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Rowing fundraiser for local girl to go live this evening
ROWING FOR FUNDS: Members of Flesk Valley Rowing Club will this evening take on a major challenge to fundraise for a local girl. Pictured were: Tadhg Kelly (Snr Trainer), Karol Kelly (PRO), Neil Horgan (Committee Member) and Colm O Suilleabháin (Treasurer). Photo: Michelle Crean
By Michelle Crean
With a €2,000 target in their sights - the men of of Flesk Valley Rowing Club are up for a mammoth charity half-marathon challenge from 6pm this evening (Friday). Members of the club, 15 in total, are determined to hit their fundraising target to help a four-year-old Killarney girl.
The lads will be rowing individually on machines in their kitchens, bedrooms, attics and sheds, but together online aiming to cover 300km.
Members plan to begin live online via the Flesk Valley Rowing Club's Facebook page and while that's ongoing they're hoping to get public support behind them donating to the GoFundMe site which has already raised over €1,800.
The campaign is in support of local girl Alexis O’Mahony (4) who suffers with the rare primary metabolic condition Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, and requires 24hr physical and intellectual care.
One of the organisers Donal Kelly said the funds will hopefully help purchase a specialised physio table for her needs.
"We had a number of machines in the club which we distributed last year," Donal told the Killarney Advertiser this week.
"When we were training we got the notion to aim for a half marathon and when we were talking my brother Tadhg suggested doing it for Alexis. We got in touch with Pam Tracey and we went from there. I'd be hoping that we get over €2,000."
To donate go to GoFundMe: Rowing 300km for Alexis and to watch live this evening go to their Facebook page: Flesk Valley Rowing Club.
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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