Killarney risks losing twinning status over lack of visits abroad

TOP tourist town Killarney is at risk of losing visitors and “being dropped as a twin” as its town councillors are not going abroad often enough.

The Kerry town has twinning links with centres from France to Sweden to Sicily and the United States. However, four councillors are now to set off to Concord in the US to make amends in the first of a planned number of visits abroad, the town council has decided.

The town’s oldest twin is Castiglione in Sicily and it also has relations with Staffanstorp in Sweden, Pleinfeld in Germany, Kendal in Britain and St Avertin in France.