October: Looking forward at St Luke’s and looking back to World War 1
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In October local councillors agreed to write to Irish Water because water in Inistioge, The Rower and parts of Thomastown was ‘safe but absolutely undrinkable’. Locals were buying bottled water despite a multi-million euro upgrade to their water supply In the city, work began on the long-awaited skate park.
Work also began on the new MRI block as St Luke’s General Hospital.
Construction work got underway on a new 72-bed ward block at the hospital as well as - finally - a unit to house the long-awaited MRI scanner for the local hospital.
Kilkenny s Tara Shine to deliver Royal Institution Christmas lecture on BBC Four
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Kilkenny s Dr Tara Shine will deliver a Royal Institution Christmas lecture on BBC Four at 8pm tonight.
Dr Shine was appointed as co-facilitator of the Structured Expert Dialogue under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); a critical post in reviewing the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement earlier this year.
The Kilkenny woman is a environmental scientist, policy advisor and science communicator with over 20 years experience working at the international level on climate change and sustainable development, as an adviser to governments, world leaders businesses and international organisations. She is also a director of the award-winning social enterprise Change by Degrees, which educates and inspires people at home and work to live more sustainably and is the author of How To Save Your Planet One Object At A Time.
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