Archive for January, 2016

A NEW Volunteer group is being set up to provide assistance prior to the arrival of the emergency services in the Blennerville to Derrymore area. Blennerville Derrymore Community First Responders are looking for volunteers in the community so they can begin to train people how to deal with a medical emergency […]

BEFORE they head back to studying for the Leaving Cert, the students from CBS The Green held their debs ball last night and all manner of fun was had. The event took place in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel and the style and glamour was only dazzling. There was 200 for […]

DESPITE Storm Desmond’s best efforts, St John’s parish managed to raise €39,655 from their annual bazaar fundraiser. “The weather was really bad during the bazaar, people were not supposed to go out, but we got a great crowd,” said one of the bazaar organisers, Margaret Crean. The bazaar, which took place […]

THE weather was much kinder than last year as 150 cyclists set out from St Pat’s GAA club on Saturday morning to remember a much-loved local character. Setting off on a bright morning, the fifth Jimmy Duffy Memorial Cycle saw cyclists of all ages getting on their bikes in what was […]

KILKENNY hurler Richie Power was a special guest at the annual celebration of Kerry camogie last night. McHales Stretford End Bar in Causeway was the venue for their social, which also welcomed MEP Sean Kelly and Radio Kerry’s Weeshie Fogarty, as the camogie faithful looked back on the successes of […]

BALLYBEGGAN man, David Culloty, has handed over his winnings from a ‘last man standing’ competition to a local cancer charity. David Culloty, won €450 in The Blasket ‘Last Man Standing’ championship and has pledged the winnings to Kerry Hospice Foundation. “Even before it started, I said if I win it […]

THE Munster Senior Hurling League clash between Kerry and Cork has been switched to Mallow, Sunday at 2pm. The game was due to be played as the first part of a double header with the Kerry footballers in Fitzgerald Stadium. Kerry v Clare in the McGrath Cup will still go […]

HERE’S a funny one! It was a long time coming, but Betty O’Shea from the Spa, finally found out how her daughter was getting on on her holidays…eight years later. Breda O’Shea from Ballinorig was in the Canaries back in October 2008, with her daughter Deborah and aunt Katherine, when […]

THE area around the Christie Hennessy statue could be set for a name change. At the next meeting of the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council on Monday, there will be a motion put forward that the area near the statue at Central Plaza/Abbeycourt be renamed ‘Christie Hennessy Place’. The motion has […]

CHRISTMAS is over, New Year’s is over. Now we are left with a plain ol’ January to trudge through, and after all the festivities and joy that surrounds the festive season… January can seem like a gaping black abyss. After all the build up, all the gift buying, all the […]

THE award nominations keep on coming for Michael Fassbender as this morning it was announced he is on the shortlist for the Best Actor gong at the BAFTAs. The Killarney man is already nominated for a Golden Globe award – which takes place this weekend – and hopes are high that […]

THE name Albert Hammond may not be instantly recognisable to some, but chances are, if you have any interest in music you know his work. His songs have been responsible for the sale of over 360 million records worldwide including over 30 chart-topping hits and he’ll be playing a lot […]

THIS Sunday John Mitchels will enter into a four team playoff for promotion to Division 1, if successful it will mark a return to the top flight for the first time in 12 years. It won’t be easy however, first they must get over Senior County Championship semi-finalist, Rathmore, in […]

EARLIER we brought you photos of ladies enjoying Women’s Christmas around town so here’s some more. You know the festive season’s goose is cooked when the tradition is celebrated and it’s still alive as evidenced by the crowds in restaurants around town. We brought our cameras to the Ballygarry House Hotel, The […]

THERE has been a rise in the number of patients waiting on trolleys in Kerry General Hospital this week. Today there are 17 patients waiting according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Trolley Watch figures. On Monday there were eight people waiting, Tuesday saw the figure […]

A FORMER Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí student is the director of a new comedy series which is featuring on RTE 2 on Monday nights. Shaun O’Connor is the director of Sketch! – a (you guessed it) comedy sketch show filmed in Cork city. The latest episode screened on Monday night featured RTE personality, John Creedon, […]

