ACCLAIMED filmmaker Damian O’Callaghan is well used to creating cinematic magic on screen.

Long before the national ambassador programme, Killarney already had “a track record in local ambassadors”, attracting conferences worth hundreds of thousands of euro and filling the town’s hotels, restaurants, and parklands, the Kerry launch of the Fáilte Ireland national ambassador programme heard yesterday.

THREE people remained in hospital last night as the health and safety authority prepared to conduct an investigation into an elevator accident at a Killarney hotel.