Economic recovery - We must pull together
Everyone can play a part. A group in Tralee has formed a task force to promote local employment. Elsewhere on this page, there is the story of Denis Reen, the driving force of that group. He is a retired dentist who has already demonstrated exceptional initiative in being one of the motivating forces behind the Rose of Tralee Festival in its early years, as well as the driving force behind the building of Tralee’s world famous golf course at Barrow, and the Aqua Dome project in the town.
Mr Reen’s last mission was rescuing the Jeanie Johnston project, which involved the replica famine ship that was initially supposed to cost around €2 million but eventually ran to more than €15m. He supervised that ship’s visit to North America, which was undertaken as a self-financing project that garnered enormous publicity on the other side of the Atlantic.
