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Road, Tralee Ltd., Outlook by Publications Disclaimer: Published Be the first with your favourite weekly community magazine by dropping into your main local distribution hub in the following areas: • KILLARNEY • RATHMORE • FIRIES • MUCKROSS • KILCUMMIN • MILLTOWN • GLENFLESK • CASTLEISLAND • CASTLEMAINE • BARRADUBH • FARRANFORE • BEAUFORT • GNEEVEGUILLA • CURROW • FOSSA OUR TEAM ARE HERE TO HELP... SALES: 087 - 6593427 | E: [email protected] EDITORIAL: 086 - 0400958 | E: [email protected] ACCOUNTS: 1800 71 40 40 | E: [email protected] 2 15.05.20 ADVERTISING TO ADVERTISE CALL: DES 087 6593427 | E: [email protected] 22.05.20 3 NEWSDESK TO ADVERTISE CALL: DES 087 6593427 | E: [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE he response to our Charity Fundraiser Killarney student, Holly Power’s this week as restrictions are being for the Kerry Cancer Support Group inspirational story. We meet some eased and remember to stay safe, in next week’s Killarney Outlook has more cocooners, including some of protect each other and hold firm. been so positive and we thank you the children who are missing school for that. In this week’s magazine and their friends and we look back at we speak to two service users of some old images of Killarney. the Health Link Bus who share their We hope you are all keeping safe and Aisling Crosbie, T experience with us and we also share adhering to government guidelines Editor 086 0400958 IF YOU HAVE A STORY...Contact Aisling on: 086 0400 958 | Email: [email protected] 'Cancer can be the loneliest place in the world.... but the bus changed that'.... KILLARNEY OUTLOOK CHARITY FUNDRAISER n a week when Kerry Hotelier John Brennan life changing. And for that I am forever grateful Ipraised the work of the Kerry Cancer Support to you all”, Tracy said. Group on the Late Late Show, Killarney Outlook Due to COVID-19 the Kerry Cancer Support are delighted to support this amazing charity in Group has had to increase their services to allow our magazine next week. for social distancing on the bus. They have many We are all aware that charities are one of the volunteer drivers from Killarney and around the casualties of COVID-19 as many if not all of their county who are always available to help and fundraising activities have been postponed or they ensure that there are masks gloves and cancelled. sanitiser in all their vehicles and their drivers In next week’s Killarney Outlook, we are donating are temperature checked before each journey the proceeds of all of our advertising to the and the vehicles are cleansed before during and Kerry Cancer Support Group which provides after each trip. many services but primarily they operate the Another user of the bus is Graphic Designer Kerry Cork Health Link Bus which brings patients Sheila Carroll. from Kerry and West Cork to to Cork University Sheila was also diagnosed with breast cancer in Hospital, Mercy University Hospital, Bon Secours 2013 and used the service of the Health Link Bus. Hospital and The Cork Clinic for cancer treatment “The health link bus made such a great difference free of charge five days a week. during my treatment in 2013. At a time when life Tracy Sheehan. In this week’s Killarney Outlook, we speak to can be overwhelming you didn’t need to worry two people who used the services of the Kerry about transport to your daily treatments in Cork. Cancer Support Group and who cannot praise it You were made feel comfortable from the off. enough. The driver was so kind and welcoming. Little Tracy Sheehan from Fossa was 41 when she was connections were made with fellow patients, we diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of could share our experiences or you could take 2013. Along with the shock, fear and anguish a nap as the bus was so comfortable. I thank that goes with a cancer diagnosis, Tracy had to the Kerry Cancer Support Group and I wish travel to CUH every day for radiation therapy. them continued success in the essential service “Driving wasn’t an option to me and ‘Our Bus’ they provide which is only possible through saved me”, Tracy told the Killarney Outlook. charitable donations:, Sheila told the Killarney “I was the youngest person in our group of Outlook. heroes. We were all sick and scared so we vowed Another service user, Nicky Barry, who regularly to mind each other when the bad days came. pens poetry for the Killarney Outlook will share And they did. But the craic we had on the good his journey on the Heath Link Bus with us days would rival kids on a school tour. There through poetry next week. were songs sung, boxes of chocolates scoffed If you would like to get involved and help this to beat the band, we told really bad jokes, we charity you can do so by placing an advert in the had wig talks, tips for ‘bateing the heat’ and Sheila Carroll. 29th May issue. All the advertising revenue will sometimes we just sat and held each other’s go directly to Kerry Cancer Support Group. hands in silence. We talked about our loved still friends to this day and always will be. Not A quarter page will cost €20, a half page will cost ones and our dreams for the future. When you all of us are still here. But they are forever in my €40 and a full page will cost €80 plus VAT. We go through cancer, it’s the loneliest place in the heart. They made my journey easier and the love urge you to support this worthy charity during world. Our Bus changed that. We felt connected, I feel remains as strong as ever. Thank you to all these unprecedented times. our own little gang waging an inner war. We are of you who help keep the bus on the road. It’s IF YOU HAVE A STORY... Contact Aisling on: 086 0400 958 4 22.05.20 ADVERTISING TO ADVERTISE CALL: DES 087 6593427 | E: [email protected] 22.05.20 5 NEWSDESK TO ADVERTISE CALL: DES 087 6593427 | E: [email protected] HOLLY TELLS HER STORY OF POSITIVITY AND GOOD NEWS In the week where Holly Power, a student, at St. Brigid’s Presentation Secondary School, won wasn’t the best experience ,somewhere I never the ‘Comórtais Óige’ competition and secured 1st place in the senior students category, she expected to be. I left Cork that day, with so many shares her inspiring story following her cancer diagnosis with the readers of the Killarney thoughts and emotions. I felt confused and like it Outlook. wasn’t real, almost as if someone would tell me that it wasn’t true. But it was and I had to take entered the ‘Comórtais Óige’ competition as time to understand that, everything happens Ipart of Seachtain na Gaeilge, mainly because for a reason. Don’t get me wrong it was the most my Irish teacher Ms. Healy Rae persuaded me to! difficult thing I have ever had to process in my life. The category I chose was to write a blog. I had the best support network I could ask for and The piece could be based on any subject. After they were always there for me. From the second, a lot of thought, I decided to write something I told everyone they supported everything I went original which was a light hearted twist on my through. My summer plans ended before they own personal story. Reflecting on the journey had even started. I began my first of 12 rounds of of my cancer diagnosis, and having to repeat Chemotherapy in August. September had come Transition Year. My piece gave an incite into my and there were days I could barely leave the bed, journey ‘as Gaeilge’ and I included a bit of craic so school would have been a struggle. I was due throughout! It wouldn’t be me otherwise! to be going into 5th year, but that was on hold Last year I was a regular 16 year old girl in for the time being.