Post Tagged with: "Kerry County Council"

KERRY County Council is offering householders in the county the opportunity to dispose of old mattresses, free of charge, at the North Kerry Landfill site near Tralee this week. Householders can dispose of up to two clean and dry mattresses at the landfill at Muingnaminnane between 10am and 4pm on […]

KERRY County Council is inviting members of the public to join the discussion on how the local authority can support communities to mitigate climate change and what a new Climate Action Plan for the county should contain and prioritise. The council has published a report outlining the main challenges facing […]

KERRY County Council wish the public to know that, following the receipt of further test results from samples taken at Ballybunion in recent days, the prohibition on bathing and swimming has been lifted with immediate effect. The investigation into the cause of the contamination is ongoing. On Wednesday, elevated levels […]

TRALEE-BASED Fine Gael councillor, Jim Finucane, has been elected Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council at its Annual Meeting at County Buildings in Tralee today. Cllr Finucane, who has been a member of Kerry County Council since 2009, is a Tralee-based auctioneer and is currently chairperson of the Kerry Education and […]

KERRY County Council will announce details of events to be held during the Rose of Tralee Festival in the coming weeks. It comes after the local authority hosted meetings today with a number of stakeholders in relation to the preparations for a street festival and family events which will be […]

FREE publicly accessible wi-fi is now available in Listowel town as part of a EU initiative. Listowel is the first town in Kerry to benefit from the new service which was launched this week by the Cathaoirleach of the Listowel Municipal District, Cllr Aoife Thornton. WiFi4EU promotes free access to […]

KERRY County Council is teaming up with local schools to draw attention to the issue of dog fouling. The initiative will be run through the Green Schools Programme and will involve students patrolling areas near their schools, spraying any dog faeces found with temporary bright yellow spray paint, thereby highlighting […]

KERRY County Council in association with Creative Ireland, has launched its new Creativity & Cultural Strategy 2023-2028. The strategy is informed by public consultation which took place in 2022. Online questionnaires, an online public meeting, and internal culture team meetings helped shape the focus of this strategy. Kerry County Culture […]

KERRY County Council is encouraging people and groups to get their applications in for Creative Ireland Kerry’s Creative Communities Awards Scheme as there is only four days to deadline. Applications are being accepted from community groups, arts groups, artists, creative practitioners, venues and festivals etc. Grants of up to €5,000 […]

AN interactive dance performance, specially designed for residents in care settings, visited care homes around the county during last week. ‘Yard Duets’ is a Dance Limerick/DL.BRIDGE project, funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and County Council in 2021. As part of Kerry County Council’s dancer in residency co-funded by the […]

KERRY County Council has today opened applications for the Community Support Fund for 2023. Community groups across Kerry can now apply to the fund through the Kerry County Council website and the closing date is Wednesday, February 8. A total of €750,000 is being made available through this year’s scheme. […]

KERRY’S Sinn Féin TD for Kerry, has called for an urgent review of KCC’s Winter Plan, stating he believed that the cold freeze last week demonstrated the current plan is deficient. Deputy Pa Daly was referring in particular to some areas of north and mid Kerry where he says there […]

GRIT is being provided by Kerry County Council in 108 locations throughout the county today. Although last night wasn’t as cold in the Tralee area as previous nights, sections of roads are still dangerous and caution is advised. The cold spell continues for the rest of the week. It will be […]

THE Housing Capital Unit of Kerry County Council wishes to advise that Environmental Enhancement Works will take place at Hawley Park, Tralee, from Monday, November 14 to an anticipated completion date of May 8, 2023. Enhancement works include road resurfacing, footpath replacements, installation of car parking bays, drainage services upgrade […]

KERRY County Council is one of ten local authorities have been awarded funding to appoint biodiversity officers to deliver and drive local action for biodiversity. The creation of a biodiversity officer post in Kerry, announced today, is being warmly welcomed by the local branch of the Green Party. The new […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Francis Flynn, has opened a Book of Condolences for the people of Creeslough. The Book of Condolences can be signed by members of the public during office hours at County Buildings, Rathass, Tralee. Cllr Flynn said: “The entire country has been deeply […]

MEMBERS of the Kerry diaspora who are to the fore in promoting Kerry from a visitor and economic viewpoint, were honoured in Tralee on Friday at an event which is part of the ‘An Turas Mór– the Homecoming Kerry Festival’. The special event, which took place in the Rose Hotel, Tralee, […]

A BOOK of Condolences for the late Queen Elizabeth II has been opened at the offices of Kerry County Council at County Buildings, Rathass, Tralee. Members of the public who wish to sign the Book of Condolences may do so during office hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

SINN Féin Councillor Cathal Foley has called for an immediate and speedy investigation into a landslide outside Tralee. Kerry County Council is meeting this morning to assess the bogslide which occurred at Maughanknockane, Ballymacelligott where the road is now closed from Kielduff Cross to Carrigcannon Cross until further notice. The road […]

A NUMBER of Kerry County Councillors will move motions at next Monday’s meeting of the council regarding support for Ukraine and ideas about how refugees can be helped. Cllr John O’Donoghue from Killarney MD will ask the Council to examine the possibility of twinning the county with a similar region […]

AN interagency group has been established in Kerry to coordinate the response to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in the county. The group, which held its first meeting this morning, includes a wide range of statutory, community, and voluntary agencies as well as representatives of the HSE and the Department […]

Gardaí have urged caution on roads after snow and icy conditions were reported around the county overnight. Met Eireann has a Status Yellow Snow/Ice warning in alert until midday today and conditions were poor this morning on some roads this morning, including the Killarney to Cork road, the N21 at […]

KERRY County Council has been granted €29,564,872 under the 2022 investment programme for regional and local roads. This tranche of funding will be used to provide maintenance and restoration works to a number of key regional and local road networks in Kerry. Under the programme the Dale road (R556) has […]

KERRY County Council is inviting applications from community groups in Kerry for the €285,000 Community Activities Fund for 2022. The Fund will support community groups, particularly in disadvantaged areas, with their non-pay running costs, for example utility bills or other non-pay operating costs including rental and lease costs, insurance bills. […]

KERRY County Council has decided to close to public traffic the L-10582 Listellick to Doon Road from 8am on this coming Wednesday, January 26, to 5.30pm on Wednesday, February 23. The purpose of the road closure is to facilitate the replacement of 1km of the existing water main. This closure […]

A DRAFT of the proposals for new Beach Bye-Laws for Kerry was revealed at the online meeting of Kerry County Council this morning. Among the proposed byelaws is one which would restrict dogs on Blue Flag beaches between the hours of 11am and 7pm from June 1 to September 15. […]

KERRY shoppers can give the gift of Kerry this Christmas thanks to the Kerry Gift Card which can be used in dozens of Kerry businesses and services. The Kerry Gift Card, which will allow shoppers to support local jobs and local businesses in the run-up to the Christmas, is now […]

KERRY County Council will receive €100,000 to develop the first ever Town Centre First Plan in the county for Milltown. As part of the initiative, the Council will be provided with the funding to support the development of its own unique master plan for Milltown. These Plans will be central […]

TEN new posts are to be created in Kerry County Council to assist with the delivery of their social housing targets. Under the ‘Housing For All’ plan announced by the Government, Kerry County Council is aiming to provide over 1,400 homes over the next five years. Housing for All commits […]

KERRY County Council is currently working with Playboard NI  to develop a new Kerry Play and Leisure Policy for the county. The development of this play and leisure policy is important as it will help to guide the provision of free, usable, public, outdoor play and recreation areas in County […]