Killarney

by Sean Moriarty
<h3>Some Killarney locals will get the chance to try their hand at basketball &#8211; or even go to the gym outdoors &#8211; thanks to new Council plans.</h3>
A new basketball court and an outside gym is planned in a local housing estate after Kerry County Council agreed to lease a plot of land to Pinewood Residents Association.
The Council has agreed to lease a 926 square metre plot of land to the association so they can build outdoor facilities in their estate.
There was previously a basketball court in the estate and while the tarmac surface remains, the hoops are in a state of disrepair. This new move will, effectively, hand over the running of the courts to the local residents as opposed to a Council-run facility.
The project had already been granted Leader funding through the South Kerry Development Partnership (SKDP). A contractor has already been appointed and the only stumbling block was the transfer of the lands to the association.
That was completed at Monday&rsquo;s full meeting of Kerry County Council.
&ldquo;I made representations on their behalf through Leader,&rdquo; Marie Moloney, Mayor of the Killarney Municipal District, told the Killarney Advertiser. &ldquo;The tender process is done, the contractor is in place, this was the last piece of the jigsaw.&rdquo;
The move has been welcomed by the Pinewood Residents Association.
&ldquo;It is a second chance,&rdquo; secretary Eileen Mayse told the Killarney Advertiser. &ldquo;This would not have happened without Marie Moloney. It is going on six or seven years, she pushed it. There was always a basketball court here but it was just left there. A lot of the kids in the estate, they have their own kids now and there are grandchildren here too.&#8221;

Outdoor basketball court and gym for Pinewood

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