Archive for November 26th, 2015

PRESENTATION Secondary School Tralee held its annual school mass on Friday last, attended by Presentation sisters to mark Presentation Day. Following on from the mass, a special celebration was held in the secondary school for the Presentation sisters to mark the Year of Consecrated Life and to thank the Presentation […]

THE price of petrol has risen fractionally over the course of a month, bringing an end to the trend of falling prices which we’ve seen since the beginning of the Summer. Last month the cheapest price was €1.27.8 now it’s €1.28.8 in the town’s Applegreen stations in Manor Village and Fairies Cross. Just behind Applegreen, […]

Advertorial AREN’T we gone all American these days? You can’t go online, listen to the radio or open a newspaper in the past few days without ‘Black Friday’ assaulting the senses. The US tradition of the Friday after Thanksgiving being the busiest shopping day of the year, has reached Ireland over […]

KERINS O’Rahilly’s trainer, Maurice Horan, has been appointed as a member of the Mayo senior footballers backroom staff. Horan will take over video analysis for the Connacht champions. It was announced when new manager, Stephen Rochford, finalised his management team. Though a native of Ballinrobe, Mayo, the former Limerick manager has […]

TRANSITION year students of Mercy Mounthawk, produced their own fashion show on Wednesday night in aid of the the school building fund which was attended by hundreds of students and their families. A huge amount of effort was put in by the students who took part in every facet of […]

OVER the last few weeks, former Mounthawk student, Cian Sullivan, gained national attention after he became only the eighth Irish basketball player – and the first Kerry man – to sign a contract to play with a US College (see previous story). At the beginning of the month, news spread that the Ballymac teenager had […]

THE rehearsals are in full swing now ahead of the St Pat’s Strictly Come Dancing event next week. The 12 couples will take to the stage in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday, December 4 in a fundraiser to help pay for their new astro-turf pitch and they’re being put through […]

A CAHERLEAHEEN pupil will have the honour of switching on the Christmas lights this Saturday with Kieran Donaghy. Tralee Chamber Alliance ran a colouring competition in most of the primary schools in the Tralee area from Derryquay to Ardfert where the children had to colour in an image. The prize was that the winning artist […]