Sunday 19 May 2013
THE family of former Kerry All-Ireland minor winning captain Robert Bunyan (pictured left) say the prayers of an entire community were answered this week as he emerged from a coma eight days after a serious accident.
AGRICULTURE Minister Simon Coveney's €1 million in relief funding for farmers has failed to make any great impression on the ICMSA whose Kerry chairman, Noel Murphy, said this week that the minister needs to come forward with more practical help to provide some level of relief.
A STUNNING and imposing 4/5-bed residence at Flemy, Ballymacelligott, is on the market with a guide price of €565,000.
THERE are fears for the future of up to 25 jobs in Kerry this week following the news that the movie, music and game rental and retail chain Xtra-vision has been placed in receivership.
MINK are laying waste to bird populations along the River Feale at a frightening rate, but concerned locals aren't taking it lying down and have launched a new trapping campaign to tackle the menace.
BETRAYAL is the overiding feeling among people living in the area of the Ballylongford landbank over the delay in the LNG gas terminal project as they issue an urgent appeal for action from politicians on the matter.
A YOUNG Entrepreneur from Rathmore was elected to the governing body of Fianna Fáíl at the party's Ard Fheis at the weekend.
DELEGATES at the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis in Dublin at the weekend passed a motion calling for the phased re-opening of traditional salmon drift netting fisheries, which was tabled by Dingle man Breandán Fitzgerald.
KERRY Chief Superintendent Pat O'Sullivan has assured residents in south Kerry that there continues to be a strong garda presence in the locality despite the abolition of Cahersiveen Garda District this week.
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Grazing conditions are poor, grass dry matters are low and regrowths are poor because of low temperatures.
KERRY'S fodder crisis was eased this week by the importation of hay from the UK and elsewhere in a response to the emergency co-ordinated by the IFA and Kerry Group.
FORMER Kerry minor All-Ireland winning captain Robert Bunyan is on the road to recovery after emerging from a coma on Friday following a massive fall at his home recently.
ALERT members of the gardaí prevented a tragic loss of life by safely evacuating three men from a burning house in Killorglin last week.
CLOUNMACON native Dianne Nolan (right) has been selected to take up the town council seat left in the sad passing of her Sinn Féin party colleague Anthony Curtin.
NO bank, no hotel, no petrol station and now only one shop - Tarbert is fearing the worst for its future as yet another premises closed its doors in the village at the weekend.
THE trial of a man accused of assaulting and later raping his then partner at her home in north Kerry two years ago has commenced at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee.
DELEGATES at the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis in Dublin at the weekend passed a motion calling for the phased re-opening of traditional salmon drift netting fisheries, which was tabled by Dingle man Breandán Fitzgerald.
THE family of former Kerry All-Ireland minor winning captain Robert Bunyan (pictured left) say the prayers of an entire community were answered this week as he emerged from a coma eight days after a serious accident.
AGRICULTURE Minister Simon Coveney's €1 million in relief funding for farmers has failed to make any great impression on the ICMSA whose Kerry chairman, Noel Murphy, said this week that the minister needs to come forward with more practical help to provide some level of relief.
NO bank, no hotel, no petrol station and now only one shop - Tarbert is fearing the worst for its future as yet another premises closed its doors in the village at the weekend.
Grazing conditions are poor, grass dry matters are low and regrowths are poor because of low temperatures.
KERRY'S fodder crisis was eased this week by the importation of hay from the UK and elsewhere in a response to the emergency co-ordinated by the IFA and Kerry Group.
CLOUNMACON native Dianne Nolan (right) has been selected to take up the town council seat left in the sad passing of her Sinn Féin party colleague Anthony Curtin.
THE trial of a man accused of assaulting and later raping his then partner at her home in north Kerry two years ago has commenced at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee.
VOCAL government critic Seán Counihan has been selected by party members to represent Labour in the seat vacated by Breeda Moynihan Cronin.
FOUR days later the planning began.
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THERE were no issues with the playability of pitches this time but Firies might well have hoped for some external intervention early in the second half as they found themselves on the end of a 10-point defeat to Cordal in Currow last Saturday with the victors fully deserving of their win from start to finish.
Cup Round-up
When the final whistle went in Sean Treacy Park a weight had certainly being lifted off William O'Sullivan's (pictured) back as he finally managed to get past the semi-final stage in this competition on his third attempt.
THE National League final in Croke Park usually means the start of the Gaelic Football season, even though the league games will have been going on since February. The form book will have been studied and, by and large, teams that reach the final stages of the league will be expected to go well in the championship.
THREE days of celebrating women in media. It had never been done before, so expectations were modest at best, but always hopeful.
MR: Tell us a bit about your background...
The late Martin Mulvihill
The late Eilish (Emperor) Walsh
The late Peggy Lanigan
ON Friday, May 10, the popular RTE cookery programme 'The Restaurant' will take on a Kerry 'flavour' with the hosting in the River Island Hotel here in Castleisland of a 'Mystery Celebrity Chef Night' hosted by East Kerry Reaching Out.
Dirty dancing, Topgun, Starwars and Indiana jones were the blockbusters, Bon jovi were living on a prayer, Dexys Midnight Runners wanted Eileen to come on and Duran Duran were hungry like a wolf. White tank tops and parachute pants and big plastic jewellery was considered radical.
It's difficult to escape the growing gloom regarding suicide in this county. South Kerry coroner Terence Casey spoke again last week about the truly frightening number of young men who are being lost to suicide.
THE Bog 2 Beach Adventure Challenge organisers were delighted with Saturday's inaugural event, blessed by sunshine and intense sporting action as it was.
WHEN Woody Allen escaped to Kerry from the world's media back in 1993, little did he know that he'd be tracked down by Kerryman photographer Michelle Cooper Galvin at his Kenmare hideaway and be persuaded to pose for pictures.
IT'S 20 years since I was in Tralee General for an endoscopy. They shoved a camera down my throat to look at my stomach. Okay, it wasn't that bad. They'd given me some meds, which had me grinning like a fool throughout.
In 1926 Coco Chanel stepped off the Duke of Wellington's yacht at Cannes and into the glare of awaiting cameras. The designer had spent too long in the sun accidentally, but because of her status it was interpreted as a fashion statement. For centuries until then, a pale skin was associated with the upper class and quite the fashion statement at the time, whereas brown shades spoke of outdoor labour and the working class. With the development of foreign tourism and the nod from Coco, a tanned skin stood for something very different, status and money.
IN a massive coup for organisers of this year's International Rally of the Lakes, the 2013 event has been selected as Round Four of the prestigious European Historics Rally Championship.
TWO young Cordal actors who won special awards at the Féile Drámaíochta in Castleisland this week for their hilarious impression of celebrity hoteliers Francis and John Brennan got the shock of their lives when none other than Francis Brennan himself turned up at their school on Tuesday!
AN exciting part of this weekend's Women in Media event concentrated on the up and coming young writers of the county, who took part in the inaugural children's writing competition sponsored by The Kerryman.
TRADITIONAL music lovers from across north KErry and west Limerick are set to descend on Abbeyfeale in their droves this weekend as the town plays host to the legendary Fleadh by the Feale.
IN a brand new dimension to this year's Cartell.ie International Rally of the Lakes, organisers are kicking off the celebrations with a special family event on Friday evening at Killarney's New Street Car Park.
WE are only days away from the inaugural 'Castleisland Town Festival & Carnival' to be held over the May Bank holiday weekend.
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