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Killarney looking good for St Patrick’s festival
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Plans are well underway for this years St Patrick’s Festival Cill Airne. This year’s theme, which was announced last week in the Killarney Advertiser, is ‘Killarney You’re Looking Good’, a celebration of 60 years of the National Tidy Towns competition.
The committee, under the auspices of the Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce, have been busy behind the scenes putting together a fun-packed family festival for visitors and locals alike. Of course, the highlight is the St Patrick’s Day parade which this year will commence from Mission Road taking in East Avenue Road, College Street, Plunkett Street, Main Street, New Street and finishing at Beech Road car park. The parade will start at 2pm sharp and we are promised plenty of entertainment and audience participation along the route.
As in previous years, the progressive committee will be “greening” Killarney with local landmarks going green for the weekend. The public will have the final say on the most attractive “greened” building or landmark.
Voluntary Chairperson Paul Sherry said: “We are calling on all clubs, associations, businesses and voluntary groups to get your thinking caps on, open your minds and get the creative juices flowing. You have heard it a million times and more, ‘there is no place like Killarney’. Let’s illustrate this to the world and join us on St Patrick’s Day.”
Application forms for the parade are included in this week’s Killarney Advertiser and are also available from the Town Hall and Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce offices.
More details to follow in the coming weeks including the Grand Marshall announcement, entertainment details and competitions.
Pic: Valerie O'Sullivan.
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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