Archive for July, 2015

Parnells Cúl Camp: Parnells Cúl Camp applications are available from club mentors.  Our hurling and camogie Cúl camp takes place the 10th to the 14th of August. Families can also book online.  To avail of family discounts (for 2nd and 3rd children), all bookings must be made in one transaction. […]

LOTTO The lotto was held in the Halfway Bar on Monday, 13th July 2015 for a lotto jackpot of €7,400.  Numbers drawn were 3,4,10,16.  There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Jer Lynch, Kielduff 2. Gerry O Shea, Kielduff 3. Ted Fitzgerald, Clash Tralee 4. Geoff Riordan, Kielduff 5. John […]

Lotto: There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 08, 11, 22 & 28. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Kathleen Murphy Derrymore West, Betty Enright c/o Rock St. PO, Cian Harris Leath, Tralee, Margaret Kieran c/o Kevin Quirke and […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Round 8 of the Co. League goes ahead in Connolly Park on next Saturday evening (25th July) with Killarney Legion the opposition. Throw in 7pm. Legion are currently in third spot on the League table, just one point behind League leaders, Dr. Crokes and level with Castleisland Desmonds, both of […]

Senior Football County Football League Division 1 Round 8 Kerins O’Rahillys v Kilcummin on Sunday July 26th in Kilcummin at 2pm. Junior Co League Group 1 Semi Final Strand Road 2-17 Legion 2-10 The Junior Co Semi Final was played in Healy Park on Friday evening last in wet conditions and in front of […]

  THE Munster Final replay, was arguably the biggest match of the GAA football season so far and it didn’t disappoint lighting up twitter with comments from players, pundits and fans. Here is a selection of some of them best.   Kieran Donaghy lifted the Munster trophy in near darkness in […]

Abbeydorney 1-17 St Brendan’s 2-10 ABBEYDORNEY upset the odds with an awesome second half display to beat fancied St Brendan’s on Sunday afternoon. A period in the second half where Abbeydorney scored 1-6 without reply sealed the Ardfert side’s fate in this Senior Hurling County Championship first round match in […]

GARDAÍ are advising people to lock their houses and cars at all times after thieves struck at a Ballyard estate last night/this morning. Between 7pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday morning, a garage was entered in the Gleann Scotia estate in Ballyard. Continued below… Nothing was taken and the unlocked […]

THERE was a great atmosphere to be felt this past weekend as residents of the Criolar na Mistealach area came out in force to enjoy their annual Family Fun Day. With refreshments, lively music and a spontaneous visit from some of the characters from Disney’s ‘Frozen’, there was certainly no […]

Crotta O’Neill’s 1-17 Kilmoyley 1-17 CROTTA O’Neills and Kilmoyley will have to go again in the first round of the County Senior Hurling Championship after extra-time couldn’t separate the sides on Sunday afternoon in Causeway. They’ll now have to do it all over again next Sunday, July 26 at the […]

THERE was no men’s golf this weekend. Fixtures Sunday 26th July  Presidents Prize (Eugene O’Callaghan) Results Senior Men (Wednesday 15th July) 1st Billy Morrissey (15) 26pts 2nd eddie Enright (23) 25pts 3rd Denis Mannix (18) 25pts 4th P Corcoran (28) 24pts + 24 Paddy Nagle (19) 23pts Ladies results Wednesday  15th July  singles sponsored by (Patrick Stack, […]

THREE Kerry beaches have recently been named amongst the 30 best beaches in the entire country. The list which was compiled and published on Saturday in the ‘Irish Independent’ took into account the beaches best for families, surfers and swimmers. Firstly, the famous and wonderful Inch Beach starts off the trilogy […]

A TRALEE man pushed himself to the limits at the weekend as he competed in the ‘Energia 24 Hour Race’ in Belfast on both Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18. Tom Foley, a native of the Mitchel’s area, and an active member of the ‘Born To Run’ marathon club here […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Kilmoyley on Sunday evening for the Garveys Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship game between Ballyduff and Causeway…  Causeway 2-12 Ballyduff 0-10 Another great welcome awaited the followers of the ancient game when we travelled to one of the most scenic hurling fields in The Kingdom. Again, the folks […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the main talking points from last night’s big game in Killarney, plus loads of action shots from the match below… 1. David Moran a colossus It had been spoken about in the build up, that Kerry had to win midfield if they were stand any chance […]

