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Aoife Thornton I am a 39 year old mother of three children. I am a member of Kerry County Council for the last 5 years and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. I am a solicitor for the last 15 years, advocating for clients in a private capacity. I am also a qualified Mediator. Both of these skills well equip me in my role as your public representative. I have never been afraid of hard work or difficult challenges. I have the skills and experience to negotiate with council management, national depa...

Cllr Jimmy Moloney (Fianna Fáil) Listowel area Kerry County Council Photo By Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD Tralee Co Kerry Ireland Mobile Phone : 00 353 87 26 72 033 Land Line : 00 353 66 71 22 981 E/Mail : [email protected] Web Site : www.dwalshphoto.ie ALL IMAGES ARE COVERED BY COPYRIGHT © A Kerry County Councillor has been appointed head of the Irish delegation to a European congress of local authorities. Cllr Jimmy Moloney will be the head of the Irish delegation at the Congress of Loca...

Additional test centres need to be opened following an outbreak of COVID-19 in Killorglin. That’s according to Fianna Fáil councillor Michael Cahill, who has reiterated his call for testing centres to be opened throughout Kerry. Cllr Cahill says people in some parts of the county have great difficulty attending the test centre in Tralee. He says people in all parts of Kerry should be catered for equally. Cllr Michael Cahill adds if access to testing was made easier, cases will be identified ...

The Minister for Justice says sentencing in criminal cases will be heard in Tralee Circuit Court. This was in response to a question from Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly, who’s condemned a lack of imagination and flexibility on the part of the Courts Service and the Department of Justice in relation to current operations in Tralee Courthouse. Following the onset of COVID-19, trials and sentencings in Tralee Circuit Court were moved to Limerick, to facilitate social distancing. The Courts Service says t...

Schools in the greater Killorglin area will not be closing early for Christmas. That’s according to the Minster for Education and Kerry Fianna Fáil TD Norma Foley, who was speaking following the closure of Scoil Mhuire on Wednesday evening due to a COVID-19 outbreak. There were calls yesterday for schools in and around Killorglin to close, due to the recent high prevalence of the disease in the area. Minister Foley claims schools are relatively safe, as the positivity rate from COVID tests i...

A Kerry County Councillor has criticised the Department of Justice for defending its management of the direct provision system during the pandemic. The departm...

And you know, what our future will probably be in terms of the need to cover this. >> yeah, and i mean, just in terms of the >> if it takes landfall thursday night, it could -- through the weekend, could be affecting people still in that area. >> thats the exact right point. people get such eye focus. when does the real big deal come? they dont understand the outer bands and those that come behind it with the eye are often the most destructive. thats what we saw with irma also. thats when they m...

Night, it could -- through the weekend, could be affecting people still in that area. >> thats the exact right point. people get such eye focus. when does the real big deal come? they dont understand the outer bands and those that come behind it with the eye are often the most destructive. thats what we saw with irma also. thats when they make the funky turns, once they hit the coastline like that one did. it supposed to go up the east coast. made a left. all of us had to scramble. thats what th...