Gilmore backs key services for Killarney

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has lent his support to retain key services in Killarney, which are being transferred from the tourist town to Tralee, saying centralisation has not happened in other authorities and is not required under local government reform.

He is also urging that a new tourism unit be located in Killarney, which, it is argued, has centuries of experience in tourism, rather than in Tralee, which has a comparatively small and more recent tourism industry.

Mr Gilmore, meeting with a newly formed lobby group attached to Killarney Chamber of Commerce, said it “stands to absolute reason” that the new tourism unit should locate in Killarney, rather than Tralee.