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Community Games goes virtual for 2021

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By Sean Moriarty

 

The arts and crafts section of Killarney Community Games is moving online this year and local organisers are calling for entries. Participants can enter via www.mycommunitygames.com for the seven categories including art, handwriting, model making, solo singing, solo dance, solo recitation and solo music.

While entrants will have to place their entries via the national portal, local Killarney judges will select regional winners who will go on to the Kerry County Final and eventually the National Finals.

“There was an attempt at this last year but it did not work out very successfully,” Killarney Community Games Chairperson Philip Gammell told the Killarney Advertiser. “It is better organised this year, so we will be able to go on to the national website and select local winners from there."

While this is the plan for the arts and crafts section of the Community Games, there is no further confirmation on a potential athletics competition taking place.

“There is some talk of trying to run a national final in the autumn, but it depends on a lot of things. Even if we get the go ahead, we would need to run Killarney finals in July with the Kerry finals in August to meet that,” he added. “Maybe it will happen for individual sports but I can't see it happening for team sports.”

Online entries for the arts and craft section must be submitted before May 5.

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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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