Post Tagged with: "Kerry County Council"

THIRTEEN new Tourism Ambassadors for north Kerry have been presented with certificates by the Listowel Municipal District Leas-Cathaoirleach, Cllr Mike Kennelly, upon their completion of the very first Tourism Ambassador Programme in Kerry. The initiative was developed by Kerry County Council’s Tourism Unit in association with the Institute of Technology in […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Michael O’Shea will attend a number of engagements in New York and Boston next week as part of a St Patrick’s Day visit to the United States. Cllr O’Shea will attend a breakfast hosted by the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio […]

A TOTAL of €238,000 will be shared by community and voluntary organisations in the Tralee Municipal District to progress a number of initiatives and projects thanks to grants provided by Kerry County Council’s Community Support Fund. Seventy-three community projects in the Tralee Municipal District are to benefit in 2017. Some of […]

KERRY County Council has signed a contract for the construction of four new houses at Baile an Gharraí, Lixnaw which are to be constructed under the national Rebuilding Ireland programme at a cost of just over €500,000. Kerry County Council has appointed Tim Scanlan Construction Ltd to construct the new units; the houses are two-storey, two-bedroom units […]

KERRY County Council held a Civic Reception to honour members of the Defence Forces for their contribution to United Nations peacekeeping, on Monday. Members of the permanent Defence Forces and the reserve Defence Forces were welcomed in the council chambers for the occasion, by proposer of the Civic Reception, Councillor Jim […]

THE people at Tralee Library have come up with a novel way to get people to broaden their reading interests this month. Are you falling into a pattern of reading the same kinds of books and the same familiar authors over and over again? Cannot read anything but crime? What if […]

A LOCAL golfer, who sank the putt which clinched the European Senior Ladies’ Team Championship back in September, is to be honoured at the Kerry County Council awards next week. Mary Sheehy from Oakpark is to receive an award from Tralee Municipal District for her achievements at the annual awards ceremony […]

Tá Oifig Gaeilge Chomhairle Contae Chiarraí ag glacadh anois le hiarrataisí ó ghrúpaí a eagraíonn imeachtaí a thugann deis do phobal Chiarraí, agus do chuairteoirí araon, an Ghaeilge a chlos, a fheiceáil agus a úsáid. Ag luí le Plean Forbartha Chiarraí 2015‐2021 agus le Straitéis Turasóireachta 2016-2022 tá Ciste Turasóireachta […]

KERRY County Council is urging people to get walking this Saturday for the annual Operation Transformation National Walk Day. This is the seventh year of this national event where thousands of people throughout the country, including in Kerry, put on their walking shoes and take to the pathways of Ireland. Kerry walkers […]

BRONNADH 20 Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge agus 11 Teastas i nDioplóma sa Ghaeilge ar fhoireann Chomhairle Contae Chiarraí Dé Máirt an 13ú Nollaig 2016. Tá Comhairle Contae Chiarraí tiomanta chun dheiseanna a chothú agus a fhorbairt do mhuintir Chiarraí chun a gcuid gnó a dhéanamh leo i gceachtar de dhá theanga oifigiúil […]

  THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council has welcomed the announcement of €745,000 in funding for a number of projects across the county under the CLÁR programme. Cllr Michael O’Shea said the funding will allow Kerry County Council to carry out a range of enhancements in communities and at community facilities. […]

THE contract has been awarded for the construction of two new sections of the N86 road between Tralee and Dingle. The contract for the major improvement works between Lispole and Ballynasare and between Ballygarret and Camp has been awarded to Kerry-based Allman Contracts Ltd and Mid-Cork Tarmacadam Ltd operating as a […]

KERRY County Council is inviting applications from community and voluntary organisations for a fund of €750,000 for local projects and initiatives. The 2017 Community Support Fund was launched on Monday by the Cathaoirleach and members of Kerry County Council. The Fund, which is now in its third year, has supported 700 projects […]

KERRY County Council has been selected as outright winner of the Irish Public Sector Service to Tourism Award 2016 for its newly published Tourism Strategy. The ‘Excellence in Business’ Awards to Local Government, sponsored by the Irish Public Sector Magazine,  are awarded annually to companies and authorities who can demonstrate outstanding service, continuity, track record and […]

