Archive for July, 2015

IT’S well documented that Cork haven’t beaten Kerry in Killarney in 20 years but – barring odd the one or two – all those games have been tight. With the history between the teams, there has been very few hammerings. Most of the games have been tough battles, but more […]

Gavin O’Connor says we all love Munster Final day against the Rebels in Killarney. Here’s why… 1. The Almost Guaranteed Sunshine As sure as the Gooch breaking rebel hearts, the sun will be out on Munster Final day. Anything other than the glorious weather is a strange anomaly, like El […]

SOME Kerry season ticket holders have been left dissatisfied with the seats they have been allocated for this Sunday’s Munster SFC Final in Killarney. Many of the fans, who are seen as the most loyal Kerry supporters, have been left with tickets on the fringes of the main stand in Fitzgerald […]

IT was disappointing to see the despicable dumping that went on in the Mart grounds this week, especially in the light of the efforts of the people at Team Bramble. The group has been working tirelessly over the past few months making the town look great, helped by the local Tidy […]

THE Government has launched a ‘South West Action Plan for Jobs’ as part of its €250m regional jobs strategy with the aim of creating 40,000 jobs over the next five years. The South West Plan will cover the Kerry/Cork Region and will target sectors of the economy such as agri-food, tourism, life […]

DAVID Moran returns in midfield, Colm Cooper won’t start, but James O’Donoghue does, as the Kerry team to face Cork on Sunday was announced tonight. There are five changes to the team that faced Tipperary back in June in the semi-final. Stephen O’Brien and Donnchadh Walsh get the start ahead of […]

THE first part of an epic fundraising effort for cancer research began on Thursday night with a table quiz in the Mall Tavern. In September, Ballymac woman, Joanne Allman, will take part in a 1,000k cycle along the Wild Atlantic Way as part of an effort to raise €3,000 for Cancer […]

THE new official trailer for Michael Fassbender’s upcoming ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic hit the internet on Wednesday and it looks like it could be one of the Kerry man’s biggest and best roles yet, judging by the clip (below). Following on from the teaser trailer in May, where we only got a […]

WHEN Yummy Cafe Market opened in Tralee back in 2013, it was a breath of fresh air with its inventive food, cool interiors and a welcoming atmosphere for families. Sometimes a cafe or any business can lose its lustre, take its eye off the ball and slip in standards…but not Yummy! […]

DECLAN O’Sullivan will be taking his first steps in inter-county coaching when he teams up with his old mentor and clubmate, Jack O’Connor, with the Kerry minor team. This week, the Kerry minors are preparing to defend their Munster crown when they face Tipperary in the curtain raiser in Fitzgerald […]

A LARGE amount of refuse waste has been found dumped in an area of Tralee and has caused outrage amongst local volunteers who are part of the extensive clean up efforts taking place here in the town. The waste was found near the back of the Mart in Mounthawk. Team […]

IT was a proud night for John Mitchels as one of their men, Alan O’Donoghue, lifted the Munster Cup for the Kerry Juniors against Cork in Pairc Ui Rinn. O’Donoghue, played his part as Kerry stormed to a 1-20 to 0-8 victory against the old enemy last night, getting the […]

THE CEO of the IDA will be speaking to members of the local business community in town later this week in the Imperial Hotel on Denny Street at 1pm on Friday, July 3. The Abbeydorney native will talk at lunchtime meeting that has been organised by the Tralee Chamber Alliance […]

  THE Kerry Four Peaks Challenge has come and gone for another year with last weekend seeing 17 local and non-local climbers take on the toughest peaks that the Kingdom has to offer over a gruelling two day period. The climbs were more than just a physical challenge for those […]

  TRAVELLING by train could be a pretty cheap option for Tralee folk going to the Munster Final in Killarney between Kerry and Cork this Sunday. Irish Rail, are offering a price of less than €10 return from Tralee when you book online. They have also laid on additional services especially for the […]

  EAMONN FITZMAURICE has hinted that Paul Galvin is unlikely to play any part in Kerry’s Munster SFC final against Cork in Killarney this Sunday. Since sensationally coming out of retirement in March, the former player of the year has still yet to make an appearance for Kerry. “He is fit,” […]

  A FORMER Tralee Dynamos player has put pen to paper on a three year deal at Championship side Brighton and Hove Albion. Rian O’Sullivan from Camp, who has just recently completed his junior cert in Mercy Mounthawk, will now set his sights on a career in football at a […]

  WOMEN from all over the county will be flocking to Killarney Racecourse later this month with a chance of a trip for two to Milan up for grabs for the winner. Celebrities attending the Dawn Milk Ladies Day at the Killarney Races on Thursday, July 16 will include Glenda Gilson, of TV3’s […]

A BLACK-TIE ball held back in April in memory of a popular Spa man raised an incredible €42,161  for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA). Tommy Brosnan, from The Spa, Tralee, passed away at the beginning of last summer after a five month battle with Motor Neurone Disease. Last April, […]

A TRALEE architect’s building design, which scooped four national awards recently, is now shortlisted for the ‘2015 World Architecture Festival Award’. Louise Cotter, who is originally from the St Brendan’s Park area and now based in Cork, designed the Dún Laoghaire Lexicon Library building with her firm ‘Carr Cotter Naessens Architects’. It will definitely […]

AS the shadow of The Ring of Kerry cycle looms large for countless participants, this story of two men who did almost the equivalent of five Ring of Kerry cycles in five days will put Saturday’s cycle into perspective. Joe Moriarty and Ray Moynihan, cycled a total of 750k in […]

MEMBERS of the local ‘Inspired Project’ have been helping to make the town a little more colourful as they busy themselves tending to the flower boxes all around the town. The group were out yesterday as they watered and managed all the various flower boxes that are now in many […]

PÁIDÍ Ó SÉ featured in the last episode of the current series of RTE’s Legacy series about mammoth personalities from Irish life who have passed on. Twitter was alive with chitter-chatter about the former great and the imprint he left on the GAA landscape. Here’s just some of the tweets […]

I MAY yawn every time that I have to explain the internet to my grandparents, but truly I am not 100% sure what it is myself. I guess that it is a bank of never-ending information, a platform for all of our inner thoughts, a way of connecting and communicating with […]