by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 10, 2020 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty There was widespread sadness in the Gneeveguilla and Killarney areas on Monday morning after popular local man Mike John Moynihan died as a result of a road traffic accident near Castleisland. Mike John’s van was in collision with a lorry at...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 10, 2020 | App News, News
By Michelle Crean EXCLUSIVE Killarney Gardai have this week arrested and charged a man in his 20s in relation to the possession of a suspected firearm. Last month Gardaí became aware of a video on social media which showed a man firing a shot from what is believed to...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 10, 2020 | App News, News
CINEMA TRAFFIC: Construction of the new cinema on Park Road was a strong talking point at Wednesday’s Council meeting. Photo: Francis Foley By Sean Moriarty Elected members of Killarney Municipal District have warned that the new cinema currently under...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 9, 2020 | App News, News
The Kerry Sports Academy at IT Tralee, which is now open to the public for membership and Pay As You Go visits, will hold an Open Day on Saturday, January 11. From 12-4pm, members of the public will get to view the Kerry Sports Academy, an 8,400m2 universally...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 9, 2020 | App News, News
The search to find the young artists who will excel in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition has begun. Last year four students from Kerry won prizes in the event which is now in its 66th year and widely acknowledged as the longest running arts sponsorship...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 8, 2020 | App News, News
FUNDING: Launching the support fund were from left, Cathaoirleach Killarney Municipal District, Cllr Michael Gleeson, Angela McAllen (Manager, Killarney Municipal District), Sean Coffey (Principal, St Brendan’s College), Cathaoirleach Kerry County Council, Cllr Niall...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 8, 2020 | App News, News
SPORT AWARD: Pictured from left: Deirdre Veldon (Deputy Editor, The Irish Times), Outstanding Achievement winner Mary Geaney, and Lynne Cantwell (Chair of Women in Sport Committee). Photo: Nick Bradshaw One of Kerry’s greatest sporting heroes was honoured at The...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 7, 2020 | App News, News
KERRY HEROES: Winners of the Radio Kerry ‘Kerry Heroes Awards 2019’ were presented with their awards recently. A Ballyspillane husband and wife who adopted five children after their parents died in a car crash have been named as one of the ‘2019 Kerry...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 7, 2020 | App News, News
A Kerry TD is calling on HSE for an urgent overhaul of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) in Kerry, which has an approximate waiting time of two years. Michael Healy-Rae said that it’s a crisis in waiting and needs serious and immediate...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 6, 2020 | App News, News
Cllr Brendan Cronin has secured funding to improve the footpaths in the grounds of Listry Cemetery. Kerry County Council has confirmed the allocation of €2000 to tarmac footpaths in graveyard. An engineer has been appointed to the project and work will be...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 6, 2020 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty Killarney Town Twinning Association, in conjunction with Scottish Masters Athletics International, will host the Masters World Championships (MWC) for the traditional Scottish Highland Games next June – the first time the event will take place...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 5, 2020 | App News, News
HOLLYWOOD HERE I COME: Killarney teen Olamide Ojegbenro has his eyes firmly set on Hollywood. Photo: Michelle Crean By Michelle Crean Filmmaking has become a huge passion for one local teen – so much so that he is planning a Hollywood career. Leaving Cert student...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 5, 2020 | App News, News
The Mayor of Killarney has called on the HSE to pay the salaries of the four specialist nurses employed nationally by the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). At the December monthly meeting of Kerry County Council, Cllr Michael Gleeson said that the...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 5, 2020 | App News, News
Kerry Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT), who responded to 38 callouts and assisted 49 different people last year, plan to use drone technology for future search and rescue operations. A new report issued by KMRT details the efforts the 35 volunteer members dealt with in...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 4, 2020 | App News, News
ROCK ON: Lead singer Ryan Hennessy and ‘Picture This’ photographed on stage playing to a full house at the INEC Arena in Killarney. Photograph by Don MacMonagle. By Sean Moriarty Top Irish band Picture This entertained over 4,000 at their resent...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 4, 2020 | App News, News
CHARITY CALENDAR: Local amateur photographer Chris Grayson has launched his second charity calendar in aid of St Marys of the Angels. Photo: Michelle Crean EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty A beautifully presented calendar depicting the scenery and wildlife of Kerry has...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 4, 2020 | App News, News
Basketball: National League Division One Crucial top of the table clash for Lakers SCOTTS Lakers are in third place on the league table with a 10-3 winning record. Fr Mathews have also played 13 games and are in second place with a 11-2 record. League leaders...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 4, 2020 | App News, News
NEW LEASE OF LIFE: Mary Cronin (65) from Park Road was almost fully insulin dependent and nearly confined to a wheelchair until she lost over three stone with Slimming World. Photo: Michelle Crean EXCLUSIVE By Michelle Crean Not only is one local woman thrilled to...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 3, 2020 | App News, News
Local competitors win big at county championship awards World Rally Championship star Craig Breen was the surprise guest of honour at the Moriarty’s Centra Kingdom of Kerry Rally Championship awards presentation on Saturday night. Now celebrating its second year, it...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 3, 2020 | App News, News
VEGANUARY: Local chefs plan to take on a vegan challenge this month. From l-r were: Exec Chefs, Rory Gabriel (Great Southern Killarney), Cyril Durand (Dromhall Hotel), Abraham Nur (The Brehon), John Drummond (Gleneagle) and Chad Byrne (The Brehon). By Michelle Crean...
