Author: Edel Brady

We were honoured to have Sneem chosen by the Local Authorities Programme as the location to show the first public screening of this beautiful and important film. Huge thanks to Sneem Story House for accommodating the screening, and thank you to everybody who came out to watch it ahead of the unveiling of our new village sculpture by Don Cronin featuring endangered freshwater Pearl Oysters, Minister for Nature, Heritage, and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan was kind enough to unveil the sculpture to for the community.

Local Authority Waters Programme produced ‘Blue Dot Waters of the Iveragh Peninsula’, a short film raising awareness about the high status waterbodies or Blue Dots found in Kerry’s Iveragh Peninsula.

Filmed by CrowCrag Productions and narrated by broadcaster, writer and ecologist Anja Murray.

Thanks to everyone involved in the project, including Kerry County Council, Waters Of LIFE, LIFE Programme and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Three volunteers travelled to Croke Park on Friday 24th October for the annual SupereValu TidyTown Awards. This year we were delighted to win a gold medal with a score of 393, an increase of 13 marks from last year when nwe were awarded a silver medal. Congratulations to the overall winner, Carrick-on-Shannon with a score of 400.

Huge credit to Joe Murphy and his CE team, to the dedicated Tuesday Tidyups team, to St.Michael’s National School who participated so enthusiastically in our litter picks, and to all the businesses and home owners who keep their premises so well.

In the Special Awards, we were thrilled to win a Bat Conservation Ireland Gardening for Bats Design Space Award. Thanks to Katy Steele’s brilliant design for the Wild Garden, we now have the funding to further transform this wildliife garden for the benefit of bats.