{"id":522291,"date":"2026-06-28T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522291\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:15:41","slug":"two-north-kilkenny-communities-praised-for-work-in-future-proofing-former-dance-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522291\/","title":{"rendered":"Two north Kilkenny communities praised for work in future proofing former dance halls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people of two north Kilkenny communities have been praised for the work they undertook to restore former dance halls into community hubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kclr96fm.com\/north-kilkenny-community-to-see-revamped-centre-officially-open-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minister Dara Calleary was in Urlingford and Johnstown<\/a> to cut the ribbon on the revamped premises following more than \u20ac1million spend between the two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DC-with-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-325318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DC-with-group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KCLR News\u2019 Dermot Keyes was there too and spoke with some people of the area to hear what it means for them, beginning with the Chair of the Urlingford Town Team Dympna Hayes;<\/p>\n<p>While these people in Johnstown outlined their delight;<\/p>\n<p>Winding down the visit in Johnstown, Minister Calleary spoke to our Dermot too \u2013 if you missed that on The KCLR Daily (10am-1pm), you can listen back below;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people of two north Kilkenny communities have been praised for the work they undertook to restore former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[50408,222611,93,61,60,2545,12969,222612,278,33628,222613],"class_list":["post-522291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-community-centres","tag-dance-halls","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-johnstown","tag-kilkenny","tag-minister-dara-calleary","tag-music","tag-north-kilkenny","tag-urlingford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}