Archive for April 28th, 2016

THE Kerry team to face Carlow in in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Round Robin in Austin Stack Park on Sunday (throw-in 1pm) has been announced. The side shows two changes from the team that defeated Laois in the Allianz Hurling League Playoff – Colum Harty comes into the half forward line instead […]

  IRELAND and Connacht rugby star, Ultan Dillane, was around town last week and his former club were delighted when he visited them at O’Dowd Park. He was there to hand out awards to members and launch a tag rugby event to be held at the club during the Rose Festival. […]

THERE had been speculation all morning, but it was confirmed this afternoon that Tommy Walsh is leaving the Kerry panel. It’s biggest news in Irish sport today so of course it got people typing on social media. Here is how people reacted on Twitter… Tommy Walsh withdraws from @Kerry_Official football panel. Sometimes, for some reason, things don’t work […]

GARDAI in Tralee are asking the public to beware of ‘phishing’ scam where criminals purporting to be from the Department of Transport look for people’s billing information and vehicle details via email. Members of the public have called into  Tralee Garda Station this morning about the hoax emails. If you […]

THE winners of the March and April Tralee Tidy Towns Business awards were announced at the Tralee Chamber Alliance AGM at the Grand Hotel on Monday evening. The judges were impressed by Borg Warner, Monavalley Industrial Estate, and H Factor, John Joe Sheehy Road, Tralee who both won framed paintings by renowned […]

IT has been confirmed that Tommy Walsh has left the Kerry senior football panel. There had been speculation all morning that the Kerins O’Rahilly’s man has left the Kerry set-up after a report by Sports Editor of the Irish Examiner, Tony Leen. This afternoon, the journalist from Ballymacelligott updated his story […]

FOR the second month in a row we’ve witnessed a rise in fuel prices according to our monthly survey of stations around town. At the end of February the cheapest station priced €1.17 per litre of petrol, now that has risen to €1.23.8. The Top station in Caherslee takes over […]

WORK is to start in less than a month to prepare Denny Street for a two-way traffic system by the end of August. Kerry County Council Engineer, Eamon Scanlon, briefed members of Tralee Chamber Alliance on the work ahead at the Alliance’s AGM at the Grand Hotel last night. After […]

THERE were 400 athletes from Kerry and West Limerick secondary schools competing  at the annual Kerry Schools Track& Field Championships which were held on Tuesday at Riocht Athletic Track, Castleisland. IT was a good day for one Tralee school in particular as the Shields for Best Girls School and Best Boys School was won […]

COLAISTE Gleann Lí will present its annual Art Exhibition in the college tonight (Thursday) from 7pm which will showcase magnificent work in areas such as painting and drawing, oil painting, watercolours, pastel, pencil and acrylics painting. Visitors can view over 100 exhibits ranging from landscape, still life, figurative pieces and portraits as well as […]