Archive for January 26th, 2015

CELEBRATION DANCE: Our dinner dance will be held in the Meadlowlands hotel, Saturday the 7th of February 2015. The  band Heart and soul will have you on the dance floor all night and our Senior and Junior team will be presented with their medals. €35 per person,tickets now on sale in clubhouse or […]

FOR those of you not in the know, the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) were held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, and again there was a Kerry connection thanks to Ballyheigue’s Don O’Neill. While we may not have had any winners in the acting categories, we still had someone to […]

  THE County Football League fixtures draw has taken place for 2015 with round one scheduled to take place March 22. The round 4 clash on May 10, between Austin Stacks and Dr Crokes will double up as the 2014 League Final. Last year, Austin Stacks and Kerins O’Rahilly’s both consolidated […]

Kerins O’Rahillys 10K The countdown is definitely on with only a weeks training left before the Kerins O’Rahillys 10K. It takes place on Sunday next the 1st of February. The run kicks off a great day of sport in the county with Kerry playing Mayo on the same day. Runners […]

SCÓR NA SINSEAR: Senior Scór for the Greater Tralee Area will take place on 11th February in Cill Dubh in the north-western part of Ballymac Parish. SCÓR NA bPÁISTÍ: The Tralee round of Scór na bPáistí will take place on Friday 27th February. Sean-nós dancing may be added to the […]

  GARDAI are appealing for information regarding a burglary on a shop in Ardfert. Collins’ Shop on Church Street was broken into on Thursday, January 22, between the hours of 5.30pm and 7.30pm. The shop has been broken into on a number of occasions in the past three months and […]

  GARDAÍ are warning householders that there are still people claiming to be from the local authorities going around saying  they need to check gas, power or water supplies. The bogus callers normally target areas where there is a large amount of elderly people living. What happens is the elderly person […]

THE Kerry Supporters Club came together on Saturday night in the Ballygarry House Hotel, to celebrate a successful year on pitch for Kerry teams and 25 years as an organisation following the green and gold the length and breath of the country. The silver jubilee gala event was made even more […]

A COLLECTION of colourised photographs from the 1930s have emerged to allow us a rare glimpse into Tralee’s past. We found a story posted yesterday by IrishCentral.com about a collection of colourised  photos by American photographer Branson De Cou. He took a series of images – while travelling around Ireland in the early to mid-1930s – originally […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Austin Stacks 1-14; Kerins O’Rahillys 1-9 On a beautiful night for football at Austin Stack Park last Saturday (24th Jan) our Seniors had a good win in the 2014 Town Championship Final thereby regaining the Roddy O’Donnell Cup which they last won in 2010. It was a good […]

LOTTO The lotto was held in Glenduff House on Monday, 19th January 2015 for a jackpot of €4,900. Numbers drawn were 13,17,19,20. There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Tony Marshall, Ballymac 2. Mary O Mahony, c/o Tom Leen 3. TJ Moynihan, c/o KGH 4. Ann Horgan, c/o Paula Silles […]

  THE Kerry Schools Cross Country Championships 2015 took place on Friday at The Demesne, Killarney and Tralee schools acquitted themselves well taking the Best Overall School awards in both Boys and Girls categories. Fifteen schools and 350 athletes competed in good, testing cross-country conditions, thanks to the preparation by Mike Horan and his […]

Winter Swimming We were greeted in Fenit , on Sunday , with a strong wind and overcast drizzle . 14 swimmers showed up to take on the challenge . There was a race planned , but the big waves put a halt to that and everyone just did their own […]

SENIORS St. Brendan’s League Fixtures 2015: Games that clash with the National League may be changed to an alternative date over the same weekend. Round 1 – Home to St. Pats, 30th January, 8.15 pm Round 2 – Home to Churchill, 8th February, 2.00 pm Round 3 – Away to […]

Lotto: There was no winner of our Club lotto draw on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 01, 10, 15 & 26. The five €30 consolation prizes went to William Counihan Curraheen, Tom Reidy c/o Euge McCarthy, Dylan and Luke Walsh c/o Poff’s Garage , Helen Kelliher Annagh & […]

  WHAT a week it has been. January is traditionally a quiet time, but this week it was far from quiet for me. Bright and early, I got a call from RTE to tell me I got a slot on the ‘Today’ show. The response from the people of Tralee […]