Going Back to Phil up at The Fountain

Going Back to Phil up at The Fountain

I’ve thought for a long while that it was only a matter of time before someone with a mind like my own came up with an ‘antidote’ to the water meters. Now it seems that there’s a little €2 device that just trips them up. Irish Water made the lily-white county of Kildare its pilot project…

LEADER takes its Fight for Survival to Dáil Éireann

LEADER takes its Fight for Survival to Dáil Éireann

North and East Kerry Development has joined forces with other local development companies from across the country. They’re calling on communities to get behind the forthcoming LEADER Rally in support of the retention of the bottom-up approach of LEADER, by local development companies.  The rally will take place on Wednesday July 9th at 1.30pm at…

Cash Windfall for local Tidy Towns Groups

Cash Windfall for local Tidy Towns Groups

Cllr. Bobby O’Connell (FG) has just announced that several Tidy Towns groups in the area are to benefit from a cash windfall under the ‘Public Area Enhancement Scheme’ – under which an allocation of €90,000 has been marked for Kerry. The Castleisland group will receive €2,250 as will Farranfore while Currow’s wild flower meadow project…

NEKD HAS TAKEN ITS PHIL OF GOVERNMENT REFORM

NEKD HAS TAKEN ITS PHIL OF GOVERNMENT REFORM

Would you like to have your say about the local government reforms being proposed by Minister Phil Hogan? Then the opportunity to do so is being provided. Dingle, Tralee, Castleisland and Listowel are the areas where these venting sessions are to take place over the next week with the first of the four in Dingle…