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Bridging loan to help Micro Track construction
MICRO TRACK: Tom Collins (Moloney Construction) and Jerry Griffin at the Killarney Micro Track construction launch with young club members of Killarney Valley Athletic Club. Also included are: Leonard Moran (Quantity Surveyor), John Hickey (Hickey Design & Associates), Linda Russell, Jean Courtney, Sean O'Sullivan (Chairman Kerry Community Games), Tom Doherty and Cathal O'Brien (Killarney Micro Track Chairman). Picture: Eamonn Keogh
By Sean Moriarty
Community loan finance group Clann Credo is the latest organisation to lend its support to the Killarney Micro Track project.
Construction is expected to start in June and last week Tom Collins of Moloney Construction signed the work contract with project officials.
The group behind the project are still a few thousand euros shy of the €480,000 total and will in the next few weeks launch a series of final fundraising drives to meet the shortfall including the raffling of a vintage tractor in association with the Killarney Valley Classic Vintage Club.
However, it will take some time to gather the remaining funds and construction would not be possible without Clann Credo steeping in with a bridging loan.
Clann Credo is a social enterprise that provides loans to community organisations, charities and social enterprises on terms and conditions that may not be available to them commercially.
“The group discussed in January, that partial construction to save on cost wouldn’t have been permitted by grant rules and abandoning of the project would have been an incredible disappointment,” Jeremiah Griffin, Project Coordinator, said.
“Then taking the courageous decision of building now was the only path to take. However, we need the support of the community to help raise the rest to continue.”
Construction will start on June 24 and is expected to be complete by early September.
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.
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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