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Racecourse hosts historic first cycling event

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By Sean Moriarty 

 

The first ever cycle race event at Killarney Racecourse has been hailed an event with “massive potential”.

Killarney Cycling Club ran a round of the Munster Youth League on the racecourse’s ambulance track on Tuesday evening.

Young riders came from all over Munster with riders from Under-10 to Under-16 racing on the tarmac track that surrounds the racecourse.

The club’s primary motive to run the event at the racecourse was on safety grounds and by doing so they took road racing off the open public roads and into a safe and controlled environment.

“Our biggest issues are the safety plans and traffic management that is needed to run a road race,” chairman Mark Murphy told the Killarney Advertiser. “Parents don’t want their kids racing in events like this and without our youth, in 10 or 15 years we will have no future.”

The club hope to engage with racecourse management about the potential running of future events there.

As it stands, future youth races could continue at the venue, but the track is not wide enough for adult or national-level competitions.

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a road race once a month?” he added.

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Massive Park Road housing development given green light

A private developer has been given planning permission to build 249 new residential units at Upper Park Road. The development, which will be built on a recently cleared site near […]

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A private developer has been given planning permission to build 249 new residential units at Upper Park Road.

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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Ballydribeen residents living in fear due to anti-social behaviour

Residents in the Ballydribeen are living in fear as a result of increased anti-social behaviour in the estate. Several serious incidents in the estate have resulted in several Garda visits […]

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Residents in the Ballydribeen are living in fear as a result of increased anti-social behaviour in the estate.

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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