With school holidays in full swing, and school holiday hunger a worrying factor for many Kildare families, Tesco Ireland is turning its attention to helping Family Resource Centres, which support families with much-needed household essentials.

THERE is a “huge” appetite for a group or forum for businesses in Athy. An exploratory meeting held in O’Briens last Tuesday evening (23 July) was attended by a number of local businesspeople alongside councillor Brian Dooley.

One bridge in south Kildare is "impassable" whenever there is frost 

Holidaymakers are still calling the CCPC helpline for information on their rights

Staff from Specsavers Newbridge recently hosted a fundraiser in aid of Alzheimer's Society of Ireland.

There could be a chance that you are missing out on hundreds of euros

 A long-awaited road widening at Athgarvan will be undertaken in the coming months, councillors at the July meeting of the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District heard.

"The music is going on until all hours"

Tributes have been paid to a decorated member of the defence forces following his passing. Retired Regimental Sergeant Major Patrick (Paddy) Conroy of Skirteen, Monasterevin and formerly of Birr, Offaly passed away on Thursday.

Three south Kildare schools will have new special education class following government approval. Athy Model School, Gaelscoil Chill Dara and Scoil Bhríde (Athgarvan) have been approved under the Additional Accommodation Scheme.

David was last seen on Wednesday

'Maybe someone who overheard something in the years following 1998'

Kildare Kildare County Council plan on turning a former HSE dispensary site into five social housing units. The council are initiating a Part VIII application at the site in Carbury, Kildare at W91 VF24.

This new technology will be piloted in Donadea Forest Park

WHEN gardaí came on a Kildare man outside a nightclub in Portlaoise they found him in a drunken state, threatening door staff and in possession of a small knife and half a scissors.

The High Court has ordered a couple who unjustly enriched themselves with monies loaned to them by Kildare equestrian centre owner to pay her over €800,000 in damages.

 A NEWBRIDGE-based firm who got planning permission to build 120 houses in a €40m double development in Naas, will have to put at least one bottle of champagne on ice, after a few sizeable ointment flies have appealed against the larger of the two ...

Rory Best, Conor Murray, Dennis Taylor, Ken Doherty, and Jimmy Nesbit to name a few

Almost 3,600 Kildare properties in the Curragh Camp deployment area can now avail of a high-speed fibre broadband connection. The area covers the rural surrounds of the Curragh Camp, Newbridge and Calverstown.

Calls have been made to create plans for a public realm project on Woodstock Street in Athy, with an emphasis on traffic calming, a pedestrian crossing at Shrewleen, new paths, and resurfacing of the car park.