THE team at Kerry Cancer Support Group are piloting a sunscreen dispenser in partnership with the Irish Cancer Society, Healthy Ireland and The National Cancer Control Programme.
They are among groups including The Dublin Airport Authority, An Post and Water Safety Ireland to make sunscreen freely available to the public at their centre in Maine St Tralee.
The custom-made board which will be outside the centre includes a dispenser with SPF 30 sunscreen, a mirror to aid application, information on the UV index, the SunSmart code and a UV dial to raise awareness and remind people to protect their skin.
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Breda Dyland from Kerry Cancer Support Group said that they are delighted to get behind the initiative and hope that people make use of the board.
“We see it as a very natural progression of our service because we already provide SunSmart awareness presentations to schools and groups in the region,” she said.
KERRY County Council has announced road closures to take place in order to facilitate the holding of the Rose of Tralee International Festival in the town in August.
A dome structure is to be erected at the Abbey Car Park. As a result southbound traffic through the Abbey Carpark as far as the mini roundabout at Boots (through traffic from Mary St to Abbey Street shall be retained) will not be allowed from 6am on Monday, August 15 to 10pm on Wednesday, August 24.
Also, to facilitate the Rose of Tralee International Festival public entertainment and market stalls, Bridge Street, The Square and The Mall will close to traffic from 6pm to 6am each day from Thursday, August 18 to Wednesday, August 24.
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To facilitate the Rose Parades on Saturday, August 20, and Sunday, August 21, there will be rolling closures from John Joe Sheehy road down Boherbee to Upper Castle Street from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on the Saturday and 2.30pm to 3.30pm on the Sunday.
Finally, to facilitate public entertainment and parades, there will be full closures on Lower Castle Street and Denny Street at the following times;
• From 5.00 p.m. on Saturday, 20th August to 1.00 a.m. on Sunday, 21st August 2022
• From 12.00 noon on Sunday, 21st August to 1.00 a.m. on Monday, 22 nd August 2022
• From 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. on Monday, 22nd August 2022
• From 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 23rd August to 1.00 a.m. on Wednesday, 24th August
A traffic diversion system will operate on the main approaches to the town.
Any person having an objection to the above proposal should lodge same, in writing, marked Road Closure, with the Administrative Officer, Roads, Transportation and Marine Department, County Buildings, Tralee, County Kerry or by e-mail to roads@kerrycoco.ie not later than 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 26th July 2022. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
KERRY County Council will close Denny Street to public traffic in order to facilitate the homecoming of the Kerry senior football team on Monday.
The Kerry team will travel by bus, down Boherbee and Castle Street, before arriving on stage at the Ashe Hall on Denny Street, Tralee at around 6pm on Monday.
Kerry County Council will close Denny Street to traffic from 4.30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. that day.
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There will be no parking on Denny Street from Park Lane to Ashe Hall from 8am on Monday.
All parked cars should be removed from Denny Street and around Ashe Hall by 3pm on Monday. Any cars left parked on Denny Street after 3.00 p.m. will be at risk of being removed.
Kerry County Council said it regrets any inconvenience caused and traffic diversion signs will be in place.
Swim Ireland’s 2022 Irish Summer National Swimming Championships got underway on Weds July 20th in the National Aquatic Centre ,Dublin .
Over 100 clubs nationally compete across five days of competition for age group titles.
The year’s Championship return to the 2022 swimming calender after an absence of three years due to Covid-19.
KSC is delighted to be represented at the event by 5 of our swimmers who achieved qualification times for their respective events – Cian Mason, Rory Boyd, Peter Doyle, Evelyn Fox, Maire O Sullivan
Qualification for the event itself is a significant achievement and reflective of the huge training, dedication and commitment put in by each swimmer under Head Coach Ger McDonnell assisted by Mike & Tim O’Connell.
Best of luck to all our swimmers for the remainder of the event , the club is hughly proud of you all!
Photo – Cian Mason,Coach Tim O’Connell,Evelyn Fox, Peter Doyle,Rory Boyd (missing from photo Maire O Sullivan).
KERRY County Council has warmly welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien that the Valentia Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble is to be included on the new Irish Tentative List of World Heritage Properties to be progressed for World Heritage inscription.
This has been a long-term objective of Kerry County Council since it was initiated by the Valentia Island Development Company in 2012 and has since been strongly supported by the Council, Government Departments and other public and private partners in Ireland and abroad.
Welcoming the announcement, the Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Francis Flynn, paid tribute to all involved in the project in bringing it to this stage.
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“I want to thank Kerry County Council for lending this important project its full support from the outset. I also want to salute Micheál Lyne and the members of the Valentia Island Development Company for their ambition and persistence in pursuing this for over a decade.
“A key private partner has been the Valentia Trans-Atlantic Cable Foundation, led by Leonard Hobbs, who has played a key role in fundraising and promotion of the project and Dr. Donard Cogan, Chairman of the Valentia-Hearts Content Technical Group, all who have given their time on the voluntary basis.
“I want to remember the late Anthony O’Connell of VIDCO who had spearheaded the project until his death in March 2019. This project has enjoyed cross-party support within Kerry County Council,” he said.
The World Heritage Site Tentative List is an inventory of natural and cultural heritage sites that may have potential to demonstrate Outstanding Universal Value and therefore considered suitable for nomination to the World Heritage List.
It is a pre-condition for nomination that a site must be on the Tentative List for at least one year before work can formally begin on a nomination dossier.
It is important to note that the nomination process does not necessarily result in the inscription of a site on the World Heritage List.
A site can be inscribed on the World Heritage List only if the World Heritage Committee determines it is of Outstanding Universal Value for all of humanity.
The Valentia Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble is one of three projects to make it onto the new Irish Tentative List which was last announced in 2010.
The focus now is to complete the works on the Cable Station and progress the application to the next stage which will involve further consultation with the local community, completion of the socio-economic plan, preparation of the joint management plan with Newfoundland/Canada and on the World Heritage nomination dossier, with the Department’s World Heritage Unit, for consideration by UNESCO in Paris. This may take at least five years to complete.
Placing the Valentia Trans-Atlantic Cable Ensemble on the Irish Tentative List for Word Heritage, following independent evaluation, signals that the project has outstanding universal value – the key UNESCO requirement – and merits consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage inscription.
Unlike Ireland’s other two World Heritage sites at Skellig Michael and Brú na Boinne, this is an industrial heritage site where people live and work and will continue to do so.
It will also be Ireland’s first trans-national World Heritage application and the Kerry team has been working for several years with its Canadian partners in Hearts Content and Newfoundland, at the western end of the cable, to progress the joint application. Hearts Content is already on the Canadian Tentative List.