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Festival to scale new heights
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THE inaugural Killarney Mountain Festival was launched from its “basecamp” at Killarney House and Gardens.
The Mayor of Killarney Municipal District Cllr Niall Kelleher unveiled details of the event which will run over the weekend of March 9-11 and is supported by Killarney Chamber of Tourism & Commerce and Kerry County Council.
Festival chairperson Maureen Hegarty confirmed the event would be run in close association and with the support of the hugely successful and renowned Kendal Mountain Festival in the UK. “It will celebrate, excite and inspire and will feature a multitude of exciting activities from adventure movies and documentaries, workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, competitions, family fun activities, cultural interest, sample and featured hikes, scrambles and climbs, musical entertainment, and inspiring guest speakers,” she said.
Cinema Killarney will be the main screening venue for a programme of mountain and Adventure films and photographic competition is already running on the Killarney Mountain Festival Facebook page, which is open to everyone.
A weekend programme of trekking our county’s magnificent mountains and valleys with Piaras Kelly of Kerry Climbing will also be part of adventure.
Guest speakers will include British mountaineers Stephen Venables and Andy Cave, and Scottish wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish.
Richard Hilliard, Killarney, who was one of the crew that rowed a currach from Derry to Iona in 1963 to mark the 1400th anniversary of St Columba’s same journey, will also give a very interesting presentation and historian and musician Thomas O’Sullivan will be another local speaker.
Above: Piaras Kelly, Kerry Climbing, Maeve McGrath, Maureen Hegarty, Chairperson, Killarney Mountain Festival, Mary Nash and Paul O’Neill, President, Killarney Chamber of Tourism & Commerce.
Pic: Valerie O'Sullivan
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