Senan Hogan

Ireland

Managing Editor and Digital Lead at Kildare Now

Managing Editor and Digital Lead at Leinster Leader

Based in Kildare with @Leinsleadernews and @KildareNow. Part of Iconic Media Group. senan (dot) hogan@iconicnews (dot) ie. Views are personal.

Articles

Great news as bank to be turned into new doctor's surgery in Kildare

1 week ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Planning permission has been granted to convert a bank into a doctor's surgery. Approval was granted for the development on the main street of Maynooth. The 190 square metre development has an estimated construction value of over €500,000.Permission was sought for the change of use of the existing ground floor from a bank to a doctors surgery. The designs include the change of use of the first floor from vacant office into a one bedroom apartment.
New-look Taste of Kildare event is launched in Naas Racecourse

1 month ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Into Kildare, the official tourism board for County Kildare, hosted a media lunch at Lily & Wild dining venue withinNaas Racecourse. The event offered a flavour-filled preview of the upcoming Taste of Kildare festival, set to return to Naas Racecourse on 16 and 17 August 2025. Media representatives from Kildare gathered to hear what’s in store for one of Ireland’s standout summer food festivals.
Block of apartments being built beside Canal in this Kildare town

1 month ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Work is continuing on the latest phase of development at Mill Harbour (Cuan an Mhuilinn), Old Odlums Mill site, Sallins, Co. Kildare. Construction is taking place on a 3 storey apartment block which will contain six apartments. The apartment mix is broken down as follows 2 three-bed own door duplex apartments accessed at ground floor level and 2 two-bed own door duplex apartments accessed at ground floor level.
Man jailed for life for murder of 'kind and generous' retired community worker in Kildare

1 month ago | waterfordlive.ie | Senan Hogan

Peter Kennedy had just turned 65 and was retired from the probation services when he was killed in 2020 By Ryan Dunne A 24-year-old man has been given the mandatory sentence of life in prison for murdering a "thoughtful, charitable and generous" retiree from Kildare who had taken both the defendant and his mother into his home after learning of their struggles with homelessness.In April, a jury at the Central Criminal Court unanimously rejected the defence’s claim that Brian Ibe was entitled...
PHOTOS: Vehicles overturned and CCTV wires cut as gardaí probe €500k damage at OPW site

1 month ago | inishlive.ie | Senan Hogan

Around €500,000 in damage has been caused to vehicles and facilities at a site used by the Office of Public Works in Co Kildare. Four vehicles were overturned, a construction vehicle was driven into a river, and wires on four CCTV units were cut on the lands of Donaghcumper House over the Bank Holiday weekend. The site is used as a base to transport staff to Castletown House in OPW vehicles.
Read this before you travel to Punchestown: Kildare Garda Traffic Plan

2 months ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Use public transport where possible Kildare Gardaí have strongly advised people travelling to Punchestown this week to follow their specific traffic plan.
Shock at proposal to build 120 homes behind Kildare's Whitewater Shopping Centre

2 months ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

A 1.2-hectare site located between Whitewater Shopping Centre and Newbridge Silverware in Newbridge is being proposed for potential redevelopment by the Land Development Agency (LDA). The LDA is a commercial, State-sponsored body that has been created to coordinate land within public control to provide affordable and social homes across Ireland. Cllr ChrisPenderhas called for the site to be strongly considered for community, recreational and sporting infrastructure.
Punchestown Festival 'will deliver a great week' for punters - Kildare-based HRI boss

2 months ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Punchestown will deliver another great festival, according to the CEO of Kildare-headquartered Horse Racing Ireland (HRI). Suzanne Eade said that the Punchestown Festival plays a vital role in the success of the horse racing industry in Ireland. The Newbridge-based HRI boss told the Leinster Leader: “Very few meetings measure up to the week at Punchestown when it comes to the importance of both the racing and the wider benefit it brings to the local area.
'Naas set to come alive' for Punchestown Festival - Kildare minister Lawless

2 months ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless said he is eagerly looking forward to the Punchestown Festival. Mr Lawless said the Festival “has been a fixture in my calendar as long as I can remember” and he wished the organisers all the best. The Kildare North TD told the Leinster Leader: “The meeting is a great boost to the local economy and Naas especially comes alive every year at festival time.
Minister Heydon: Punchestown is highlight of sporting and social calendar in Kildare

2 months ago | kildarenow.com | Senan Hogan

Kildare South TD and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon - who has direct ministerial responsibility for the horseracing industry - said he looking forward to the Punchestown Festival and described it as one of the highlights of the sporting and social calendar in Ireland and Kildare. Minister Heydon noted the attendance figures of over 118,000 in 2024, which he stated “delivers a significant financial boost to the local economy”.