A great place to live

The question as to what makes Kerry such a great place to live is one that can be answered in a multitude of ways.

It’s an area that was a tourist attraction since the word ‘tourist’ has been in use. There’s a reason for that: It’s simply a beautiful part of the world whose inhabitants always seem to have a keen sense of which way the economic winds were blowing.

If you ask a Kerry native, however, you may get a multitude of different answers: “The lifestyle offered here is the best,” says Pat Crean. “It’s the combination of having the coastline and a number of great places inland too… On top of that, you have very good educational facilities (with institutions of note at all levels) and very good transport connections.”

“I think that it’s the scenery and the pace of life suits most people,” says John Daly. “They would be the two main factors. Plus, it’s a cosmopolitan sort of place in that you’ve a lot of different nationalities living around here, all bringing a different flavour here than you might get in other parts of the country.”