Archive for December 3rd, 2015

PUPILS at O’Brennan National School in Kielduff got a helping hand from a Kerry multiple All-Ireland winner to launch a book written by the children. The 260 page book entitled ‘O’Brennan NS – We Are Writers’ features stories produced by the schoolchildren from all classes, around the theme of Christmas. There […]

  TWO Tralee schools have a 100 per cent rate of students progressing to third level colleges according to data released on Schooldays.ie They are named as Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Tralee Community College (Coláiste Gleann Lí). The data gives a breakdown of where 2015  Leaving Certificate students went to college this […]

PLANS of the new Kerry Sports Academy look pretty impressive, as the artist’s impression of the completed building reveals. Today, Joan Burton visited IT Tralee with Deputy Arthur Spring, to take a look at the site of the new development which received €7 million of capital funding from the government. The €15 million centre […]

FOR what’s now become an annual fixture of Christmas celebrations, the Bill Kirby Memorial Walk will take off once more from Rock Street on St Stephen’s Day. Festive attire is encouraged for the Christmas walk (or run) which would go some way in working off some excesses of the day before. […]

CBS The Green Parents Council have once again pulled out all the stops and hosted a very successful “Careers Day” for students on Wednesday last for College Awareness Week. The initiative was taken on and organised by parents Breda Dyland and John Gannon. They were assisted on the day by […]

CBS Primary School, Tralee took great pleasure in raising their well deserved Active School Flag this week. The flag was awarded earlier in the year, to acknowledge the work undertaken by the school in reviewing, planning and promoting physical activity. The Active School Project is a Dept of Education initiative […]

YOUNG people from the KDYS in Denny Street certainly helped brighten up a part of Baile Mhuire Day Care home recently. Students from the Leaving Cert Applied programme helped in finishing the inner courtyard, now known as “Eileen’s Garden”, to allow their service users access the garden,  weather permitting of course. This was […]

THE route for the proposed bypass of  Adare has been chosen which will ease the frustration of Kerry motorists who regularly use the road to get to Limerick and Dublin. However, it’ll be a while before they’ll be able to bypass the notorious bottleneck in the pretty Limerick town. The new motorway […]

We talk to well-known Tralee entertainer, Mark Leen, about his new book on all things gambling-related, how he wants to help others beat the addiction and how he once lost over $17,000 in one bet in a Las Vegas casino… “I’m a compulsive gambler, I will always be thus, but […]