The town of Tralee has been linked with the Dominicans for more than seven hundred years. That link was marked with four days of celebration.

Report shows a procession of Dominicans and an 0pen air mass concelebrated by Bishop Diarmaid O’Súilleabháin, Bishop of Kerry and Father Daman Byrne, World-wide Head of the Dominican Order.

Doctor Dermot Clifford, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly. Master General unveiling seventeen foot statue of a Dominican friar.

Tralee stone mason Noel Fitzgibbon who, with the help of five An Chomhairle Oiliúna (AnCo) apprentices carved the huge statue.

Dominicans looking at the statue.

The reporter is Kieron Wood.

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