BY NOEL O’DRISCOLL
GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on the cause of the fire which destroyed the Model School in Athy in the early hours of Friday morning last.
BY AOIFE BARRY
“I’m OK – you have good days and bad days, and today is a good day fortunately.” As he enters his third week on hunger strike, Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) shop steward Jim Wyse is remarkably stoic.
BY AOIFE BARRY
“I’M feeling no major ill-effects. I’m feeling OK. The hunger is gone, the feeling of wanting food is not there anymore.”
BY AOIFE BARRY
A WORKER at the Green Isle Foods plant in Naas is to go on hunger strike today in an effort to bring an end to the six-month long dispute at the company.
BY VICKI WELLER
AN 18-year-old girl suffered an injury to her skull after being attacked by two fellow students in front of several witnesses at her school.
BY VICKI WELLER
A CAR was completely burned out and the front of two houses damaged in a weekend arson attack in Newbridge.
BY AOIFE BARRY
POOLS of blood were the only sign that a serious incident had occurred at Tougher’s Business Park on Monday evening, when the filling station was the scene of a stabbing.
BY VICKI WELLER
STAFF and pupils of St Conleth’s Vocational School in Newbridge are finally “back home” after being forced out of their buildings by flood damage in late October.
BY VICKI WELLER
KILDARE continued to count the cost of the big freeze this week with water supplies running low in several areas and the county council transporting water by tanker to residents in need.
BY NOEL O’DRISCOLL
A MULTI-million euro shopping development for Athy could finally stem the tide of shoppers leaving to shop in neighbouring centres.