OPINION: Killarney Municipal District Council has given clear indication of a growing commitment to the promotion of cycling as an enjoyable and life-enhancing form of recreation but, Cllr Michael Gleeson writes, the major roads into Kerry are not suitable for cycling and are quite dangerous HOW wonderful during these days of sunshine and shutdown to… Continue Reading
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We have one chance to get this right
OPINION: The government will get one chance – and one chance only – to get it right when it reopens the schools after the Covid-19 lockdown but, writes Kerry Sinn Fein TD Pa Daly, the approach being taken is impractical and if it fails, it will rest heavily on our children’s shoulders for a long… Continue Reading
Childminding is a model of care, not education
OPINION: Childminding will not “fit” into the Department of Education and Children and young adults deserve, at the very least, a department dedicated to looking after their needs and their futures, writes Childminding Mairéad Hurley, Head of Childminding Services with Childminding Ireland WE in Childminding Ireland have written to the three party leaders, Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and… Continue Reading
Kerry tourism deserves a few weeks of business
OPINION: Hotels and pubs should be allowed to open on the same day as restaurants and cafés, on June 29, if anything is to be salvaged for the tourism industry from the debris of the coronavirus pandemic, says Independent Kerry TD, Danny Healy-Rae TODAY we hear travel agents and airlines advertising that Spain will be… Continue Reading
Reflections on rich traditions for the arrival of May
Mayor of Killarney, Cllr Michael Gleeson, draws inspiration from years gone by and rich traditions as he warmly embraces the arrival of the month of May I HAVE just watched our kindly neighbours’ cows dash headlong for the shelter of trees and bushes that populate and decorate the western ditch. They had good reason to… Continue Reading
