Archive for January, 2016

KERINS O’Rahilly’s are looking forward to their second 10k Run at the end of the month and this time finishers will be presented with a special 1916-themed medal featuring one of the men whom the club is named after. With 400 taking part last year, organisers are hoping to exceed that […]

  OUR conditioning – What is it? I suppose a good place to start is to firstly declare the type of conditioning I am referring to. As the title suggests, I am not referring to hair, nor am I referring to the physical attributes of our bodies. The specific type […]

THIS is GAA ‘silly season’ with the National League weeks away and the All-Ireland Club Championships on a break until February. Well the national GAA journalists have a bit of downtime these days, so one of them has picked his top 50 full-backs of the last 50 years. Martin Breheny of […]

THE printed Kerry 2016 programme is now available at local libraries, area offices, Kerry County Museum, and from Kerry County Council at County Buildings, Rathass, Tralee. The programme was launched last month at Tralee Library by Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council Pat McCarthy. The website  www.kerry2016.ie also shows a full list […]

YESTERDAY was a landmark day for St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville, as the old school was demolished after 84 years of educating generations of locals. A former pupil decided to mark the opening of the new school with a presentation which, no doubt, will find a place in the great new building. […]

FRIDAY was a sad day for staff in Radio Kerry as a popular member of staff finished up at the station. Journalist Owen O’Shea, who has been bringing the people of Kerry the news for the past two years, is set to take up a new role as Communications Officer […]

OVER 200 people attended the Kerry Education and Training Board Annual Student Awards event held in the Institute of Technology Tralee, North Campus, on Friday night. The guest of honour was Tralee native and major figure in women’s rugby both in Connacht and Ireland, Ruth O’Reilly. Ruth was one of the Irish […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School students are calling for an end to owners not picking up after their dog has done its dirty work in public areas. The transition year class have started the campaign ‘If Your Dog Poops, You Scoop’. The aim is to promote the picking up of dog waste and […]

THE Kerry team to face Tipperary on Sunday will see David Moran and Tommy Walsh pair up in midfield with their club mate Barry John Keane in the forward line. Killian Young will captain the side which features eleven of the match day squad for last year’s All Ireland Final in […]

IT was a sad day for many in Blennerville on Friday as the bulldozers moved into St Brendan’s Blennerville old school. They started work demolishing the 84 year old building before 9am and six hours later the school was levelled. Many past pupils looked on as they collected their children […]

A RECOUNT of local election votes from the 2014 Listowel Electoral Area will take place at the John Mitchels GAA sports complex on Wednesday, February 10. This comes after former Fianna Fáil senator Dan Kiely, challenged the outcome of the election and was successful after the case went before the […]

PETROL prices have seen a sharp decline in the last week and Tralee is no different. The price of petrol has now dipped below €1.20 a litre. The price of crude oil combined with fluctuations in currency markets are contributing factors and to fill up your tank now costs less […]

THERE may have been a Status Red Rainfall Alert, but that didn’t stop throngs of people packing into O’Riada’s Bar back in early December to honour the memory of a Lyreacrompane man. The huge crowd turned out during Storm Desmond on Friday, December 4 to support Kerry Hospice in memory of the […]

John Mitchels v Spa, County League Division 1 Promotion Playoff Final, Sunday 1:30pm, Venue TBC  THE Mitchels can make a huge leap forward on Sunday when they take on Spa, aiming for a place in the County League Division 1 for the first time in 12 years. They upset the odds last weekend – […]

LAST night’s Premier League match at Anfield was a great game with Liverpool and Arsenal playing out a 3-3 draw. One Tralee family who won’t forget it in a hurry are the McCarthys from Cois Lí, Ballyvelly. Dad Simon took his sons Sam and Jamie across the Irish Sea for the clash […]

