Kerry’s Eye founder Pádraig Kennelly dies

PÁDRAIG KENNELLY, the photographer, television cameraman and founder of the Kerry’s Eye newspaper, has died at his home in Tralee at the age of 82.

On his retirement as editor in 2010, Mr Kennelly was the longest-serving editor of a regional newspaper in Ireland.

Just two weeks ago he travelled to the Irish Cultural Institute in Paris — accompanied by his son, businessman Jerry Kennelly — for the launch of an exhibition based on photographs he and his wife Joan had taken in the early summer of 1969, during the visit to Ireland by General Charles de Gaulle.