Archive for December 9th, 2014

THE building which currently accommodates The Kerryman newspaper and AIB offices sold this morning at auction for €960,000. This was €85,000 over the reserve price. The tenants will not be affected by the sale. The property had a reserve range between €825,000 to €875,000. It was one of three Tralee properties […]

AFTER taking nearly six months to reach the 1,000,000 page view mark on TraleeToday.ie, we’ve got our second million in just two months. On October 8 we passed the magic million mark and yesterday, December 8, we went over 2,000,000 views from 190,000 users as our Google Analytics data shows (click […]

JACKIE Healy Rae was laid to rest yesterday in Kilgarvan where thousands of people turned out to say farewell to a Kerry political legend. Killarney photographer, Don MacMonagle, was there to film some of the service in the church. He has put together a video (below) with music played at the […]

RESIDENTS of Manor Village took part in an annual tradition on Monday night. Every December 8 they switch on the lights of their own ‘Christmas village’. The ‘Christmas Village’, celebrated its tenth anniversary and the ‘village’ has grown in size since the first year, as with every passing Christmas, something new being […]

THIS Friday has been declared a countywide ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ with people encouraged to wear the eye-piercing garment to school or work while contributing to St Vincent de Paul. The event is the brainchild of the people at Radio Kerry and replaces the annual live radio auction as a fundraiser for St […]

A TV special which captures the Home To Rome Cycle which took place earlier this year, will be screened on Christmas Day on Irish TV. The cycle, which brought Donal Walsh’s LiveLife message from Tralee to the Vatican, raised €170,000 for 24 different cancer charities. Tom Foley, Tralee, Maurice Brosnan […]

THE hustle and bustle has begun and Tralee is looking fabulous. There is a real Christmas feeling in the air and finally the weather experts are getting it right and we are experiencing some cold weather. So this week I am going to give you some advice on wrapping up […]

FRIDAY night presents a great opportunity to meet face to face with a legend of Irish sport, Brian Cody. The undisputed greatest hurling manager of all time, will be in town to present medals to the Tralee Parnells underage hurling teams as part of their awards night in the Meadowlands […]

Sean Taaffe of Sean Taaffe Hair And Beauty answers questions on all things hair-related in his new column for TraleeToday.ie… Q. I’ve long dyed blond hair and have had it this way for years. My hairdresser has recently refused to colour it and advised me not to use straightens or […]

Local writer, Anne O’Neill, gives her pick of the books for Christmas for all the family… Christmas 2014 lies tantalizingly on the horizon and the annual frenzy to find gifts for loved ones has begun. I’ve always been a great believer in gifting books at Christmas. They are, after all, the […]