Archive for December, 2015

IT’S an area prone to flooding in the past and this time it’s no different. We went to Ballymullen to see the extent of the flooding and it looks bad as you can see in the video (below) taken at 1.30pm today. The fire service and civil defence were on […]

WELL 11 couples fought the law, but the law won on Friday night, as two gardaí were the overall winners at the St Pat’s Strictly Come Dancing event in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. Mary Gardiner and Johnny Enright were the most fleet-footed of the bunch as they dazzled the crowds to claim the […]

NORMALLY when people are heading off to searing heat, it’s for nothing else but sandy beaches and relaxation. However, Robert O’Mahony from Cloghers, will head for the blistering heat of Mombasa in Kenya to help build a project for the ‘Ray of Light Foundation’, who rescue children from sex-traffickers. Continued below… Robert, a […]

A TRALEE woman who ran 12 marathons in eight months presented a cheque for €30,000 to the Mercy University Hospital in Cork recently. Brenda Doody presented the funds, raised through her Mercy Marathon Challenge, to Sandra Daly, CEO, Mercy University Hospital Cork, at the inaugural Mercy Christmas Wishes Cancer Ball on […]

ST John’s Church in Castle Street will ring out with festive songs and much more as the Kerry Choral Union perform their annual Gala Christmas concert. This year’s event takes place on Sunday, December 13, at 7.30pm and there will be over 100 singers and musicians involved, including famed soprano Miriam Murphy and well-known […]

A NEW initiative has been launched to give young musicians a chance to improve their rock/pop talents. Local rock band Q14 wants to mentor you for free if you’re in a band or a musician, through the Youth Music Mentorship Initiative, funded by Kerry County Council and the Arts Council, […]

FEELING blue this morning because of the weather? We don’t blame you. Here’s what Ireland looks like on the rainfall radar supplied by Met Eireann at 9.30am. That big blue hue over Ireland shows Kerry is being hit by high winds and sustained rainfall, expected to last into the early […]

SCOIL Nuachabháil in Ballymac is to receive a grant to build two new classrooms. The Department of Education have announced that the school at Gortatlea, Ballymacelligott , Tralee is to be added to the list of approvals for the additional accommodation grant. Scoil Nuachabháil (Nohoval NS) will receive funding to construct 2 x 80m2 Mainstream […]

MEMBERS of the Irish Hotels Federation’s Kerry Branch gathered in Killarney last night for their annual ball. The Gleneagle Hotel hosted the black-tie event and the many guests were treated to a sumptuous banquet and no doubt reflected on a great year for tourism in Kerry, with hopefully an even […]

I AM a sucker for Christmas. I just think that it is such a happy time of year – in my experience of it at least. Everyone has a smile on their face. And I personally quite favour the Father Christmas-esque cheeks everyone seems to be sporting courtesy of these biting […]

KERRY County Council have issued advice to the public, as Kerry is about to be hit with sustained rain and winds over Friday night and all day Saturday. Met Eireann issued a level RED severe weather warning for Kerry, which is valid from 6pm today (Friday 4th December) until 3am on […]

TEN Kerry GAA stars in total have been picked to represent Munster Football and Hurling team’s in the GAA Interprovincial Championship 2015 over the weekend. Aidan O’Mahony is captain of the Munster footballers who will face Leinster in Newry tomorrow. Shane Nolan, will be the sole Kerry representative on the hurling panel […]

THIS is an unusual one. Tralee is  one of five places in the island of Ireland that has featured on a respected newspaper’s European wide poll that asks what people put on their chips. UK news website, The Guardian online, conducted a survey of their readers and surprisingly, Tralee, has featured alongside […]

IT Tralee’s St. Vincent de Paul Society held their annual Fashion Show on Thursday night at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel and raised over €4,000 for the charity. All the clothes modelled on the night by students were from St. Vincent de Paul shops nationwide and they proved that you can be on trend with […]

JAMES O’Donoghue will go for surgery on a troublesome shoulder which will put him out of Kerry’s entire league campaign. The star forward, dislocated his shoulder while playing for Legion in the County Final replay against South Kerry two weeks ago. This will be O’Donoghue’s second shoulder surgery in just […]

PUPILS, parents and staff at Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn are looking forward to a great afternoon’s entertainment this Sunday for their annual Christmas Fair. The fair gets under way at 2pm and visitors can enjoy a special appearance from the Tommy Markham Cup won by Kerry minors in September – with past […]

REGISTRATION for The Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle 2016 will open next Friday, December 11 and will be done by way of a lottery for the first time. For the first time in its 31 year history registration will be done by way of lottery as last year there was an unprecedented demand for […]

WE haven’t had one of these for a while thank God, but Met Eireann have issued a Status Red Rainfall alert for Kerry this weekend. There will be incessant falls of heavy rain overnight and for all of Saturday. Accumulations in excess of 70mm are expected, with greater totals on higher […]

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 […]

  GARDAI are satisfied that there was an innocent explanation for the suspected suspicious approach to schoolchildren on Friday afternoon last near a Tralee school. It was reported earlier in the week that children were approached by a couple in a car near Holy Family Primary School. The children told […]

A HOUSE in Camp, that had been put up for sale in an online auction for between €8,000 and €12,000, eventually sold for €61,000 last week. And a four-Bedroom house in Causeway, with the same reserve price range fetched €22,000 in the Allsop online auction on Wednesday, November 25. The derelict cottage at Duagh, Camp […]

IN case you hadn’t noticed, there is good news for shoppers this weekend as free Christmas parking will get underway in town and will continue up until the early days of January. There will be free parking on-street and in Kerry County Council Car-parks from 1pm daily, from December 5 to January 5. Continued below… […]