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Hotel staff awarded for their hard work

By Michelle Crean
Not only did they enjoy a well deserved evening out together after a busy festive season, but employees from two Killarney hotels were also awarded for their dedication to their jobs.
A wonderful night was had by all from the hard-working teams of the Great Southern and Killarney Royal who celebrated their annual employee awards evenings.
Management from the hotels took the opportunity to mark the occasion with long service and customer service excellence awards presented on the night.
The Killarney Royal awards were held in The Tan Yard in the Killarney Plaza, with the Great Southern awards held in Hilliards.
The Great Southern event saw a number of awards presented, including Employee of the Year which went to Pal Palfi, who has also been nominated in the IHF Kerry Branch Employee of the Year awards.
Manager of the Year went to Áine McMahon, Reservations Manager at the Great Southern. Other winners on the night included Olga O’Donoghue, Damian Ciupka, Sharyaar Akhtar with Department of the Year awarded to the Conference & Banqueting team.
The Killarney Royal event saw awards go to Employee of the Year, Ellie Roche, with other awards going to Tara Watters, Dominika Repinska, Franco Mario, Fred Bastable, Tetiana Poshka and Rachel Leech.
Long service awards were also presented on the evening with Nuala Doolan celebrating an amazing 30 years and Michael Cronin celebrating 15 years with the company.
“We were delighted to welcome our team members in a relaxed and casual atmosphere to celebrate together," Hayfield Family Collection Managing Director, Michael Jacobi, said.
"We are privileged to operate three beautiful hotels but it is the staff in the hotels that really make the difference! Our staff parties are a great opportunity to thank every single one of our colleagues for their hard work and for the incredible hospitality they provide to our guests. After a challenging but successful 2022 we are now looking forward to creating more memorable experiences in 2023.”
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The development, which will be built on a recently cleared site near An Post’s sorting office, will include a variety of properties from five-bed houses to single apartments, along with a crèche and over 500 car spaces and over 300 bike spaces.
The development has been welcomed by local councillor Martin Grady.
“Killarney has a massive housing shortage so this is very positive. It will retain young families in the area, stimulating economic growth,” he said. “After 17 years of different planning applications it’s finally coming to fruition.”
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Several serious incidents in the estate have resulted in several Garda visits in the last week.
Local councillor Martin Grady told the Killarney Advertiser that residents are “living in fear” as a result of very serious incidents in the last week alone.
One house in the estate was badly damaged when fire crackers were placed inside a letter box.
Another house had its windows smashed in over the weekend.
“It’s a major problem,” added Grady after meeting residents there earlier this week.
One of the most serious incidents occurred on Tuesday night.
A passing motorists had rocks thrown at his car while driving along the bypass whch is adjacent to the estate.
Taking to social media, local primary-school teacher Pádraig O’Sullivan posted:
“Travelling home tonight, at 11.05pm on the Killarney side of the bypass our car was hit by a rock – not a pebble – from the Ballydribben side , which hit the passenger door.
“It was centimetres away from hitting the window where my father, who is visually impaired, was sitting.
“This could have caused catastrophic permanent injury to him.
“The Killarney Garda were on the scene within three minutes.
“They can’t be patrolling the bypass all night.
“It comes down to parenting. You should know where your children are at this hour and be able to teach them what’s funny and what ruin a person’s life or cause a fatal crash.“
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