Killarney News

KILLARNEY ADVERTISER’S business development manager Kieran Healy joined forces with newly minted Rose escort Jackie Healy-Rae Junior this week to get a taste of what lies ahead for Heritage Week.     Our mobile journalist Aishling O’Hanlon captured their antics...

WIZARDS will be touching down in Kenmare Place this evening so let’s hope there’s plenty of parking spaces for their Quidditch broomsticks! Aunty Nellie’s Sweet Shop is hosting a special Harry Potter-themed event on the evening, from 7pm to 9pm.

THE wait is over for Leaving Cert exam candidates and when we caught up with students at Killarney schools this morning there was a feeling of overall relief.

THE progressive Killarney School of Music is delighted to welcome Elaine Canning to its talented team. Elaine is a renowned soprano who studied under the guidance of Dr Veronica Dunne in Dublin. The acclaimed singer graduated with a BMus (Hons) Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in performance at the Royal College of Music, London.

GLAMOUR and glitz were the order of the day as students from Killarney cut a dash at their debs ball on Monday.

GARDAI and ambulances are attending the scene of an accident on the Tralee road. The incident took place at around 5.30pm and involved a car and motorcycle. It occurred around a mile outside Killarney town. The driver of the motorcycle was taken to University Hospital...

WIZARDS will be touching down in Kenmare Place on August 18 so let’s hope there’s plenty of parking spaces for their Quidditch broomsticks! Aunty Nellie’s Sweet Shop is hosting a special Harry Potter-themed event on the evening, from 7pm to 9pm.

HAVE you got what it takes to scale new heights? “Killarney’s’ Ultimate High Peaks Challenge” in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, is a spectacular one-day mountain challenge event that will test participant’s endurance, stamina and self sufficiency in some of Ireland’s toughest mountain terrain.

MANY hands make light work – and the Killarney Tidy Towns Meitheal organisers were faced with the pleasantly unusual situation of having the number of volunteers exceeding the amount of gloves and brushes available for last Monday’s clean-up.

THE first book I ever read was called “Miss Pennyfeather and the Pooka”. It was written by Eileen O Faolain and published around 1944. I was very sick and very young and my great-aunt Frances – from The Concrete as it used be known – a very correctly-spoken, very straight-backed and very English lady cycled back to Fossa with the red clothbound book for me. I still have it. I still read it. My first attempts to write my address – a lios in Fossa- are on its pages.

THEY met in the west of Ireland, got engaged on the west coast of France and Vanessa Ní Churráin and Gerard Kelly tied the knot in west Kerry.

KILLARNEY CELTIC will make the relatively short trip down to south Cork to face Cobh Wanderers in the opening round proper of the FAI Cup tomorrow. The FAI Cup first-round game takes place at 4pm at Old Church Park, Cobh.