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Shane Finn and Rebecca Hoban, owners of Outwest Clothing in Dingle who feature on Moving West on TG4 next week.
A NUMBER of Kerry people will feature in the new series of ‘Moving West’ on TG4 which begins this month.
Shot against the backdrop of the unique natural beauty and culture of the west, this series puts a spotlight on Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Kerry and a special episode on the Islands.
Throughout the series viewers follow the lives of individuals and families who have moved or are in the process of moving to a new home along the Atlantic coast.
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Presented by Mary Kennedy over the course of six half hour episodes, the series sets out to help viewers discover a genuine message, that life, and in particular your career won’t take a step back if you are considering a move West.
The show focussing on Kerry will be broadcast at 8.30pm next Wednesday, January 25. Mary travels to Kerry where she meets Texan Saundra O’Sullivan was a flight nurse on a helicopter when she met Kerry native Tommy O’Sullivan in 2007.
Mary with Tommy & Saundra O’Sullivan (a mover from Texas) at home in Lispole.
They married on March 13th, 2010. Saundra moved from Houston, TX to Lispole on the Dingle peninsula. They opened a pub in Dingle in 2011 on Tommy’s 50th birthday. Mary Kennedy visits the pub for a lively trad session. Tommys two sons live close by.
During the lockdown Tommy and Saundra remodeled his family home which he inherited. They say it’s the oldest house in the village and it’s always been in the family. Saundra likes almost everything about Lispole, the hills and sea, the rugged landscape and gentle rolling hills.
Architectural Technician Declan Sugrue worked in Cork for many years but always wanted to move back home to Cahersiveen to be closer to family and friends.
Mary Kennedy with the Sugrue Family in Cahersiveen.
His wife Louise is also from Cahersiveen. They have two young children. Cost of living was getting higher in the city so the obvious choice was to move back home as the cost of houses was considerably cheaper.
This gave them the opportunity to buy and renovate a townhouse and a few years later build the dream home. Declan saw a need in the area from other SME’s and freelancers that there was no hub for people working from home.
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He opened the Office Light Hub in the town. Sadly the war in Ukraine has prompted a different type of mover west.
Mary Kennedy visits a school in Cahersiveen where the school population rose by 50% (103 to 150) with new Ukrainian pupils.
Mary has an emotive meeting with some of the students and their teachers. Hrvoje Smolic is a Founder and CEO of Qualia Data Sciences and Graphite Note. He was born in Croatia.
In the first seven years after receiving a Masters’s in Physics (University of Zagreb), Hrvoje sharpened his skills first as a financial software developer, then business intelligence consultant, and finally BI Team leader.
He moved to Killarney in 2018 and founded Qualia Data Sciences. Hrvoje now works out of the RDI Hub in Killorglin.
Rebecca Hoban and Shane Finn are returnees. They are a young couple who have recently formed the company Outwest Clothing in Dingle.
Former Kerry Senior Football physio Aoife Ni Mhuirí moved west from Dublin to Kerry in 1996. Originally from the Connemara Gaeltacht, she had been to the Kerry Gaeltacht on holidays a couple of summers when she was a child.
“The affinity between the Galway Gaeltacht and the Kerry Gaeltachts definitely helped ease my move,” she said.
Aoife set up a Health Technology company called Salaso Health Solutions based at the Kerry Technology Park in Tralee.
She finds the culture and the winning mentality in the county stemming from the tradition of All-Ireland football success helped her drive her business forward.
Tech worker Corinne Culloty moved from Lismore, Co Waterford to Killarney. Family circumstances prompted the idea of moving, while flexible work arrangements fuelled the decision and made the move a reality. Tomás O’Siocháin talks about what Kerry has to offer to the mover west.
Tune in next Wednesday at 8.30pm to see the show on TG4.
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