Category Archives: Politics

Music Capital Fund Information Session on St. Brigid’s Day

Music Capital Fund Information Session on St. Brigid’s Day

A bugle call is being issued to all Kerry musicians, bands, collectives, music groups, music organisations, schools and interested communities. An information session, on a new capital fund that will support the purchase of musical instruments, will take place in Tralee Library in Moyderwell at 5pm on Thursday, February 1st and everyone is welcome. Two… Read more…

Handed Down Among Cultural Archive Award Winners

Handed Down Among Cultural Archive Award Winners

The deepening and deeply cultured, Scartaglin based series ‘Handed Down’ has been named as one of the four, Kerry based award winners in the recent Creative Ireland Kerry / Kerry County Council announcement. Co-founder, PJ Teahan accepted the award for the Handed Down project and it is intended to create an online archive of Sliabh… Read more…

Hospital Crisis – Three Important Questions – Cllr. Toireasa Ferris

Hospital Crisis – Three Important Questions – Cllr. Toireasa Ferris

Kerry Sinn Féin councillor Toiréasa Ferris has said that the HSE has serious questions to answer over a review of patient scans that has been ordered at University Hospital Kerry.   Speaking as it was revealed that 46,000 scans at UHK are to be reviewed, Cllr. Ferris has called on management and the HSE to answer three important questions:… Read more…

Kerry Bus to Belfast for Cataract Procedures

Kerry Bus to Belfast for Cataract Procedures

“A bus will be leaving Killarney on Saturday morning at 11am going to Kingsbridge Hospital in Belfast taking 12 patients who are having cataracts removed,” said Deputy Danny Healy Rae. Six from Kerry Six of the travelling party are from Kerry and it was organised at this end by Deputy Healy-Rae. While the other six… Read more…

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

There are people in Castleisland keeping a hawk like watch on this Wednesday’s meeting of councillors and officials of Killarney Municipal District in Rathmore. There are many motions and questions down for discussion but only two matter to the watchers here. Motions number 13 and 20 have been lodged by Cllr. Bobby O’Connell and numbers… Read more…

Three Kerrymen at Centre of Amhrán na bFiann ‘Use’ Discussions

Three Kerrymen at Centre of Amhrán na bFiann ‘Use’ Discussions

Three Kerrymen find themselves in the middle of a controversy over use of lyrics from the copyrighted National Anthem, Amhrán na bFíann.  Kerry Fianna Fáil Senator, Mark Daly has said that any proposal to remove the words ‘Fianna Fáil’ from the national anthem is simply populism. Former Kerry footballer, Paul Galvin felt inspired by the… Read more…

Enda Kenny to be honoured in Killarney

Enda Kenny to be honoured in Killarney

Killarney will this week bestow its top honour on former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, who will be inducted into the Order of Innisfallen on Friday, December 1. The longest serving TD in Dáil Éireann and one of the most successful politicians of his generation, his contribution to life in Ireland will be… Read more…

Liadh Ní Riada MEP to Speak at Charlie Kerins Commemoration

Liadh Ní Riada MEP to Speak at Charlie Kerins Commemoration

Kerry Sinn Féin will hold its annual Volunteer Charlie Kerins commemoration in Tralee on Friday night December 1st. Party members and supporters will march from the Pikeman monument on Denny Street at 7.30pm to the monument at Charlie Kerins Park on Strand Road. There, MEP Liadh Ní Riada will give the oration. A Great Honour… Read more…

Kerry Deputies Raise Health Issues in Dáil Éireann

Kerry Deputies Raise Health Issues in Dáil Éireann

Ferris Raises Plight of Families Awaiting Respite Sinn Féin TD for Kerry Martin Ferris has once again raised the plight of families with adult children with physical or intellectual disabilities on the floor of the Dáil. This week under the order of business Deputy Ferris said that families are continuously having to fight for basic… Read more…

Arts Festivals in the Kerry-Cork Region to Benefit from Mentoring!

Arts Festivals in the Kerry-Cork Region to Benefit from Mentoring!

