Kerry council refuses to fold on street umbrella to provide sun and rain shelter

It may have been raining cats and dogs yesterday in Killarney amid howling winds — but it was shelter from the summer sun that worried a meeting of the local council.

Councillor Michael Gleeson (Independent Alliance) wanted to know if the “long-awaited umbrellas would be affording visitors and locals alike shelter from the summer sun during 2016 as they relaxed in Killarney town centre”.

He initially floated the idea in 2013 after years of relentless rain and out of concern about keeping visitors to Killarney dry.