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Jordan to turn his attention to Paris and Los Angeles
By Sean Moriarty
Jordan Lee - who is due back in Killarney this Sunday - says he'll use Tokyo as a learning experience for future Paralympics after missing out on a medal in the High Jump final.
The Killarney high jumper finished ninth after three unsuccessful attempts at 1m 79cm on Sunday last.
The 20-year-old cleared 1m 74cm in his first round but bowed out as the T47 high jump event progressed.
It was a long way off his personal best of 1m 97cm but his long term target is success in the Paris and Los Angeles Paralympics of 2024 and 2028.
“I was very disappointed in my performance, it was below par,” he told the Killarney Advertiser. “It just did not come together at all. But my main target is Paris and Los Angelus.”
“I am delighted to be coming home to Killarney as an Olympian,” he added.
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Meanwhile his coach Tomas Griffin remained very modest despite helping sprinter Jason Smyth to a sixth gold medal in the 100 metres on Sunday.
Griffin was drafted in to coach Smyth in the run up to his final because Smyth’s team were unable to travel due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“Jason’s success cannot be attributed to me as he has his own coaching team back home and I was only bridging a gap while here,” Tomas told the Killarney Advertiser.
This Culture Night, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh will present an hour-long live music and arts programme from Dún Lúiche in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht at 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
Actress and singer Jessie Buckley has been added to the list of stellar musicians who will perform with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on the night. Jessie will perform a special rendition of a Sinéad O’Connor song in tribute to the late artist.
Jessie commented: “I am very honoured to return to Culture Night 2023 to remember Sinéad O Connor with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sinéad was such a huge influence on so many women in Ireland and across the world, her courage, her mind, her politics and her intense beauty and soul. She was a warrior to humanity. I remember hearing her for the first time and feeling her uncompromising need to connect and affect. Recognising what couldn’t be said and speaking it out loud. I am so grateful for all her fire and all her love. It is such a privilege to return to Ireland for RTÉ Culture Night in Donegal to sing a song of gratitude for Sinéad and her family and friends.”
Other artists performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra include The Murder Capital, R&B singer and 2FM Rising star Aby Coulibaly and Irish-based Ukrainian musician Olesya Zdorovetska.
Friday 22nd September, 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player
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N22 Killarney to Faranfore road further delayed
The revealing of the preferred route corridor for the construction of the new Killarney to Farranfore road has been delayed – again. Four potential routes for the N22 Farranfore-Killarney project […]
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Four potential routes for the N22 Farranfore-Killarney project were identified and were put out to public consultation in May 2021. These have now been whittled down to just one.
It was previously promised that the preferred route would be published late last year.
This dragged on in to the Spring and there is still no sigh of the preferred route being revealed.
A recent Kerry County Council meeting a council official explained that there are further funding requirements to allow the council complete various reports and investigations required before the road can move to its next phase.
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