by Adam Moynihan | Jan 3, 2020 | App News, News
2019 was a historic year for the East Kerry senior footballers so it should come as no surprise that they dominate the Killarney Advertiser Sport Team of the Year with 10 players in total. In addition to those county champions from Spa, Glenflesk, Fossa, Gneeveguilla...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 3, 2020 | App News, News
Killarney is one of 52 locations nationwide and the only one in Kerry that will get additional electric vehicle charging points this year. Tesco Ireland, in partnership with ESB, has announced that an 18-county, 52-town roll out will commence in early 2020 with...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 3, 2020 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty Killarney Town Twinning Association is planning a busy year ahead with delegations from the USA, Germany and Italy expected in Killarney this year. Internationally, town twinning associations are tending to move away from their political...
by Killarney Advertiser | Jan 1, 2020 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty Kerry Airport is to get an additional €1.3m in Government funding towards operating expenses. This is in addition to the previous €2m that was announced earlier this year by Minister Griffin. This first lot of funding is earmarked for capital...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 31, 2019 | App News, News, Sport
Four in a row for Lakers By Eamon Keogh Basketball: National League Division One IT Carlow 70 Scotts Lakers Killarney 111 SCOTTS Lakers picked up their fourth win on the trot with a very impressive and comprehensive victory on the road against IT Carlow last...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 31, 2019 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty The Killarney Micro Track project has benefitted from the generosity of a mysterious local business – which will allow them to purchase a new state-of-art jump mat. The new track will have Olympic standard high jump facilities in...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 28, 2019 | App News, News
WELL DONE: Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre staff Shane Kerins and Daniel O’Donoghue pictured with Aoife Hamilton who received the ‘Swim for All’ certificate. Local children received awards at Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre for their...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 28, 2019 | App News, News
CLUBS FAIR: Killarney Lions Club have announced details of their second annual Kerry Clubs Fair, set up to combat social isolation, this January. Pictured were: Ronan Doyle (President of the Killarney Lions Club), Laurence O’Keeffe (Killarney Lions Club), Con Stack...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 27, 2019 | App News, News
WALKING TALL: Members of Glenbeigh Handball Club and St Finian’s Holy Well committee at the launch of the Christmas Walk, which takes place in Glenbeigh tomorrow (Saturday) from the Red Fox Inn. Front l-r: Maggie and Clodagh Quirke. Back l-r: Owen Riordan, Sean...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 26, 2019 | App News, News
WINNER: Rowan Omean Al Salah Holy Cross Mercy NS receives her award from Paul Sherry after winning the ‘Individual Essay Award’ in the 2019 Hugh O’Flaherty National School Essay Competition. Holy Cross Mercy National School Killarney captured two awards in the 2019...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 24, 2019 | App News, News
TOY TIME: Santa is putting the finishing touches to the toys and will be ready to deliver to Killarney homes tonight. Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan Santa Claus has read all the children’s letters which were posted over the past weeks and months and is on schedule...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 24, 2019 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty It is one of the most loved Christmas favourites in Killarney for the past 46 years – St Mary’s Cathedral Christmas Crib – and once again it hasn’t disappointed. A team of hard working volunteers come together every year to make...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 23, 2019 | App News, News
CAR PRIZE: Tom Long was the lucky winner of a brand new Ford Fiesta in the FAI National Club Draw after he purchased his ticket at The Killarney Outlet Centre where Killarney Celtic FC and Killarney Celtic Football for All members were selling tickets for the past few...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 23, 2019 | App News, News
THE GIFT OF GIVING: Seven-year-old Aveen Kennedy from Faha, pictured with her mom Annett Moench, donated 12 inches of her hair to the The Little Princess Trust. Photo: Michelle Crean By Michelle Crean She may be only seven-years-old but one local girl has proved...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 23, 2019 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty A kind-hearted Rathmore publican is re-opening his closed down pub so those in need can enjoy a proper Christmas dinner next week. Jeff Gordon, who ran Connie K’s pub in the village, will continue a Christmas tradition he started three...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 22, 2019 | App News, News