 When teams in Kerry and Cork clash, sparks usually fly, but what happens when they collaborate? Shared learning and experiences is proving to be very exciting for six key arts festivals in Kerry and Cork County and City. A creative mentoring project for arts festivals is currently underway as a partnership between Kerry, Cork City… Read more…

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Category Archives: Politics

Music Capital Fund Information Session on St. Brigid’s Day

Music Capital Fund Information Session on St. Brigid’s Day

A bugle call is being issued to all Kerry musicians, bands, collectives, music groups, music organisations, schools and interested communities. An information session, on a new capital fund that will support the purchase of musical instruments, will take place in Tralee Library in Moyderwell at 5pm on Thursday, February 1st and everyone is welcome. Two… Read more…

Handed Down Among Cultural Archive Award Winners

Handed Down Among Cultural Archive Award Winners

The deepening and deeply cultured, Scartaglin based series ‘Handed Down’ has been named as one of the four, Kerry based award winners in the recent Creative Ireland Kerry / Kerry County Council announcement. Co-founder, PJ Teahan accepted the award for the Handed Down project and it is intended to create an online archive of Sliabh… Read more…

Hospital Crisis – Three Important Questions – Cllr. Toireasa Ferris

Hospital Crisis – Three Important Questions – Cllr. Toireasa Ferris

Kerry Sinn Féin councillor Toiréasa Ferris has said that the HSE has serious questions to answer over a review of patient scans that has been ordered at University Hospital Kerry.   Speaking as it was revealed that 46,000 scans at UHK are to be reviewed, Cllr. Ferris has called on management and the HSE to answer three important questions:… Read more…

Kerry Bus to Belfast for Cataract Procedures

Kerry Bus to Belfast for Cataract Procedures

“A bus will be leaving Killarney on Saturday morning at 11am going to Kingsbridge Hospital in Belfast taking 12 patients who are having cataracts removed,” said Deputy Danny Healy Rae. Six from Kerry Six of the travelling party are from Kerry and it was organised at this end by Deputy Healy-Rae. While the other six… Read more…

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

There are people in Castleisland keeping a hawk like watch on this Wednesday’s meeting of councillors and officials of Killarney Municipal District in Rathmore. There are many motions and questions down for discussion but only two matter to the watchers here. Motions number 13 and 20 have been lodged by Cllr. Bobby O’Connell and numbers… Read more…

Three Kerrymen at Centre of Amhrán na bFiann ‘Use’ Discussions

Three Kerrymen at Centre of Amhrán na bFiann ‘Use’ Discussions

Three Kerrymen find themselves in the middle of a controversy over use of lyrics from the copyrighted National Anthem, Amhrán na bFíann.  Kerry Fianna Fáil Senator, Mark Daly has said that any proposal to remove the words ‘Fianna Fáil’ from the national anthem is simply populism. Former Kerry footballer, Paul Galvin felt inspired by the… Read more…

Enda Kenny to be honoured in Killarney

Enda Kenny to be honoured in Killarney

Killarney will this week bestow its top honour on former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, who will be inducted into the Order of Innisfallen on Friday, December 1. The longest serving TD in Dáil Éireann and one of the most successful politicians of his generation, his contribution to life in Ireland will be… Read more…

Liadh Ní Riada MEP to Speak at Charlie Kerins Commemoration

Liadh Ní Riada MEP to Speak at Charlie Kerins Commemoration

Kerry Sinn Féin will hold its annual Volunteer Charlie Kerins commemoration in Tralee on Friday night December 1st. Party members and supporters will march from the Pikeman monument on Denny Street at 7.30pm to the monument at Charlie Kerins Park on Strand Road. There, MEP Liadh Ní Riada will give the oration. A Great Honour… Read more…

Kerry Deputies Raise Health Issues in Dáil Éireann

Kerry Deputies Raise Health Issues in Dáil Éireann

Ferris Raises Plight of Families Awaiting Respite Sinn Féin TD for Kerry Martin Ferris has once again raised the plight of families with adult children with physical or intellectual disabilities on the floor of the Dáil. This week under the order of business Deputy Ferris said that families are continuously having to fight for basic… Read more…

Arts Festivals in the Kerry-Cork Region to Benefit from Mentoring!

Arts Festivals in the Kerry-Cork Region to Benefit from Mentoring!

 When teams in Kerry and Cork clash, sparks usually fly, but what happens when they collaborate? Shared learning and experiences is proving to be very exciting for six key arts festivals in Kerry and Cork County and City. A creative mentoring project for arts festivals is currently underway as a partnership between Kerry, Cork City… Read more…

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