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 [...]
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BEING A PROFESSIONAL actor at the age of five is one thing, but sharing the stage with A-list names like Glen Close, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Pauline Collins, Mia Wasikowska, Brendan Gleeson and more is another. But, that’s exactly what happened for young Rhys Burke from Narraghmore when he secured the role of George Moore in [...]
Click here to read "A touch of Hollywood"A KILDARE FILMMAKER has made it to the final eight of this year’s RTE Storyland 4. StoryLand is a competition for the best online drama series as voted for by viewers and it is a great way for RTE to identify and develop up and coming talent for the future. Having set up ‘Fail Safe [...]
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A GROUP OF Transition Year students are certainly laying foundations for their future having set up their own company, Slapz! The eight bright youngsters from Patrician Secondary School, Newbridge decided to import a watch, which has a straight strap on it. You ‘slap’ it onto your arm and the sides fold down in an instant, [...]
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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS, Kildare man Thomas O’Brien is one of the first to receive communication from our new president, Michael D Higgins. Receiving a letter and cheque from the president on the occasion, The Kilteel native led the celebrations last weekend as a party was held to mark the occasion. A resident of Peamount Healthcare, [...]
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MILLTOWN GAA ARE holding a Benefit Day on Saturday December 3rd 2011 for one of their footballers who suffered a horrendous injury during a freak accident at a training session in February of this year. Ongoing treatment Darren O’Shea has been ongoing treatment since. Darren’s rehabilitation is on-going as a result of this injury and [...]
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By Sinéad Ballantyne editor@kildarepost.com HAVING COMPLETED YET another campaign to raise funds for charity, Derry Nolan is back and looking toward his next challenge. Derry went to Lake Garda in Italy with a number of others from around the country to raise funds to enhance the John Durkin Laboratory for Bone Marrow Leukaemia in St [...]
Click here to read "€6,000 raised for charity"THE NEW BUSINESS tourism show, IMEX America (International Meetings and Events Exhibition) got some local support when they held a meeting in Las Vegas recently. Targeting the lucrative MICE (Meetings, Incentive, Conferences and Events) industry, the three-day show attracted almost 2,000 influential business tourism buyers and decision-makers from around the world, offering important networking opportunities [...]
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THE REFERENDUM COMMISSION has urged the electorate in Co Kildare to vote in the referendums on judges pay and Oireachtas inquiries which take place today, Thursday, October 27th, the same day as the Presidential election. The Commission, the independent body set up to explain the referendum proposals, said voters should take a few minutes to [...]
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A TOTAL of 24 charities and community groups in the Naas area are to receive €70,000 between them thanks to a donation from Oxegen promoters MCD. Over the last three years, MCD has contributed approximately €400,000 to charities, community groups and sports clubs as an expression of gratitude to the local community for the overwhelming [...]
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