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Yesterday 33-year-old Bohdan Bezverkhyi, a native of Ukraine but with an address in Ballinhassig, Co Cork, was sentenced for dangerous driving causing the death of broadcaster, Paudie Palmer. Mr Palmer was from Blackwater but had lived in Cork for many years and was GAA broadcaster for C103 and Cork’s 96FM. Jerry spoke to Ralph Riegel who’s southern correspondent with the Irish Independent.

Some of the candidates running in the Killarney Local Electoral Area for the June 7th local elections took part in today’s debate. They are the Greens’ Diarmaid Griffin, Fianna Fáil councillor Niall Kelleher, Caroline Kenneally of Sinn Féin, independent candidate William Leen, and Dermot McGuckin who’s also running as an independent. The other declared candidates so far are independent councillor Brendan Cronin, independent councillor Martin Grady, Fine Gael’s Dermot Healy, independent councillor Maura Healy-Rae, Cllr Marie Moloney of Labour, independent councillor Niall ‘Botty’ O’Callaghan, Cllr John O’Donoghue of Kerry Independent Alliance, and Damien Switzer of Sinn Féin

Gráinne Nic Gearailt from Kenmare is delighted about the visitors to her garden!

Legal affairs editor at the Irish Independent Shane Phelan discussed the legal action initiated against Kerry Rose Festival Ltd, the company that’s behind the Rose of Tralee Festival, by shareholder Dick Henggeler, who owns the Rose Hotel.

Liam Walsh is originally from The Spa in Tralee. In October 2022, his 13-year-old daughter, Maia Walsh, was found dead in her home in Hertfordshire, in England. She would have turned 14 at the end of October.
Liam believes that his daughter was influenced into self-harming due to the content she was accessing online, and particularly TikTok.
He has been on a journey and a campaign for the past year and a half to try and get laws changed and get the regulators and politicians to hold big social media companies to account for the content that they allow on their platforms, which is in turn, accessed and viewed by children.
If you are affected by this story, you may contact the Samaritans on 116 123. A site that provides resources to protect children online is https://www.webwise.ie/

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