Archive for October, 2014

Our academy for ages 5 to 10 years continues every Saturday . All our coaches are fully qualified so your child is guaranteed the very best of Coaching .Proof of this is that our academy has been running since 2006 and over 100 kids attend every Saturday. The U6’s , […]

SENIOR MEN County League We have one match left in the county league, where we are at home to Laune Rangers. This match is fixed for Sunday 9th November @ 2pm. Coiste Tra li Championship: The Coiste Tra Li championship is provisionally fixed for the weekend of the 16th November. […]

​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 […]

THE Rock was well and truly out in force today when they took to the streets of the town ahead of today’s County Final against Mid Kerry. Out on the pitch the game ended in a draw, but on the terraces there was no doubt who was victorious. The scenes […]

Austin Stacks 1-13 Mid Kerry 2-10 BOTH sides will feel they left this game after them in what was a thrilling, Garvey’s Super Valu Senior Football Championship Final, in Austin Stack Park. Next Sunday is the date for the replay, but the venue is as yet to be decided. It […]

THE hard work paid off for hundreds of students of IT Tralee on Friday as they were conferred with academic honours. TraleeToday.ie was at the Brandon Conference Centre to photograph some of the 900 students celebrating on the day. If you missed out previous coverage click here and here. Scroll […]

A CROWD of around 400 people took part in a march through Tralee on Saturday, to protest against water charges. The protest was organised by a combination of parties and organisations including Mandate, Unite, Sinn Fein, Right2Water, Independent TDs and councillors. “We all came together in this campaign; people from […]

Chopin’s Cafe And Restaurant Ashe Street I’VE already extolled the attractions of an Ashe Street establishment some months ago with a review of Mozarts. Of course it’s not the only cafe which takes its name from a classical composer. O the same side of the street but just on the […]

Gavin O’Connor gives his verdict on who’ll take home the Bishop Moynihan Cup today…  ON Sunday, Austin Stacks will be looking to bridge a gap of 20 years without a county title when they face Mid Kerry in Austin Stack park at 3pm. This is a final that has observers […]

Our rugby analyst, Mike O’Halloran, on Munster’s victory on Friday night… AFTER a very tense first half, full tactical box kicking and handling errors, Munster finally overcame the challenge presented by the star studded Saracens. This game was won by the forwards, especially the back row of O’Donnell, CJ Stander […]

THE ‘Haunted Hall’  is entering its final week and from today (Saturday), the public can experience the thrills schoolchildren have been experiencing for the past two weeks. The new seasonal attraction, which sees the cavernous Geraldine Experience in the Kerry County Museum transformed into a hall of horrors, has just […]

THEY come in their hundreds. They’re noisy and colourful. They are The Rockies fan club. We caught up with one of the Austin Stacks fan club’s chief organisers, Kevin O’Carroll, to get a sense of the mood ahead of the hotly anticipated county final this Sunday against Mid Kerry. “There […]

PRINCES Street was a hive of activity on Friday, as hundreds of students went in and out of the Brandon Hotel to receive their qualifications after graduating from IT Tralee. Over 900 students from the School of Health & Social Sciences; School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the School of Health […]

FROM the Brogue to St Brendan’s Church, Rock Street is decked out in black and amber. While there is bunting aplenty and flags hanging from every pole, businesses on the ‘Street Of Champions’ are also passionate in showing their support. We all know about the Kirby family’s passion for the Rock club, […]

  THE CBS Primary senior football team won the Cumann na mBunscoil Division 2 County Final on Thursday. In breezy conditions, the team, coached by Mr. Smith and Mr. Moynihan, took on The Monastery from Killarney. The game was played in the well kept John Mitchels GAA grounds and it proved […]

Halloween is looming so our movie guy, John Lyons, picks the scariest movies which may have passed you by… LAST Summer someone asked me an interesting question: “John, what’s the scariest film that you’ve ever seen?” I cycled through the obvious answers in my head: Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, […]

THERE were dramatic scenes when a car caught fire on the road adjacent to the Holy Family School playground on Friday afternoon. Nobody was hurt in the incident which occurred between 2.20pm and 2.35pm. TraleeToday.ie was passing at the time and took the video (below) of the incident. When we arrived, smoke […]

HUNDREDS of students and their families converged on The Brandon Hotel on Friday morning for the annual IT Tralee graduation ceremony. Caps and gowns were donned by the students as they are being conferred over three sessions throughout the day in the School of Health & Social Sciences; School of Science, Technology, Engineering and […]

WE received a huge response to the aerial photos of Tralee in the 1930s which we put up on the website on Wednesday (here). Following on from that, we also came across the only other aerial shots of the town on the ‘Britain From Above’ website, this time from the mid-1950s. Along […]

Gavin O’Connor takes a look at Austin Stacks’ road to the county final this year… ONE of the hallmarks of Austin Stacks charge for county glory this year has been their marked and continued improvement throughout the campaign. Stephen Stack and his men must take a lot of credit for […]