Archive for October 28th, 2015

YES, yes, we know Halloween isn’t over yet, but Christmas is only eight weeks away and people are already getting ready for it. The Tralee Chamber Alliance realises this and put up a Facebook post earlier today that they plan on putting on a Christmas market from Thursday, December 17 to Wednesday, […]

  I AM sure that by this point you have read at least some of the furious debates about sizing in the modelling industry. It has been something that has been talked about for many, many years, but there has never really been much of a change in the way that […]

THE call has gone out for nominations for the Lee Strand/Kerry Garda Youth Achievement Awards 2015. The awards scheme which first commenced in 1998 is designed to acknowledge the volunteering endeavours of young people from Kerry between the ages of 14 years and 19 years. Speaking at the launch at […]

MOTHERCARE Ireland has exited the interim examinership process and the Tralee store is safe from closure. There are 10 staff employed at in the Manor Retail Park, Kerry’s only Mothercare outlet. While three out of 18 stores nationwide will close, the Tralee store will continue to trade. Over 250 jobs in all will be secured after the […]

THE high tide yesterday evening caused sea levels at the entrance of the canal to rise right to the edge and over the lock gates. It was all because of the supermoon phenomenon which occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth, meaning the moon appears much brighter and larger than usual. […]

WE haven’t seen these before. Even though Tommy Collins uploaded these short videos (below) to his YouTube channel last year, it’s only in the last few days we’ve seen people posting the clips up on Facebook of Tralee and Blennerville in the 1960s. Eamon Keane does the voiceover in the short clips […]

A 5K CHARITY walk for the ‘Paint it Pink’ breast cancer awareness initiative took off from The Greyhound Bar on Sunday. “We did it because myself and participants involved know people who have cancer and we thought it would be a good cause,” said one of the organisers David Walsh. So far […]

ARDFERT Camera Club are holding their 5th Annual Photographic Exhibition at Kerry County Library, Moyderwell, Tralee on Tuesday evening November 3 at 7pm sharp which will be opened by Mayor of Tralee Thomas McEllistrim. The camera club has around 30 members of varying standard and has been in existence for nearly […]