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21 May
Tips, Travel & Tourism

Summer in Kilkenny: Why St Canice’s Cathedral is a Must-Visit This June

  • May 21, 2025
  • By author-avatar Helen Leddy
As the sun graces Kilkenny with longer days and warmer breezes, the city comes alive with vibrant energy. Among its many historical treasures, St Canice’s Cathedral ...

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St. Canice's Cathedral Kilkenny
23 Apr
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Our top reasons to visit Kilkenny this May

  • April 25, 2025
  • By author-avatar Helen Leddy
Looking for the perfect spring getaway? Let us put Kilkenny at the top of your list. Nestled in the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East, this medieval city is bursting w...

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Favourite Tours in Kilkenny
26 Mar
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Our Favourite Tours in Kilkenny

  • April 2, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
Kilkenny, often referred to as the "Medieval Heart of Ireland," is a charming city bursting with history, culture, and scenic beauty. Whether you're a history buff, ...

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St Patricks day in Kilkenny
26 Feb
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St Patrick’s Day events in Kilkenny 2025

  • April 1, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
St. Patrick's Festival Kilkenny 2025 is set to be a vibrant celebration of Irish culture, music, and community spirit. Taking place from March 14th to 17th, the fest...

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Museum of the Moon
29 Jan
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The Museum of the Moon at St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

  • April 3, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
In the heart of Kilkenny, Ireland, the historic St. Canice's Cathedral will become the stunning backdrop for an awe-inspiring art installation that blends science, h...

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Top 5 Things to Do in Kilkenny in 2025 A Guide to the Best Experiences in Ireland’s Medieval City
31 Dec
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Top 5 Things to Do in Kilkenny 2025 | Best of Ireland’s Medieval City

  • April 25, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
Kilkenny, a charming city in the heart of Ireland, has long been celebrated for its rich history, medieval architecture, and vibrant cultural scene. Whether you're a...

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Christmas in Kilkenny
27 Nov
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Christmas Gift Ideas in Kilkenny

  • April 3, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
As the festive season draws near, finding the perfect gifts for your loved ones can be a joyful yet daunting task. It’s the season of kindness and we love nothing mo...

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Christmas in Kilkenny.
30 Oct
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Christmas in Kilkenny

  • March 5, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
Nestled in the heart of Ireland's Ancient East, Kilkenny is a city steeped in history, with cobbled streets, medieval castles, and winding alleyways. During the fest...

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Top 5 Things to Do in Kilkenny in 2025 A Guide to the Best Experiences in Ireland’s Medieval City
29 Sep
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Autumn in Kilkenny

  • April 3, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
As the summer warmth fades and the crisp air begins to settle, Kilkenny, a picturesque medieval city in Ireland’s Ancient East, transforms into an enchanting autumna...

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School Tours at St. Canice's Cathedral: A Journey Through History and Heritage
28 Aug
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School Tours at St. Canice’s Cathedral: A Journey Through History and Heritage

  • April 3, 2025
  • By author-avatar TSD
St. Canice's Cathedral, located in Kilkenny, is a magnificent medieval cathedral with over 800 years of history. As one of the finest examples of medieval architectu...

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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:

  1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

    These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.

  2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.

    Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported in our website

  • Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
  • Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
  • Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
  • ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
  • Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
  • Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

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  1. Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
  2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven different coloring options.
  3. Animations – person with epilepsy can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
  4. Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
  5. Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
  6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
  7. Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

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We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).

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Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to