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Exciting times for Town Twinning Association
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The recent AGM of Killarney Town Twinning Association was held in Scotts Hotel last week. A good attendance saw Chairman Seán Counihan outline a very busy 2017. The highlight of the year was the granting of European citizen funding so the town of Pleinfeld could bring a large number of their citizens involved in organisations.
The night was attended by Minister Brendan Griffin and Seán Kelly MEP and the chairman also thanked the Mayor of the Municipal Authority Niall Kelliher, Angela McAllen and Kerry County Council for their help and providing a civic welcome. Mr Counihan outlined that there was interaction between the association with seven of our twinned towns and this led to quite a lot of visitations to our town.
Pleinfeld continues to grow its contact with Killarney and in April this year and again in September we will welcome two groups of thirty people, with a further trip planned for May 2019.
There will be an exciting trip for some local people as Killarney Celtic will travel to the Burgerfest in June and participate in a tournament which hopefully will grow to a festival of football in Killarney. A student exchange programme is also taking place between some students studying German in school and exchanges between rotary clubs is well under way.
The chairman informed the meeting that the association is now affiliated association with Scotsdale, Arizona and Casperia near Rome.
It was also confirmed that an application has been registered with the EU Citizens Programme to bring our very first twin town citizens of Castigilione to visit this year. The chair advised that funding remained a problem and thanked the group for their enthusiastic support.
The following officers were elected:
Chair: Seán Counihan
Vice Chair: Donal Grady
Secretary: Seán o Grady
Assist Secretary: Micheal O’Leary
Treasurers: Sheila Dickson & Niall O’Callaghan
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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