Killarney

By Sean Moriarty
<h3>Killarney will host an international karate competition next July.</h3>
Kerry Shotokan Karate School is organising the tournament in Killarney Sports Complex on the weekend of July 29-30 next year.
 It will be the school&rsquo;s second time hosting an international meeting following on from its Killorglin event in 2011.
 However, this time around the school hopes to make it into an annual event.
 Officials recently attended the World Championships in Poland.
 &ldquo;The world competition in Poland inspired us to host an international karate event in July next year. We are thinking of doing something similar to what they did in Poland but bigger and with cash prizes to attract delegates and professional athletes from Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world. It is guaranteed that this competition was never done before in Ireland. This in turn should bring significant revenue to the whole Killarney town both locally as well as attract more tourists from abroad,&rdquo; Charles Neri the Chief Sensei with Kerry Martial Arts School, said.
 &ldquo;We are well capable of running an international event professionally as we did back in 2011. With the help of the national and world bodies that we are affiliated with we are hoping to run this event on a yearly basis, once it gets popular and we are hoping that it will be a national event in the coming years. This will be an amazing opportunity for our young Kerry athletes to participate in international level events instead of travelling abroad.&rdquo;

Plans for international karate competition next summer

DOWNLOAD AND XPLORE