Those stopping off at local forecourts this morning are seeing price hikes in fuel as our Martin Quilty's been finding out ...

Carlow Kilkenny FG Deputy Catherine Callaghan has been reacting to the naming of Phil Hogan as Ireland's nominee for a key UN role ...

Following the news that Kilkenny man Phil Hogan's been named the Irish nominee for a key UN role, local political analyst Pat O'Neill reacts for KCLR News' Edwina Grace ...

Kilkenny man Colbert Fennelly worked on Avatar: Fire and Ash which picked up a BAFTA recently. He spoke to KCLR News' Edwina Grace about that and his life in LA the morning after ...

Deputy John McGuinness was speaking about the HSE funding announcement last week that €6.5 million has been allocated to 15 health projects in Carlow and Kilkenny.

About 50 people turned out at a public meeting in Gowran parish hall last night to discuss the need for an extra bus to transport secondary school students to and from the area - KCLR News' Dermot Keyes was there ...

Minister James Browne had a busy day in Carlow yesterday and KCLR News' Dermot Keyes caught up with him mid duties ...

Residents in the North Kilkenny village of Coon are making great strides in their ambition to buy the village's pub, where patrons were first welcomed back in 1850.

Currently called The Ranchers' Return, the pub will be re-titled The Village Well should this well-mobilised group reach their fundraising target.

Having fired up the news hooter about their efforts to KCLR News, Dermot Keyes visited Coon (for nothing stronger than a well-brewed tea) where he was warmly greeted by an enthusiastic group who are doing all they can to keep their public house an active and viable presence at the heart of their tightly knit community.

Professor Gary Courtney consultant at St Lukes Hospital says they were blindsided by last weeks capital funding announcement for the hospital.

He's described the funding announcement as really inadequate and outlined his disappoinment on The KCLR Daily this morning.

Kilkenny Councillor Seán Ó hArgáin's been outlining the revival of the Labour Party's Carlow town branch for KCLR News' Edwina Grace ...