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Chapter 1: What exciting news does Kerry have regarding Monopoly?
Get ready to pass go for €200 because Kerry is going to get its very own Monopoly board. The Kingdom saw off five other counties to score this coup. Gerry O'Sullivan, presenter on Kerry Radio joins me now. Gerry, good morning to you.
Morning, Clare.
Donegal, Tipperary, Tyrone, Wexford and Wicklow, they all wanted the Monopoly board. Kerry got it. Like, that's the win, isn't it?
I'm only sorry Armagh wasn't on that list, Clare. I bet you are. Delighted Donegal were there though. Absolutely delighted.
Is it that big a win for you now?
Well, it is. It's kind of something, Clare, we expect really.
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Chapter 2: Which counties competed for the Monopoly board and why?
We'd expect to be beating these countries for landmark and beauty and tourism and all of these sort of things, you know. So we're taking it in our stride here in the kingdom.
So what is this now? How big of a deal is it or is it a bit of a marketing thing?
They probably look at one level it is but it's great like no better county than Kerry to jump on something in terms of promoting ourselves or no the lifeblood of the county is tourism and we need visitor numbers and anything that helps that is helped by something like this and the other side of it is that people will be a bit competitive about it within the county.
So you have this suggestion, this company winning games that are looking for the help of the people of Kerry to suggest what should make a square, whether it's a landmark or a business or an organisation or something like that. There'll be no shortage of people getting involved in that, trying to kind of big up their own areas. And it could, Clare, spark off
The latest in the ongoing, you know, eternal saga between Tralee and Killarney as to which is the greatest town or which was really the county town in Kerry. That stretches all the way back to time eternal.
Absolute war because you have valuations, of course, on the properties, you know, and you have the premium ones. So the only way to solve it will be to put Tralee and Killarney in the same group.
Yes, and an equal footing. Yes, there will be trouble marking my words. There still is, and it came up on our programme during the week, we were doing a piece about the birthplace of Joe Varus, the original winning captain of the first Sam Maguire for Kerry. His home is being redeveloped into a block of apartments and there's, you know, suggestions that a plaque should be placed there.
But that opened up a wider discussion about the long-going, on-running saga for a Kerry G Museum. And that, at several county meetings, county council meetings down through the years, So what other places then will be expected to be on the Monopoly board, the Kerry Monopoly board?
Yeah, I would say, look, you're going to have, and the organiser said, you know, you're going to have a couple of places like Muckers House is going to be there, the Killarney National Park is going to be there. I'd imagine the Rose of Tralee Festival will be there in some shape or form in terms of the Tralee side of it. But you have a load of different areas to choose from.
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Chapter 3: How is the Monopoly board a marketing opportunity for Kerry?
There's more scope there, you see, to carry-ify that as well.
Yes, yeah, yeah, you could look, you could have any number of things, you could have a little Skellig Michael perhaps maybe, you could have a football, any number of sorts, a Jarvie perhaps maybe to signify Killarney and the gap at Dunlow and other areas like that as well. So there's any number of possibilities.
There's also suggestions that David Clifford's house should be included on the board, so... Things have gone crazy here. There really is.
There's no better county really to capitalise on this, I think. You know, I do feel great sympathy for the counties that didn't make it this time. But Kerry's a good, it's a good shout, a fair play to Winning Moves, the company that makes the Monopoly game. So you have until, people have until midnight on June the 30th to get their suggestions into Winning Moves.
But ultimately, it'll be the game company that decides what goes on the board.
Yeah, they probably will. Kerry at winningmoves.co.uk is the email address to send in your suggestions. So they have, it's open now from yesterday morning until midnight on June the 13th. So we'll see what happens and whatever rows will ensue from that, Clare, we'll be covering it here on Radio Kerry.
But Gerry, they need to do some consultation locally because they can't have Tralee and Killarney at different values. That's just not going to work.
No, beyond the pale, that sort of stuff, 100%.
Gerry, it's always good to talk to you. Thanks so much for joining us.
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