Kerry Today

Every Wednesday, Tony gives his perspective on listeners' dilemmas.

Jerry spoke to Minister of State Alan Dillon about the country’s new circular economy strategy.

Jerry spoke to Barry Kenny of Irish Rail about the news that Kerry route rail journeys have hit a new record high.

Jerry spoke to Mick Clifford, special correspondent with the Irish Examiner about the Government’s disastrous handling of plans to reallocate special needs assistants. The Department of Education said initially this reallocation was to ensure that children with the greatest need for SNAs would benefit. However, after it emerged that some schools would face losing SNAs, the government first paused these plans and then did a complete U-turn.

Jerry spoke to Dr Gary Stack, who’s a director of services with SouthDoc, the out-of-hours GP service, and a Killarney GP about over €12.2m in capital funding that has been allocated for healthcare projects across Kerry for this year. The key projects include: a new bed block at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) under the Acute Inpatient Bed Capacity Expansion Plan, a new ambulance station in Cahersiveen and funding for the Killarney Injury Unit.