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Killarney drivers join supercar Cannonball event

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LUNCH STOP: Gio Gaudino with Padraig McGillicuddy at the Ballygarry Hotel on Saturday afternoon.

“What am I going to do next weekend?” joked Colin O’Donoghue as he steered a Porsche Panamera Sport away from the Ballygarry House Hotel on Saturday evening.

ON THE RUN: Brian and Kieran Glover with their Nissan Skyline R-35 at the Ballygarry Hotel lunch halt on Saturday.

CANNONBALL: Ken O’Neill and Liam Murphy took part in the Cannonball Run last weekend.

PORSCHE: Colin O’Donoghue drove Tadgh O’Sullivan’s Porsche on the charity run.

Fresh from his previous weekend’s rally success in Belgium, O’Donoghue and his future father-in-law, Killarney garage owner Tadgh O’Sullivan, were taking part in their first Cannonball Run in Tadgh’s Porsche.

“Where else would see such a collection of these cars in the one place?” said Tadgh.

Cannonball, the action-packed supercar spectacle, arrived in Kerry on Saturday morning.

After an overnight halt in Cork, the one hundred or so supercars made their way to a lunch stop at the Tralee hotel before completing leg-two in Galway later that day.

The cars and their drivers, many of them in fancy dress, took in Kenmare, Moll’s Gap and Killarney before the lunch-stop. They departed Tralee and headed for the Shannon Ferry at Tarbert, under a Garda escort, via Listowel.

The O’Sullivan/O’Donoghue Porsche was just one of several local cars entered in the event that raises funds for the HOPE Foundation.

Killarney garage owner Brian Glover of BG Motors on the Tralee Road, and his brother Kieran were another local team in the road-run. They drove a Nissan Skyline R-35 on the three-day event that eventually finished in Belfast on Sunday night.

“It is an unreal buzz,” said Brian. “Young and old love it and we got an unreal welcome in every town we pass through.”

A similar car was driven by Ken O’Neill of O’Neill’s Power Tools in Milltown and Tralee. The cancellation of the exhibition element of the National Ploughing Championships, due to Coronavirus restrictions, allowed the long-time car enthusiast to participate in the event for the first time.

“The two events always clash and we would be too busy at the ploughing,” he said.

Tralee garage man Gio Gaudino drove a Mercedes C-Class V8 Bi-Turbo in the event.

“It is great to do something for charity, the target is €120,000 and they will do it,” he said.

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The West End House School of Arts is delighted to take part in this year’s St Patrick’s Day Festival with a special evening of entertaining readings on Friday, March 13 at 7.30pm.

It promises to be a vibrant showcase of five original 10-minute plays written by emerging local playwrights, each of whom has recently completed a playwriting course with Fiona Doyle (pictured).


Diverse in style and subject matter, these beautifully crafted pieces promise an evening of laughter, tears, and powerful storytelling and each reading will be performed by West End House actors from Kerry.


Together, they highlight the remarkable talent of these up-and-coming writers and actors, who are the future of theatre in our community.

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Get your scrap together

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Following the success of the first ever Killarney Lions Club scrap metal collection in 2025, the Club will again run the event this year in partnership with KWD Recycling on March 28, at Killarney Racecourse.

Similar to 2025, money raised through recycling the metal will go towards improving facilities for families attending the children’s cancer unit in Cork University Hospital, as part of an overall fundraising drive being coordinated by Lions Clubs all over Munster.

The Club is asking people to bring non-ferrous scrap metals such as aluminium, copper, brass, zinc and stainless steel (no white goods such as fridges/cookers washing machines). Volunteers will be on hand from 9am until 4pm to take donations of scrap and work with KWD Recycling to remove it for processing.

“Although Lions Clubs in Munster have already raised some funds for CUH, more is still needed, so we’re delighted that KWD Recycling is working with us again to support this very worthwhile cause”, said Jason Higgins, President of Killarney Lions Club. “We’re asking anyone who has scrap metal at home, at work or on the farm now or in the next few weeks to please bring it to the Racecourse on the day because everything we collect will make a difference.”

Tadhg Healy, Sales Manager at KWD Recycling added that “We will recycle any high quality scrap metal that we collect – it can be quite valuable and of course it’s better for the environment if it’s recycled instead of being dumped. On top of that, the main thing with this collection is to help families of children with cancer, so hopefully we’ll get a good response from everyone and raise as much money as possible through this event”.

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