Archive for July 15th, 2015

THE lads at Paddy Mac’s on The Mall have posted up a couple of photos as their new bar around the corner takes shape. The bar, which has yet to be given a name, is situated at the old Baily’s Corner on Ashe Street and it’s expected to be open within […]

WITH the huge success of the Dingle Food Festival and the Listowel Food Fair over the past number of years, it only makes sense that Tralee should have its own cuisine celebration. Well Tralee Chamber Alliance is in the process of organising the town’s first food festival with the aim of showcasing the town […]

KERRY has been involved in five replays with Cork since 2002 and before that you would have to go back to 1987, when Billy Morgan and Co. effectively brought an end to the ‘Golden Years’ generation of Kerry football. Despite Kerry’s perceived good record in replays, since the turn of the […]

THE countdown to the ‘Rose of Tralee International Festival’ has well and truly started with less than a month to go until it all kicks off. With the festival comes a whole host of different activities that will take place throughout the week, including the ‘Rose of Tralee 10km’ run which has quickly […]

Our hurling writer, Mike O’Halloran, looks at the feast of Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship hurling action on the way this Sunday… Crotta O’Neill’s v Kilmoyley, Causeway 1.30pm Kilmoyley are riding high at the top of the County Hurling League and are seeking to get over the hurdle posed […]

  THERE was a great crowd in Castlegregory last week for the opening of the new ‘Original Kerry Craft Centre’ in the village along with members of Original Kerry. The centre, located on Strand Street in the village, has created a showcase store full of craft products from the county’s various craft […]

IF you’re heading to the Kerry v Cork match in Killarney on Saturday, don’t use the Franciscan Friary as a toilet. This is the fairly basic request from Fr Padraig Breheny of the order, who wrote to Cllr Danny Healy Rae to tell him that ten men were caught short while […]

IT’S set to be the fashion event of the year in Kerry with hundreds expected at The Kerryman Rose of Tralee Fashion Show in the Festival Dome on Sunday, August 16. The main attraction this year will be a salute to Irish designers, Irish fashion and Irish craft to celebrate Irish […]

ALRIGHT. Let’s just call a spade a spade here and address the fact that the weather has been far from pleasant around here recently. I know what you’re thinking, “no surprise there, it is Ireland after all”. But the fact of the matter is that it’s the middle of July […]