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civic · Wednesday 7 October 2026 · 7:00pm 
An Evening with Jason Smyth
At The Great Southern Killarney · East Avenue Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry
At The Great Southern Killarney · East Avenue Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Killarney Chamber of Tourism & Commerce hosts an evening with Paralympic sprinter Jason Smyth at The Great Southern Killarney on Wednesday, 7 October 2026. Smyth is a multiple Paralympic gold medallist and one of Ireland’s best-known athletes, and the chamber is billing the night as a conversation rather than a straight lecture, with him reflecting on his career and the mindset behind it in front of a Killarney audience.
The format is a hosted, in-conversation talk rather than a formal address. The chamber describes it as “an engaging and thought-provoking conversation” in which Smyth reflects on his career in front of the room. Expect the evening to cover the discipline and setbacks behind competing at Paralympic level, with a Q&A element opening the conversation out to the audience rather than keeping it one-directional. The setting is the function space at The Great Southern, a well-established Killarney hotel used regularly by the chamber for members’ events, so expect a seated talk-and-mingle room rather than a theatre stage. It fits the chamber’s wider pattern of pairing local business networking with a known name from Irish sport or public life for its bigger autumn events.
The Great Southern Killarney is on East Avenue Road, a few minutes’ walk from Killarney’s combined rail and bus station, which has direct Irish Rail services from Dublin Heuston via Mallow and Bus Éireann coaches from Cork and Limerick. On-site and street parking are both available.
Killarney National Park is on the doorstep, with the lakeside walk to Ross Castle and Muckross House both free to visit. There is more to see in Killarney and across Co. Kerry.
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