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Some people have had enough of being told how to lead their lives by doctors, either speaking to us directly or using politicians as mouthpieces. But doctors have earned this right during a pandemic. Medics are the people who have to look a patient with Covid-19 in the eye and tell them they’re unlikely to survive ventilation. I know a doctor who’s had to do this – and was proven correct. It’s not something you shrug off at the end of a shift. Medics have been at the frontline for most ...

A Private family funeral will take place for Margaret Peggy O’ Sullivan on Monday 21st December at 10.30 AM in St James Church Killorglin which will be live streamed on www.MCNMEDIA.TV/Camera/Killorglin-St-James-Church followed by burial in Dromavalla Cemetery Killorglin. No flowers please, donations if desired to Palliative Care Unit University Hospital Kerry. ***** Please use the condolences box below. Your condolences will not appear publicly immediately as comments are held for moderation...

The full effect of the COVID-19 outbreak in Mid Kerry isn’t reflected in the latest analysis of local electoral areas. This is according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, which has calculated the 14-day incidence rate of COVID-19 in all local electoral areas in the Republic. The analysis of cases is up to last Monday night. During the fortnight up to Monday night (14 th December), there were fewer than five cases of COVID-19 in four of the six Kerry local electoral areas. This mea...

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...

Long queues formed outside a Covid test centre last night after all 386 pupils, as well as staff, in a Co Kerry primary school were told they had to be checked for Covid-19. Gardaí were on site at the test centre in Tralee to deal with the increased volume of traffic. The mass testing came after a significant outbreak at Scoil Mhuire in Killorglin, where at least 20 cases have been confirmed, many from one classroom. More positive results are expected. The HSE has closed the school on public h...

“Normally you would see the cars zipping in and out but there wasn’t a car on the road. There was no movement. I went through the town a few hours later and it was dead and the businesses were more or less shuttered. It was soul-destroying.” In the close-knit community of Killorglin, Co Kerry, where a cluster of Covd-19 cases in the local school, Scoil Mhuire, is reportedly one of the biggest school outbreaks to date, the events of the past week have left locals reeling. “Everyone is ve...

Glen Evans’s son Colm is a pupil at Scoil Mhuire, Killorglin where all staff and 386 students have to be tested for COVID-19 because of an outbreak at the school. It’s a stressful time for families. He gives his views as to whether schools in mid-Kerry should close. He also has words of praise for the people of Killorglin during this testing time.

When Susan Moriarty drew the curtains in her home at around 8.30am yesterday her eyes were met with a disquieting scene. It was time for the school-run, when the main road into the small estate where she lives would normally be busy with carloads of children being ferried to school. Overnight, it seemed, something had dramatically changed everything. “It was like ghost estate,” she told the Irish Independent. “Normally you would see the cars zipping in and out but there wasn’t a car o...

At the start of the programme, Jerry reads an editorial in the Irish Examiner about the shameful treatment of Abbeydorney woman Joanne Hayes and her family. He reads an email from a listener who waited in a long queue in Tralee for a COVID-19 test. Her child attends Scoil Mhuire in Killorglin where there has been an outbreak. Jerry then speaks to Education Minister Norma Foley about these issues and also the likelihood that hotels, restaurants and gastropubs will have to close by the end of Dec...

THE father of a child who is among up to 19 pupils who tested positive for Covid-19 at a Kerry primary school has spoken of his son’s fear over infecting his elderly grandmother. Glen Evans, whose son Colm is in sixth class at Scoil Mhuire in Killorglin, a mixed primary school with 386 pupils, said the 12-year-old tested positive on Monday after one of his classmates contracted the virus. His first thoughts were about how much of a risk he would pose to his 87-year-old grandmother, who lives ...