KERRY County Buildings will turn teal tonight as the building at Rathass is lit up to mark International Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day. The Council headquarters is one of numerous public buildings around Ireland which will be lit up with teal-coloured lighting to highlight the rare neurological condition. Last October 7, over […]

IF you are one of those people who have been delayed in traffic at peak times around the Ballygarry roundabout recently, you may have been wondering why two lanes on that roundabout has been reduced to one. The company that built the Tralee bypass, BAM Construction, are carrying out remedial works […]

KERRY  County Council has recently agreed to provide funding of €10,000 annually to the Kerry-Cork Health Link Bus which provides transport for patients from Kerry attending Cork University Hospital. Cllr Donal Grady, who proposed the donation, said he was delighted to have put forward the suggestion of this financial support for […]

ALMOST €25 million in commercial rates have been collected by Kerry County Council rate collectors so far this year. €24,856,809 was collected in total since rate demands were issued in March to end of August. The figures were published at the local authority meeting this week. The figure represents half of […]

KERRY County Council has announced details of a new monthly arts and culture slot which will be broadcast on Radio Kerry once a month. ‘Creative Kingdom’ is a new feature which will be aired on the second Saturday of every month as part of the Saturday Supplement programme with Frank Lewis. Supported by […]

WORK to revitalise the site of the old Denny Bacon Factory is about to get off the ground as Kerry County Council has announced the first phase of public consultation on its future use at the Island Of Geese. The site was donated to the people of Tralee by Kerry Group in […]

KERRY County Council has replied to accusations that they destroyed part of a protected structure yesterday. At Tralee Municipal District meeting this morning, Sinn Fein councillors asked why the stone arch on a protected structure was removed at Sunday’s Well on Monday, but the Council said the stonework was not part […]

A COUNCILLOR is to put forward a motion that Kerry County Council move to establish a twinning arrangement with the US city of Philadelphia. Fine Gael Cllr Pat McCarthy believes it would be beneficial to establish such links from an economic and tourism perspective. He said there is a large Irish community in […]

THE three Kerry entries in the IPB Pride of Place awards will be judged today and tomorrow. IPB Pride of Place is an all-island competition, which is directed towards recognising improvements by local communities to create civic pride in their area. The competition focus is on people coming together to shape, […]

KERRY County Council is seeking the assistance of the public in identifying bathing waters in the county. Local authorities must identify official bathing areas in their area every year so that they can be monitored for safety, water quality and their level of use. Kerry County Council is asking people […]

A SCULPTURE made entirely out of tyres is currently on display at Kerry County Council Buildings in Rathass. Sculptor Mick Davis, who was a recipient of a Kerry County Council Artist Bursary this year, is responsible for the piece of art which is modelled on Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’. It will […]

CONCERN has been expressed about the state of the footpath on Russell Street as two people have already fallen over holes in one part of the path in recent weeks. A local business owner brought the holes – located just outside Barbereile barber shop – to our attention and said they had seen […]

ALMOST 200 members of the public, traders and disability groups attended a ‘Save Tralee’ meeting in the Grand Hotel on Monday. The meeting was in relation to plans being made for 66 car spaces to be removed from Tralee town centre as part of Kerry County Council proposal to make changes […]

KERRY County Council and the Kerry Recreation and Sports Partnership have put out a call to all workplaces in Kerry to participate in the 2016 ‘Cycle to Work Challenge’ which aims to get people onto their bikes and cycling to work more often. Employees of Kerry County Council and a number […]

THE Christmas Lights in Tralee will receive €25,000 from the Council this year with Tralee Sports Complex getting €35,000, as Councillors approved funding for projects this morning. Ninety Community Support Fund projects  in the Tralee Municipal District  were approved by members at a meeting of councillors in that area today, with allocations totalling […]

NEW lighting will be installed on the canal walkway, but it will be turned off every night at 11pm thanks to otters in the area. Work is currently underway along the canal walkway where motion-activated lights are being installed, a resurfacing of the walkway, a shared cycleway/walkway and landscaping. However, these lights will […]