What happened in Kerry this week
It could be Sunday before weather conditions will allow salvage and pollution experts to access a fishing trawler that was driven aground on rocks near Dingle on Sunday.
Two hundred miles in 68-and-a-half hours - a Tralee runner’s stunning performance at the weekend has brought her top honours in one of the UK’s toughest ultra-endurance events.
Well-known Castleisland and Killarney business woman Patricia (Pat) Keane O’Connor is being remembered this week as a warm and generous woman, who gave many young people their first job and was a great supporter of community events in both towns.
A new club history book chronicling more than 130 years of local GAA history in Tralee will be officially launched in February.
After a career spanning four decades, Currow National School principal Margaret Hanafin will hand over the reins this week, though her presence will still be felt at the school, where her daughter continues to teach.
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We're getting Christmas sorted!
The An Post Sorting Office in Tralee is operating at full pace in the final run-up to Christmas, with postal workers delivering cards, parcels and gifts all the way up to Christmas Eve.
At the centre of the operation are the An Post Team Leaders. Team Working Leader John Payne was overseeing work at the new Monavalley Sorting Office this week where the operation has changed significantly in the past year.
“This year is different,” John said. “We have all the post offices amalgamated into one here now and it’s a massive operation.
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Sarah wins 200-mile UK epic
Two hundred miles in 68-and-a-half hours - a Tralee runner’s stunning performance at the weekend has brought her top honours in one of the UK’s toughest ultra-endurance events.
Sarah Enright is now back on Irish soil after her epic achievement in which she was the first woman home in the Centurion Running Winter Downs 200.
The 41-year-old, Offaly-based vet crossed the finish line at around 4am on Saturday morning - her official time was 68:29:40 - well inside the race’s 96-hour cut-off time.
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Tarbert students shave best for cancer cause
The halls of Tarbert Comprehensive Secondary School were buzzing during a fundraising event when a local lad shaved teachers’ and fellow students’ heads and raised over €25,000 forMid Western Cancer Care.
Tommy Sheehan, from Glin, decided to use his skills for hair cutting for a great cause –but more importantly, the 15-year-old wanted to raise awareness following his dad David’s cancer diagnosis this year.
For just over two weeks, the Tarbert Comp student spread word of his head shaves –with teachers volunteering to have their heads and beards shaved in exchange for donations.
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New hope for Ardfert post office
A formal expression of interest has been lodged with An Post to take over the running of Ardfert Post Office –a significant step forward in efforts to retain the service in the village.
The development was confirmed to Kerry County Councillor Mikey Sheehy by An Post chief executive Angus Laverty earlier this week, following the closing date for applications last Monday.
An Post has confirmed that there has been active interest from one applicant, and that discussions are now under way.
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‘First-of-its-kind’ cookery project at MTU
MTU has been piloting a unique new project that brought together First Years studying Social Care and students with intellectual disabilities for a first-of-its-kind initiative to enhance students’ cookery skills for life.
The new, novel interdisciplinary education initiative first started at the beginning of the academic year last September.
Linking in with MTU’s Healthy Campus Initiative, lecturers Roisin McKenna, Pat McGarty and Karen Weekes, from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, teamed up with colleagues TJ O’Connor and Mark Murphy, from the Department of Hotel, Culinary Arts & Tourism. They all worked together to design the initiative which equips future social care professionals with the practical skills needed to prepare healthy, nutritious meals - both for themselves and for social care service users who they will be supporting in their future careers.
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School bell rings for Margaret
After a career spanning four decades, Currow National School principal Margaret Hanafin will hand over the reins this week, though her presence will still be felt at the school, where her daughter continues to teach.
A native of Currow, Margaret returned to Kerry in 1990 after spending seven years teaching Sixth Class in County Offaly in her first teaching post following her graduation from Froebel College of Education in Dublin.
In Currow National School,Margaret taught every age group, beginning with Junior Infants, and she spent 21 years as a classroom teacher before becoming teaching principal in 2004, a role she has held ever since.
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