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Hill of Tara / M3 motorway (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Dear TaraWatch supporter, Thank you for your continued support of the campaign to save Tara from the M3. This week, a new Tentative List of Ireland's proposed World Heritage Sites was published by the Department of the Environment, and it includes Tara. The Hill of Tara landscape should be a World Heritage Site, but not with a motorway being built through the middle of it. UNESCO must demand a re-routing...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Tour of Ireland:Mark Cavendish earned the 49th professional win of his career with victory on stage two of the Tour of Ireland from Clonmel to Kerry today.The 24-year-old Manxman, winner of six stages in the Tour de France, exploded down the finishing straight to hold off the challenge of Belgian Michael Van Staeyen (Rabobank) and Australia’s Stuart O'Grady (Saxo Bank) in a mass sprint for the...
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A Sloan Family Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
July 16, 2009, 12:54 on the bus - Earlier today both Sue and I literally kissed the blarney stone at Blarney Castle. So now we oficially have the gift of gab. Our bus is now headed to the west coast of Ireland. Stephen the tour guide has been telling us about irish history, today we learned about the Irish revolution, the civil war and the IRA. This is an amazing trip, so many memories. Stephen is...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
MINISTER FOR Education Batt O’Keeffe told teachers’ union the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) yesterday there could be “no sense of business as usual” in Irish education.In an address to the union’s annual conference in Killarney, Mr O’Keeffe acknowledged that there was anger about the perceived unfairness of recent budgetary measures, but reminded...
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Kerry News Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Online hotel bookings grew by 11% last year according to Gulliver Ireland. The hotel bookings arm of FEXCO launched their Hotel Sector Review to coincide with the Irish Hotel Federation Annual Conference taking place in Killarney. According to the review, Kerry is among the top five counties for online bookings. While the Gulliver Ireland Hotel Sector [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/02/2009
IRELAND’S LARGEST indigenous industry is “at a crossroads” and facing one of its most difficult periods in decades, a tourism conference heard in Killarney last night.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
THE HIGH Court has rejected arguments by Killarney Golf Club Ltd that it is a charitable trust, a decision which is expected to lead to the trustees’ majority shareholding in the club’s €9.4 million lands being returned to Fáilte Ireland.
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
We all know about this country's tourist hot-spots such as Glendalough, The Lakes of Killarney and The Glens of Antrim but there are thousands of...
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Team Geared Up Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Olympian Rower Paul Griffin, Killarney, skiing on The McGillycuddy Reeks, overlooking ‘The Great Glen of Com Lathair’ in perfect skiing conditions. Thanks to Valerie O’Sullivan for sending in the photo! -Robin. (Image Credit: Valerie O’Sullivan)