{"id":2553,"date":"2015-11-27T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:34:58","slug":"kilkenny-city-receives-highly-prestigious-2015-tourism-towns-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny city receives highly prestigious 2015 Tourism Towns  award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kilkenny city has again been honoured with the receipt of a coveted 2015 tourism town&#8217;s award.<\/p>\n<p>This is Kilkenny\u2019s fourth consecutive success in the Tourism Towns competition receiving a highly commended award. Kilkenny was crowned the <em>National Tourism Town winner <\/em>in 2013 and was also highly commended in 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate Tralee \u00a0the overall large town winner 2015 and our \u00a0joint large town highly commended winners of\u00a0Cobh, Co. Cork and\u00a0Killarney, Co Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>There has been very strong cooperation through out Kilkenny city between public and private sector, voluntary groups and businesses working together to reach the level of success achieved in this competition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2554\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2554\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-1.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation of  Tourism Towns award 2015\" width=\"540\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-1-429x300.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presentation of Tourism Towns award 2015 &#8211; Kilkenny City\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2555\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2555\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Kilkenny City Delegation with  the Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring at the Tourism Towns awards 2015\" width=\"597\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award.jpg 597w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tourism-towns-award-475x300.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Kilkenny City Delegation with the Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring at the Tourism Towns awards 2015. Keep Kilkenny Beautiful Committee was represented by \u00a0Chairman Peter Bluett.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kilkenny city is a unique place to visit and enjoy! The Keep Kilkenny beautiful committee are proud partners and congratulate all who have worked together to achieve once again this prestigious award within our city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilkenny city has again been honoured with the receipt of a coveted 2015 tourism town&#8217;s award. This is Kilkenny\u2019s fourth consecutive success in the Tourism Towns competition receiving a highly commended award. Kilkenny was crowned the National Tourism Town winner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=2553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[705,758,755,157,756,321,619,542,757,589],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilkenny-city","category-news","tag-705","tag-cobh","tag-commended","tag-competition","tag-highly-commended","tag-killarney","tag-tourism-towns","tag-town","tag-tralee","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}