Archive for June 11th, 2015

  JOHN Mitchels sharpshooter, Alan O’Donoghue, will captain the Kerry juniors in Sunday’s Munster Championship Semi Final v Tipperary. The young forward has been in blistering form in the county league and is the only Tralee man in the starting 15, while Churchill players Michael Brennan and Cillian Fitzgerald are on the bench. This […]

  DAVID Moran will miss Sunday’s Munster’s semi final in Thurles, his club mate Barry John Keane makes his first senior championship start, while the Gooch returns to championship action against the Premier County. Moran and fellow All Star Paul Murphy miss out due to injury in a team which […]

  TRALEE will welcome the ‘Big Blue Box Challenge’ volunteers this Saturday, as they make their way to town as part of a Wild Atlantic Way fundraiser in aid of St Vincent de Paul. The cyclists, taking part in the Bank of Ireland sponsored event, are set to arrive at the Aqua Dome car […]

  TRALEE International Resource Centre (TIRC) are organising a seminar that will focus on children living in Direct Provision (DP). The event, which will take place on Friday, June 19 from 11am-1.30pm in St John’s Pastoral Centre, Ashe St, Tralee, will be entitled ‘Lost Childhoods’. The day will feature speakers from […]

  SIXTY-THREE women with addresses in Kerry had an abortion in the UK last year, up significantly on the 2013 figure of 51. The figures were gathered by the UK Department of Health and reveal that in 2014, 3,735 women from the 26 counties travelled to England and Wales for an abortion. This is a […]

LONG live the King…King James that is! A new GAA TV advertisment starring our very own reigning footballer of the year James O’Donoghue has hit the web and it’s definitely worth a watch to whet the football fan’s appetite for Sunday’s championship opener. We see the young Kerry star from the cradle […]

A PETROL Station in Caherslee, that has been closed for some years, will reopen by late July. The Top company signs are being erected at the old Tarrant’s Garage and work is currently ongoing to get the station ready. A source tells us the business should be up and running “in the next five […]

WITH good weather and a competitive game expected, Thurles is the place to be this weekend for any Kerry football follower. Tickets for Kerry’s Munster championship opener against Tipperary in Thurles this Sunday are priced at a very reasonable €15 for adults with U16 getting in for free. Both stands will […]

THE Eileen Sheehan Memorial Poker Run has raised which was started by Man United legends from the Stretford End Bar in Causeway eventually raised €2,500. The Run, organised by Eileen’s nephew Ray Flavin in her memory, took place on May 30 with Lee Sharpe and David May starting the event. All proceeds raised […]

FOLLOWING the success of the recent ‘Walk 4 Life Kerry’ (see here for story), people will be dusting off their running/walking shoes again  as a new fundraiser walk is organised for next month. The ‘Walk 4 Autism’ will be a 5km walk/run to take place on July 12 from the John Mitchels GAA […]

THE white flag has been raised and it’s all systems go for a bumper weekend for race-goers when Ballybeggan Park hosts the Kerry International Horse and Pony Racing Championships on June 27-28. The two-day family event, supported by Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry County Council, will see top class racing […]