Met Éireann Weather Warning / Status Orange – Rain warning for Cork and Kerry The following Status Orange rain warning has been issued for Kerry and Cork and counties to the east: Heavy rain on Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night with the possibility of thundery downpours, will lead to localised flooding. Disruption is likely.…
Kerry County Council continues to monitor Storm Eunice this morning and advises that people should remain indoors and not travel for the duration of the Red Alert. The council is asking members of the public to avoid unnecessary travel after the Red Alert expires and reminds everyone that a Status Orange alert will be in…
Met Éireann and my own weather crock certainly agree with the old maxim: Red Sky at Night – Shepherd’s Delight to the extent that Ireland’s long standing forecasters have issued a Status Yellow warning for today. For once the warning is for a mixture of heat and heavy or thundery downpours and both are well…
The disgrace that is the ongoing flooding of Kilbanivane Cemetery is a continuous source of distress to people who have loved ones buried there. I got some photographs emailed to me over the past couple of days and they show the water levels at the highest I’ve seen since the flooding there became more prominent…
In a letter to Mayor of the Killarney Municipal District, Niall Kelleher, Charlie O’Sullivan, Kerry County Council Director of Services ruled out dealing with the complications of Castleisland’s flooding problems under the proposed Office of Public Works funded Minor Works Programme. The letter from Mr. O’Sullivan to Mayor Kelleher came about from a meeting of…
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…
Kerry County Council’s Severe Weather Assessment Team met again at 4.30pm this evening to discuss preparations for Storm Brian. Met Eireann has issued an updated weather warning for Kerry which includes an Orange warning for wind in place from 10pm on Friday night to 10pm on Saturday night. There is also a Yellow weather warning…
There was a rapid political response to the news at the weekend that Currow Village had been allocated a sizable sum of money for the upgrading of flood alleviation works on the River Flesk in the vicinity of the village. Danny and Maura Thank Minister Moran Danny Healy Rae TD and Cllr. Maura Healy Rae…
A great local dog and his owner / trainer will be the headline acts at the Killarney Municipal Area meeting at the River Island Hotel on this Wednesday from 10am. The hotel is the venue for the meeting of members of the Killarney Municipal District Council at 10am. One of the first items on the…
Tell-tale signs of snow on vehicles coming down into the valley from the hills around – and from several directions – has left roads around the town in a dangerously flooded state. The River Maine is threatening to burst its banks along the town stretches at this lunchtime and at the rate of rain-fall now…
