Population collapse threatens future of GAA clubs across Iveragh and rural Kerry

Council members warn planning restrictions and infrastructure gaps are hollowing out rural Kerry communities and threatening schools and GAA clubs

Portmagee on the Iveragh peninsula in Kerry. It may already be too late to reverse the decline in Iveragh. File picture: Dan Linehan

A new task force is to be established to tackle population decline on the Iveragh peninsula in south Kerry, with officials expecting the initiative to become a template for other counties.

A meeting of Kerry County Council heard how recent local GAA club success may never be seen again because of the drastic decline in population. It was told that it may already be too late to reverse the decline in Iveragh as well as villages in North Kerry.