Enterprise Plan Launches Big Winter Programme for Kilkenny’s New Neighbourhood Centre
A big winter programme starts this week from Kilkenny’s newest Neighbourhood Centre and young and old in the Parish will be the biggest winners as the voluntary and community partnership effort launches its first three year enterprise plan. A morning drop in cafe for all ages, games, social networks, snooker activities, indoor bowling, table tennis, craft classes for children, dance classes for all ages and Tea Dances for older people are just some of the latest activities to run alongside…
Continue ReadingBishop and Mayor to Officially Launch New Neighbourhood Centre in Kilkenny
This Sunday Bishop of Ossory, Seamus Freeman, will give his blessings to a community venture trying to revive the fortunes of the last parish hall left in the City. Following 11.30am Sunday mass, St. Canice’s Parish Priest Fr. Jim Murphy and Bishop Freeman will be joined by City Mayor, Martin Brett to officially open St. Canice’s Parish Hall Neighbourhood Centre at a special ceremony marking more than fifty years of service to Kilkenny families from the old parish building on…
Continue ReadingBrewery Boys Voice Support for Butts Neighbourhood Centre
The St. Francis Abbey Brewery Carol singers did their bit this week for the Butts effort to redevelop their old parish hall as Kilkenny’s newest Neighbourhood Centre. Workers and formers workers and spouses from the Brewery brought some Christmas cheer to the Town Hall on a bitterly cold Saturday in their effort to raise funds for the Fr. McGrath Centre and the new Neighbourhood Centre on the Butts Green. Local people gave generously to street collectors and St. Francis Brewery…
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