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  • Surfin' the Reef...Surfer Ed Lacey, Tralee ready to surf the Reef at Inch Strand,Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.
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  • Cloghane Village, Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Skellig Michael (Irish: Sceilig Mhichíl), also called Great Skellig (Irish: Sceilig Mhór), is the larger of the two Skellig Islands, 11.6 kilometres west of the Iveragh peninsula, along the Wild Atlantic Way in County Kerry, Ireland. A Christian monastery was founded on the island at some point between the 6th and 8th century and remained continuously occupied until it was abandoned in the late 12th century. The remains of the monastery, and most of the island, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Waking up the ‘Sleeping Giant’ (Inis Tuaisceart) at Clogher Head, in time for this years Annual County Clean-Up Day which  takes place on Saturday morning 14th April. Now in its 7th year, with the support of Kerry County Council and KWD Recycling, it has proven to be a wonderful community event in which people clean up their respective areas. The Sleeping Giant or ‘An Fear Marbh’ is one the Blasket Islands along Dingle Peninsula Co Kerry. Liadh Ní Mhuircheartaigh, Sean Guerin, Jack McGuire, Sarah O’Connor, Connie King and Niamh Keane.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/FREE PIC***
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  • Storm Fionn Approaching Skellig Beag and Skellig Michael Islands, off the Iveragh Peninsula Co.Kerry, along the Skellig Coast.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Gougane Barra in Autumn, St Finbarr’s Oratory and where the remains of the 6th century monastery founded by St Finbarr, Patron Saint of Cork located on the Island of Gougane Barra Lake. The tiny church occupying the island was built in the 19th Century.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Bishop's Island, Loop Head, Kilkee Co Clare.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Aerial Shot of Innisfallen Island, Lough Lein, Killarney, County Kerry. A monastery was founded on Innisfallen in the 7th century and it became a seat of learning and it said that King Brian Boru studied there. On the island are the remains of the extensive 12th century Augustinian priory and a small 11th -12th century Romanesque church. The annals of Innisfallen, a major source of early Irish history and now stored in the Bodleian Library in Oxford were written there. Boat trips to the island operate from the Ross Castle area from Ross and Reen piers.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan©
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  • Atlantic Puffin, The monastic Island of Skellig Michael was founded in 588 by Saint Fionán, for 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. located 12 kilometres off the coast County Kerry’s Inveragh Peninsula. Skellig Michael is the most spectacular of all the early medieval island monastic sites. The monastery consisting of six beehive huts, is situated almost at the summit of the 230-metre-high rock. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 and is one of Europe's better known but least accessible monasteries. Skellig Michael is the most spectacular of all the early medieval island monastic sites. Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhicíl in Irish) and Great Skellig. The word Scellic means a steep rock.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • The monastic Island, Skellig Michael founded in the 7th century, for 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. The Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 230-metre-high rock became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. It is one of Europe's better known but least accessible monasteries.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • One man’s Everest…Ultra Runner, Sean Clifford, from Killarney, set an Irish record reaching the dizzy heights of 10,000 m of positive ascent in 23 hours and 53 minutes — the equivalent height of Mount Everest, and accumulative 10 times  ascent of Ireland’s  highest Mountain - Carrauntoohil, (1039 m) in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, County Kerry. Sean set about his challenge, on Caher Mountain, on Friday night, running through the night, ascending, Carrauntoohil, Cnoc an Toinne, using the Devil’s Ladder for ascents, and Bothar na Gige (The ’Zig Zags’) for descents. Final ascent was made on Carrauntoohil. Joined throughout his record breaking quest by fellow Killarney Ultra Runners, Joe O’Leary, Damien Courtney, Neil Kelders and Harold Clifford. An exhausted Sean returned to a heroes welcome at Cronin’s Yard - Official home to the Reeks, late on Saturday night. Also managing to raise funds for Dementia and Alzheimer awareness.<br />
Sean, has competed in races across the globe,  the UTMB in France, Diagonal des Fous on Reunion Island, El Cruce in Chile and Ankor Ultra in Cambodia. More recently he has placed 2nd in Ireland’s longest and toughest ultra marathon, the Kerry Way Ultra.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/ISSUED 14/07/2019/FREE PIC***
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  • Bottle Nosed Dolphins following the Renard Ferry to to Valentia Island,County Kerry .Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Gail Force winds battering the coastline and Cromwell Point Lighthouse, Valentia Island. The Lighthouse was commissioned in 1837, and began functioning in 1837 and ceased operations in 1947 with the advent of automation. It fell into severe disrepair. It was subsequently taken in as a conservation project by the Irish Landmark Trust who restored it for use as a short term holiday let. In 2007 the Irish Georgian Society contributed over €2,000 to the repair and conservation of two of the house’s sash windows.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan©
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  • View of The Great Blaskets and An Fear Marbh, Dingle Peninsula.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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