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Spring clean your home before putting it up for sale
By Ted Healy of DNG TED HEALY
Those rays of evening sunshine, while welcome, can show up lingering surface dust and highlight other tasks within the home that may need attention especially if you have, or are about to, put your home up for sale.
Where to start?
The trick is to start slowly, maybe on a weekend afternoon, and ideally share out tasks among family members, giving them a deadline for completion.
Over the next few weeks we will look at specific areas, both inside the home and out, which may need attention and ways of refreshing those areas. This week we will start with the floors.
Our carpets, rugs and timber floors can be magnets for dust collection.
On a fine dry day the rugs can be taken outside, hung over a wall or line and beaten using a broom handle, the old-fashioned way, to give them a low-environmental impact spruce up. It may be an idea to wear a mask and don’t leave out overnight or in the wet. Regular vacuuming prevents dust settling.
When it comes to cleaning carpets you can hire an industrial machine or call in a professional carpet cleaning company. Your carpets will be like new!
Solid timber floors can be rejuvenated with a simple sanding and varnish/staining. Depending on the thickness of the board, they can scrub up as new with a little work. Oiling/staining will give that new finished look.
If a full sanding is not required, small scuffs/blemishes can be gently rubbed out using a small amount of Cif soaked into a cloth.
This is enough to get started with before moving onto the bigger jobs within the house and then tackling the outside.
Local hospitality nominated for Good Food Ireland awards
Several Killarney hotels and restaurants have been shortlisted for the Good Food Ireland 20th Anniversary Awards 2026.
The annual awards recognise businesses that feature Irish food and drink as part of their visitor service.
In the luxury accommodation categories, Muckross Park Hotel and The Europe Hotel and Resort have both received nominations for 5 Star Irish Hospitality Experience of the Year and Hotel Restaurant Experience of the Year.
In the town centre, The Mad Monk has been shortlisted for Best Irish Seafood Experience.
The Brehon Hotel has been named a finalist in the Wild Atlantic Way category.
And the Kerry Creamery Experience has also been nominated for the Irish Culinary Tourism Innovation Award for its work showcasing local dairy heritage.
The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony at the InterContinental Dublin on Monday, November 16
Holy Cross Mercy announces return of Memory Tree initiative
Holy Cross Mercy National School has announced details for its 2026 Killarney Memory Tree, the annual Christmas fundraising hosted at the New Road school.
The initiative offers local residents the opportunity to purchase lights on the tree to commemorate loved ones over the festive season.
The official switch-on ceremony takes place at the school on Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm. Fr Seán Murphy will lead prayers, accompanied by festive carols by candlelight.
A special mass for all those commemorated on the tree will be celebrated in St Mary’s Cathedral on Thursday, December 17 at 1pm. The service will be open to the public and streamed online via the Killarney Parish website.
The Memory Tree will remain lit each evening until January 6, the feast of the Epiphany.
Lights can be purchased directly from the pupils, staff, or the school office at Holy Cross Mercy National School on New Road, with all proceeds going towards school development.
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