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FOUR KILDARE STUDENTS have won top prizes in this year’s 58th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. In Category D, third prize (€150) was won by Julia Jurczyk (9), St. Coca’s National School, Kilcock from for her work entitled ‘The Forest’. Other Kildare winners, all of whom won Special Merit Awards, were Cillian Barrett (12), Ballymore Hearts [...]

PHIL HOGAN T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government announced recently that he has given approval to Kildare County Council to seek tenders for the upgrade and expansion of the wastewater treatment plant at Leixlip. The contract is being funded under his Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010-2013. This contract is the final [...]

By Sinéad Ballantyne editor@kildarepost.com WORKERS AT A Spar shop in Maynooth were held at gunpoint last Saturday. Two men entered the shop in Beaufield at approx. 6.30pm wielding what appeared to be a gun and a yellow crowbar. Staff were threatened and forced to open the tills from which notes were removed. The crowbar thug [...]

By Sinéad Ballantyne editor@kildarepost.com WITH A STRONG delegation from Kildare at the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) annual congress, the main focus has been on a lack of jobs and poor conditions for young teachers. The congress has heard that “anger and fear” is rising among new teachers over the difficulties in securing a post [...]

NUI MAYNOOTH PRESIDENT Professor Philip Nolan gave his inaugural lecture last Thursday entitled ‘A Place of Universal Learning’. Professor Philip Nolan was appointed President of NUI Maynooth on 15th August 2011. He is renowned as an innovative thinker on education and practised medicine briefly, before joining the staff of University College Dublin where he was [...]

THE MCKIVERIGAN FAMILY officially presented the massive €3,600 they raised for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland though a number of gruelling challenges, last week. Having lost their aunt, Lily in October ’10 of Alzheimers, the Sallins family decided to do what they could to help those with the illness. Aiden McKiverigan took to the road [...]

FILES ARE BEING prepared for the DPP following the arrest and release of three men in connection with a €350,000 Ecstasy haul last week. The garda search operation took place at around 6.30pm on the 16th February and the three Irish men were detained at the same time. The three were held at three different [...]

Racecourse generates €59.8m in local economy in ‘11 THE IRISH NATIONAL Hunt Punchestown Festival generated a record €59.8 million contribution to the economy of Kildare and its surrounding regions in 2011, according to an independent economic benefit analysis report carried out by NUI Maynooth. The findings of the report demonstrate that the Punchestown Festival has [...]

By Sinéad Ballantyne editor@kildarepost.com GARDAI IN MAYNOOTH Garda Station are investigating a cash in transit robbery at Tesco Shopping Centre on Dublin Road in the town. The incident occurred at about 10. 45 am on the 2nd February 2012. Two men armed with metal bars assaulted a security man as he was about to service [...]

THE IRISH JUNIOR Women’s Volleyball Squad will represent Ireland in a European Championships for Small Nations qualification tournament in the Faroe Islands today (Jan 10th) with a large representation from Kildare. The Junior Squad has an amazing seven players of the 12 player squad from Naas. The team is also coached by Naas Cobras Head [...]