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Family Solidarity Day Festival in aid of Palestine

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A Family Palestinian Solidarity Day Festival will take place on June 1 to raise funds for meal packages for displaced families in Gaza.

The event will take place at Spillane’s Bar in Headford and will begin at 2pm.
There will be Palestinian themed Art workshops for kids with Tracy from The Art House Killarney.

The Dingle Druid will perform a family inclusive, heart opening fire ceremony.

KASI will host a community style picnic table and will have African drummers performing on site.

Other activities include a bake sale, bouncing castles, food vendors, ice cream vans and face painting for all the kids, along with incredible musical performances and guest speakers to be announced closer to the event.

“Since late last year solidarity groups have been establishing themselves throughout the county with regular vigils for the people of Palestine now taking place once a week in almost every big town in the county, Tralee, Kenmare, Caherciveeen, Listowel, Killorglin and Killarney..” said organiser Sally McMonagle.

“Killarney for Palestine and Kerry Friends of Palestine have been proactive in fundraising and raising educational awareness for the plight of the Palestinians who are currently experiencing a genocide, forced famine and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli government.”

Killarney for Palestine meet every Sunday at 12pm outside the courthouse opposite the Friary and is open for everyone.

Last week hundreds of people gathered at the market cross for a memorial vigil to highlight the 14,000 innocent children brutally murdered.

The Procession walked silently down New Street accompanied by fiddle player Nicole Lonergan, to the unmarked children's famine grave in the grounds of the Cathedral.

The MacAcademy children’s drama group sang ‘True colours’ and local children walked on stage carrying images of some Palestinian children of the same age who lives were tragically cut short in this genocide.

Palestinian Poems were read by Dr John Geaney and Donal O’Riordan while Shinann Buckley O'Sullivan sang a heart breaking Irish lullaby accompanied by John Buckley on the uilleann pipes.

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How will our Kerry TDs vote tomorrow?

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Tomorrow, Sinn Féin will be tabling a motion of no confidence against the Government after the protests that took place nationwide during the week.

Earlier today we asked our readers how would they vote in a no confidence motion against the Government?

Most of our readers said they would vote no confidence, while some said, yes they do have confidence in the Government.

One reader said: “Vote confidence. The only proper leadership over the last few days came from government. Courage came when needed despite how unpopular it looked in the moment. By contrast, opposition politicians wanted the country to burn to suit themselves”.

Another reader stated: “No confidence. Shambolic and heavy handed handling of protests this past week”.

However, some people didn’t have any confidence in either side with a reader saying: “No confidence in the no confidence! Different wings of the same bird! We need a complete overhaul of the political system”.

We asked the question to our 5 Kerry TDs before lunch-time today, asking them what their vote will be tomorrow.

We received one reply from Sinn Féin’s Kerry TD Pa Daly.

He will be voting no confidence in the Government tomorrow along with his party.

Other media outlets are reporting that Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae is undecided at the moment.

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Town centre-based software firm marks two years in business

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A Killarney-based software company is celebrating two years in business since expanding into the European market.

QT9 Software Ltd, which is located on Bohereencaol was established in 2024 as part of the company’s move to better serve customers across Europe.

The business is part of a US-based company founded 20 years ago in Chicago by Brant Engelhart.

Its Irish office is headed by Killarney resident Angela O’Sullivan, who serves as Operations Director.

QT9 Software currently employs four full-time staff members in Killarney and plans to increase that number by an additional two this year.

The company provides quality management software to businesses worldwide, with the Irish office helping to support European customers within their own time zones.

As part of its continued European expansion, the software company also opened a new data center in Amsterdam in 2025 to meet data storage and compliance requirements.

QT9 Software works with businesses that must meet quality standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, as well as industry-specific regulations across sectors, such as automotive, aerospace, food and life sciences.

Speaking about the milestone, Angela O’Sullivan said: “We’re very proud to have grown QT9 Software here in Killarney over the past two years. It has been a really positive journey so far, and we’re looking forward to continuing to build our team and support more customers across Europe.”

The company is also currently recruiting for an IT Systems Administrator, with details available in the appointments section on page 46.

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