The Kerry County Council Arts Grants application process opened on Wednesday of this week for projects and activities taking place in 2020. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1pm Monday, December 16th. 2019. Under the Arts Act 2003, funding is allocated to individuals or groups where activities, projects and undertakings stimulate public interest…
Kerry County Council Arts Office has been busy co-ordinating Culture Night events again this year along with arts groups and other organisations who are happy to get involved and offer a free night of cultural events to their communities. The annual Culture Night takes place on Friday, 20 September and there are dozens of events…
The following is a provisional list of dates for ordinary meetings of full Council and the Municipal Districts from September to December. Dates are subject to change and notifications and agendas for all meetings will issue separately in the normal way. Full Kerry County Council Meetings: 16 September; 21 October; 18 November and 16 December.…
The Bank of Ireland National Enterprise Town Awards Ceremony took place at the Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny last night, November 28, 2018. It was announced there that Letterkenny is the most enterprising town in Ireland.The town was the overall winner of the 2018 Bank of Ireland National Enterprise Town Awards. Letterkenny will now receive a cash…
Recent retirements from the benches of Seanad Éireann have necessitated by-elections to a couple of the panels which make up the upper house. According to a report by Philip Ryan in yesterday’s Irish Independent, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is backing former Ulster Farmers’ Union president Ian Marshall for one of two seats on the Seanad’s agriculture…
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…
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…
Cllr. Maura Healy Rae raised the following motion at the recent meeting of the Killarney Municipal area concerning issues she followed up on from previous meetings. Cllr. Healy Rae outlined the issues she raised surrounding issues in Currow and Farranfore. Farranfore Village Lags “Firstly, I raised major concerns about the dangerous lags on the approach…
A meeting of members of the Municipal District of Killarney will take place at 10am this Wednesday morning, June 7th. 2017 in Killarney Town Hall. There is a list of councillors’ questions from here to Tuesday week so I’ve selected the ones with the most relevance to the area here and its neighbourhood. The councillors…
As part of the ongoing exchanges between Bannalec and Castleisland and to help celebrated the 10th anniversary of the signing of the twinning charter, a group of 16 people representing the Bannalec Town Twinning group visited for a four night stay with host families here. The group had an excellent time in Castleisland with a…
