Archive for September 30th, 2015

  KERINS O’RAHILLY’s are sweating on the fitness of Barry John Keane and David Moran ahead of their round 3 senior football championship match against East Kerry at home on Saturday. The Strand Road club’s manager, Barry O’Shea, said Barry John Keane’s ankle is swollen after last week’s victory against Milltown/Castlemaine. “It […]

  A ONE time winner of a Sigerson Cup title with IT Tralee has defended Colm Cooper in the national media after a scathing article by Joe Brolly at the weekend. Newstalk 106 GAA pundit, Colm Parkinson, has responded in the Irish Independent to Brolly’s assertions that Colm Cooper  “…is […]

THE BALLYGARRY House Hotel was the venue for the Kerry Business Woman’s Network Open Night on Monday. The night, which was well attended, played host to some of the most powerful women in business in Kerry and offered members old and new a chance to learn what the organisation can do […]

THE OFFICIAL launch of the ‘Ballyheigue Beard Festival’ took place in KL Kirby’s Bar in Ballyheigue last Saturday night and the call has gone out for more hairy people to get involved. All participants in the festival will grow their beards and collect sponsorship for charities until the big ‘shave off’ […]

A KERRY woman was interviewed live on American news WGN News which was broadcast to over 2.3 million people earlier this month, all in the name of research. Castleisland’s Niamh Geaney found fame earlier this year when she took part in an online experiment with called ‘Twin Strangers’ in which she […]

  STUDENTS from one local school were busy last week as they celebrated the European Day of Languages. Gaelcholáisate Chiarraí is the school in question and was home to different languages on the morning of Friday September 25. German, French, Polish, Romanian and Gaeilge could be heard over the school intercom […]

  FROM time to time, I think we all feel a little bit lonely. Whether it be that we feel alone in a crowded room of people, or whether we actually live our lives in solitude. Despite my personal only-child syndrome, I don’t think that I have ever been truly, and […]

THE ABBEY Inn is hosting a fundraising gig this coming weekend in aid of Tralee’s Ruadhan Hennessy who suffered extensive burns to his legs during a chip pan fire in Canada back in August. The ‘Rock for Rouie’ concert will take place on Sunday October 4 in the bar from […]

DEPUTY Arthur Spring is hosting a Childcare Public Meeting at the Fels Point Hotel,Tralee on this Saturday, October 3 at 11.30am and is inviting parents across the county to participate. “Raising children requires dedicated effort and each experience with child raring is unique. Therefore, it is important to hear from parents and their […]

DRONE footage seems to be quite popular with Kerry farmers bringing in their harvest and this is one of the best we’ve seen. The North Kerry area where the footage was shot by Aidan Harrington, was of Michael O’Halloran & Sons working on land located in Ballyheigue, Causeway and Kilmoyley. If even if tractors and […]