I live here. I work here. On weekends you'll find me somewhere in the National Park — on the trails around Muckross, along the lakeshore at dawn, or halfway up something in the Reeks. Killarney is not a place I visit. It's home.
I built killarney.ai because I kept noticing a gap. For a town that welcomes over a million visitors a year and has one of the most active local communities in Kerry, the digital experience of Killarney was surprisingly fragmented. Events scattered across Facebook groups. News spread across three different local sites. No single place that felt like it belonged to the town.
So I built one. Not a media company, not a tourism board — just someone who knows this place and wanted to make something useful for the people who live here and the people who come.
What killarney.ai is trying to do
killarney.ai is the community hub that Killarney has always needed — one place for everything that matters about the town. News from local sources, events you might actually want to attend, experiences worth booking, businesses worth supporting, and the kind of local knowledge that only comes from living somewhere.
The ambition is simple: if you live in Killarney, killarney.ai should be the first thing you open on a Tuesday morning. If you're visiting, it should be the first thing you check when you arrive. If you've moved away but Kerry is still home in some deep sense, it should be the thing that keeps you connected.
We're not trying to replace the Killarney Advertiser or KillarneyToday. We're building something different — a platform, not just a publication. A place where the community, the businesses and the visitors all have a reason to show up.
The principles behind it
Everything we build, write and publish is guided by four things.
The killarney.ai story
Get in touch with Bart
Questions, ideas, feedback, or just want to say hello — always happy to hear from locals, visitors and anyone who loves Killarney as much as we do.