Post Tagged with: "Green Party"

THE proposed Cockleshell Road to the Spa walkway is to receive €300,000 as part of a €10.5m funding package for Kerry greenways. The Government announced today that the South Kerry Greenway will receive €8.4m of the funding, with the balance being distributed across the other projects including Cockleshell to Spa […]

FOUR new bus services for the Tralee area have been announced as part of the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan for 2023 launched today by Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan TD. There are 67 new or enhanced Connecting Ireland bus services proposed, strengthening existing services and connecting more towns and […]

THE Green Party representative for the Tralee area is encouraging people to take up the latest expansion of the Cycle to Work Scheme which now includes a higher payment of €3,000 for eCargo bikes. This is the second time the scheme has being expanded by the government and the first time […]

GREEN Party representatives in Kerry have criticised Kerry County Council for a lack of action on walking and cycling infrastructure. Figures released by the National Transport Authority (NTA) have revealed that only 17.8% of funding made available for walking and cycling infrastructure in Kerry was spent in 2021. “In Kerry, our local authority was allocated €5.6m for walking and cycling projects in the county for the year 2021,” said Anluan Dunne, Green […]

THE Tralee Area Green Party representative has welcomed the launch of the national ‘Town Centre First’ policy and especially a new appointment Kerry County Council as a result of the strategy. Launched today by the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, the Minister for Planning and Local Government, […]

AN online portal for people to express their view on the future of the courthouse building on Ashe Street has been set up. The Green Party Chairperson in Kerry, Anluan Dunne, has set up the portal in the hopes that people will share their views. The Courts Service has expressed […]

ANNE-MARIE Fuller has stepped down as the Green Party representative for the Tralee Local Electoral Area (LEA) to take on the role of chairperson of the Kerry Sustainable Energy Co-op. She has been the Green Party’s Tralee representative since the 2019 local elections when she polled in eighth place in […]

PAVEMENT plans for Tralee don’t make sufficient accommodation for outdoor seating, elderly people, cyclists, families or those with mobility impairment, according to the Green Party’s Kerry branch. In a detailed submission to the Council, they have made 12 specific recommendations (detailed below) and called for the plans to be reviewed. […]

THE Green Party in Kerry is celebrating UN World Wildlife Day by commissioning a new mural in Tralee of the iconic curlew by artist, Ciara McKenna. World Wildlife Day takes place on March 3. It celebrates and raises awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The mural, which is […]

SPEED limit bye-laws in Kerry should be fully implemented as soon as possible, according Anluan Dunne, chairperson of the Kerry branch of the Green Party. The speed limit review was finalised in early 2019 but two years on the bye-laws enacting 30 km/h limits are still not completely enacted in […]

A NEW chairperson of the Kerry branch of the Green Party has been appointed at its recent AGM. Cycling and community activist, Anluan Dunne from Tralee said he is delighted to take on the role. “The party is at its greatest strength at both national level – with 12 TDs […]

THE Green Party Tralee representative has called for safe cycling routes on roundabouts after a young girl was knocked off her bike in a hit and run incident last week. Anne-Marie Fuller was speaking after the incident last Thursday evening where the girl received minor injuries after she was hit […]

A GREEN party representative for Tralee has sincerely welcomed the Green Party’s vote to support the programme for government. Anne-Marie Fuller, who ran in the local elections in the Tralee Municipal District last year, believes it proposes to deliver on the key priorities of her local election campaign last year and […]

PLANS to create more space for pedestrians in town centres in Kerry are being welcomed by the Kerry branch of the Green Party. The ‘Safe and Welcoming Streets’ adopted by Kerry County Council will result in removing parking spaces from busy streets with narrow footpaths and enhancing public areas with […]

PLANS for the Island of Geese in Tralee should be revised in light of the Covid19 crisis, according to the Kerry branch of the Green Party. “We now need more open spaces in which we can move freely while maintaining physical distance,” said the party’s Tralee representative Anne-Marie Fuller. “This […]

THE Green Party candidate for Kerry wants to see Tralee get back its own town council to focus on the specific needs of the county capital. The Green Party’s manifesto is proposing to introduce district councils, similar to the abolished town councils, but with greater responsibility for the rural hinterland. […]

CLEO Murphy has been selected as the Green Party’s candidate in Kerry to run in the next General Election. The former journalist with Radio Kerry and The Kingdom announced that she has been selected by the party in a tweet this afternoon. It read: “Thrilled to be selected as the Green […]

KERRY Sinn Féin general election candidate Cllr Pa Daly has said, a suggestion by the leader of the Green Party that families in rural villages would share a small number of cars is incredulous. But the Green Party said Eamon Ryan’s comments on Virgin Media One’s Ireland AM show on […]