Archive for November, 2015

THERE was a great night of style and fun in the Fels Point Hotel on Friday for the Tralee Imperials fashion show fundraiser. A champagne, mulled wine and canapés  reception greeted guests on arrival at the event from which Kerry Hospice also benefitted from funds raised. Paul Galvin’s new collection for Dunnes Stores was displayed on […]

A LARGE crowd of over 200 attended Kerry General Hospital on Thursday night for a special mass and the unveiling of a new stained glass memorial. The stained glass was commissioned as a permanent memorial for the deceased staff members of St Catherines and Kerry General Hospital. It is located just inside […]

A NEW Craft Makers centre has opened in Ashe Street, Tralee, dedicated to showcasing and promoting the best of Irish craft and design. The new centre, located in a renovated Victorian building, has been brought about in collaboration with Eibhlin and Dick Henggeler of the Fels Point Hotel. With a particular emphasis on […]

TRALEE will get a tourism shot in the arm over Christmas and the New Year as hundreds of card players from all over the country descend for the Tralee International Bridge Congress 2015. The congress takes place from Wednesday, December 30 to Sunday, January 3 and will be held at the Manor […]

AW crap! Just as we were looking forward to the weekend, Met Eireann have delivered the news we were dreading. It’s gonna be wet and it’s gonna be windy. There’s a Status Yellow Rainfall Warning for Kerry, Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Clare with rainfall accumulations of 25 – 50 mm  likely over the […]

‘Black Friday’ signalled the real start of the Christmas shopping madness, but things are officially kicking off in Tralee this weekend and there’s a lot to get up to. Here’s a few suggestions… Saturday 1. Meet Santa and friends… CH Chemists are turning The Mall into a Christmas wonderland when Santa […]

  THE government officially announced the capital investment plan for Kerry and Cork at an event in Cork this afternoon. Part of the plan will see Tralee Garda Station refurbished along with along with an increase in Gardai and Garda cars in the county. In the IT Tralee, the Kerry Sports Academy […]

A NEW personal loan scheme that helps social welfare recipients is now available in Tralee Credit Union which intends on discouraging people turning to moneylenders. The ‘It Makes Sense Loan’ was launched on Thursday and is available from Tralee, Cois Sionna (Tarbert) and Killarney Credit Unions. The aim is to take […]

SIXTH year students at Presentation Secondary School Tralee took part in a sleepover in the school on Friday November 20 to raise funds for Syrian refugees. Forty-eight sixth year students took part in what was a very enjoyable night with a number of school staff staying the night also. The cheque […]

THERE was a fantastic crowd and atmosphere at BTS Fitness last night for a special fight night fundraiser which raised well over €3,000. The event was the brainchild of Akeem Molloy and his partner Katie Donoghue, who suffered a miscarriage last year and therefore decided to raise funds for the Miscarriage Association […]

  A DEMONSTRATION will be held in Tralee this Friday evening by Sinn Féin in Kerry, to protest at the government’s response to the current situation in the health service, which this week has seen nurses vote for strike action in emergency departments throughout the country. The demonstration is part of […]

IF you’re thinking of a career in An Garda Síochána, then now is a good time to apply. They have just announced a recruitment campaign for 600 new members in 2016. “We’ve always attracted way more applicants than available positions,” Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said today. “We want to build on that, attracting people from […]

A SURVEY by travel website Trivago reports that Tralee and Athlone are the only towns in Ireland who recorded an annual fall in hotel prices in 2015. In Tralee prices fell by 2%, making the average price of a room in town €91. In contrast Dingle saw their hotel price rise by 38% […]

YOU may have seen the Six-One news earlier this month and the feature on the national Scifest Awards which took place in Marino, Dublin. If you did, you will have seen the amazing project by three young women on harnessing wave energy and reducing coastal erosion. What you may not have realised […]

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 […]

IF you’re heading for a treat to McDonald’s in Tralee this Saturday, your guilt at tucking into that Big Mac might be assuaged by the fact your contributing to a very worthy cause. McHappy Day takes place at McDonald’s restaurants nationwide on Saturday, November 28 where €1 from every Big Mac […]

A TRALEE athlete who has enjoyed a stellar career in running was honoured at the Run The Kingdom Awards in the Fels Point Hotel last night. John Griffin received the Hall of Fame Award at the event which saw numerous awards handed out to participants. The 1988 and 1989 Dublin City Marathon […]

TRALEE was named the Best Large Tourism town in Ireland at the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Towns earlier today (see story here), so what impressed judges so much that we were awarded the honour? Here’s the judges’ comments on the town and it makes for great reading… • The impression and reality […]

IN fantastic news for the town, Tralee has won the top tourism town in Ireland at the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Towns awards. Tralee beat off neighbours Killarney and the two other nominees in the Best Large Town category to claim the prize. It’s an incredible boost to tourism and richly deserved considering the amount of effort […]

THERE are times in everyone’s life that they need a listening ear, be it due to stress, bereavement or indeed just life itself. Unfortunately there is still a stigma attached to the idea that anyone would need to see a counsellor. I don’t understand why, because counsellors are highly trained […]

IT Tralee students enjoyed a night at the races in The Greyhound Bar on Tuesday night, all for a great cause. It was organised by students from the Travel and Adventure Tourism Management course at the college as Marguerite O’Brien from Ballylongford explained. “As part of our events management module […]

FORMER Austin Stacks player, Liam Kearns, has been appointed as the new Tipperary senior team football manager. He will take over the reins from Peter Creedon in the Premier county that has been building a promising side over the last few years spurred by underage success. Kearns was in charge […]

AIB hosted a lunch event for women in business on Tuesday. The event in Ballyseede Castle shared findings from research the bank has undertaken on the barriers that women face when setting up a business and heard insights from the invited guests on how the bank could support women to set up and grow […]