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KERRY'S EYE THIS WEEK - Published 10th March 2010
It’s time to put Kerry first!
Kerry gets behind massive new local spending campaign
Think Kerry, Spend Kerry, Support Kerry - that’s the message of a massive new campaign encouraging Kerry people to protect jobs and communities in the county by supporting local shops and businesses.
Launched this week in Listowel, Killarney and Tralee, the buyKerry campaign is the biggest local spending initiative of its kind ever launched in Ireland.
Kerry’s Eye is funding the buyKerry campaign with support from the Credit Unions in Kerry.
To highlight the buyKerry campaign, we’re sending readers on a local shopping spree, with €1,500 to be won in a new competition every single week for the next six months.
The buyKerry competition…
Massive search for missing man
Fifty from Kerry join bid to locate Annascaul man
By Michelle Crean
Up to fifty people from Annascaul in West Kerry travelled to Wexford at the weekend to join in a massive search for local man Seamus Flahive, who disappeared from Gorey over a week ago and has not been seen since.
Friends and family from Kerry joined a 200-strong search party in North Wexford in a bid to locate Seamus (26), a primary teacher in a small school near the Wexford-Wicklow border.
The Kerryman’s blue Nissan Almera was discovered on Saturday in New Ross, about sixty miles from Gorey, and the search moved to that area.
The missing man’s brother Padraig, his fiancée Aisling and sister Anne were co-ordinating…
Stolen safe opened with sledgehammer
by Breda Joy
Kerry gardaí are co-operating with their counterparts in Cork in an investigation into a spate of daylight burglaries stretching from Ballymacelligott in Tralee into Killarney and as far as Mallow last week.
One of the most serious break-ins took place last week on Wednesday morning, in the Spa area of Killarney, during which a safe was removed from a house and battered open in the yard with a sledgehammer taken from a shed.
A ‘substantial’ amount of money was taken from the safe, and the house was ransacked.
A second house, also in the Spa area, was ransacked and money and jewellery were stolen.
Killarney-based detective Sergeant Paudie Sears called for neighbours to be…
THE FEEL OF THE FEALE
Read all about it
By Michelle Crean
Parents and children were welcomed into Listowel library this week to sample specialised software for children suffering dyslexia and dyspraxia.
On Thursday afternoon, library staff put on a display of new support services including books on dyslexia and dyspraxia, children’s reading support material and specialised software for use on the library computers.
“This is part of an initiative by Kerry Library in association with the North Kerry dyslexia and dyspraxia support group,” Tommy O’Connor County Librarian said.
“We wanted to put a range of services in place and this has been done on three levels, the specialist software, support books for children,…
OPINION By Padraig Kennelly
Strikes can’t work when coffers are empty
Threats of strikes by public servants, including nurses, teachers and gardaí, have nothing to gain. The kitty is empty. The country is broke.
What they can do is disrupt public transport, courts, planned hospital operations and remove school supervision. These are just a few of the services that we have placed in the hands of people who already walked off the job as recently as last November.
The planned series of labour withdrawals increase the risk of the International Monetary Fund replacing the decision-makers in the Department of Finance, with more drastic action on the cards. Spain, Portugal, Greece and Republic of Ireland are the hardest hit…
THE VIEW FROM KILLARNEY With Breda Joy
Denise’s hens all a-flutter
Hens and foxes aren’t usually cosy bedfellows but the Silver Fox Restaurant proved to be an ideal roost last Saturday nights for the 21 hens out on the town with ‘chief hen’, Denise Hartnett, Gap of Dunloe.
Denise will be marrying John Anthony O’Sullivan, Pallas, Beaufort, on April 17th.
The hens were all aflutter in High Street but eventually took flight from ‘the fox’ for some more action down in the Lane Bar and the Kube.
The party included Denise’s mother, Maureen, her aunts, Patricia Fennell, Noreen Cronin and Clare Cronin, and friends, Joanne Clifford, Geraldine Mangan, Emily Guerin, Gretel O’Sullivan, Marie Murphy and Caitriona Cahillane.
Another hen party…
BUSINESS NEWS Edited by Colin Lacey
Broadband opportunity for Kerry
Up to 850 jobs could be created in Kerry with the roll-out of broadband to all areas this year, according to a report commissioned by mobile phone company 3.
The company, which is responsible for the roll-out of the National Broadband Scheme, claims that broadband in Kerry could have the potential to inject €40m a year to the local economy and help create up to 850 jobs.
The report by well-known economist, Jim Power, states that if one new SME set up in each electoral area where broadband is installed it would create up to 850 jobs in Kerry.
The roll-out of broadband for Kerry is undertaken by electoral divisions and a SME in each would create jobs and a cash…
EYE ON TRALEE By Anne Pullen
Great turn out for Kitty’s big day
A popular and caring home help organiser was honoured by colleagues and friends this week after many years loyal service to the HSE. On Thursday at the Ballygarry Hotel, over 200 family, friends and colleagues turned up to wish Kitty Enright from Alderwood Road, wife of Joe, all the best at her retirement party.
Kitty celebrated with family including her children, grandchildren and colleagues from work.
“Kitty has always been enthusiastic and has shown a kind and appropriate way in managing home help in the county,” said Monica Sheehan, Director of Public Health Nursing.
“Her popularity is borne out by the fact that two hundred Home Help colleagues from the…
KERRY DEATHS
ALLEN Mary, 28 Marconi Avenue, Ballybunion. Reposed at her residence on Tuesday with removal to St. John’s Church, Ballybunion for Requiem Mass on Wednesday. Followed by cremation.
BOLT Robert, Seaview Cottage, Fenit, Tralee. Reposed on Friday at the Gleasure Funeral Home, followed by private cremation.
BREEN Mary (nee Finnegan), Kilcummin, Killarney. Removal took place on Friday from O’Shea’s Funeral Home, Killarney to Kilcummin Parish Church. Burial took place on Saturday in Old Kilcummin Cemetery.
BROSNAN Michael, Birmingham, England and formerly of Knockbrack, Knocknagoshel. Removal took place on Saturday from Leahy’s Funeral Home, Knocknagoshel to St. Mary’s Church, Knocknagoshel. Burial…
SPORTS
REIDY WITHDRAWS
By Jim O’Gorman
Kerry keeper Ger Reidy has informed the team management of his withdrawal from this year’s senior inter county panel.
The Castleisland Desmonds’ keeper, who was understudy to Diarmuid Murphy last season and started between the posts in this year’s McGrath Cup, has been forced to this decision because of academic pressures at his college University College, Cork.
Reidy, who is studying for a Masters Degree in Education with the aim of entering the teaching profession, had to postpone taking examinations in the last academic year.
Inter county training demands necessitated missing afternoon lectures on two days each week, made more difficult by the fact that…