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Recently Kerry ETB hosted a national education conference which has examined the importance of EU partnership and cooperation in the sector. ‘From Ballinskelligs to Brussels’ was the title given to the annual congress of Education & Training Boards Ireland which represents the country’s 16 ETBs. The conference looked at the value of networking with education systems in other EU states. A group from Kerry ETB – which included its director of schools, youth and music Con Moynihan –recently visited Finland and Estonia. In Finland, they discussed why Finland’s literacy levels had dropped in the past decade. Jerry O’Sullivan spoke to Con Moynihan about the visit.

Treasa spoke to Radio Kerry News’ Mark Lynch, who was at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin yesterday. At the court sitting, 43-year—old James Leen of Kilmorna, Listowel formally entered pleas of not guilty to five charges arising from the largest ever seizure of crystal meth in this country.

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Treasa spoke to Minister for Social Protection, Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht Dara Calleary about the launch of a new policy for rural Ireland, ‘Our Rural Future’.

Treasa spoke to Fianna Fáil councillor Fionnán Fitzgerald about his motion on how difficult it is to get out of subscriptions. Kerry County Council is to write to the Dept of Enterprise, Trade and Employment requesting laws to protect consumers from “subscriptions traps”, stating it should be easy to cancel a subscription as it is to join. Treasa also spoke to Cllr Fitzgerald about a video circulating of a man being viciously assaulted in Killarney.