Archive for November, 2014

Transition Year Student, Aoife De Bhailís, describes the Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Students visit to Netherlands, Germany and Belgium last month… ON Friday, October 17, at the ungodly hour of 2am, the alarm clocks of Gaelcholáiste students and teachers alike began to ring. After months of counting down, hastily packing and looking forward to, […]

  ST BRENDANS  National School, Fenit, has won ‘The Award For Outstanding Achievement In Film Making For Special Effects’ at the FíS Film Project awards in the Helix Centre in Dublin. RTE’s Sinead Kennedy presented the award on stage, to pupils, Edward Stack and Allie Parker. “We’re very proud of […]

20 BLIAIN AG FÁS! 20 BLIAIN I RÉIM? What a great performance by Barry Shanahan and his team v Ciarraí Láir on Sunday last. A polished team performance, gan aon agó! The cooperative work rate was superb… eager attackers becoming defenders, energetic and unapologetic tackling and crowding of opposing players […]

U13s: Fenit Samphires 5 – Listowel Celtic B 1 On a wet and windy Saturday morning in Fenit our 13s had a very impressive win over Listowel. Again we were deadly in front of goals winning 5-1 which gives us 11 goals in our first two games this season. Goals […]

St Brendan’s Championship, Churchill 1-4 Ardfert 1-13 Churchill took to the field for this Brendan’s Championship Semi-Final last Sunday in the Spa short a number of regulars. In fact, Churchill had only the bare ‘15’, with no subs togged out. Against the current County Intermediate Champions, this was going to be […]

INTERNATIONAL competition beckons for former Tralee Imperials Basketball coach, Liam Culloty,  who has just been appointed assistant coach of the U18 Ireland Ladies basketball team. “I was delighted to get selected first of all. The international standard is a huge step up, but it should be a great challenge,” said […]

SO there is no doubting that Romeo Beckham is one handsome little dude. It is hardly surprising that he was chosen as the face for Burberry’s Christmas campaign. He has, as my mother would say, a great mix of both his parents. I wonder did he want to do the […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance and the retailers in the town have described the decision to introduce free parking for motorists in Tralee during December as an early Christmas present to the entire county. On-street parking and parking in Kerry County Council-operated car parks will be free from 1pm-6pm, Monday to Sunday […]

IF people were worried that the county final atmosphere generated by Rockie fans in Tralee would be lost in the vastness of Fitzgerald Stadium, they were sorely mistaken! Fans availed of the seven free buses to Killarney where the black and amber army marched up to the Lewis Road to the […]

WANT to relive the best moments from Sunday’s County Final between Austin Stacks and Mid Kerry? KerryGAA TV have uploaded the highlights to YouTube. Watch goals from Kieran Donaghy, Pa McCarthy, Gavin O’Grady and the final point of the game from Darragh Long here.

RACE NIGHT Na Gaeil is once again organizing an all-sponsored Race Night in its clubhouse on Saturday 22nd November at 8 30pm. The proceeds will go towards catering for our increasing membership, we now cater for over 500 players at all age groups female and male. This is a vital fundraiser and […]

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 Boys: Outdoor training for this age group has finished. Indoor will be starting soon. All details will be in the notes and posted […]

STEPHEN Stack, may describe himself as an outsider, but as the man that has steered Austin Stacks to their first senior county title in 20 years, he will forever have a special place on “the street of champions”. In two short years since the Listowel man took the reins at […]

AUSTIN Stack Park, is the venue for the AIB Club Championship Munster Semi-Final between Austin Stacks and Cork Champions, Ballincollig. The game will take place on Sunday, November 16. Throw-in as yet to be decided. After scooping the top prize in the county against Mid Kerry in Killarney, The Rock […]

Gavin O’Connor dissects yesterday’s Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC final and looks at the reasons the Rockies prevailed… Hunger I had mentioned in the run up to the first game that Mid Kerry wouldn’t come near Stacks when it came to hunger. This was most evident again in the second encounter. Perhaps the […]