THE CBS The Green under – 14 school badminton team won the Kerry school boy’s badminton competition in Killarney on Tuesday. It was a tough day of competition, with the U14 team playing 18 games in total, winning 16, and bringing home the U14 shield. Congrats to the boys and their teacher Ms. […]

TUI members on the IT Tralee academic staff will take part in a one-day strike on Wednesday, February 3. The Teachers’ Union of Ireland members are taking industrial action over a number of issues within their sector. In December, third level members voted in a national ballot by a margin of 92% in favour […]

HE may have lost out on a Golden Globe at the weekend, but Michael Fassbender has a chance at winning at an Oscar next month as the nominations have just been announced. The Killarney man will face off against Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Matt Damon (The Martian), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) and […]

  JOE Flynn, who inspired many with his courageous battle against cancer, has died. The Rahoonane resident was told his cancer was terminal in August and he fought it every step of the way. By sharing his story online here and in other media he inspired many to stay positive […]

THIS past week has seen a drop in temperatures which have brought with it icy conditions coming into Tralee particularly in the morning.   AA Roadwatch reported that the roads were icy on the Tralee/Dingle road this morning and a stretch of road near the Connor Pass had to be […]

A CAR left abandoned on Rock Street, for what locals say is seven months, will be towed away by the end of the week. The car was brought to the attention of Radio Kerry’s, ‘Kerry Today’ programme who contacted Kerry County Council about it. The marooned-coloured Volvo has been parked outside the […]

THE Oesophageal Cancer Fund (OCF) needs your help next month. With weeks to go until the 15th annual Lollipop Day, the OCF is calling for more volunteers in Kerry on Friday, 26th and Saturday, 27th of February to help raise vital funds for oesophageal cancer. Lollipop Day involves thousands of people selling lollipops (€2) nationwide. Without […]

THE Department of Social Protection are advising customers living in Tralee and surrounding areas that, due to a fuel spillage, the Intreo Centre located at Godfrey Place, Tralee will be closed to the public for the remainder of this week. It will not re-open before Tuesday, 19 January at the earliest.  The Department apologises to […]

A TRALEE school and the Recovery Haven in Killerisk are two of the ten chosen beneficiaries of this year’s Ring of Kerry Cycle. It’s a huge boost for St Ita’s and St Joseph’s School in Balloonagh – which has recently been extended – and the cancer support facility at Killerisk […]

THE Kerry team to play Clare in the Munster Senior Hurling League tonight in Sixmilebridge at 7:30pm, has been named. Kilmoyley’s Daniel Collins, will once again captain Kerry as they face Davy Fitzgerald’s, Clare, in the side’s third match of the competition. Though Kerry have lost their opening two games […]

MERCY Mounthawk students are set to spend a night sleeping outside the school gym next week to highlight the homelessness issue. On Friday, January 21, the transition year students will take part in the event and the following morning – feeling suitably cold and unrested we imagine – they will be […]

ILLEGAL dumping by litter louts may result in the two bins located in Pearse Park being removed should the problem persist. Fianna Fáil Cllr Norma Foley raised the issue at the Tralee Municipal District meeting of Kerry County Council on Monday where she asked that the matter of illegal dumping […]

THE issue of access and remedial works to Tralee Courthouse was brought up again at the meeting of the Tralee Municipal District meeting, where a frustrated Cllr Terry O’Brien joked that he was tempted to commit a crime just to see the inside of the building. The Municipal District wrote to […]

A NEW candidate and a new party was added to the general election ticket in Kerry this week. Caherslee man, Donal Corcoran, will run for Renua in the party’s first ever general election. Once a member of Fianna Fail, the stone mason instructor at Kerry ETB joined Renua because he was disillusioned […]

A BEREAVED son believes he had a wreath he laid on his mother’s grave at Rath Cemetery deliberately moved by someone onto another burial plot and later went missing altogether. In December, Jon O’Sullivan, who now lives and works in Northampton, England, returned home to place a wreath on his mother, Ena Spring O’Sullivan’s, grave on […]