Killarney News

Killarney’s traffic issues and low occupancy levels in winter were key issues raised at the Killarney Chamber of Tourism & Commerce business meeting held last night (Thursday). Business people from the town gathered in the Killarney Avenue Hotel at 6.30pm for the...

    BY MICHELLE CREAN   Talent scouts from one of the world’s leading TV shows have invited a team of musical Killarney students to England for an audition. Excited students from The Sem are now anxiously awaiting the call to go and perform at the next stage of the...

BY ADAM MOYNIHAN After months of planning and filming, an innovative new video highlighting the lifesaving efforts of the Killarney Cardiac Response Unit has been released online. The video had almost 10,000 views on Facebook at the time of going to print and speaking...

  A route heavily used by pedestrians is now safer thanks to Council works this week. Overlaying work on the footpaths outside Aldi, at the Countess Road/Park Road junction stretching from the entrance to Park Drive to Countess Bridge, began on Tuesday night. Cllr...

Favourites Dr Crokes could be facing into three big championship games in just eight days as the East Kerry fixtures crisis took another unfortunate turn this week. With players already angry about having to play up until Christmas, the last thing the East Kerry Board...

The fledgling Kerry team is alive and growing in the Dubai region and tournaments are a huge attraction there with up to 1,000 players participating. The Kerry Club was founded by members of the Middle East Kerry Society (MEKS) in May 2018. There are six players from...

National League Div 1 Scotts Lakers v Limerick Celtics Saturday at 7.30pm (Killarney Sports Centre) In America, the LA Lakers and the Boston Celtics have been basketball’s fiercest rivals since the 1950s. The NBA’s two most successful franchises have won 27...

A sergeant at Killarney Garda Station was this week honoured with a national award for his dedication to road safety. On Wednesday, Sergeant Dermot O’Connell, sergeant-in-charge at the station, received the accolade from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) for his fun and...

A new club which is setting up this January plans to combat isolation and loneliness in the locality. Killarney Lions Club have set up the first ever Kerry Clubs Fair which will be free and open to the public. The aim is to give adults in Kerry an easy way to find out...

Killarney soprano Mary Culloty O’Sullivan is planning a festive fundraising night of songs and poetry in town this week. ‘Christmas Melodies’, an evening of traditional Christmas carols, poetry, Irish ballads and love songs, will be held on this Friday night, December...

Adam Moynihan An inspirational advert co-starring Kerry footballer David Clifford has been viewed 56,000 times on Facebook this week. The ad, which was commissioned by the Kerry GAA Store, portrays a young boy trying on a Kerry jersey under the watchful gaze of his...