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Hats off to Antonio who won swimming club design competition

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DESIGN: Antoni Waberski shows off his winning design for Killarney Swimming Club’s swimming hats.

By Sean Moriarty

Ballycasheen teenager Antoni Waberski has won Killarney Swimming Club’s art competition where club members were invited to design a new logo for their swimming hats. Antonio, who is in Sixth Class at St Oliver’s School, is a member of Killarney Swimming Club’s C-Squad.

With activities curtailed as result of COVID-19 restrictions the club wanted to do something to keep its members engaged in club life and came up with the ‘Design a Hat’ competition.

Antonio’s design will now feature on all club member’s training hats once activities resume.

“We are very proud,” his mother Aga told the Killarney Advertiser. “He has been very active, he is cycling and exercising every day and he practices his drum-kit a lot too. He has lots of stuff to do.”

Killarney Swimming Club’s Brian O’Connor said he was delighted with Antonio’s effort that he described as a “wonderful design”.

“Congratulations to Antonio, from our C Squad who has won our training hat competition with a wonderful design, full of movement and colour. This design will now go into production and our new training hat will be given to every club swimmer when we are all back training,” he told the Killarney Advertiser.

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Young entrepreneurs spot match-day business opportunity

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Two young local girls showed great business initiative on Saturday ahead of the Kerry v Donegal match at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Erin McSweeney and Jessie Doolin set up a sweet stall outside a house on Lewis Road, catching the thousands of football fans walking towards the grounds.

The enterprising pair did a busy trade selling soft drinks, sweets, and chocolates to the passing crowds before throw-in.

Their match-day venture also caught the attention of the national sports media, with a photograph of the girls at their stall captured by Sportsfile photographer Stephen McCarthy ahead of the game.

23 May 2026; Local vendors Erin McSweeney and Jessie Doolin, right, before the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1 match between Kerry and Donegal at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney, Kerry. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

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Conor Pass photo captures top spot in Camera Club competition

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Noel O’Neill has claimed first place in the Unrestricted category of the latest Killarney Camera Club competition, which focused on the theme of the ‘Kerry Landscape’.

His winning photograph, titled ‘Conor Pass Lake and the Three Sisters’, features a detailed study of Mullaghveal located beneath the Conor Pass.

The image captures the wide sweep of the valley, utilizing an elevated viewpoint that allows the glacial landscape to unfold toward the Atlantic horizon. The composition highlights the quiet lakes in the foreground against the dark, rocky slopes of the valley, with the distant outline of the Three Sisters adding further depth and scale to the scene.

The judges praised the photograph as an outstanding example of landscape work, noting its effective balance of composition, light, and perspective to capture the vastness of the West Kerry terrain.

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