Archive for December 21st, 2023

MUNSTER Technological University will receive €7.5 million in new funding from the €50 million Technological Sector Advancement Fund, which has been set up to support existing functions and help initiate new activities in the country’s five Technological Universities. The funding from the Technological Sector Advancement Fund can be used for a variety of purposes […]

THE spirit of giving was truly in evidence at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí this week as the holidays approach. The students, with the help of Irish teacher Elma Uí Shuilleabháin decided to celebrate the festive season by participating in the tradition of donating Christmas boxes to a local charity in Tralee. ‘’We would […]

DOWN Syndrome Ireland Kerry Branch marked the success of its national employment programme — celebrating the meaningful employment of over 20 members and seven securing jobs in 2023 alone — with a Christmas party. Since April 2023, Joe Burkett, the Employment Support Specialist with Down Syndrome Ireland, Kerry Branch, has […]

KERRY Football Club have confirmed that goalkeeper Aaron O’Sullivan has re-signed for the 2024 SSE Airtricity Men’s First Division campaign. Over the past number of days, the club has made a number of announcements of player re-signing for the upcoming season, while they also confirmed departures too. Yesterday they announced […]

THE Kerry Association of New York has announced €25,000 for three Kerry charities, proceeds from its recent annual golf fundraisers. A representative from the Association was at Recovery Haven Kerry on Wednesday to present a cheque for $12,000. The association of New York based Kerry and Kerry-New York Irish Americans […]

A LOCAL choir has made a donation to the Kerry Mental Health Association (KMHA) after a fundraising concert in Fenit at the weekend. Noelle Barrett set up the Vocaleze Choir in Fenit back in 2022 to help with mental health and wellbeing and it currently has around 30 members, the […]

THE good folks at JRI America showed their generosity once again this Christmas with a donation of thousands of euro worth of toys to the local branch of St Vincent De Paul. The Charity Committee at the company based at Kerry Technology Park have been organising donations to the worthy cause […]

MINISTER for Education and Kerry TD Norma Foley has announced that 19 Kerry schools have been awarded more than €160,000 in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grants. The successful projects include a focus on coding, robotics, growing plants without soil, modules on AI, interpreting weather patterns, film and animation, […]