FOLLOWING a long campaign with several notices of motion tabled at council meetings, information signs warning the public of the dangers posed by ticks and their links with Lyme disease have finally been erected at entrances to Killarney National Park.
The matter had been raised repeatedly by several councillors who had formed the opinion that the National Parks and Wildlife Service appeared reluctant to erect signs within the park.
Kerry County Council finally opted to erect its own signage in suitable areas warning the public of the presence of ticks and the dangers they pose.
The matter had been raised most recently by Mayor Brendan Cronin and Cllr Maura Healy-Rae who were both previously critical of a perceived reluctance to erect signs in the park warning.
Cllr Cronin had stressed that there could be no negative consequence of providing proper information to the public.
“Millions of people are going in there unaware of the dangers that lay ahead of them,” he said.
Ticks have been a major problem in the national park for years and it has led to repeated calls from the politicians and the public – including many who have contracted Lyme’s disease – for action to be taken.
Mayor Cronin, who raised the issue again at a meeting of Killarney Municipal District Council yesterday, said he was delighted to learn that appropriate signs have now been erected by the council.
“This was confirmed in the reply to a further motion where I requested that these important information signs, giving guidance and advice in the event of discovering ticks, be erected on council owned property at all entrances to Killarney National Park,” Cllr Cronin stated.
Signs have been erected at the entrance to the park on Port Road and at the playground in Knockreer as well as on the Fossa Way route.
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