Archive for July, 2015

WHAT is wrong with getting old? Why is it suddenly a trend to knock years off your age? Growing old is a luxury not everyone is granted so enjoy your years on this earth and don’t try and hide your age. It has almost become an insult to refer to […]

  CO. BOARD ‘CÚL’ CAMP: This week’s GAA Cúl Camp in Connolly Park has been a great success. Well done, all! FAOI 6: (i) More football on Sunday. (ii) Our evening Under 6 football sessions will continue at 5.45pm on Thursday i bPáirc Uí Chonghaile. FAOI 8: (i) Our Sunday morn’ football […]

Acorn Life U21 Co Football Championship Kerins O’Rahillys 1-11 Kilcummin/Rathmore 0-10 A great team display gave us a deserved win over East Kerry side Kilcummin//Rathmore played at the Caherina grounds in ideal conditions on Saturday evening. Kerins O’Rahillys were in control from the throw in and had great individual displays […]

Croke Park Here We Come: A final training session in Caherslee was the last preparation by the under 12 girls panel travelling for the blitz games at Camán to Croker.  Excitement has been building and all are looking forward hugely to the day A first for Parnells Minors: Historic 1st […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Yesterday’s  SF result in Killarney looks like putting the Co. Champion fixtures back indefinitely, so rather than playing Dr. Crokes on Sunday next it now looks that our next game will be in round 8 of the Co. League at home to Killarney Legion on the weekend of the […]

Lotto: There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 08, 18, 19 & 26. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Eileen Langford Annagh, Peggy Quirke Stacks Villas, Denis McElligott Bawnboy, John Bowler 23 Lohercannon and Sarah Walsh Curragraigue. Next week’s […]

SENIOR MEN: County League – Round 8: Laune Rangers v John Mitchels – Sunday 26th July @ 2.00 p.m. AWAY Round 1 – Mitchels 0-10 – Templenoe, 0-06 Round 2 – Tarbert​ 0-08 – John Mitchels 0-14 Round 3 – Mitchels 0-16. – Spa Killarney 1-08 Round 4 – Kenmare […]

CONGRATULATIONS:To Andrew Barry who had an outstanding game and win last Sunday against Tipp, and well done to all the Kerry Minor squad on their great win. Many Thanks to the kerry senior team for some heart- stopping moments but thrilling  match. The very best of luck with the replay. TADHG LYNCH: Well […]

LOTTO The lotto was held in Ballygarry House on Monday 29th June 2015 for a jackpot of €7,200.  Numbers drawn were 4,7,17,27.  There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Tom Lyons, Chutehall 2. The Leen Family, Chutehall 3. K. Dalton, Listellick 4. DD Rahilly, c/o Geoff Riordan 5. Tom Lyons, […]

  THE most glamorous night in Tralee’s social calendar is the Rose of Tralee International Rose Ball and tickets are now on sale for the event which takes place on Friday, August 14. Preceded by a champagne reception, the award-winning Brook Catering will once again serve up a feast fit […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the big talking points from the Munster Final between Kerry and Cork yesterday… 1. Fitz got it wrong When the team was announced on Thursday night, there was a few selections that raised eyebrows. Not starting Kerry’s two best midfielders stands out now as the one […]

  THERE were 21 burglaries around Kerry in the past week according to Gardaí who described it as a very high figure. The burglaries occurred all over Kerry and Gardaí are looking for the public’s help regarding two incidents in Tralee. On Wednesday, July 1, between 4.30am and 5am the Tralee Furniture […]

IT was heart-stopping stuff for the people at the game yesterday, but for those who couldn’t make it or watch it on TV, radio was the only option. Radio Kerry’s Weeshie Fogarty and Gary O’Sullivan excelled themselves yesterday (as usual) and the excerpt (below) from their coverage of James O’Donoghue’s […]

THERE was incredible support for Kerry yesterday in Killarney. They easily outnumbered the Cork supporters in the 35,000 crowd and roared their hearts out as Fionn Fitzgerald sent over an equaliser to secure a replay on Saturday week in Fitzgerald Stadium. We were there for the game and captured the […]

