Killarney News

By Michelle Crean   Extra funding from Healthy Ireland’s KeepWell campaign has meant a longer residency for Kerry County Council’s current Filmmaker in Residence. Mieke Vanmechelen's residency has been extended by 11 weeks. Mieke is currently working with TY...

Ireland Reads is a new campaign to get the whole country reading this month in the lead up to a national day of reading tomorrow (Thursday). Kerry Library has teamed up with libraries nationwide and some local authors for the campaign, which is part of the...

By Michelle Crean This year's Cruinniú na nÓg programme is currently being planned and organisers want to hear some suggestions from young people. It's a day for young people to get creative - and again this year the free event, taking place on Saturday, June 12 -...

EXCLUSIVE By Sean Moriarty   Killarney is one of eight urban centres across the country that have been selected by Fáilte Ireland as a centre of outdoor dining. Under the scheme, Killarney Municipal District will be able to apply for funding for outdoor dining...

By Sean Moriarty A notoriously dangerous junction on the Killarney to Tralee road has been allocated €200,000 for road safety works. Finnegan's Cross, Kilcummin, the scene of several serious, some fatal, accidents in recent years has been included in the 2021 Safety...

Gardai are today (Tuesday) appealing for witnesses following a crash on Sunday involving a motorbike and a car between Muckross House and the Torc Waterfall. The collision occurred at approximately 2.10pm. The motorcyclist, a man aged in his 20s, was airlifted to Cork...

HONOURED: Tony O’Connor (second from the right), former chairman of Kilcummin Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann pictured with fellow CCE members during the 2019 opening of the CCE Duchas Centre at Institute of Technology Tralee. By Sean Moriarty Tony O’Connor, a former...

Kerry County Council’s Severe Weather Assessment Team is coordinating preparations for the weather warning in place from 7pm tonight (Monday) to 9pm tomorrow (Tuesday).   Very heavy rain is expected from tonight and tomorrow which will likely cause further river...

By Sean Moriarty Artwork created by school children of Killarney in time for last year’s St Patrick’s Day Festival will finally go on display this year. Ahead of the festival last year, just before COVID-19 called a halt to proceedings, the festival committee had...

By Michelle Crean Live rugby workouts are proving very popular online thanks to one local man whose aim is to get all ages up and moving in the comfort of their own homes. Munster Rugby Community Officer Dan O’Sullivan is leading the workouts via Facebook live and...

By Sean Moriarty The Killarney Town Twinning Association announced this week that Killarney is set to be twinned with Scottsdale in Arizona. It is the fifth US city to join the list that now includes Concord and Myrtle Beach in North Carolina, Cooper City in Florida,...

By Sean Moriarty and Michelle Crean Mayor of Killarney Cllr Brendan Cronin will demand clarity from Kerry County Council management after just €30,000 was allocated for Listry Bridge in the latest round of regional and local roads maintenance allocations for 2021....