Archive for November 6th, 2015

AT last, he got it! Kerry’s unsung hero of the past number of years, Donnchadh Walsh, finally got an All-Star tonight on an occasion where three other Kerry footballers won awards. Goalkeeper Brendan Kealy was rewarded for his star shot-stopping efforts all year, corner-back Shane Enright’s solid performances were worthy […]

THE death has occurred of well-known Kerry GAA figure, Leo Griffin, today. Leo, who grew up in the Mitchels area, was a familiar face around town, but came to be known nationally when he accompanied the Kerry team of the 1970s and 80s during the glory years as their bagman. […]

AN artist from Tralee has shrugged of national and international competition to win the first ever Richard Harris International Film Festival Portrait Competition. The portrait by Charlotte Lee from Lahern, took four weeks to complete and features pixelated features of Richard Harris rugged face to signify the late Limerick man’s […]

Gavin O’Connor on Kerins O’Rahilly’s v Laune Rangers, in the  Senior Football County Championship Relegation Playoff at Castleisland 2:30pm TWO of the county’s most storied clubs will fight it out for their championship survival and for Kerins O’Rahilly it will be for a second year in a row. Last year, […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the Austin Stacks v Milltown/Castlemaine, Senior Football County Championship Relegation Play-off match in Castleisland on Saturday at 1pm THE 2014 champions will feel very hard done by that a year on instead of fighting for a Munster crown they’re fighting for their championship survival. It hardly seems […]

TRALEE-woman, Aislinn Kelly (21) has been presented with a University of Limerick President’s Award in recognition of the voluntary work that she undertook at Baile Mhuire Day Care Centre, Balloonagh, Tralee. She was one of 270 students at the university to receive an award and she was one of the […]

WELL that escalated quickly! In the wake of the death of iconic actress, Maureen O’Hara two weeks ago, the people at the Rose of Tralee Facebook Page decided to upload a video tribute to the ‘The Quiet Man’ star. It was an archive clip of O’Hara singing The Rose Of Tralee […]

A PAMPERING day in aid of the Recovery Haven charity called ‘Recover Your Sparkle’ will take place in the Fels Point Hotel next month. Tralee woman, Mary O’Donnell, of RTE’s Today Show, will be leading the day with an all of manner beauty therapies along with current Rose of Tralee […]