While passing on the news of this announcement by Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, Cllr. Fionnán Fitzgerald included a cover note pertinent to the Castleisland Electoral Area. “The doubling of funding for the Local Improvement Scheme from €10.5 million to €21 million is very welcome,” said Cllr. Fitzgerald. “There are over 700…
Ireland’s system of voting, Proportional Representation is a cause of great confusion to some but it’s democracy itself. It simply means that you vote No. 1 for the candidate of your choice and continue with your remaining preferences ‘down’ or ‘up’ along your ballot paper as the candidates will be listed in alphabetical order. Lowest…
Castleisland local election candidate, Kate McSweeney has called on unions and Kerry County Council management to clarify that Castleisland fire service will be maintained. Following last year’s European Court of Justice ruling in the *Rudy Matzak case, which found that time a fire fighter spends on-call qualified as working time, many current practices within in…
Kate McSweeney is the Sinn Féin candidate for the Castleisland Electoral Area in Friday’s local elections. Ms. McSweeney has a track record – in the true sense of the word – as former An Rocht AC manager and in local development. And, her reputation as an event and concert promoter is steadily growing. As the…
Castleisland Sinn Féin local election candidate Kate McSweeney has expressed her dismay at plans for a battery storage compound that could have a devastating effect on locals in the Sliabh Luachra area. Potentially Dangerous Storage “How can people in Kerry be treated like this? Not alone are there plans to build this potentially dangerous battery…
Kerry Sinn Féin councillor Toireasa Ferris has said that confirmation received by Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty in a parliamentary question, confirms that any future carbon tax increases would also attract VAT will mean that the mooted carbon tax jumps will be even more regressive than originally anticipated. Disproportionate Punishment “We in Sinn Féin are opposed…
County Kerry – An Overview From a Castleisland point of view the big and welcome change recommended by the 2018 report of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee is that Castleisland is to return to the Tralee Municipal District. As a Local Electoral Area the town will be at the centre of a huge expanse…