SO Christmas is now officially over as Women’s Christmas gives the signal to take down the tree and put the crib back in the attic. Well many ladies around town weren’t going to let the night pass without marking the January 6 tradition and restaurants around town did a roaring trade […]

THE state of Tralee Courthouse on days of district court sittings has been severely criticised by Judge James O’Connor yesterday. A report by Anne Lucey in the Irish Times says the judge called it the most awkward court in Kerry and Cork and he would no longer tolerate the filth and […]

IT’S been a long time coming, but parents and pupils got a chance to see the new St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville at an open day on Wednesday. The impressive two-storey building will open on Thursday morning, but we got a sneak preview and saw that children and staff won’t know themselves […]

STEPHEN Stack will remain in charge of Austin Stacks for another year at least. There had been some speculation about whether the Listowel man would stay on for a fourth year in charge of the Rock, but The Kerryman confirmed in a story today that the 1997 All-Ireland winner is […]

HAVE you noticed it’s gone dark in parts of Tralee over the past couple of weeks? We have. The stretch of road from the Strand Road entrance to O’Rahilly’s Villas right down to the junction by the Low Field has been in darkness for about two weeks, as well a stretch of road […]

ROSE of Tralee Elysha Brennan and RTÉ’s Dáithí Ó Sé celebrated Women’s Christmas in Cork where they announced details of the 2016 Rose of Tralee International Festival today. Taking place from August 17-23, the 2016 Rose of Tralee International Festival will run for seven days featuring 68 Roses, 68 Rose […]

IF you are reading this, then the chances are that you have your own Facebook or Twitter page. Social media has become such an important part of every day life. We communicate with friends on the other side of the world, we get news literally as it is happening in […]

CASH payments for court fines into the court poor box are to come to an end in Kerry district courts. Judge James O’Connor announced yesterday that from now on payments would have to be paid by cheque or postal order according to a report in the Irish Times. Payments to the court poor […]

A FATHER and son from Tralee are recovering in a Dublin hospital this week after a life-saving kidney transplant in the Beaumont Hospital was a success. Mike Burns, originally from Sneem, but now living with his family in Kevin Barry Villas, donated his kidney to his son, 19 year old […]

Results 29th Dec. Tuesday Singles 29th Dec. 1st Pat O’Donnell (8) 33pts. 2nd Shane Lehane (15) 29pts Sunday Fourball 3rd Jan. 1st Richard Rafferty (8) Gerard Power (9) 31pts 2nd Ger Curtin (16) Sean Carmody (17) 30pts. FIXTURES 9th Jan. Casual Golf 10th Jan. Club Singles Ladies fixtures Sunday 10th January […]

ST. BRENDAN’S BASKETBALL CLUB Boys U18 County League Gneeveguilla 71 St. Brendan’s 63 It was a wet, miserable and freezing cold afternoon in Rathmore as the St. Brendan’s u18s prepared to battle with the six man army of Gneeveguilla. The game began with St. Brendan’s superstar big man Shane O’Connor […]

  CREW members of the Marita Ann and the Cabra Historial Society will be among those laying wreaths at a Kerry Sinn Féin event on Banna Strand this Saturday. The event, which begins at 3pm at the promenade, will launch Kerry Sinn Féin’s 1916 Centenary Events programme to be held in the county throughout 2016. Martin […]

RECENT flood damage has cost Kerry County Council €3.5 million. The effects of the deluge of rain that fell leading up to and during the Christmas period caused damage the length and breath of the county. Radio Kerry reports the figure equates to 70% of the council’s yearly budget for roads on […]

TRALEE Credit Union has teamed up with Top Part Kingdom Motor Factors to offer their members Free Breakdown Emergency Packs with their motor loans. “The idea to give Breakdown Emergency Packs with our motor loans came from the Road Safety Authority’s Road Safety Strategy proposal to make these packs compulsory […]