Archive for March 23rd, 2016

IT should be some craic in Blennerville tomorrow evening, when a local hero comes home with a very special trophy. The whole of Tralee – along with the village west of the bridge – erupted last Friday when jockey Bryan Cooper rode Don Cossack to Gold Cup glory in the […]

YOU may have to shut yourself off from the radio/social media for a while on Sunday afternoon, if you don’t want to spoil the Kerry result for your TV viewing. Delayed coverage of Monaghan v Kerry will have to do as the Connaught derby  has been giving top billing on TG4. Mayo and Roscommon […]

THE St Patrick’s Day Parade Prize winners received their awards at a ceremony at the Abbey Inn on Tuesday afternoon. The committee of Frank Hartnett, Michael Gaffney, Danny Leane, Sean Lyons and Johnnie Wall had a tough task in selecting from the dozens of entries this year. Committee Chairman said this […]

THE ‘Coiste Comóradh 1916 Trá Lí’ committee are hosting a fundraising quiz in Na Gaeil Clubhouse on Thursday, March 24, at 9pm. It’s to raise funds as plans are now at an advanced stage for the Easter Commemoration events, due to take place in Tralee from April 22 – 24. There […]

THE staff at Scamps & Scholars Childcare in Killorglin showed they’re not playing around as they made a €4,000 donation to The Kerry Cancer Support Group. It came from a  ‘Second Time Round’ clothes drive, which organisers Ann Doherty and Breda Stringer ran from February 19-21, was a huge success. […]

THE Kerry Museum has purchased at auction a map drawn by Sir Roger Casement showing where he reputedly buried gold and silver coins and other items near Banna Strand before he was arrested on Good Friday in 1916. A successful bid of £7,000 (stg) – supported by the Department of […]

IT’S been months coming, but the revamp of the old Fels Point Hotel is nearing completion and it looks great. The hotel will be officially rebranded The Rose Hotel and launched on April 8, but the new bar and restaurant opened on Saturday and there’s another exciting new gourmet dining experience coming in the hotel […]

WHERE will you be at 4.15am on May 7? If you are in Tralee, the answer to that question should be at CBS The Green waiting to take part in the Darkness Into Light Tralee. The event is taking place to raise much-needed funds for Pieta House. The idea is to […]

COLM Cooper was on hand to help young people open new accounts at a special fun day at the Castle Street branch on Tuesday morning. The Kerry star chatted and even had a brief kickabout with a fan or two as Minnie and Mickey Mouse watched on. Colm, who will be heading […]

ARDFERT’s John Egan has been voted GAA.ie hurler of the week for his performance in Kerry’s fantastic victory over Offaly on Sunday. Egan got 47% of the online vote ahead of the 2015 Hurler of The Year, Tj Reid, from Kilkenny on 35%. The St Brendan’s man helped Kerry on […]

NEW St Vincent de Paul Store store on Castle Street is aiming to be more visible to the public. The new store on Upper Castle Street (located opposite the entrance to Presentation Primary School) has been open for two weeks, but on Monday night was launched in earnest with an in-store […]