Archive for June, 2015

WHILE Ballybeggan is looking forward to welcoming back racing at the upcoming Kerry International Horse and Pony two-day festival on June 27-28, there was a different type of horsepower on display last weekend at the famous course. A new video, released by ‘Kerry Motor Club’ for the 2015 Autosolo Championship, shows there […]

KERRY has been ranked amongst the elite of Europe for family holiday destinations in a new feature by the travel heavyweights ‘Lonely Planet’. The kingdom is joined in a top ten list of ‘Best Places For Family Holidays In Europe 2015’, by some of the most spectacular and iconic tourist destinations […]

THE SPA/FENIT branch of the Kerry Hospice are joining forces with local artists to raise funds for the Palliative Care Unit in Kerry General Hospital. ‘A Midsummer Art Exhibition’ will take place in the Oyster Tavern, this Sunday, between 3pm and 8pm. Highly acclaimed artist, John Hurley, has kindly donated […]

Our football columnist, Barry O’Shea, says Kerry has built an impressive squad of players over the last year,  which is something that will be vital later in the year… MAYBE some people expected a bit too much from Tipperary. They’re building a young side and Kerry are All-Ireland champions who have […]

  THIRTY-NINE Kerry primary schools, including many from the Tralee area, will receive the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Primary Science and Maths (DPSM) Award of Science and Maths Excellence. Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD, made the announcement that, overall, 549 Irish primary schools across the country will receive this […]

WELL, you can’t say that you weren’t warned! A photo of a warning sign on a gate near Fenit has been doing the rounds on social media (we saw it on the West End Bar’s Facebook page) after it was spotted earlier this week. You really couldn’t have come up with a […]

  IF you’re heading to the Killarney Festival of Music & Food later this month, it’s worth noting that children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult, with an incredible line-up of  activities for the young ones. The family-friendly boutique festival, which is taking place on June 27-28 at Killarney […]

A LOCAL youth group is currently on the look-out for support from the people of Kerry after they recently entered into the Irish Cancer Society’s X-HALE Youth Awards. ‘Transforum Alley Youthreach’ which is based in Tralee has entered its film project entitled ‘Drag’ (see video below) into the Awards and […]

IT TRALEE and the Kerry Education and Training Board reaffirmed their partnership on Monday evening in the North Campus. Both organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue to maximise opportunities for learners in Kerry. The MOU reaffirms both organisations commitment to working collaboratively as they have done since 2007. […]

LAST week saw more than 500 people attend the launch of the new book about the life and success of the Kerry athlete, John Lenihan, which is entitled ‘Tough As Leather’. Lenihan, the former ‘World Mountain Running Champion’ from Ballymac, has run more than 140,000 miles during his illustrious career, the […]

LAST Friday the Kerry U14 soccer team, pulled off one of the shocks of the year by defeating Dublin Districts Schoolboys League in the Kennedy Cup Final. There was a huge reaction all around the Irish soccer scene and beyond with fans, journalists and a former GAA star expressing their […]

SO the sun has made a very welcome return to our lives this week, isn’t this always the case when thousands of students are sitting state exams? Thankfully for most of the exam students, they are finally over and they can finally enjoy the well-earned holidays.  Unfortunately, we as a […]

A mixed weekend on the football field for our Senior teams, with the Senior team losing narrowly to Castlegregory and the B team winning well against the same opposition. Div 4 Co. League Churchill were narrowly defeated at home on Saturday evening by Castlegregory. In a low scoring 1st half […]

Senior Football Credit Union Senior Co League Division 1 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-10 Dr Crokes 0-14 We were very unlucky not to come away with a draw in this evenly contested Div. 1 game played at Lewis Road in ideal conditions on Saturday evening last. There was nothing between the sides […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Austin Stacks 3-10; Dingle 0-10. Three first half goals set us on the road to victory in this round 6 game of the Co. League played in ideal conditions in Connolly Park on last Saturday evening (13th June). Both sides had wides early on before Dingle opened the scoring […]

