Archive for November 3rd, 2015

THE Donal Walsh LiveLife Foundation was the grateful recipient of funds raised from a cycling event held on the Ring Of Kerry earlier this year. The Wrong Way Round Cycle held in August saw over 400 cycling enthusiasts from all over Ireland travelled to Killarney for the festival where they […]

  MANY of the leaders of the 1916 Rising were writers and the new website www.1916-2016.net aims to encourage Kerry students to write contemporary poetry on its legacy. “The 1916-2016 and Beyond project, Commemorating the 1916 Rising and its Legacy in Poetry aims to imaginatively engage transition year students in the values […]

  THERE were 137 patients waiting on trolleys last month at Kerry General Hospital, making it the worst October on record at the hospital. The figures are also reflected nationally, prompting the Executive Council of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) to decide to commence a nationwide ballot, of all of its […]

GAA stars from both codes turned out for the Churchill GAA Centenary Golf Classic last Friday. Tralee Golf Club, Barrow hosted the very successful event in aid of their new pitch development fund. Many personalities from the world of sport and business were amongst the teams that participated, on what was a beautiful […]

LISTELLICK teenager, Con Gill, was just 10 when he began complaining of neck pain. What he thought was a crick in the neck turned out to be an extremely rare and aggressive tumour pressing on his spine. His mother Kay, warned there was a 50/50 chance surgery would kill her […]

  IT is one of the greatest photos of a Kerryman in Croke Park and it sometimes gets falsely attributed to the wrong man. The catch was made by Tommy Griffin in the 2006 All-Ireland Final against Mayo and often gets mistaken for the handiwork of his West Kerry neighbour, […]

THE draw has been made for the County Senior Football Championship Relegation Playoffs and sees Tralee sides facing Mid Kerry sides. Austin Stacks will face Milltown/Castlemaine while Kerins O’Rahilly’s go up against Laune Rangers in Castleisland this Saturday, November 7, with Stacks going first at 1pm and O’Rahilly’s at 2:30pm. In the championship this […]

APOLOGIES for not having a column last week, but I was in CUH having tests. I can now finally say that I am cancer free and boy what a feeling it is. For the last five years I have contemplated life and how it has changed completely for me. Pre-cancer […]

MERCY MOUNTHAWK will host its first ever 5k colour run on Friday November 20, as part of the school’s health promotion week. Transition year students are the core organisers of the run which will see students set off all in white and get doused in multi-coloured powdered paint with every kilometre […]