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Fires out but BBQs continue
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Photo: Valerie O'Sullivan
By Michelle Crean
The heroes who worked tirelessly to save homes, buildings, animals and woodlands for three exhausting days with little or no rest didn't get much time to catch up on sleep as they were again called out to fires - right next to the burnt land.
On Monday evening at around 4pm as fire crews were checking hotspots to prevent them from reigniting they were told about people lighting BBQs in the area.
Killarney Station Officer Paudie Mangan was at Ladies View where they had set up a command centre when he was stopped by a cyclist who told him a couple had lit a BBQ nearby.
"I said I'd do a quick loop and I was stopped by a cyclist who told me a couple had lit a BBQ and I asked them to put it out which they did."
On Wednesday while checking hotspots in Dinis which began to flair again, a woman told Paudie about a man who had pulled in on a boat and had lit a fire 500 yards from what was burnt.
He added that attending some of the fires was made harder by the crowds of people who came to see what was happening at the weekend.
He said that moving fire appliances in that particular area where roads are narrow with steep bends was made "extremely difficult".
It was "pandemonium" and the Gardai had to be called in, he explained.
Later the fire crews closed the roads themselves as a second crowd gathered which was "impeding them" from doing their job.
"It's a danger and it completely slows us down."
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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