Post Tagged with: "Kerry County Council"

THE Kerry County Council Arts Grants application process opens on Wednesday, November 6 for projects and activities taking place in 2020. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1pm Monday 16th December 2020. Under the Arts Act 2003, funding is allocated to individuals or groups where activities, projects and […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Niall Kelleher has welcomed the allocation of €500,000 in additional funding for Kerry under the Leader programme. Kerry has been ranked top of a list of counties which are most advanced in delivering the Leader programme by the Department of Rural and Community […]

A NEW exhibition titled “The 120th Anniversary of the First Local Elections” will be on display at Tralee Library from Monday, October 21 to Saturday, November 2 during library opening hours. Local authorities are marking the 120th anniversary of the first local elections in 2019 and which were held in […]

KERRY County Council has today (Monday) published new guidelines to ensure best practice for retailers and their design advisors when considering shopfronts in the county. The details of the new guidelines were presented to councillors at today’s meeting of Kerry County Council. Kerry’s vernacular shopfronts are a core element of […]

STRENGTHENING the social, business and economic links between Kerry and Germany was central to a visit on Tuesday to Tralee by the German Ambassador to Ireland and the chief executive of the German-Irish Chamber of Commerce. Ambassador Deike Potzel was welcomed to the offices of Kerry County Council and also […]

A TRALEE councillor has asked the Council to erect signage at a busy junction to direct traffic and the public to the town centre. Cllr Mikey Sheehy said he had spoken to businesses and they said there is no signage tag the junction of Prince’s St. and Ivy Terrace telling […]

KERRY County Council is providing householders in the county wishing to dispose of old mattresses with the opportunity to do so on Saturday, August 10. Clean, dry mattresses will be accepted at the North Kerry Landfill at Muingnaminane near Tralee between 9am and 3pm and for no charge. Deposits from […]

KERRY County Council has today published its annual report for 2018. The report is a comprehensive record of the work and achievements of the local authority during last year and sets out the infrastructural improvements, service delivery and investment in projects and initiatives achieved in the year against the backdrop […]

TRALEE area groups and organisations are among the 69 projects countywide to benefit from over €142,000 in funding for community projects in Kerry under the Community Enhancement Programme in 2019. Funding under this programme in Kerry was targeted at age-friendly and healthy community initiatives and projects and initiatives in keeping […]

THE new Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council was elected this morning at the first meeting of the newly elected Council, following last month’s local elections. Rathmore native Cllr Niall Kelliher — who now lives in Headford, Killarney — was chosen at the meeting at County Buildings in Tralee.  First elected in […]

NOW that the dust has settled after a hectic weekend, the 33 councillors who will meet at Kerry County Council on June 7 has been decided. Fianna Fáil is now the largest party with 10 seats, up one from the 2014 local elections. Fine Gael did not have a good […]

A CANDIDATE in the upcoming local elections has called for the Council to rethink closing a 2.2km stretch of the Tralee-Ballybunion Road to two-way traffic from the end of this month. Aontú Candidate in the Listowel Electoral Area, Sonny Foran, called for a Council to halt the proposed traffic diversion […]

MENTORING sessions for visual artists in Kerry have been taking place this week at County Buildings in Tralee. Developed by Creative Ireland Kerry and Local Enterprise Office Kerry, the high level of demand from artists for the initiative has resulted in the original offer of meetings over a two-day period, […]

A NEW 3.5km road between Milltown and Killorglin which was opened today provides an improved road surface and shorter journey times for approximately 7,000 vehicles per day. The N70 Kilderry Bends Improvement Scheme was officially opened by the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Brendan […]

COMMUNITIES, schools, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Kerry County Council are joining forces to mark World Curlew Day 2019, which takes place on Easter Sunday, April 21. This worldwide initiative which aims to raise awareness of and celebrate these iconic and charismatic birds was the brainchild of Dr […]

A MARRIED couple who have made an enormous contribution to traditional music in the county were honoured with a civic reception at Kerry County Council on Monday. Nicky and Anne McAuliffe were present for the occasion where Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Norma Foley, outlined their importance to the […]

A NEW grant-based incentive scheme which aims to reduce the number of vacant properties in Tralee town centre has been launched by Kerry County Council. The Business Incentive Scheme is designed to encourage both landlords and new or aspiring business owners or leasers to occupy vacant premises by offering a […]

KERRY County Council today hosted a Civic Reception to honour the work of Fionnbar and Elma Walsh and the Donal Walsh #Livelife Foundation. At a reception at County Buildings in Tralee, the legacy of Donal Walsh and the work being done by his parents to promote his message of positivity […]

KERRY County Council accepted a silver award for Best Disability Access & Inclusion Initiative for The Mall shared space in Tralee, at the All Ireland Community and Council Awards on Saturday night. The 2019 winners of the awards were announced at a Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday, February 9 in Croke Park Stadium. Kerry […]

A NUMBER of representatives from the hospitality industry in Kerry joined Kerry County Council in celebrating a number of recent accolades won for the countty. The Irish Independent readers recently voted Kerry as their No. 1 Home Holiday Destination in its 2019 Reader Travel Awards. Kerry has been picking up […]

  PRIMARY school pupils from around the county have used their artistic skills to highlight and promote road safety through their winning submissions to the 2019 Kerry County Council Road Safety Calendar competition which is hosted annual by the local authority. Charlie O’Sullivan, Deputy Chief Executive, Kerry County Council this […]

KERRY County Council has now issued a call for funding applications for the 2019 Community Support Fund which is offering a further  €750,000 to community-based projects and initiatives in Kerry over the coming year. Since its establishment in 2015, the Fund has provided funding of €3m to community groups and […]

TWO newly upgraded sections of the N86 national secondary road on the Dingle Peninsula have been officially opened on Tuesday by the Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin TD. The opening of the N86 Lispole to Ballynasare Lower and Ballygarret to Camp Road Improvement Scheme marks the […]

KERRY County Council (KCC) is currently finalising the tender process for major resurfacing works on the N86 Tralee to Dingle Road at Gleann na Gealt, Camp, according to Fine Gael TD and Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin, has confirmed that Minister Griffin received […]

THE Kerry County Council Arts Grants application process is now open for projects and activities taking place in 2019. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1pm Thursday, December 13 2018. Under the Arts Act 2003, funding is allocated to individuals or groups where activities, projects and undertakings stimulate […]

IRISH Water and Kerry County Council today marked the official opening of the Kerry Central Regional Water Treatment Plant. This €30 million upgrade to improve treatment facilities, ensures a safe and secure water supply for almost half the population of Co Kerry. Over 62,000 people and an estimated 1.2m tourists […]

A TREE has been planted in the grounds of County Buildings in Tralee by the Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council to mark the centenary of the extension of parliamentary suffrage to women in 1918. Cllr Norma Foley planted the oak tree at Áras an Chontae this afternoon to mark the […]

ALMOST €2.5m was paid out for claims made against Kerry County Council between July 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018, according to figures released at the monthly meeting of the council on Monday. The Council supplied the information in reply to a motion by Cllr Brendan Cronin who requested the […]

A NEW, comprehensive and user-friendly brochure highlighting the wide and diverse range of activities and attractions on offer to locals and visitors in the county has been published by the Tourism Unit of Kerry County Council. The 170-page brochure was launched at County Buildings today by the Cathaoirleach of Kerry […]

IT was an emotional day for Cllr Norma Foley as she took up the position of Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council this afternoon. The Tralee woman, who was first elected to Tralee Town Council in 1994, has become Kerry’s ‘First Citizen’ for the first time, having already held the Mayor […]