EVERY Kerry GAA fan is still buzzing after yesterday’s thrilling Munster Final in Killarney. The whole country was transfixed as Fionn Fitzgerald knocked over the equaliser to set up a replay in less than two weeks time. Here’s how people watching the game reacted on Twitter… Before the game… Our […]

Kerry 2-15 Cork 3-12 BACK again in two weeks then, but only just! Fionn Fitzgerald proved the hero with an incredible equaliser to rescue a Kerry team who will be relieved to get out of jail after a rusty performance. Cork looked utterly dejected at the final whistle and  no […]

  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 […]

THEY came from all over the country and beyond for another amazing Ring of Kerry Cycle. Thousands of cyclists set off in waves from Mission Road, Killarney, on Saturday morning, from first timers to veterans of the charity event which is now in its 31st year. The biggest one day […]

WHEN the matches in Killarney are over, you’ll probably have worked up a serious appetite (and no doubt a thirst!) after all that shouting. Well there’s no need to grab a fast food burger and chip on the run when you can hop straight back into the car and be back […]

  OUR conditioning (the way we were brought up from childhood) is truly the most important aspect of our lives – it is what moulds us and shapes us as individuals and it is what creates an outlook on our world whether that be negative or positive. The one great […]

YESTERDAY we brought you some images showing how good the town centre is looking at the moment. We also took some photos of the Town Park on the same day with the intention of using them in that article, but having walked into the park I realised that the town’s greatest asset […]

Brudair’s Coffee Shop Abbey Court SOMETIMES you just want something simple. I was in town on Friday with a few jobs to do, so I  needed a quick, simple lunch and a cup of tea. I left the car in the Tesco car park and while strolling down Abbeycourt I realised […]

Gavin O’Connor looks forward to the Munster Final on Sunday between Kerry and Cork… THE last time Cork came to Killarney and beat Kerry in their own backyard, Take That were at number one, Gerry Adams was controversially granted a Visa in the US and Stan Collymore broke the then […]

THE ‘Friends Of Kerry General Hospital’ held their annual fundraising night to help procure specialised equipment for use in the hospital at the Kingdom Greyhound Stadium on Friday night. There was a large attendance there for 10 high class races on the cards for spectators and entertainment for the entire family on offer. GAA fans had […]

  A KERRY woman has scooped a top prize after being named the winner of the ‘Best Emerging Talent’ award in the ‘Photographic Best of the Best Hairdressers’ competition in Dublin last week. Twenty-one-year-old Maire Johnson from Ballydavid in Dingle, was awarded the title at the ceremony by a judging panel made of up […]

TWO Tralee players have been named in the Kerry starting line-up for the Munster GAA Minor Football Championship Final against Tipperary on Sunday (throw-in 12 noon). Andrew Barry of Na Gaeil comes  in for the injured John Mark Foley at midfield while Jack Morgan of Austin Stacks retains his place […]

SCOIL Eoin, Balloonagh, has been added to the approval list for the additional accommodation grant for the construction of two ASD Units and six mainstream classrooms. It was part of an announcement by the Department of Education that five Kerry schools are to be added to the list of approvals for […]

  HE’S one of the best known British popstars of the past 60 years and he’s on the way back to Kerry this September. Cliff Richard will celebrate his 75th birthday with a tour that takes in the INEC on Saturday, September 26, his first show there since 2009. The man has […]

MICHEÁL Martin was out and about in Tralee on Thursday as the Fianna Fáil party gears up for next year’s general election. While his predecessor was being grilled at the banking inquiry in Dublin about the economic crisis which brought the country to its knees, the current party leader looked relaxed on a sunny […]

  LIVES were nearly lost one year on the way to the Munster Final with Páidí Ó Sé behind the wheel according his nephew in his column in the Irish Independent today. One of the highlights of Darragh and Tomás Ó Sé’s recent articles in the national press has been the odd yarn […]