Archive for September 1st, 2015

THIS may be the greatest Kerry All-Ireland song we’ve seen and heard since Noel Nash’s ‘The Kerry Victory Song’ in 1978. The children at Thai Tim’s school over in Thailand have put together a song to cheer on the lads later this month. Thai Tim’s is a school in rural Thailand which […]

    KERRY County Council has announced that award winning artist/filmmaker Lisa Fingleton is returning as the County Filmmaker in Residence. This residency is co-funded by the Arts Council. Lisa Fingleton has over 20 years experience in participatory projects and recently completed an MA in documentary film at Goldsmiths College London. In […]

  WE’RE all really hoping for this mythical ‘Indian Summer’ some are predicting. After the miserable rain of the past two months we could do with some sunshine. Mind you, when the sun did come out, it tended to create a spectacular effect as the images below show. Sometime TraleeToday.ie photo contributor, […]

  ACCORDING to statistics compiled from the RSA website, Tralee has dropped down in the list of best of places in the country to pass your driving test. The figures from the year 2014 show that we have dropped out of the top ten places for the first time since […]

  THE Kerry Team Open Day, which had been scheduled for Saturday, has now been changed to the following day. It makes sense as Kerry boss, Eamonn Fitzmaurice, would obviously have to be in Croke Park on Saturday evening for the Dublin v Mayo All-Ireland semi-final replay. Instead it will […]

LAST Friday night saw the first screening in Tralee Omniplex of the WW2 documentary ‘A Doctors Sword’ which was shot and created by IT Tralee lecturer Bob Jackson. The documentary tells the story of how a young doctor from Castletownbere, Aidan McCarthy served in WW2 and who survived the dropping […]

CHRISSIE Hynde was someone who I always admired, but that certainly changed this week. The frontwoman for the brilliant band The Pretenders has made some crazy statements in her new book. She wrote about her own rape experience when she was 21 and attributed the blame to herself. Continued below… She […]

WHILE Scoil Eoin across the road opened last Thursday, there was great excitement on Monday morning when Holy Family welcomed the new arrivals. “It went very well this morning,” said Principal Ed O’Brien. “They were all very well behaved and settled in very quickly, so were delighted,” he added. Over in […]

  TRALEE folk are getting ready to dust off their walking shoes for a good cause on September 12 when they take part in the #Walking4Families campaign being run by the Ronald McDonald House Charities. It will be a fancy dress themed 5km family fun walk, (so dressing up is […]

  ARDFERT First Responders is to extend its coverage to now cover Ballyheigue and Abbeydorney and has revealed it has attended 23 emergency callouts so far. Ardfert & District Community First Responders was setup in May 2014 to support the National Ambulance Service in life-threatening callouts after a number of […]

  THE Kerry Choral Union has announced that they will be holding auditions for the Junior Choir this Saturday, September 5. They will be taking place in St Brendan’s Pastoral Centre in Upper Rock Street from 11am-1pm. Those wishing to attend can contact 087-4412700 for a time slot. For those wondering about […]