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kerry / environment Monday August 26, 2019 - 21:15 by foie
Kenmare River mussel expansion will damage biodiversity New Government Report ( https://www.npws.ie/publications/article-17-reports/article-17-reports-2019 ) to EU records damage from mussel longline cultivation in West cork. A report released this week from Ireland to the EU detailing damage done to valuable protected habitats in Ireland through mussel line cultivation has been cited in an objection to new 3 km long mussel longlines proposed for the Kenmare River, a Special Area of Conservation Natura 2000 Site. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / racism & migration related issues Friday January 21, 2011 - 20:33 by Tuli
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Asylum seekers in Tralee are concerned with the following denials of basic human rights. ... read full story / add a comment 
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 22, 2010 - 11:58 by Brendan Guilfoyle
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Deputy Jackie Healy Rae has told public service workers that he is powerless to prevent further cuts to services in Kerry. Healy Rae made the comments to 65 members of the Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance (KPSWA) who protested at his constituency clinic in Killarney on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment 
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 11:01 by Brendan Guilfoyle
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A Kerry North Fianna Fail TD has told public servants that there will be further cuts in the public service if they choose to vote for any alternative candidates in the next general election (audio clips below). Deputy Tom McEllistrim made the comments during his address to members of the Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance who picketed his Tralee constituency clinic on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / miscellaneous Friday October 23, 2009 - 12:10 by North Kerry Sinn Féin
North Kerry Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris and Tralee Town Councillor Cathal Foley have issued a warning to hotel and pub owners to be weary of taking bookings for functions without knowing the type of function being held. They made their call after being informed that a suspected group of east European neo-Nazis successfully booked a function room in Kerry this weekend to hold a concert for white supremacists. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / animal rights Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 18:32 by Bernie Wright
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The sad and unnecessary fatalities of six HORSES at Killarney race course on Sunday puts the safety of jumps racing under increasing scrutiny. Coincidently, last week in Australia a review of jumps-racing in Victoria was instigated as Jumps racing was suspended-due to 13 horses dying last year .The future of Jumps racing at least in Australia is now under threat due to the treatment of horses. ... read full story / add a comment
The government’s cutbacks in education will have a drastic effect on Primary schools in Tralee. People Before Profit support local demands for their reversal. Scoil Eoin, which will have over 600 students next year, will lose one teacher as a direct result of the increase in class sizes and will face cutbacks in language support staff which will have a severe impact on students for whom English is not their first language. In addition three quarters of its students are studying in prefabs and in a building dating back to 1858! They are still waiting for a new school. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / health / disability issues Saturday December 22, 2007 - 22:02 by sean moraghan
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Cancer Services in Kerry General Hospital are to be removed and relocated to Cork. There will supposedly be a better system of care there under one of several national ‘centres of excellence’. But that means that patients from Kerry could have a two-hour trip each way (or longer) to access treatment. That is in direct contradiction to the HSE’s statements that care of patients should be given as close to their homes as possible, and that there should be a greater emphasis on delivery of care in the local community. Long trips on top of treatments and trauma can hardly constitute excellent care. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Monday July 12, 2004 - 16:23 by Keith o'Faolain
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destruction of Celtic fort The 700 metres of earthen works that surrounded the ancient Dun Mor Fort on the Dingle Peninsula were levelled at the weekend by an excavating machine. An entrance and a standing stone with an ogham (Celtic writing) inscription were also removed. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Thursday November 27, 2003 - 17:45 by Ailín
The arrival of contaminated war ships off the Kerry coast is an insult to the people of Ireland because of the danger posed by such vessels, the local branch of Republican Sinn Féin said today. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / miscellaneous Monday October 06, 2003 - 12:55 by Ailín
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Delegates to the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis are being invited to a small village in North Kerry to see first hand the effects of cutbacks in social employment schemes, the local branch of Republican Sinn Féin said today. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 23, 2003 - 13:32 by Ailín
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An All Ireland champion bagpipe player was warned by the police not to perform at a Republican Sinn Fein commemoration, the North Kerry branch of the organisation claimed today. RSF spokesman John O'Shea from Ballylongford said that the piper had agreed to play at the annual Shortis and Scanlan commemoration in Ballybunion on 17th August last. ... read full story / add a comment |
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