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Quiz Time for the Kenya Education Project

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The annual table quiz in aid of the Kenya Education Project takes place next Thursday night, April 12 in the Castlerosse Hotel at 8.30pm. Tables of four are available for €40 while juvenile tables are €20 each.

The Project helps young people in the slum village of Embulbul, Nairobi. At present 100 young people are sponsored to complete their primary and secondary education as their own family circumstances make it very difficult to meet the cost of books, uniforms and fees. This is the highest number ever of students sponsored by the Kenya Education Project.

Some past pupils of the school are also helped to continue their education and training by paying college fees as well as travel and subsistence allowences. To date the project has helped students to obtain training in childcare, secretarial, computing, journalism and social work which is a major boost to their families in their dream of obtaining a job to ease the financial burden on their families.

In recent years the Project has increased its work with families in the village through the local branch of SVDP. Needy families have received beds, blankets and household utensils to help ease the burden of poverty. Also the village feeding programme provides a hot meal each weekday evening for 100 needy children from the village. The Kenya Project helps to offset some of the costs of these monthly food bills for the parish.

The project continues to support sporting activities in the school and village by providing playing gear, footballs and training equipment to those involved in soccer, basketball and volleyball.

The support the Project continues to receive each year from the people of Killarney is encouraging and heartening and enables many young people to be helped and supported. All involved would like to everybody who has supported the Project to date

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How will our Kerry TDs vote tomorrow?

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Tomorrow, Sinn Féin will be tabling a motion of no confidence against the Government after the protests that took place nationwide during the week.

Earlier today we asked our readers how would they vote in a no confidence motion against the Government?

Most of our readers said they would vote no confidence, while some said, yes they do have confidence in the Government.

One reader said: “Vote confidence. The only proper leadership over the last few days came from government. Courage came when needed despite how unpopular it looked in the moment. By contrast, opposition politicians wanted the country to burn to suit themselves”.

Another reader stated: “No confidence. Shambolic and heavy handed handling of protests this past week”.

However, some people didn’t have any confidence in either side with a reader saying: “No confidence in the no confidence! Different wings of the same bird! We need a complete overhaul of the political system”.

We asked the question to our 5 Kerry TDs before lunch-time today, asking them what their vote will be tomorrow.

We received one reply from Sinn Féin’s Kerry TD Pa Daly.

He will be voting no confidence in the Government tomorrow along with his party.

Other media outlets are reporting that Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae is undecided at the moment.

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Town centre-based software firm marks two years in business

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A Killarney-based software company is celebrating two years in business since expanding into the European market.

QT9 Software Ltd, which is located on Bohereencaol was established in 2024 as part of the company’s move to better serve customers across Europe.

The business is part of a US-based company founded 20 years ago in Chicago by Brant Engelhart.

Its Irish office is headed by Killarney resident Angela O’Sullivan, who serves as Operations Director.

QT9 Software currently employs four full-time staff members in Killarney and plans to increase that number by an additional two this year.

The company provides quality management software to businesses worldwide, with the Irish office helping to support European customers within their own time zones.

As part of its continued European expansion, the software company also opened a new data center in Amsterdam in 2025 to meet data storage and compliance requirements.

QT9 Software works with businesses that must meet quality standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, as well as industry-specific regulations across sectors, such as automotive, aerospace, food and life sciences.

Speaking about the milestone, Angela O’Sullivan said: “We’re very proud to have grown QT9 Software here in Killarney over the past two years. It has been a really positive journey so far, and we’re looking forward to continuing to build our team and support more customers across Europe.”

The company is also currently recruiting for an IT Systems Administrator, with details available in the appointments section on page 46.

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