Archive for May 6th, 2015

  THE death has occurred of Dr Arthur Spring. Brother of former Tánaiste Dick Spring, the well-known doctor and golf course architect died this morning at his home. The father of Kerry North/West Limerick Labour Deputy Arthur J Spring, Labour Cllr Graham and daughter Julianne, Dr Spring celebrated his 70th birthday just last month. […]

  A MOTHER of one, aged in her early thirties, was placed on life support in Kerry General Hospital after sustaining head injuries from a fall at a house in Caheranne Village in the early hours of Sunday morning. The accident occurred at approximately 12:30am on Sunday. The woman suffered the head […]

  THERE were 16 patients waiting on trolleys at Kerry General Hospital today according to INMO ‘Trolley Watch’ figures released this morning. It’s up on the 12 patients who were waiting on trolleys yesterday, while nationally today there are 465 patients waiting on trolleys in hospital around the country. The news comes […]

  A TRALEE photographer has today had two of his photos featured on national newspaper websites as part of a photography contest being held by ‘Top Oil’. Mark O’Sullivan from Caherslee, entered the photos into the ‘Life Unfiltered’ contest which is aimed at amateur photographers and saw his photos published […]

TRALEE has a new All-Ireland winning team after Mercy Mounthawk won a final yesterday in Dublin. The first year team clinched the All-Ireland Schools First Year B Final title at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, beating Presentation Kilkenny 40-14. “It was a massive achievement,” said Head Coach, Tomás O’Hanlon, when we […]

  TRALEE musician, Gary Keane, has produced a cover version of Hozier’s, ‘Take me to Church’ as part of the cork based neo-soul duo White Boys and it’s getting a lot of attention (see video below). Gary and his partner in funk, Eoin Walsh, who is from Cork, have knocked […]

  PLAYERS from clubs around the county joined representatives from Garvey’s Supervalu Group, county board officials and Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice for the launch of the senior football championship on Friday night. Taking place in the Tralee Supervalu store, Radio Kerry commentator and Garvey’s employee, Tim Moynihan, spoke to some of […]

  I KNOW that I am only half way through my schooling years, but I would like to believe that I have learned a lot. When I say this, I am not referring to all the maths equations that I have learned to solve (or not learned to solve as the […]

AROUND 700 hundred cyclists made Mercy Mounthawk their destination on Sunday as the secondary school hosted the Cycle Against Suicide participants. This is the third year of Cycle Against Suicide, which is an event that intends raise awareness of the mental health issues in each town it travels through with […]