THE weather may have been a disaster and the less said about the traffic after the better, but we won and we’re off to Croker in a few weeks. Kerry fans turned up in their thousands again for the replay in Killarney and we walked through the town centre to […]

THE weather was unkind at times, but ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ still has the power to transfix audiences as proven by the turnout in the Town Park on Friday night. The heavens opened but Indy’s antics were enough to distract over 350 people from the rain as the Secret Cine Club’s opening […]

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. It would be easy to write an article on the life of  Galileo, but in fairness there is so much […]

A FANTASTIC victory for Kerry tonight but it’s a good thing it didn’t go extra-time…we’d have had to get our phones out to light the pitch. The skies and Cork people were the only things gloomy about Fitzgerald Stadium at 8.30pm tonight, as Kieran Donaghy became the first Austin Stacks […]

  IF you’re going to the match in Killarney later I have some bad news for you. A hard rains gonna fall. Met Eireann’s forecast for Kerry and the rest of Munster this evening is for very heavy showers to come in from the west before match time (7pm) with the risk […]

IF traditional music is your thing, then a visit to Kirby’s Brogue Inn is a must on Tuesday. TG4 are coming to the Rock Street hostelry to film a programme called ‘Feilte – The Wild Atlantic Way’. They will be filming  local artists singing and playing music – including two All-Ireland singing […]

TRALEE gained another new shop today after the official launch of the ‘321 Down Syndrome Kerry Shop’ by a Kerry footballer went down a treat for all those that attended. The shop which is located on 11 High Street, just opposite the Kerry School of Music has been open just three […]

THE craic and the style was mighty in Killarney Racecourse on Thursday for the Dawn Dairies Ladies Day. We’ve brought you the story of the winners of Best Dressed Lady and Most Stylish Hat (click here) and photos of glamorous women and some dapper gents (click here). Here’s our final […]

Mike O’Halloran on the opening fixture of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship between Lixnaw and Ballyheigue in Abbeydorney on Friday night… Lixnaw 0-17 Ballyheigue 0-15 Surely, Abbeydorney must be the sporting and cultural capital of Kerry. The village has a long tradition in the organisation of drama, music […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at this evening’s match between Kerry and Cork and says Kerry’s regular midfield pairing will be the key to victory… SPEAKING in the aftermath of the drawn match, Eamonn Fitzmaurice said “it doesn’t take a genius to know we didn’t have a great day on the line”. […]

  AN amazing endurance challenge is being held in September to raise much needed funds for the ‘Kerry Cancer Support Group’ and they need your help. The ‘54321’ Challenge is about teams of five people, over four days doing three cycles and hiking two mountains for this one cause. The arduous challenge […]

  A TRALEE man has had a dream start to his horse training career when one of the world’s biggest owners purchased two of the horses he is training. Twenty-six-year-old Michael O’Callaghan is in just his first full season with a licence and now Sheikh Fahad Al Thani’s Qatar Racing and Pearl Bloodstock […]

THE heat has been turned up on Kerry v Cork Munster SFC replay tomorrow evening by a former Cork footballer, who has accused Kerry players, particularly Kieran Donaghy, of ‘Plámás’ to influence officials. Writing in the Irish Examiner, Conor McCarthy describes Kerry players as ‘genetically cute’ and goes on to list […]

Former Kerry star, Barry O’Shea, says Kerry will be better prepared for the Munster Final replay on Saturday, but need to be more aggressive and tougher this time out… Everybody I spoke to during the week about this replay was picking a different team. If you spoke to ten people, all […]

  THERE were early sightings of Roses on Wednesday evening for the annual twinning of the Roses with pubs. The 2014 Rose of Tralee, Maria Walsh, was on hand to do the honours in the Fels Point Hotel on Wednesday where pubs found out which Roses, their families and supporters they would be […]