Archive for September 9th, 2015

  BALLYROE Heights Hotel and Stein Travel have teamed-up to ensure that one lucky couple will live happily ever after on their honeymoon. When you book your wedding reception at Ballyroe Heights Hotel and also book your honeymoon with Stein Travel, you could be in with a chance of receiving […]

THERE was great celebrations around town on Wednesday morning as the Junior Cert results were handed out to excited students. One young lady who had a special reason to celebrate was Róisín Ní Churraí, a student at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí who got 11 A grades in the exams. The Principal of […]

  WHO was Darragh Ó Sé’s most difficult opponent? What does he think of Joe Brolly? Who’d win in a fight between himself, Marc and Tomás? Expert interviewers from Tralee CBS Primary School, Enda and David, got the midfield legend into the Radio Kerry’s studios recently, to ask him about Kerry’s […]

THERE was a buzz of activity outside the gymnasium in Mercy Mounthawk, on Wednesday morning as expectant students waited to receive their Junior Certificate results. Among the high achievers were five students who received 10 A’s and four who got nine A’s. “We’re really happy as our students performed comfortably above […]

TRALEE Omniplex last night hosted the exclusive national screening/premiere of one of the most exciting and anticipated films of the year in Tom Hardy’s ‘Legend’. The omniplex was celebrating its eighth year in its new location at Fels Point and marked it by treating invited guests from the media and business community […]

THE employees of a two local businesses have decided that they will be donating all of their wages and takings from the day of Thursday, September 10 to help the Migrant Aid Offshore Station (MAOS). Hairdresser Cathriona Rohan and her team at Cathriona’s Hair Salon Tralee and Castlegregory have all […]

A MAJOR fundraising scheme to ensure Austin Stack Park will continue to host Kerry league games and enhance the facilities at the iconic Tralee landmark has been launched. A five year All-Ireland Final ticket-scheme, costing €1,000 a year for the next five years, has been created to encourage the business and wider […]

KERRY footballer Darran O’Sullivan, took time out from his preparation for the All-Ireland Final against Dublin in two weeks to drop into students at Coláiste Gleann Lí on Tuesday morning. Story continued below… The player delivered a workshop with the students on developing life skills through sport. The workshop is […]

Brian Caball writes about the Roger Casement Gathering which took place in Tralee at the weekend…. Tionól Mhic Easmainn 2015, or the Roger Casement Gathering, was held in Tralee and was hosted at Fels Point Hotel on Friday and Saturday last, 4th/5th September. The official opening was by our own Celine Slattery […]

  WHEN people think of Ireland, the first thing that seems to pop into their heads tends to be something to do with rainbows or leprechauns. This is an unfortunate scenario considering that our culture is so vast that it doesn’t need a dancing man in a green suit to […]