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The Platform Series on Radio Kerry is funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the television licence fee and it aims to help Kerry organisations raise awareness of their work.
Inspired is a not-for-profit organisation which provides a day service for adults with mild to low moderate intellectual disabilities who have completed post-primary or secondary school.
The organisation was founded in 2014 by a group of parents who believed that people with intellectual disabilities should be an integral part of society, having equal rights to participate in education and employment.
On the Kerry Today show, service users Paddy Clancy, Lydia Murphy and Ciarán Sears gave an insight into their lives, their work, their interests and the impact being part of Inspired has had on them.
Presenter Jerry O’Sullivan also interviewed Stephanie Dinham who is programme and career co-ordinator with Inspired.
For more information go to https://inspired.ie/
Inspired, which is based in Tralee, may be contacted at info@inspired.ie and 066 711 7315.

Jerry spoke to Barry Holland, communications manager with Cork Airport. This week, TUI announced a new direct service to Corfu from Cork Airport, which will begin in the summer of next year.

The Irish Dental Association’s annual conference began today in the Great Southern Hotel, Killarney. The organisation says more children of primary school age are suffering from tooth decay, with over 100 thousand pupils missing out on school screenings last year. Jerry spoke to Fintan Hourihan, CEO of the Irish Dental Association.

Jerry spoke to ecologist Padraic Fogarty about Kerry’s – and Ireland’s – newest national park, Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara.

Jennifer O’Shea, project manager with Ned O’Shea Construction, gave her reaction to An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse her company planning permission to build 235 houses and apartments in Lisloose, Tralee.

13-year-old Liam Dennehy Quinn from Killarney is in urgent need of scoliosis operations. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae highlighted the issue in the Dáil and made a direct plea to the Taoiseach.