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Car run raises €25k for Jack and Jill Foundation

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By Sean Moriarty

Siobhan Reen, the Killarney Jack and Jill Foundation nurse, has praised a group of car enthusiasts who raised over €25,000 at the weekend.

Over 40 supercars took part in the Bumble 1000 road run. After setting off from Dublin on Friday morning the crews overnighted in Wexford and Cork before completing the run in Killarney.

The cars left Kinsale, County Cork on Sunday morning and travelled to the finish line at Killarney Racecourse via the Healy Pass and Moll’s Gap.

Hundreds of spectators waited at the Ross Road venue to see the cars cross the finish line where organisers PJ and Corina Harte told the Killarney Advertiser they had raised: “€25,000 up to this point and there is more to come in”.

Siobhan Reen is a member of the Rathmore Peugeot Garage family.
“I gave up the car trade to go nursing,” she told the Killarney Advertiser. “This means everything to the 396 families we help all over Ireland.”
The 40 supercars included three rare Lamborghinis said to be valued at over €350,000 each.

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Two Mary Immaculate College students win awards

Two Killarney students were honoured at the Mary Immaculate College Awards Ceremony in Limerick this week, with Dr Crokes footballer Leah McMahon and MIC Thurles student Setanta O’Callaghan both receiving […]

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Two Killarney students were honoured at the Mary Immaculate College Awards Ceremony in Limerick this week, with Dr Crokes footballer Leah McMahon and MIC Thurles student Setanta O’Callaghan both receiving prestigious college awards.

Leah McMahon, who is in her first year studying primary teaching, was presented with an MIC GAA Bursary Award. The bursary acknowledges her performances with Dr Crokes and Kerry Ladies Football, recognising her as one of the standout young players in the college.
Setanta O’Callaghan, received the Saint Bonaventure Trust Prize Year 1, awarded for academic excellence in Theology and Religious Studies on the Bachelor of Arts in Education programme in MIC Thurles. The award is presented to students who achieve top results in Years 1–3 of the course.
Both students were among 94 award recipients across MIC’s Limerick and Thurles campuses.
Professor Dermot Nestor, President of MIC, said the awards recognise the work and commitment shown by students across all areas of college life.

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Book on handball legend to be launched at The Sem

A new book by a Killarney priest will be officially launched at St Brendan’s College on Monday, December 9. Unbeatable – Fr Tom Jones, Handball Supremo will be launched at […]

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A new book by a Killarney priest will be officially launched at St Brendan’s College on Monday, December 9.

Unbeatable – Fr Tom Jones, Handball Supremo will be launched at 6pm in the college chapel.
The book, written by Fr Tom Looney charts the life of Fr Tom Jones, a past pupil of St Brendan’s who entered the school as both a World and National Handball Champion.
Jones later served as a priest in Ulster, Yorkshire, Australia and Kerry over a 54-year ministry. The biography describes his sporting achievements and his contribution to parish life at home and abroad.
Fr Kieran O’Brien, President of the Kerry Handball Association, will host the launch
Copies of the book, priced at €15, are available in the Cathedral Office, O’Connor’s on Beech Road and the Friary Bookshop.

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