Archive for March 8th, 2016

AFTER a meeting of the The Central Competitions Control Committee, Kerry and Donegal county boards have both received fines of €7,500 for incidents that marred last Sunday’s encounter in Austin Stack Park. Donegal’s, Neil McGee, has received a one match ban for appearing to harm Alan Fitzgerald’s finger in the lead […]

Boys U12 Div 1 TK Cougars 18 St Brendan’s 20 St. Brendan’s U12 Div. 1 team are now league and cup champions following a thrilling two point victory in over-time against TK Cougars was enough to clinch the league title. After winning the cup last month with a 34-30 win […]

  The annual Good Friday 10km walk and run in aid of Kerry Hospice takes place on March 25 in Tralee and other venues around the county. This year there will be a new starting point with the walkers due to get going from the Grand Hotel on Denny Street […]

TRALEE Educate Together National School student, Lenka Zigova, has been shortlisted for the ‘Have You Got Maths Eyes’ poster competition. Entrants were required to create a poster by taking a photograph in their local environment and highlighting the mathematics they see in the photo. She will now go on to […]

BLENNERVILLE National School’s motto ‘ní neart go cur le chéile’ never seemed so appropriate than in the last few weeks as last Monday, March 7, as they welcomed those who collaborated to help make shelves for their new library to the school. The school had the problem of an empty […]

THE fourth and fifth class pupils at Scoil Nuachabháil have raised over €1,000 for the school selling Ballymacelligott area-themed fridge magnets. Under the stewardship of teacher, Siobhan Curran, they created and sold the picture magnets to enter into this year’s Junior Entrepreneur Programme. To decide what images would go on the […]

THE Mayor of Tralee’s motion, calling for Tralee town to be designated and given city status, received support from councillors at the Tralee Municipal District meeting at Kerry County Council buildings on Monday. Fianna Fáil Cllr Tom McEllistrim said Kilkenny is called a city and it has a similar population to Tralee. […]

KERRY and Donegal players could face retrospective disciplinary action because of scuffles that ensued during the Allianz National League match in Austin Stack Park on Sunday. RTE are reporting that the GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee are believed to be looking at a number of incidents from a match that saw two men […]

IT’S been some year for Ballymac-based greyhound trainer, Liam Dowling, and Monday brought another honour in the shape of a civic reception at Kerry County Council buildings. Mayor of Tralee Municipal District, Tom McEllistrim, asked for the trainer to be honoured for his services to greyhound racing in Kerry with Liam’s dog, Ballymac […]

A YEAR-LONG celebration of Tralee’s 800th anniversary was officially launched last week and there’s much to look forward to in the county capital including extended festivals and a big screen in the Square for Ireland’s opening Euro 2016 game against Belgium. The Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council and Chairman of the Tralee 800 […]

  SARAH Miles will be welcomed back to Dingle on St. Patrick’s Day, where she will officially open the Dingle International Film Festival with a screening of Ryan’s Daughter. The English actress who starred in the 1970 David Lean-directed classic, will open an event which welcomes celebrity guests and 170 screenings. […]