Kilkenny Musical Society celebrates 50 th anniversary

has seen the society staging a musical to the highest of professional standards, accruing an impressive list of accolades along the way. Most noticeably their 2014 production of 'Michael Collins: A Musical Drama' which scooped rst place at the national awards in Killarney.

Despite the devastating a ect of covid on the arts and performers across all genres, Kilkenny Musical Society returned as vibrant and passionate as ever with their 2022 production of e Adams Family which played to packed houses and rapturous applause.

Ahead of the eagerly awaited announcement of their 2024 production, Kilkenny Musical Society will be staging a nostalgic trip down musical theatre memory lane with a glittering array of past, present and perhaps future stars of the society’s impressive cohort. e Watergate eatre will be the venue for what promises to be a fantastic concert remembering all of the shows that have endeared Kilkenny musical society to its audiences. But the society needs you, its past performers! is was a wonderful oppor- tunity for all those who have played and continue to play a part in the extraordinary tapestry of Kilkenny Musical’s Society’s illustrious history and exciting future, to come together to celebrate 50 years of music, laughter and friendship. Further information can be found on the society’s social media platforms.

An information night for all past and present members of the society took place in the Ormonde hotel on Monday, August 14.

Landowners fined over river pollution

Inland Fisheries Ireland has secured combined nes of €8,500 against two separate landowners for destroying stretches of their local rivers in Laois and Tipperary.

In Co. Laois Mr Michael Hosey was convicted of carrying out works on 800 metres of river channel at Trumera, Mountrath.

In Co. Tipperary, Mr Milo Cuddihy was convicted of carrying out instream works on 300 metres of the Lingaun River at Breanormore.

Lynda Connor, South-Eastern River Basin District Director at Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) said: “ ese were acts of ecological destruction. e actions of the defendants demonstrated a real disregard for the rivers."