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Galvin saga has exposed the hypocrites
Thursday, June 26, 2008
MY heart goes out to Paul Galvin. That said, in the mood he’s likely to be in this week, he’ll probably catch it, hop it twice and burst it when he’s kicking it back to me.
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Festival fun can help woo tourists
Thursday, June 19, 2008
I WAS clad in short trousers and was still in single figures the first time I got married.
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Health service on life support
Thursday, May 08, 2008
IT will never be a contender for the most adroit electioneering slogan in Irish political history but in terms of being effective, blunt and very much of its time, it ticked all the right boxes.
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Three quarters of Kerry adults show bad example to younger generation
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Kerry adults are showing a bad example to young people when it comes to keeping fit and exercising regularly.
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Fuel poverty crisis sends a shiver up Kerry spines
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Many elderly people in Kerry are at risk because they cannot afford to adequately heat their homes. Yet the only help available is a week allowance. South Kerry TD, BREEDA MOYNIHAN CRONIN, outlines her proposals to solve the festering social issue.
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Tourists insist Kerry is just what they want
Thursday, August 26, 2004
FIRST the facts. There is a general consensus that the 2004 tourist season in Kerry has, in terms of numbers at least, left a lot to be desired, and hopes of a quick return to the money-spinning climate of pre-2000 have failed to materialise.
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Mission not impossible for Kerry priest making the difference in Kenyan slums
Thursday, January 29, 2004
IT'S a long journey from a Kenyan slum to the affluent tourist hotspot of Killarney but it's one that has made all the difference to over two thousand parishioners at Shauri Mayo on the eastern side of Nairobi.
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Winds of change blow across the realm of energy production
Thursday, November 06, 2003
A VALID means of reducing harmful greenhouse emissions, wind energy offers a fresh alternative for environ-mentally friendly power.
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The consumer strikes back as insurance firms count the cost
Thursday, September 18, 2003
AT long last, the consumer gets an opportunity to strike back. An Oireachtas enterprise and small business committee has insisted that all insurance companies should immediately cut their premiums by 10 per cent given profitability levels within the industry.
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Smoking ban fact and fiction sends the public in a real spin
Thursday, September 11, 2003
SO who do we believe? Who is spinning us a yarn and who can we trust?
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Motor sales slump shows economy is crashing fast
Thursday, September 11, 2003
IF, as is claimed, the sale of new cars is accurate barometer of the state of the economy, then this country may be in greater hole than initially thought.
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Old friends should be best for a man true to his word
Thursday, September 11, 2003
COLOURFUL cleric Fr Neil Horan is unlikely to be accorded a civic reception when he returns home to Kerry on vacation later in the year – but he should be!
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Tinsel town tag is merely bringing it all back home
Thursday, September 04, 2003
JUST what does Killarney have to do to rid itself of the ridiculously inaccurate tinsel town tag that seems to be retrieved from the archives in national newspaper offices for an annual airing.
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Now we’re fickle animals if we all listen to Pat’s chat
Thursday, September 04, 2003
FIRST we were f****** animals and now we’ve been branded as fickle.
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Was it a bird, was it a plane or even a half decent full back?
Thursday, September 04, 2003
SO it wasn’t a plane and it wasn’t a bird that got the people of West Kerry in a tizzy as darkness fell on Monday of last week.
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Think-tank required to tackle road safety issues
Thursday, August 28, 2003
THE tragic death of a 56-yearold Mossie O’Donoghue from Gneeveguilla, after being struck by a vehicle close to the Cork/Kerry border last week, is a stark reminder that we are residing in one of the country’s worst accident blackspots.
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Public buildings mast scheme will spark legitimate protests
Thursday, August 28, 2003
PERISH the thought but could the day soon come when a giant telecommunications mast could be perched on top of Muckross House in Killarney?
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Bizarre political fallout from local fireworks demonstration
Thursday, August 28, 2003
ARE we in danger of becoming a nation of party poopers? It certainly seems that way following the unbelievable reaction to a recent mini fireworks display in the grounds of a Killarney hotel.
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Roses still in bloom despite attempts to pen obituaries
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
RUMOURS of the demise of the Festival of Kerry have been greatly exaggerated as the watching world will discover in the coming days.
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Kerry farmers ploughing on the high moral territory
Thursday, August 14, 2003
KERRY farmers are threading on highly dangerous ground with their threat to "name and shame" local restaurants that are allegedly passing off South American beef as Irish.
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Kerry drivers pay the penalty as gardaí crackdown on speed
Thursday, August 07, 2003
THE visibility of uniformed gardaí on the roads, armed with speed detection devices, may not be quite as commonplace as initially anticipated when the new penalty points system was first introduced but don’t let that con you into believing that they have adopted a lax attitude to the new legislation.
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Kerry value claims must be balanced and based on fact
Thursday, July 24, 2003
IT is heartening to see Killarney Chamber of Commerce and Tourism entering the great debate about home holiday value.
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A trip back in time is a journey worth taking
Thursday, June 05, 2003
THE picture-postcard image of brightly painted fishing boats, manned by men in floppy- caps and short-sleeves, ferrying wide-eyed tourists across the lakes of Killarney, is always a joy to behold.
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Touchdown to reality
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
AS reported elsewhere in this newspaper, the contentious development levy imposed on passengers using the facilities at Kerry Airport looks certain to become a permanent fixture despite the fact that it was introduced as a short-term measure all those years ago.
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Lack of cash cuts deep for Kerry rescue crew
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
IN the current climate of savage financial cutbacks, any grant aid that is forthcoming from government coffers can be considered an unexpected bonus but the State’s botched attempt to financially prop up the Kerry Mountain Rescue Team was as insulting as it was inadequate.
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Time to walk Minister, the buck stops with you
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
IT’S disturbing when the people of Kerry have to take to the streets to plead with the authorities to safeguard the local health service.
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Our doctors and our minister need to show some maturity
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
AT a time when they should have been formulating what could prove to be a life-saving plan to counter the threat posed by the SARS virus, it was rather pitiful to watch health minister Micheál Martin and the nation’s leading doctors behaving like spoilt schoolchildren in Killarney at the weekend.
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Dancing to a different tune as tradition comes at a price
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
TO Killarney they descended in their thousands, from many parts of the world and, in many cases, at enormous expense, to compete and to impress.
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They are of Kerry, come dance with them in Kerry
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
THE flamboyant Mayor of Kerry might just be on to something special with his suggestion that the new host of the televised Rose of Tralee selection should hail from within the county.
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The Bishop’s pop ban is sweet music to our ears
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
THE ban on pop music in churches during weddings, which was contained in new guidelines issued in the Kerry Diocese at the weekend, is to be welcomed as the situation had gone completely out of control.
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The scandal of the missing politicians
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
LISTOWEL woman Noreen Buckley is reluctant to take no for an answer when it comes to the care of people with special needs and local politicians can expect to encounter the full force of her fury in the days and weeks ahead.
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Galwey could make Fine Gael’s dreams come true in Kerry
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
COULD big Mick Galwey be the answer to Fine Gael’s problems in the South Kerry constituency?
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Pubs fear the worst with no beat on the street
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
PUBLICANS in Kerry fear that they may be forced out of business by new get-tough measures being planned in certain parts of the county to tackle noise pollution.
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