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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 departments and ministers to get the best results for my area. Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD...

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 Local and Regional Authorities, a pan-European political assembly that represents over 200,000 authoriti...

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 quicker and the spread can be halted. TAGS

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 there is not enough capacity in Tralee to accommodate jury trials; the capacity of the circuit court ...

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 in schools is 3%, compared to 12% in the community. She says the intention is to follow public health...