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Goresbridge, Kilkenny is a great place to live. Kitty Donohoe
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A long life in local business was heralded when Kitty Donohoe was named the recipient of the Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award for 2020.
Kitty is one incredible woman - I should know, as she is my mother in law! She also likes to remind me on occasion that she is the real Mrs Donohoe!
That’s Kitty; always a joker, always tongue-in-cheek, a woman with a big heart and a shrewd businesswoman.
Kitty was the driving force behind her family business, Goresbridge Horse Sales, which was started in 1968 by her husband, Ned. His untimely death in 1978 placed her, a non-horsey 42-year-old mother of nine children with another baby on the way, at the helm of what has become Europe’s largest auctionhouse of sport horses.