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Students click the shutter for 2022 charity calendar

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CREATING: Teacher Lorraine Crowley and student Lauren Fleming from Killarney Community College pictured creating photos for the 2022 charity calendar.

By Michelle Crean

 

Students are putting their creativity to the test by capturing images under various themes as a fundraiser for their school and a local charity.

Inspired by their teacher Lorraine Crowley, who has a passion for photography, and organised with the Parents Council of Killarney Community College, First to Sixth Year students, as well incoming First Year students, are being encouraged to click the shutter to capture a different theme every month.

Lorraine will then put together a display of photographs from each theme, from each year group per month and the calendar will be designed and published over the summer ready to go on sale in the autumn.

After developing an interest in photography in 2016, Lorraine has experience in creating her own calendar for charities in her local area.

In December 2018, a neighbour of Lorraine's, John Eagle, passed away from cancer. John was a local photographer in the Beara Peninsula and was known widely around the country. Before he passed away, he asked Lorraine to continue his calendar and so she did. Between her calendar for 2020 and 2021, she has raised almost €8,000 for St Joseph's Hospital, Castletownbere and Cancer Connect, two charities that were close to John's heart.

"From experience, it is important that the photographs for each month of the year in the calendar need to illustrate that month," Lorraine said.

"So, together with the Parents Council, we decided to give the students a different theme every month this school year from December to May for the calendar next year. The Transition Years helped me to pick the themes to give to the students."

The students are given two themes every month such as 'sparkle', 'water', 'frost', 'winter landscape', 'red and pink', 'living lockdown', 'springtime', 'green', 'clouds', 'flowers' etc. These are to encourage the students to reflect their own perception of the theme in a photograph, she explained.

"During lockdown this was a great task for us to get us out and about in the fresh air and be in nature. It is great excitement to get the themes every month," added student Jack Ryan Brain.

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Chamber’s emphasis on cyber security

  Businesses in Killarney have been fully briefed on what measures they need to taketo ensure greater cyber security to protect their companies. Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce hosted […]

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Businesses in Killarney have been fully briefed on what measures they need to take
to ensure greater cyber security to protect their companies.

Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce hosted a very informative breakfast
briefing in the International Hotel at which they keynote speakers were cyber security
experts Mike Dennehy and Ger McAuliffe from progressive local company Tricel.
The opening question at the event was how will a business operate tomorrow if it
loses access to its data today?
Mike and Ger recommended that all employers to include IT training as part of the
induction programme for new entrants, organise monthly awareness training for all
employees and to conduct monthly spot-checks to ensure everything is going
according to plan.
It was essential, they pointed out not to give the same level of access to all
employees to reduce risk and to devise a disaster recovery plan in case it is needed.
Companies have also been advised not to allow the public to use their private wi-fi
network and, instead, to set up a public or guest network.
Chamber thanked the experts from Tricel for their engaging talk which certainly put
the spotlight very firmly on the need to enhance cyber security measures.

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Win tickets for Killarney for Palestine sold-out INEC show

Killarney for Palestine has announced a fundraising competition that will give Killarney Advertiser readers a chance to win two tickets to the sold-out Night for Palestine concert in the INEC […]

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Killarney for Palestine has announced a fundraising competition that will give Killarney Advertiser readers a chance to win two tickets to the sold-out Night for Palestine concert in the INEC on December 19.

The event, which features Amble, Beoga and Clare Sands, has already reached full capacity, but the group is offering two tickets along with a €250 Gleneagle Hotel Group voucher, which can also be used at the Brehon.
To enter, supporters are asked to make a minimum €5 donation to the group’s Chuffed campaign, which is raising funds for urgent medical support for a displaced family in Gaza.

The link to the campaign is:

http://chuffed.org/project/154575-urgent-medical-relief-for-mohammad-basyouni-his-kids

After donating, entrants must email proof of donation to:
killarneyforpalestine@yahoo.com
The competition runs on the group’s Instagram page @killarneyforpalestine, where full instructions are listed. A winner will be chosen at random and announced on November 29.
Killarney for Palestine says all proceeds from the INEC event will support Aclaí Palestine, a community gym based in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem.

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