Co Kildare

12 Apr

27.9k

Kildare

An Taisce objects to Applegreen EV charging hub and service station outside Naas

11 Apr

16.2k

Brian Ibe

Man guilty of murder of 65-year-old man who had taken him and his mother into his home

9 Apr

25.2k

Commuter Zone

Commuters in Newbridge and Kildare to see fare reduction implemented at the end of April

31 Mar

19.1k

Pride

Offaly hold off Kildare fightback to be crowned Division 3 football league champions

30 Mar

4.1k

Teenager on a learner permit arrested after driving at more than 200km/h on motorway

23 hrs ago

21.7k

Drug seizure

Two men arrested and €120,000 of cannabis seized in Co Kildare

1 Mar

11.4k

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