News
A FUNDRAISING event in aid of the neonatal unit in Cork University Maternity Hospital and Bru Columbanus will be held this Friday night and hosted by a Killarney family with particular reason to be grateful to both facilities. Denice Lucey’s son Fionn was born last November at just 23 weeks, weighing a tiny 700g on… Read More…
THE choir mistress who caught the eye of music mogul Simon Cowell was in Killarney this week to host a singing workshop for parish choir leaders in Kerry. Veronica McCarron shot to fame when Cowell flirted with her on Britain’s Got Talent, telling her he thought she was cute. She was conducting the all-girl choir… Read More…
Sport
PETER Keane will have to plan without one of the top rising stars in Kerry football as he plots his first season in charge of the Kerry senior side. The swashbuckling Stefan Okunbor, (20), one of the hottest properties in the game, is set to join Aussie Rules side Geelong Cats on a two-year Rookie… Read More…
THE manager who brought Darran O’Sullivan into the Kerry senior squad said he was a great leader in 2009 when he had the honour of captaining Kerry and bringing the Sam Maguire back to his native Glenbeigh/Glencar. Jack O’Connor said when Darran came on the scene for the Kerry senior team in 2006, aged 19,… Read More…
Business
LESS than three years after it was named Ireland’s Top Tourism Town, by Fáilte Ireland, Tralee has slipped to the bottom seven of all towns and cities surveyed in the Irish Business Against Litter League, administered by An Taisce. While Killarney finished in an impressive sixth place overall, Tralee was described as being “moderately littered”… Read More…
KILLARNEY Credit Union has joined in the celebrations after the organisation has been voted number one for customer experience in the 2018 CXi Ireland ratings for the fourth year running. This is the first time, anywhere in the world, that the same organisation has won four-in-a-row and Killarney joins 250 other credit unions a in… Read More…
Features
MAZDA Ireland has new representation in Kerry and the south west of the country as Ahern’s of Castleisland have been appointed as the latest official Mazda retailer to complete the newly redeveloped network. Ahern’s Mazda is now one of 19 Mazda retailers across the country, supplying Kerry and surrounding counties with the award-winning Japanese vehicles.… Read More…
BACK-to-school time might seem like a long way off but a significant number of Kerry homes have no choice but to start preparing for the associated costs. Many parents will need a little financial assistance and, in fact, three quarters of parents of school-attending children say they view the back-to-school spend as a financial burden,… Read More…
