Archive for October 21st, 2015

Tralee Garda Station To See Improvements As Part Of €60m Programme

Tralee Garda Station To See Improvements As Part Of €60m Programme

October 21, 2015 at 5:47 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE Garda Station has been included in a national €60 million Garda building and refurbishment programme to build new and to improve and refurbish, existing Garda stations. The improvements will be in a number of areas including custody management, enhanced facilities for engaging with the public and improvements in welfare facilities […]

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Kerry GAA Received A Lot Of Money In London Over The Weekend

Kerry GAA Received A Lot Of Money In London Over The Weekend

October 21, 2015 at 5:08 pm Comments are Disabled

  KERRY GAA received a cheque for around €330,000 at a function in London at the weekend, according to the London-based newspaper, Irish World. The paper reports that a £243,000 cheque was given to Kerry GAA at the Kerry Association of London annual dinner dance in Cricklewood. With the exchange rate, that […]

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CBS Primary Cleans Up Well With Tidy Towns Award Presentation

CBS Primary Cleans Up Well With Tidy Towns Award Presentation

October 21, 2015 at 4:48 pm Comments are Disabled

  STAFF and pupils of CBS Primary, Clounalour, have been presented with their 2015 Tidy Towns award. Mayor of Tralee, Tom McEllistrim, visited the school Monday morning to present them with their award. The school was chosen as “Business Premises Award” for 2015. The award was accepted by School Principal, Denis Coleman, […]

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Zoe’s World: Don’t Undervalue Yourself Just To Be Seen As A “Nice Person”

Zoe’s World: Don’t Undervalue Yourself Just To Be Seen As A “Nice Person”

October 21, 2015 at 3:12 pm Comments are Disabled

  EVERYONE is talented. Whether your talent is being a pro footballer, or if you can make a mean batch of buns; we all possess some sort of talent, that much is true. In the working world, a place that I am slowly crawling towards, it seems to me that everyone’s […]

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PHOTOS: Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Students Get Number Crunching For Maths Week

PHOTOS: Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Students Get Number Crunching For Maths Week

October 21, 2015 at 2:54 pm Comments are Disabled

MATHS week took place at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí last week  and there were many displays around the school organised by the transition year students. Marking its first decade, Maths Week is the largest festival of maths in the world with over one million people attending events over the first 10 years. Story continued below… […]

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CBS The Green Students To Bring Donal Walsh’s Message To New Heights

CBS The Green Students To Bring Donal Walsh’s Message To New Heights

October 21, 2015 at 2:46 pm Comments are Disabled

THIS Friday CBS The Green Transition Year students will climb Killarney’s Four Peaks. The challenge has been organised as a ‘Donal Walsh memorial walk’ with the theme of the challenge being Donal’s own message of Live Life. Donal, a student of CBS The Green, accepted his illness with incredible dignity […]

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PHOTOS: Top ‘A’ Students Honoured By Mercy Mounthawk

PHOTOS: Top ‘A’ Students Honoured By Mercy Mounthawk

October 21, 2015 at 12:50 pm Comments are Disabled

MERCY Mounthawk held their annual awards reception for those who obtain the highest grades in Leaving and Junior Certificate exams in 2015 on Saturday. Eight students were honoured for their grades in the State exams with Principal John O’Roarke, in his speech, pointing out that only 0.6% nationally received 10A’s or more and they had 2.5% […]

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Incident Involving Female IT Tralee Student Not Being Treated As Abduction

Incident Involving Female IT Tralee Student Not Being Treated As Abduction

October 21, 2015 at 12:35 pm Comments are Disabled

  THE Institute of Technology Tralee has released a statement about an incident involving a female student near the Fairies Cross area on Monday afternoon. Reports of an incident spread quickly on Facebook on Monday evening, stating a woman – walking from Applegreen at Fairies Cross in the direction of town – had been the […]

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Cllr Locke Plays Down Threats And Hopes Monument Work Will Be Completed By End Of Year

Cllr Locke Plays Down Threats And Hopes Monument Work Will Be Completed By End Of Year

October 21, 2015 at 12:09 pm Comments are Disabled

A TRALEE councillor has played down threats to his safety and wants to focus on getting a Ballymullen monument to Tralee’s World War 1 dead  completed by the end of the year. Cllr Sam Locke brought a motion to Kerry County Council on Monday to erect two glass panels at the Royal Munster […]

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A Schmozzle, when the sides last met in the National League in March. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

The Tale Of Tomás Ó Sé And The Fight With Cork Players In A Pub

October 21, 2015 at 10:52 am Comments are Disabled

IN the latest nugget to come out of Tomás Ó Sé’s new autobiography, ‘The White Heat’, the former Gaeltacht clubman tells of the time Kerry and Cork players came to blows in a rebel held pub. The story gets all the more interesting when you add in Mick Galwey and […]

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Nearly 300 Homeless Cases Used Emergency Accommodation In Kerry Last Year

Nearly 300 Homeless Cases Used Emergency Accommodation In Kerry Last Year

October 21, 2015 at 9:58 am Comments are Disabled

THERE were almost 300 cases of homeless people using emergency accommodation in Kerry in 2014, while this year to date there have been 183 cases. The figures were revealed in a report on Homeless Services in Kerry presented by J0hn Breen, Director of Services in Kerry County Council at the monthly meeting […]

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