Issue 13. On a Friday...

Good Morning and Welcome,

To lucky issue No. 13… This week we have a Valentia adventure, more on the Reenroe saga & very Kerry planning department flavoured numbers. As ever, if you’d like to sponsor/advertise get in touch.

Also another festival, a same same but different game & anything & everything else exciting.

South Kerry by the numbers:

• 239: Equals the total number of documents relating to the proposed hotel development on Reenroe available on the council planning website.

• 48: Of these are submissions against said development.

• 0: Submissions in support of said development.

• 119: Documents in the initial planning application.

First, A word from this week’s sponsor

Do you dream of being an adventurer on Valentia? Well, Saturday brings you your best chance ever. Emma from the flourishing new local business Oileán Adventures is offering an action-packed day of hiking, biking, grease lightning* & a boat trip. Good woman that she is, for local business owners or adventure enthusiasts Emma is giving a 50% discount for Saturday’s excursion. Places are limited, so get on it, just email [email protected] or drop her a DM Oileán Adventures.

*Cannot guarantee the presence of grease lightning, this may have been included for purely rhythmical purposes.

So, What’s going on with Reenroe?

As avid ‘oraclers’ you’ll remember that giant “hotel” development proposed for Reenroe beach. You may have also heard this week that the planning decision has been delayed as Kerry County Council has requested more information. What you won’t have heard from the other media outlets, is what (given the amount of documents highlighted above) more information they need?

Well, thanks to an incredibly prompt and helpful reply from the council planning department (deadly serious, email answered in about 30 minutes) here’s what they are looking for more information on:

• The proposed wastewater treatment and water quality in general

• More detail on the proposed music/P.A. system

• An asbestos & construction waste assessment

• A bucketload more info on the ecological impact, with particular emphasis on Chough habitat impingement

• An archaeological assessment

• More, much much more info on fire safety/stormwater management

This newsletter is not about my opinion, so I try not to let it show up very often. Wherever you sit on the validity or viability of this project, it’s done an excellent job of illustrating that people do have a voice, are willing to use it, & the council are willing to listen.

So that, in my opinion, is fantastic news.

It’s The Signs of South Kerry 🎺🎺🎺

Loads more entries last week, so I’m sticking with the new format

What’s written on this sign, bonus points if you know where it is?

Easy wasn’t it? Wasn’t it? Want to know if you are right? Click below

Congratulations to last week’s Winners 🍰🍰🍰

1. Ger Deasy, Rosemary Hill & the unknown soldier who got everything right apart from their name.

Applause, Applause, Applause.

If it wasn’t easy enough or you have a suggestion for a better name, a better game even, unlucky. I’m sticking with this for a good few weeks.

Everything Else

• Have you ever been to a festival with a Duck Race and a pilgrimage? No? Well, you can change that this weekend by joining the celebration at St Crohan’s Festival Castlecove. More here

• Cafe Cois Tra in Ballinskelligs has exclusively local entertainment all weekend.

• How’s your English? Fancy lending a hand with a few hours a week as an English language tutor? email [email protected]

• Yoga and a Sauna of a Saturday or Sunday morning? Head to Derrynane for 11.15, but book here first

• Have you that nagging feeling that something important happened 157 years ago? For good reason, it was, of course, the dawn of global communications, you can celebrate it on Saturday, here

• At a loose end this evening, indulge yourself in the works of local artists at the Mid Summer Madness Exhibition at Tech Amergin from 7.30pm

Just Announced

Doesn’t this look like it might be fun? get your detective on here

Thanks

Apologies again about the lack of heat recovery systems info, one day.

If I’ve missed anything, you’d like to contribute or have news you think should be covered, just hit reply. Alternatively, you can just tag your posts #skoracle and I’ll pick them up.

Finally, I’d like to wish a very Happy Birthday to the South Kerry Oracle’s chief proofreader, happy 85th Mum!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

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Good luck, be well

Dave

southkerryoracle.ie