Archive for October 27th, 2014

​LOTTO The lotto draw for €3,800 was held in the Halfway Bar on the 20th October 2014.  Numbers drawn were 3,17,21,28.  There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Blake Leen, Chuethall 2. Brian McCarthy, c/o Half Way Bar 3. Esther O Connor, Scart 4. Tom Leen, Chutehall 5. Declan Lynch, […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL Austin Stacks 1-13; Mid Kerry 2-10. Both sides rode their luck in the closing stages of this Co. Final played at a drizzly and squally Austin Stack Park on Sunday afternoon (26th Oct). The last score of the game came in the 55th minute – the equalizer for Mid Kerry […]

SCÓR na nÓG FOR THE TRALEE & NAOMH BREANDÁN GAA DISTRICTS (a) Suggested date for the Tralee area Scór na nÓg (Under 17 years of age on 1-1-‘15) is 5th November (Wednesday). (b) Scór rules (especially new rules on quiz and on léiriú) may be read onwww.kerrygaa,ie. (c) Scór na nÓg dates: (i) semi-finals for Kerry South on Saturday November […]

Lotto There was no winner of last week’s jackpot of €12,900. The numbers drawn were 06, 10, 11 & 26. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Ann Hobbert, O’Rahilly’s Villas; Laraine O’Donnell, Ballyard; Eileen Magnier, Tonevane; Carol O’Shea, Curraheen & Peggy King, Mounthawk Manor. Next week’s Lotto will be […]

 JUVENILES Juvenile AGM –  The Annual General Meeting of the Kerins O’Rahillys Juvenile Club will take place on November 13th at 8pm in the Club Bistro. All welcome. U6/8/10 Girls and Boys  – Saturday last was the final outdoor session for this age group. Large numbers took part in their final […]

AWARDS NIGHT For under 12s and u14s boys Friday the 7th  of November at 8pm. All Ireland medal winners Andrew Barry and Paul Geaney will present the awards, so bring your camera. Club merchandise will be available on the night. RACE NIGHT The Club is running its annual Race Night on […]

Schools Blitz Success Just a few weeks after our three coaches started in 6 local Primary schools the club hosted its first blitz in the I.T. Tralee last Wednesday morning. Six schools and a massive 240 boys and girls took part. If this is a sign of things to come […]

AUSTIN STACKS and Mid-Kerry played out a draw in Tralee yesterday, taking the county championship into November when the replay takes place next Sunday. Killarney photographer, Don MacMonagle, captured the atmosphere in a video he posted to YouTube after the game. Watch goals from Kieran Donaghy and Donnchadh Walsh and […]

THERE was frightening shenanigans in the Scout Hall on Matt Talbot Road on Friday as the pupils of Blennerville NS enjoyed their annual Christmas party. “It’s something we do every year in the school. It’s a bit of treat for them really,” said Raphael Crowley of the Parents Council. “We […]

  A HORDE of Naries went west on Saturday for the stag party of Joe Griffin. The Kerries native and die-hard Kerins O’Rahilly’s man, set off with his brothers Mike and Kieran, buddies from the Strand Road Club and his dad, 85-year-old Pat, for a night in the wild west. “It’ll be a bit […]

  A PARADOX is what is known as ‘an apparent contradiction’. For example a well-known paradox is that famous statement by Oscar Wilde when he wrote “I can resist anything but temptation”. I have written many times in this column of how the ‘thinking mind’ doesn’t serve us well and […]