SENIOR MEN: County League – Round 6: Rathmore v John Mitchels We played away to Rathmore in Round 6 of the Co. League last Saturday evening. This was always going to be a very difficult encounter. Rathmore dominated the first half resulting in a score of 2-04 to 0-02 at […]

NA GAEIL U 16: Our lads are not only talented on the field with a ball but also have talents to entertain us from the stage. Come along to the clubhouse on Saturday, June 27th at 8.30 pm to see our lads put on a show with a difference. There will […]

Lotto: There was no winner of last week’s jackpot of €6,000. The numbers drawn were 07, 09, 21 & 24. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Joan O’Hara c/o Poff Motors; Audrey Moran c/o Rock St PO; Tony Donoghue, Clahane; Carol O’Shea, Curraheen & Maureen Walsh, Lohercannon. This week’s […]

​​​​​LOTTO The lotto was held in Glenduff House on Monday, 8th June 2015 for a lotto jackpot of €6,900.  Numbers drawn were 2,9,12,21.  There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Der & Mary Lynch, Kielduff 2. Pat McDonnell, Rathanny 3. Susan Arthurs, Kielduff 4. Tim Ryan, Rathmore 5. Michael Brosnan, […]

Under 8 boys Blitz: We travelled to Kilmoyley with close to 30 players for an U8 blitz Monday evening the 8th. Our two teams performed very well with both teams winning two out of their three games. The decision to train this group twice a week since last November is […]

  SINCE 2011, the six sitting Kerry TDs have received a combined total of over €3.6m in salaries and expenses. With figures obtained by an ‘Irish Mirror’ investigation team through the Freedom of Information Act, it was revealed the total gross amount paid out to Kerry TDs in salary and expenses between 2011 and […]

  GARDAÍ are looking into a number of break-ins  in and around Tralee in the past 10 days. Last Monday, June 8, the Kingdom Care Charity shop at the Mart was broken into at around 4.40am. A rock was  thrown throughout the window and thieves gained access stealing what is […]

  JOHN Mitchels GAA club’s premises on John Joe Sheehy Road was broken into twice last week, with thieves taking alcohol from the bar on both occasions. On Wednesday, June 10, at 4.30am, the window of the premises was broken, as was the window of Walter Lyons furniture shop in […]

Gavin O’Connor assesses the Kerry v Tipperary game and looks at what we learnt from the victory… 1. The Gooch hasn’t lost his touch Colm Cooper seems to be timing his comeback perfectly. After playing only ten minutes of action in the league, there were worries it may take him […]

  WHILE it might be sometimes easy to forget that we live in a beautiful part of the world, it only takes a simple video like the one below to make you stop and take note. Alanna Diggin, a local filmmaker and internet blogger, spent a few days filming in […]

THE Féile na mBláth @ The Park festival saw more crowds flock down to the festivities in what was a fantastic family event, thanks in part to the amazing weather. Crowds of families, couples and interested tourists strolled through the various stalls and entertainment set-ups with most stopping for a glance and staying […]

KERRY fans came up in their thousands to Semple Stadium on Sunday to watch their team advance to another Munster Final next month. It was a glorious day in Thurles for the Tipperary v Kerry encounter with people from all corners of the county wearing Kerry jerseys of  green and gold, blue, navy, white and even pink […]

WHILE the big prizes eluded most Tralee nominees at the the Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS) Awards on Saturday night, there was still much to cheer about. The INEC was the venue as over 1,200 members waited with baited breath for the winners to be announced. One of these winners […]

Tipperary 2-8 Kerry 2-14 “Job done” read the end of a tweet from the Kerry GAA Twitter account on the full time whistle in Thurles. That pretty much sums up today’s exercise. Kerry did enough to get past an ultimately disappointing Tipperary side whose challenge was snuffed out early in […]

  A WELL-KNOWN golfer took to Twitter earlier today to show his support for a returning Kerry hero. Shane Lowry, who is currently ranked at #55 in the world golf rankings tweeted a quick message about the return of Colm ‘ The Gooch’ Cooper who today made his championship comeback. On his Facebook […]