Memorials planned for Munster’s first world war victims

THE thousands of Munster men who died in the first world war are to be honoured at separate events in Cork and Kerry.

President Mary McAleese will soon unveil a new memorial in Killarney to hundreds of soldiers from the area who died fighting for the Allies in Belgium, France, Gallipoli and the Dardanelles between 1914 and 1918.

A memorial has been erected at the site of the existing Munster Fusiliers’ monument, in the heart of Killarney.