Archive for November 21st, 2015

  A KERRY woman who bought her a €500,000 winning ticket in Dunnes Stores earlier this month has collected her winnings from the National Lottery offices. The unnamed woman won the cash in the EuroMillions Plus draw on Friday, November 6. “I can’t wait to spoil my children and grandchildren,” she said, as she collected […]

MERCY MOUNTHAWK students made full use of the multi-coloured powdered paint that was doused on participants as part of their colour run. The secondary school hosted its first ever 5k event of its kind on Friday, as part of Health Promotion Week at the school. Teachers and students saw the run as […]

THE queue stretched back all the way back to Penneys on Friday night, as hundreds turned up for the CH Chemists Customer Night on Friday. The annual event is always a huge hit, with customers from near and far converging on the Tralee institution to really kick off the shopping season. […]

THERE was a wonderful array of crafts and food on sale at the annual Recovery Haven Christmas Craft Fair on Friday afternoon. A steady stream of people arrived at the Haig’s Terrace centre from 4-8pm to see and buy some of the knitwear, cakes, jams, jewellery and Christmas decorations on show. Continued below… […]

BRILLIANT! After Tralee man, Joe Griffin, shot to fame last week in his GoPro fail video in Las Vegas, he was invited by the Nevada city’s tourism board to film a promo to show the city’s attractions. Well it certainly didn’t take them long to put it together! Having flown […]

A LOYALTY scheme that had involved three local businesses in Manor, Tralee has been rebranded and has expanded to include two new shops. Sullycard, founded by Seamus O’Sullivan who has the well known butcher’s shop in Manor, is now known as B Local. “Sullycard was great but now we have developed to B […]

SCOIL Treasa Naofa, Kilflynn, has been added to the list of approvals for the additional accommodation grant. The Kilflynn school has been approved for funding to construct one 80m2 mainstream classroom and one 20m2 staff room. “This funding is welcome as it will create a better learning environment for the students and staff […]

THE Kerry Group Global Technology & Innovation Centre by Arup, a state-of-the-art, flagship facility in County Kildare, has won the prestigious title of Engineering Project of the Year at the Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards. The project, which created 900 jobs over a three year period and featured a €100 million euro […]