CONSULTATIONS are to take place between Kerry County Council and the Kerry Stars Special Olympics Club to determine the use of a prime parcel of land located between the grounds of Killarney Legion GAA Club and Killarney Celtic FC at Derreen. Council officials said the site was originally identified as a potential location for a… Continue Reading
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Answers sought on HSE’s primary care plans
THE Health Service Executive has been asked to clarify the exact extent of its interest in setting up a new primary care centre in the Áras Phádraig complex in Killarney. At a presentation to local councillors on November 10, at which an overall plan for the site was outlined, Kerry County Council officials stated that… Continue Reading
230-year history comes to a poignant end
THE two last nuns residing in the Presentation Convent in Killarney have left to join other communities in Kerry marking a real end of an era for a tradition that has been part of the Killarney landscape for over 230 years, KillarneyToday.com can reveal. Since the first sisters arrived in 1793 to establish a convent… Continue Reading
Survey: Leave courthouse where it is
THE vast majority of respondents to a survey have expressed a clear view that the existing Tralee Courthouse building should be retained as a court and that no development of a new courthouse should commence on the Island of Geese. The online survey was conducted by the Green Party in Kerry over the month of… Continue Reading
The correct course of action to take seems simple
OPINION: The expansive 34-acre Killegy House in Muckross, Killarney, the former home of Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin, which has come on the market with a price tag of €950,000, is discreetly located at the edge of and surrounded by Killarney National Park. But, writes Kerry County Council member Cllr John O’Donoghue, instead of allowing… Continue Reading
