A residents’ association in a Castleisland housing estate which won a volunteering award a few years ago is now well in the throes of preparations for this Saturday evening’s Corpus Christi Procession. Cahereens West Residents’ Association won the ‘Best Volunteer Group’ award for 2012 at a local Tidy Towns awards ceremony in April 2013. The…
They were harried and hunted to the point of extinction by Minister Phil Hogan’s ‘Putting People First’ reform document in the fall of 2012. The Hen Harrier had more protection in rural habitats than its human counterparts of the species known locally as the NEKD – or North & East Kerry Development. However, unlike its feathered comparison,…
It was Michael Healy Rae, TD who alerted me to this powerful post by our mutual friend, Bernard Collins this evening. I sought and was granted Bernard’s permission to print it here. Bernard is, as he would quickly tell you on an enquiry on his health, living with cancer and his post this evening shines a…
Those who attended the North and East Kerry Development support meeting on Tuesday night would be forgiven the perception that the sky would fall if the company folded. That there would be a pall of sadness and sorrow bordering on grief in the wake of its demise. A procession of volunteers spoke with great passion…
News that a funding issue involving North & East Kerry Development is under review by the Department of the Environment is likely to darken the mood of a meeting called for the River Island Hotel in Castleisland at 8pm this evening. Of course it’s not an agenda the NEKD would wish for – while reeling from…