BLENNERVILLE Windmill hasn’t quite looked the same over the last week. Restoration work has begun on the iconic building with the most striking aspect so far being the removal of its sails which were in need of repair due to the recent storms that have battered our coastline. During those storms of last […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL Austin Stacks 2-13; Mid Kerry 1-7 We had a blistering start to this Co. Final replay played at an overcast but mainly dry (light shower at start of play and a little rain in the closing few minutes) Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday afternoon (2ndNov) and led by 1-3 […]

Mark Doe Cookery Night: The date is almost upon us for the Mark Doe Cookery night on Thursday the 6th of November. Please contact any Parnells mentor ASAP to book remaining tickets. Doors open 7pm and the demo begins at 7:30. AGM Nominations Due: Nominations are now due, in advance […]

  The Winter Swimming got off to a great start last Sunday morning with 9 swimmers braving the cold squally morning and the choppy water. Some did a couple of minutes and a few more headed out around the buoys. Water temperature was measured at 10.2c . This year we […]

Lotto: There was no winner of last week’s jackpot of €13,000. The numbers drawn were 07, 09, 12 & 17. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Luke Mulligan, Tonevane; Mary Byrne, Annagh; Alan Walsh, Lohercannon; James Counihan, Curraheen & Sheila Leen, Kielduff. Next week’s Lotto will be €13,100 and […]

FAOI 15 BALLYMAC 2-10 NA GAEL 2-6 We finished the season in style winning the Coiste Tra-Lí under 15 championship last Saturday evening under lights at the Mitchels grounds Ballyseedy. Luckily the rain which had poured down all evening disappeared before throw in. When these teams met last year Na […]

I HAVE taken to touring Ireland with Youngblood Ireland which is a mineral luxury cosmetic company. It is designed by Pauline Youngblood a lady from LA with a medical background. She believed that after procedures that there was not a make-up range that was gentle to the skin that also provided […]

YESTERDAY was an incredible day for Austin Stacks players, many of whom had been toiling for years to get their hands on a Kerry senior county championship medal. We caught up with a few of them at The Brogue Inn and the Austin Stacks Clubhouse on Sunday night. TraleeToday.ie’s Gavin […]

GARDAI in Killarney are still appealing for the public’s help after two teenagers, from Tralee and Killarney, lost their lives in a road accident near Glenflesk in the early hours of Saturday morning. Sixteen-year-old Dylan McCarthy from Cois Coille in Tralee and 17-year-old Anthony Battles from Hazlewood Drive, Ballyspillane, Killarney died when […]

ON a day when the Austin Stacks team rose to the occasion to win their first senior championship county title since 1994, so did the famous Rockies’ support. Stacks beat Mid Kerry by 2-13 to 1-7 in a replay of the senior county championship final in Killarney and hundreds of Rock […]

TWENTY years. Kerry football was still in the famine years the last time the Rock won a county title. Back then, a young Pa Laide was instrumental in bringing the Bishop Moynihan Cup back to Connolly Park. William Kirby was still a Na Gaeil player, moving to the Stacks in […]

Gavin O’Connor on a momentous day for Austin Stacks… Austin Stacks 2-13 Mid Kerry 1-7 AUSTIN Stacks ended a 20 year barren spell without a senior county championship title in emphatic style against Mid Kerry in Killarney on  Sunday.. With the light dimming, captain Barry Shanahan lifted the Bishop Moynihan […]

TraleeToday.ie Editor, Dermot Crean, on why he’s hoping for a ‘Tralee’ victory today, despite not being a Rockie… I’M not a Rockie. I’ve never played for Stacks and I even hated them when I was a young U12 forward for Na Gaeil back in the mid 80s. At that time, Na […]

SINN Fein Deputy Martin Ferris says he will suffer any consequences, including prison, rather than pay a cent to Irish Water. The Kerry North/West Limerick politician was speaking in the Square after the protest march in Tralee in which over 3,000 people took part in appalling weather conditions. The protest […]

Oysters are in season and our food writer, Mark Doe of ‘Just Cooking’ in Firies, describes how to buy, open and cook them to perfection…  Oysters, you either love them or hate them. I haven’t always liked oysters, but discovered how good they are whilst working in Australia. Australia now […]