THINK PINK: Ladies from Kilcummin are planning a pink night for ‘Comfort for Chemo’. Pictured front l-r were: Kathleen Ryan, Carmel O’Riordan, Kate Fleming and Mary O’Leary. Back l-r were: Susan Healy, Marie Brosnan, Teresa Casey and Eileen...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 22, 2019 | App News, News
DONATION: Joanne Brosnan (left) and Lisa Riordan (right) from the Killarney Royal Hotel pictured with Jimmy Mulligan (CEO of Southwest Counselling), donating €5,000. By Michelle Crean It was coffee for counselling in one local hotel last week as local supporters and...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 22, 2019 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty Former staff at the Great Southern Hotel are organising a reunion of all those who worked at the landmark hotel up to 2006. ‘The Great Get Together’ will be held at the Dromhall Hotel on March 28 next year. An organising committee...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 22, 2019 | App News, News
FESTIVE CHEER: Pupils from Holy Cross Mercy School sang Christmas carols outside The Laurels Pub on Main St on Tuesday part of their annual Kenyan Project fundraiser. Photo: Michelle Crean EXCLUSIVE By Michelle Crean Feel good festive cheer was felt across the...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 21, 2019 | App News, News
OPEN: At the official opening of ANAM – Killarney’s Arts and Cultural Centre were Cllr Maura Healy-Rae, Kate Kennelly (Arts Officer, Kerry County Council), Angela McAllen (Manager Killarney Municipal District), Cathaoirleach Killarney Municipal District, Cllr...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 21, 2019 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty The long-awaited and much needed Killarney to Farranfore road improvement scheme took another step towards reality when it was announced on Thursday that €500,000 will be spent on design costs early in the New Year. The junction where the Tralee...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 21, 2019 | App News, News
HELPING HAND: Killarney Lions Club members have been making hampers for the needy. Pictured were: John Fuller (President) with Ronan Doyle, Norma Sheehan, John Ivory, Brendan Lynch, Laurence O’Keeffe, Anthony Walsh, Liam Ryan and Sean Michael Browne. Photo:...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 21, 2019 | App News, News
EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty Cllr Michael Gleeson, Mayor of Killarney has received what he describes as “a very strong expression of interest” from a property firm that represents a five-star hotel group with a view to buying St Finan’s Hospital. The site was once...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 20, 2019 | App News, News
By Anne Lucey Plans for a €24 million brewery and whiskey distillery, visitor centre and restaurant at Fossa, Killarney, will get underway in January – after an appeal to An Bord Pleanála was withdrawn. Aidan Forde, Director of Torc Brewing of Church Close,...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 20, 2019 | App News, News
HELPERS: Richard and Louise Lenihan are the organisers of the project. By Sean Moriarty Two Killarney people are behind an aid project in Australia that will help farmers in Queensland whose lives and livelihoods are at risk as a result of a severe drought in...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 20, 2019 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty Her talents know no bounds – so it came as no surprise this week that Killarney actress Jessie Buckley has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. Jessie from Muckross made the Academy Awards shortlist for ‘Best Original Song’ for her...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 20, 2019 | App News, News
A FIRST FOR KILLARNEY: Mayor of Killarney, Cllr Michael Gleeson pictured with Eileen O’Donoghue (Killarney Munipical District Officer) at the town’s first covered bicycle stand on Bohereencaol Glebe Lane. Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan EXCLUSIVE By Michelle Crean ...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 20, 2019 | App News, News
BRAVE BOY: Thomas Howe (8), who is waiting for a kidney transplant, will feature on Virgin Media news bulletins along with his mother Olivia this evening (Friday). Photo: Michelle Crean EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty A Killarney boy who needs a kidney transplant is...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 19, 2019 | App News, News
HISTORY BOOK: Local historian Conor Doolan has published a book on the history of Kilcummin. Photo: Michelle Crean By Sean Moriarty A new book on the stories of the Kilcummin area, the first of its kind to be published in 20 years, was launched by author Conor Dolan...
by Killarney Advertiser | Dec 19, 2019 | App News, News
By Sean Moriarty EXCLUSIVE A Killarney runner who successfully completed last month’s New York Marathon has donated €2,755 to the Multiple Sclerosis Ireland South Kerry branch thanks to the generosity of his supporters. Conor O’Leary, who is the well-known manager...
