AUTOMOBILI Italia 24 takes place tomorrow (Saturday) and it promises to be a great day out for anybody with an Italian motorbike or car. The event starts at 10am at Ballygarry Estate Hotel.  The cars will be on display until 12.15pm and then they head for Killorglin/Cromane before a stop for […]

THE Inspired Bio-Hub has announced an exciting fundraising initiative featuring local men Joe Moriarty and Ray Moynihan, who will tackle a 500km scenic Algarve cycling challenge from October 5th to October 12th. All funds raised during this venture will contribute to the construction of a much-needed new polytunnel at the […]

ONE of Ireland’s most famous singers will pay a visit to Tralee at the end of the month to take part in a special concert for Kerry Hospice Foundation. Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church in Tralee is the venue for Red Hurley and guests at the charity gala concert […]

TEDxTralee, an independently organised event, licensed by TEDx, returns to Siamsa Tire on Saturday 12th October with the theme of ‘You-nique’. Launched in 2009, TEDx is a program of locally organised events that bring the community together to share a TED-like experience. Some of the best talks from TEDx events […]

IT’S the time of the year when the evenings are getting shorter and getting out and about after work is becoming less inviting. However, the Born to Run Tralee Marathon Club has the solution and is inviting everyone over the age of 18 to sign up for their Couch to […]

THE company, who purchased the Tralee Racecourse site earlier this year, plan to use the land to build a further distribution centre, as well as a  manufacturing facility and possibly a housing development. The 100 acre site was bought by the Ard-Rí group, owned and run by the Fitzgibbon family […]

YOUNG people in Kerry are encouraged to register for the Relove Fashion Competition. This competition offers teenagers the chance to showcase their creativity and passion for sustainable fashion by designing and creating their own sustainable outfits. Participants in the Relove Fashion Competition will get the opportunity to delve into the […]

A LOCAL councillor is calling for something to be done about the smell coming from certain parts of the Big River. At Monday’s meeting of the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council, Sinn Féin Cllr Paul Daly asked that the Council would make every effort to stop sewage going […]

FURTHER options for the development of visitor options at Fenit Lighthouse are to be explored after the success of public visits to the attraction over the past couple of years. At Monday’s meeting of the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council, Cllr Deirdre Ferris asked how many visits to […]

TRALEE Tidy Towns will offer two free biodiversity and sustainability events on this Sunday and Monday respectively. On Sunday, September 8 at 11am, they will be joined at Cockleshell beach (meeting point: the Lock Gates parking area) by Louise Overy of the Irish Elasmobranch Group and MTU who will lead […]

KILLARNEY-BASED solicitor Linda Gordon-Kelleher and Cllr Michael Cahill have been added to the Fianna Fáil ticket to contest the next general election in Kerry. They will join Minister for Education Norma Foley on the ticket.  A mother of four, Linda Gordon-Kelleher is married to Kerry County Council member, Niall Kelleher who […]

Ivan Hurley previews the match between Kerry FC and Treaty United in Limerick this Friday night… With 7 games to go in this year’s edition of the SSE Airtricity Men’s First Division, the Kingdom go in search of a first-ever win in the Markets Field as they go toe to […]

KERRY’S Kayleigh Cronin has been honoured with The Croke Park Hotel/LGFA Player of the Month award for August 2024. Kerry ended a 31-year wait for TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship glory in style with a stunning final victory against Galway at Croke Park on Sunday, August 4. At full-back, Dr. Crokes […]

🌟 Introducing SOCIA-Ball! 🌟 Tralee Magic is  thrilled to launch our brand-new Mothers & Others Social Basketball group, designed to reconnect women with the game in a fun, relaxed, and non-competitive way! 🏀✨ Whether you’re a past player looking to re-engage or someone who’s never played club basketball before, SOCIA-Ball […]

NEW car sales in Kerry last month were down by almost a fifth compared to August 2023 according to the latest statistics from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI). There were 148 new car registrations in the county in August compared to 182 in the same month in […]

