Archive for October 23rd, 2015

  TWO new counselling rooms in memory of the anti-suicide campaigner, Donal Walsh, were opened at the Console building at Balloonagh on Friday. Minister Jimmy Deenihan watched Donal’s mother, Elma, cut the ribbon on the rooms which will be aimed at counselling young people. The Donal Walsh Rooms in the national suicide […]

  A REALITY TV show which followed the life of a Tralee woman over the course of a year, won an Irish Film and Television Award last night at a ceremony in Dublin. Alanna Diggin, originally from Alderwood Road and now living in town, featured in the RTE2 reality show ‘Connected’, which […]

A PRESENTATION Secondary School Tralee teacher is the latest person to drive off with a brand new car courtesy of the Tralee Credit Union members car draw. There were plenty of smiles outside Tralee Credit Union, as draw winner, Kay Kirby from Ardfert, was joined by family members and ex-pupils […]

A TRALEE service station property was sold at a Dublin auction on Thursday for €490,000, making €90,000 over the reserve. The Monavalley property is at present let to Doon (Mayfly) Limited, and had a reserve of between €350,000 to €400,000 at the Allsop Auction where it was sold at the RDS on […]

IT was quite a day for hundreds of IT Tralee students on Thursday afternoon as the first of this year’s graduates received their qualification at the Brandon Conference Centre. Students from the School of Business Computing and Humanities were graduating on Thursday and we were there to capture the day in […]

A BALLYROE man has raised €11,216 for Enable Ireland after completing two mammoth cycles during  the summer. Last May, Tommy Sheehy cycled from San Sebastian to Barcelona in aid of Enable Ireland. The challenge covered 600km over the rugged landscape of the Pyrenees taking five days to complete. The following month […]

  Gavin O’Connor looks at the Austin Stacks v Kerins O’Rahillys Senior Town Board Championship Final, Ballymacelligott, Sunday 2pm THOUGH both sides have exited the county championship, their seasons are not quite over yet. Still, no matter the time or place, Tralee’s big derby is always worth winning for either […]