Archive for August 6th, 2015

  The Kerry Junior Football Team that will face Mayo in the All Ireland Junior Football final in Croke Park on Saturday at 2pm has been named. There team, which will be led out by captain Alan O’Donoghue of John Mitchels , shows three changes from the side that started in […]

  THREE pilot whales were left stranded on a Brandon Bay beach this morning. Thankfully though, due to the rescue work carried out by a group of locals and tourists, the whales were returned to the sea safely. There is concern however that the whales are beginning to come ashore once […]

ONE Tralee woman is going all out to help raise awareness of an illness, which has personally affected her own life, but which is not very well known amongst the general public. Paula Walsh, originally from the Connolly Park area, will be holding a coffee and cake morning from 10.30am-12.30pm […]

  THE number of patients waiting on trolleys at Kerry General Hospital last month, was up 38% on the 2014 figure according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO). The 98 patients is the highest number for July since records began 2006 – the year when the INMO began recording the information – and 300% […]

WE know who the people of Boherbee will be supporting in the upcoming Rose of Tralee competition. Mitchels woman, Claire Connolly, got in touch with us to tell us about this year’s South Australia Rose, Chelsea Thursby-Milovanovic’s connections to Tralee. She takes up the story… “Chelsea’s granddad, Paddy Connolly, was born […]

KERRY ETB Training Centre’s, Tara O’Halloran, will be in Brazil next week showcasing her beauty therapy expertise as part of the 43rd World Skills Competition held in Sao Paulo. The competition under way next Monday, August 11 and will run for the entire week up until Sunday. Tara is a beauty […]

AN IT Tralee lecturer will see his documentary on an Irish doctor who survived the bombing of Nagasaki, released nationally tomorrow in selected cinemas throughout Ireland. Bob Jackson – who has been lecturing at the IT Tralee for nine years since 2006 – shot and created a film called ‘A Doctor’s Sword’. The documentary […]

RADIO Kerry has produced an excellently made video, voiced by Weeshie Fogarty describing what ‘Kerry is…’ featuring stunning images, including some from TraleeToday.ie. The short two minute clip, made by  Murt Mulcahy, was uploaded to Facebook before the match last Sunday and shows the Kingdom in a wonderful light as Weeshie describes his […]

THE global food producer Kerry Group with its headquarters in Tralee has recorded revenues of €3bn in the first half of this year. This translates as a revenue profit increase of 4.7% and they are expecting growth for the year to be between 6-9 per cent. Trading profit also increased by […]

KERRY North/West Limerick Labour Deputy Arthur Spring is encouraging parents in Kerry to give their views on how best to reform the childcare system, all as part of the new Labour Party campaign. Deputy Spring is asking people to partake in a short online questionnaire and submit their thoughts on […]