On 20 Sept 2024, we shared the latest Irish Genealogy Matters newsletter and highlighted new records available at that time on RootsIreland.ie. However we missed something! An eagle-eyed reader pointed out an article of particular interest (especially to Minnesotans) on page 3 of the IGM newsletter. We'll reprint the story here:
KILKENNY LINKS WITH MINNESOTA
Mayor of Kilkenny, Councillor Andrew McGuinness with Eoin Hennessy who are both visiting Kilkenny, Minnesota to celebrate the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on 15 September. In recent years this has been held mid-way through the year from St Patrick’s Day, due to usually intrusive snowfalls there during the month of March. They visited Kilkenny Archaeological Society library to discuss the many links being forged between societies here in Kilkenny and yonder in Kilkenny MN. Kilkenny has been twinned with Kilkenny, Minnesota, since March 2013 and their Mayor visits our parade each year on 17 March. Kilkenny, Minnesota was found by Kilkennymen; amongst them was Dennis Doyle, born in Cuffesgrange and who arrived there in 1851 (and) who championed the development and was granted a Post Office that was named Kilkenny on 25 July 1857. Many Kilkenny folk settled there in the early years both from Cuffesgrange and Paulstown parishes, including an ancestor of Professor John Portmann, who is the first person to be granted Irish citizenship as a result of DNA analysis. His is another story.
Coincidentally, our 25 July 2024 blog reported on Professor Portmann's DNA test leading to Irish citizenship. Click here (then scroll down) to re-read that posting and find links to the full story.
Note: You can always find old blog postings by going to the shaded box at the top of the page. Sort by Category or Timeframe (if relatively recent) -- or query with a key word by Blog Title or Title and Text (dropdown option). That's how I found the earlier posting, by looking for the word 'Portmann' in text. You'd also find that posting by searching Category/DNA.
Thanks to Kim for telling us about the Kilkenny article in the IGM newsletter. 
an Irish passport based on DNA test results indicating he was 100% Irish.