Archive for March 30th, 2016

A KERRY based dance group has came back with five trophies from the International Dance Competitions in Barcelona over the Easter weekend. The Academy of Dance under the directorship of Clarissa Michaux won the overall team competition plus a gold World Cup in Jazz, silvers for Character and Classical and bronze for Overall […]

THE Darkness Into Light Tralee event was officially launched on Tuesday evening at Pieta House in Moyderwell. A number of people gathered at the centre to hear about the event which takes place at 4.15am on May 7 from CBS The Green. Among those attending were Elma Walsh, mother of Donal […]

  ORGANISERS of the fifth annual Miss Bikini Ireland competition have issued a call for Kerry women to take part. The organisers are offering a chance to win the €15,000 top prize which includes an all expenses paid trip to the Swimsuit USA International for seven days where the top prize is $80,000. Miss […]

KERRY County Council’s Commemorations Office has details of plans for several commemorations around the county including Valentia Island, from where the telegram was sent to US to alert Clan na Gael to the outbreak of the Rising; at Ballykissane near Killorglin, where three Volunteers drowned on their way to seize wireless […]

STAFF at the Revenue offices in Tralee traded their normal work attire and wore yellow for the day on March 10 for a worthy cause. The colourful event was organised as part of a fundraiser for the Kerry – Cork, Health Link Bus, and the Irish Cancer Society. The staff also ran a bric-à-brac […]

JACK O’CONNOR will be able to call upon the talents of three former minor All-Ireland winners when the Kerry U21s face Cork in the Munster Final on April 7. Kerins O’Rahilly’s, Cormac Coffey and Dingle men Mark O’Connor and Matthew Flaherty all won All-Ireland minor medal’s in 2014, with Mark […]