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Further to the circulation of a video showing the contents of a council truck being poured into the River Nore in Kilkenny…

Niall Sargent, of the Green News, reports:

Ireland’s environmental watchdog has ordered Kilkenny County Council to investigate potential contamination of the River Nore by discharge from a Council street sweeping truck.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for the investigation after video footage emerged of a street sweeping truck emptying a liquid substance into the river in April 2016.

The incident occurred along the Canal Walk, which passes alongside the county’s most famous landmark, Kilkenny Castle.

 

…In a statement to The Green News, the EPA confirmed that it received an anonymous complaint in July 2017 in relation to the footage.

The EPA said that it has requested the council to investigate the complaint, with a report from the council’s Environment Section set to be delivered by 11 August 2017.

The Council’s Director of Services Tim Butler confirmed the incident, stating that the liquid disposed of was “excess surface water from street sweeping activities”.

He added that the composition is “similar to run off after any rainfall events.”

EPA orders Council to investigate potential contamination of River Nore (The Green News)

Previously: A River Runs Through It

Earlier today.

Prince Charles has a go at hurling in the grounds of Kilkenny Castle.

Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker-Bowles are currently on a three-day State visit.

Video: Sean Defoe

Previously: To Your Stations

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REPLETE – Kilkenny electronica

What you may need to know…

01. Replete is Kilkenny-based electronic composer Peter Lawlor, releasing material through American techno label Always Human.

02. Having been on the scene in some capacity or other for a few years now (your writer seems to remember streaming some old stuff on ye olde Drop-d.ie), it comes as a surprise that his first physical release only occurred recently, compiling some older material with an EP’s worth of fresh kill.

03. The (fairly amusingly-monikered) Zizek at the Discotheque is streaming now from Always Human Tapes’ Bandcamp page, premiering this week on The Thin Air.

04. As the label’s name might suggest, it’s available for download and purchase (plus shipping from the States!) on cassette.

Thoughts: No-nonsense beats and pieces from a consistent producer who’ll hopefully finally get his dues in 2017.

REPLETE

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“There’s no such thing as a walk of shame…”

The tagline for Kilkenny-written and Waterford-produced Pulled, a brand-new stage comedy about the modern condition amid a battle with the horrors.

Written by and starring Kilkenny’s Niamh Moroney, directed by Ita Morrissey, and starring Andrea Bolger, the play is produced by Central Arts and Devious Theatre.

Pulled kicks off at Central Arts, Waterford from September 13-17, before moving to the Set Theatre, Kilkenny, from September 29-October 1..

Tickets (€12) here.

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Kilkenny Castle, 1395

On the 18th of February 1366, 650 years ago today, the ‘Statutes of Kilkenny’ were enacted in Kilkenny Castle.

Via Historic Kilkenny:

In 1361, King Edward III sent his son, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, to Ireland to assess the situation there. After repelling an invasion led by Edward Bruce, the English hold over Ireland was weak.

Many of the English who had settled in Ireland had begun to adopt the customs and language of the Irish.  Consisting of 35 acts, the statutes attempted to stop the Gaelicisation of the English in Ireland.

These included

– No intermarriage between Irish and English
– No adoption of Irish children or fosterage of Irish children to English households
– No use of Irish names or dress
– English Common Law would be the law of the land rather than the Brehon Laws of the Irish
– Separation of Irish and English churches
– No ‘games which men call hurling with great clubs of a ball on the ground’

Unfortunately for King Edward III, the Statutes were never fully implemented due to lack of funds and manpower in Ireland. The English lords there strengthened their ties to the great Irish families. This Gaelicisation would not be challenged again until the early 17th century….

FIGHT!

Historic Kilkenny (Facebook)

Illustration: Kilkenny Castle 1395 by Daniel Tietzche-Tyler

Thanks Ruadhán

 

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Killkenny city centre, last night.

A candle light vigil for Carlow/Kilkenny rescue dogs.

And a plea for no kill animal shelters.

Maura Rua from Chance Wicklow writes:

We are an advocacy group for pound dogs. We started out some years ago because of concerns about the dog pound in Wicklow. We soon saw the need to broaden our work to other pounds, particularly pounds run by the ISPCA which had high kill rates. The Carlow/Kilkenny pound was run by the ISPCA up to recently and the licence is going out to tender. This is the first time ever the Carlow/Kilkenny dog pound and warden service contract has gone out to tender

In recent years there has been much more awareness of the need for welfare concerns to be addressed in pounds. The mentality of rounding up and killing healthy harmless dogs is abhorrent to those who see a better way forward by rehoming dogs.

Around 99% of pound dogs are rehome-able – it is a complete myth that there are large amounts of savage dangerous dogs in pounds – the only thing wrong with pound dogs is their former feckless owners.

In 2013, the last year for which official figures are available:
Carlow had an intake of 247 dogs of which 64 were killed = 29%
Kilkenny took in 310 dogs of which 66 were killed =21%
Carlow Pound and dog warden service cost €108,000
Kilkenny Pound and dog warden service cost €103,00

In contrast Leitrim took in 529 dogs – roughly the same as Carlow /Kilkenny combined:
Leitrim killed 7 dogs = 1%
Leitrim cost €47,000 to run.
Leitrim Animal Welfare run the county pound for Leitrim.

It is only in comparing what is achieved at other pounds with far fewer resources that a true picture of what is happening can be seen. The statistics then become meaningful.

Chance Wicklow (Facebook)

Thanks Padraig O’Ceallaigh