Killarney News

A LIVELY rendition of the sparkling number The Sun Has Got His Hat on was one of the show-stopping performances at Killarney Musical Society’s production of Me and My Girl in the INEC in March and it was a case of life imitating art as the talented troupe returned in June sunshine to the venue where they joined their counterparts from musical societies across Ireland.

THE Killarney Athletic annual seven-a-side tournament kicks off tomorrow. Sponsored by Killarney Credit Union, the tournament is a key part of summer in Killarney. Below are the eagerly awaited fixtures. Pitch one at the Woodlawn grounds, on Monday, June 26, will host...

EARLY on the morning of Sunday, June 25, the rowing fraternity of Killarney will flock to the Mahony’s Point course where the 232nd annual Killarney Regatta is being staged and the news emerging from all six competing clubs is that they will be competing in all the 17 races on the regatta programme.

OUTGOING Killarney Lions Club president Con Stack handed over the chain of office to new president Anthony Walsh this week.

SUPER-TALENTED Killarney singer/songwriter Tom Lucey released an eagerly awaited new track today.

UNESCO has allowed Killarney National Park to retain and extend its biosphere reserve status. The decision followed a joint application by Kerry County Council and the National Parks & Wildlife Service. The title was first awarded in 1982.

HOT on the heels of his success on Britain’s Got Talent, David Geaney returned to make a number of special guest appearances in Celtic Steps: The Show this week.

KERRY TD and Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Brendan Griffin today welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross that he is allocating over three quarters of a million euro in Exchequer grants under his Department’s Regional Airports Programme to the Kerry Airport.

A TALENTED troupe of Killarney dancers and musicians will be taking centre stage in Saint-Avertin in France this weekend. The traditional Irish music and dance group, Echoes of Killarney, has been invited to play at a major Celtic event, Le Festival des Horizons,...

THE Killarney Lions Club hosted its very successful charity golf classic in aid of the Kerry Parents & Friends Buy a Bus campaign this year.

RESIDENTS of Lissivigeen together with Killarney Looking Good/Killarney Tidy Towns volunteers were out in force to admire the area’s revamped roundabout this week. Yvonne Quill, chairperson, Killarney Looking Good, said: “The Lissivigeen Roundabout has been...

LAST night guests and friends of the Irish music and dance show Celtic Steps were greeted with a special surprise when they arrived at the Killarney Race Course to find the show transformed into a spectacular open-air theatre with the breath-taking scenery of the Killarney mountains as the backdrop. Tonight the group will take to the open-air stage once again to celebrate the arrival of the Summer Solstice.