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Sarajevo calling for Killarney filmmakers

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IT WAS the venue for a hugely popular outdoor showing of movie classic Back to the Future last week and now Killarney House & Gardens is itself taking a starring role on the silver screen. Killarney filmmakers Dennis Earlie and Noreen Bingham are poised to walk the red carpet at an international film festival thanks to their short film Killarney House & Gardens - The Urban Secret Garden.

The engaging movie short highlights the work the National Parks & Wildlife Services have done to restore the gardens and house to their former glory. The film been chosen to feature at the forthcoming VIVA Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The short compiled by Dennis and Noreen of RSAM Productions is one of 24 shorts that have been selected to contest the tourism category of the festival’s competition in September. "The VIVA Film Festival focuses on domestic and international competitive films celebrating artistic achievements in the field of documentary film and video," said Noreen. "The four categories are ecology, tourism, religion and youth."

This year 1,600 films submitted to the festival with 105 being selected of which 24 are in the tourism section. "Competing in this section are films from USA, UK, Russia, China, Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Romania, Poland, Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ireland," said Dennis.
 


 
Above: Killarney House and Gardens, Killarney National Park. PICTURE: VALERIE O'SULLIVAN

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Dromhall team takes top spot at Crokes Golf Classic

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The annual Dr Crokes GAA Club Golf Classic proved to be another major success last weekend, drawing 64 teams to Killarney’s Mahony’s Point course over two days of competition.


The Dromhall Hotel team of John Brosnan, Mike Dwyer, Shane Kelly, and Ger O’Meara took first place. Second place went to the O’Carroll Engineering team of Anthony O’Mahony, John O’Driscoll, Derek McAllister, and Michael O’Sullivan.
Third place went to the Quills team (Vincent Casey, Colm O’Brien, Evy O’Brien, and Donie Buckley), while Diarmuid O’Carroll Electrical (Mark O’Carroll, Brian McCarthy, Ben Kelliher, and Luke O’Shea) finished fourth.
Rounding out the top positions were Fexco in fifth (Andrew McCarthy, Ivo O’Sullivan, Ross Brosnan, and Niall O’Shea), Money Maximising Advisors in sixth (John Lenihan, Michael Lenihan, Des McCarthy, and Peter Bellew), and The Gleneagle Hotel in seventh (Patrick O’Donoghue, Mike McAuliffe, Margaret Gill, and T Buckley).
Raffle prize winners on the night were David Cotter (1st), Eugene Browne (2nd), Donal Brosnan (3rd), and Colm Murphy (4th).
The prize presentation took place at Charlie Foley’s Bar on Friday night, with sponsor Colm Foley handing over the honours. Dr Crokes expressed thanks to all who entered teams, sponsored tee boxes, and donated prizes, as well as Colin Finlay and the team at Killarney Golf Club for the superb condition of the course.

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Let us all get behind Sarah Leahy

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The whole town is backing Sarah


Killarney Valley AC star Sarah Leahy poses for a portrait during the Athletics Ireland European Championships team day at the Sport Ireland Institute in Dublin.


The entire town of Killarney will be behind their local sprinter as she takes to the track in Birmingham next Thursday for the European Track and Field Championships.
This marks Sarah’s first time competing at the European Championships and her third major international tournament representing Ireland, following appearances at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, and the World Relays in Botswana. Photo: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile.

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