AN innovative and educational new programme focusing on ecology and practical fieldwork skills which will run in Killarney starting on Monday, November 16 This full-time QQI Level 5 Major Award will be run by the Kerry College of Further Education and Training and Killarney National Park Education Centre in conjunction with the National Centre for… Read More…
Author Archives: John O'Mahony
Plea to keep ‘new time’ for lockdown duration
A KILLARNEY councillor has urged the government to cancel plans to turn back the clocks this weekend and to revert to new time for the six-week Covid-19 lockdown. Cllr Michael Gleeson said two of the biggest challenges facing so many people during the lockdown will once again be those of isolation and loneliness. “These will… Read More…
Hopes new lockdown will stop Covid surge
AS Kerry prepares to join the rest of the county in Level 5 lockdown, a further 47 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in the county today, bring the total number of infections here since the outset of the pandemic up to 800. Kerry has the joint fourth highest number of cases in the country… Read More…
Fungie has brought so much happiness, entertainment and therapy to so many
WITH Fungie now on the missing list for six days, the Mayor of Kerry said he will pray that the much-loved bottlenose mammal will return to Dingle Harbour as there is so much love for him in Kerry and all over the world. Cllr Patrick Connor Scarteen said he was saddened to learn that Fungie… Read More…
Double the joy for gifted screen star Jessie
EVEN in the presence of movie superstars of the calibre of Martin Scorsese, Liam Neeson, Andrew Scott and Pierce Brosnan, Killarney’s very own shining star, Jessie Buckley stole the limelight with a double award success at the 2020 Irish Film and Television Awards last night. The supremely talented and versatile performer won the Best Actress… Read More…