THE new junior infants are well settled in now around Tralee schools after the excitement of last week. We visited Spa NS last Friday in the brilliant sunshine to find the new arrivals getting to know each other in Ms Ahern’s classroom, while Ms O’Reilly’s class were out having fun […]

THE award-winning series ‘Bailte’ returns to TG4 this week for its 4th season with Síle Nic Chonaonaigh continuing her journey through the townlands of Ireland. The first episode this Thursday at 8pm sees Síle visit Clochán Breánainn, on the northern side of Leithinis an Daingin where poet Micheál Ó Ruairc […]

FORMER Kerry senior football captain Billy O’Shea is seeking to be the Fine Gael candidate for the upcoming General Election. The 1997 All-Ireland winner confirmed today that he is going for the nomination to contest the upcoming General Election at the Fine Gael selection convention. The convention for Kerry Fine […]

THE most up to date statistics from the Residential Property Price Register shows that there were 24 property sales in the Tralee area in July with transactions fetching a total of €5,450,500. The property that sold for the most money in one transaction in the Tralee environs (and indeed in […]

THE relics of St Bernadette will be brought to a church in Tralee next week. Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church will host the relics over Friday/Saturday, September 13/14. In 1858, the young girl, Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, said she experienced multiple apparitions of the Virgin Mary. After a canonical investigation, Soubirous’s […]

CANCER support charity, Recovery Haven Kerry, was a hive of activity on Friday morning as over 40 members of Network Ireland Kerry visited the Tralee premises for a special coffee morning and centre tour. The event was a joint initiative between Network Ireland Kerry and their charity partner for 2024, […]

THE 2024 Dingle Food Festival has been launched with a wonderful line-up of events and a special emphasis this year on zero waste policy. The festival is continuing on its mission to be the first Irish “Zero Landfill Waste” festival. Taking place from Friday 4th to Sunday the 6th of […]

LEE Strand was delighted to welcome principals, teachers, parents and pupils representing 27 primary schools in Kerry to collect a total of €13,575. The Lee Strand 50% School Milk Cash Back Programme was launched in September 2023 and was a fantastic success. On average participating schools received €500, with the […]

TRANSITION Kerry and Tralee Bay Wetlands are hosting a series of free community events in September and October, celebrating the rivers of Tralee, including the Big River/The Gyle, the Balloonagh River and of course the River Lee after which the town has been named. There will be a River Cycle – […]

A VIGIL will be held next week with those who have been affected by suicide being encouraged to come down and remember those they have lost. The event will take place on World Suicide Day, September 10 at 8pm in Pearse Park. People are invited to light a candle to remember loved […]

THE 4th annual #TieDayFriday fundraiser for Kerry Mental Health Association will take place across the Kingdom on Friday, October 4. School children, students, teachers as well as office, remote, hybrid and outdoor workers of all ages are being asked to simply wear a tie, post a picture on social media […]

AUTOMOBILI Italia 24 takes place this Saturday, September 7 and it promises to be a great day out for anybody with an Italian motorbike or car. The event starts at 10am at Ballygarry Estate Hotel.  The cars will be on display until 12.15pm and then they head for Killorglin/Cromane before a […]

A TRALEE native has been selected as 2024 Kerry Person of the Year while the Kerry All Ireland Ladies Senior Football team and their management team were selected as 2024 Laochra Chiarraí winners. Louise Quill, founder of Tír na nÓg Children’s Foundation, has been selected for the honour by the Kerry Association in Dublin […]

CHILDREN from schools around Tralee headed back to the books this week and for the little ones, it was a particularly big step. Of course it all went smoothly and at Blennerville NS, teacher Edel O’Sullivan made her junior infants feel welcome the moment they arrived. At Presentation Primary, parents […]

THIS week marked the beginning of a special journey for hundreds of youngsters in the Tralee area with the first day of school for junior infants. CBS Primary School welcomed two classes and their teachers, Ms Quirke and Ms Donoghue had them settled in in no time, aided by the […]