Archive for April, 2016

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 16, 19, 23 & 25. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Deirdre Poff c/o Poff Motors, Dylan and Luke Walsh c/o Poff Motors, David Doyle Annagh, Jim Savage Curraheen and Phil […]

YOUNG girls aged 6-10 from all over Ireland are being invited to enter the selection process to find 67 Rose Buds for this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival which will take place from 17-23 August. There’s more to the Rose of Tralee than being a Rose or a Rose […]

Kerry 0-20 Cork 1-12 A SUNNY day in every way for Kerry, as they beat old foes Cork in Tralee this afternoon. But they made heavy weather of it for a while! Cork are now relegated and Kerry head for the semis in Croke Park. Kerry flew out of the traps […]

  SEANAD Éireann is set for a ‘Micktatorship’ should Emergency Medicine Consultant, Dr Mick Molloy, succeed in his bid to be elected as an Independent Senator to the NUI Panel. He has presented the voters in his constituency with a four-point plan for bringing about change: • Protect the Education […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Austin Stack Park yesterday for another fantastic victory for the Kerry hurlers… Kerry 2-27 Laois 1-19 The boys and girls of Tralee Parnells Hurling club were the exhibition game at half time in this Division 1B play off game. What a game they chose to show […]

HOLLYWOOD actor, Dominic West, was the main attraction at Scoil Iosagain in Ballybunion on Saturday for a special commemoration day. The English-born star read the 1916 Proclamation at the event to honour three north Kerry men who died in the Rising and hundreds of people showed up for the afternoon. He arrived with […]

The success of recovery is in discovery Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary Smile This is the second line of my personal mantra. One thing is for sure, if we are looking for the extraordinary around us we don’t have to look too far. There are a few basic […]

  THE man who shot to fame by singing ‘Mr Brightside’ in Falveys’s Bar in Killorglin in tribute to his friend Ger Foley, was on the Ray Darcy show on RTE on Saturday night with Ger’s wife Grainne. Grainne told Ray about  how Ger had a double lung transplant 13 […]

ACTOR Dominic West was in Ballybunion today for a special 1916 commemoration event. The star of The Wire and The Affair was there to read the 1916 Proclamation at the event in Scoil Iosagain which honoured three north Kerry men the O’Rahilly, Michael Mulvihill and Paddy Shortis – who died […]

Bella Bia Ivy Terrace WHERE do I start with Bella Bia? The ‘sacred cow’ of Tralee dining, praise for Bella Bia is so universal that I almost feel any criticism of the culinary experience would result in an angry mob outside my house with burning sods of turf on pikes demanding […]

THE construction of an industrial building in Fenit Harbour is taking shape. Liebherr began work on the unit in January of last year and looks now to be in the latter stages of construction. The structure consists of a hall and administrative building intended for final assembly of components prior to loading […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the Kerry v Cork, Allianz National League Division 1 (Round 7) fixture at Austin Stack Park on Sunday at 2pm…  IS it just me or has this been one of the most enjoyable instalments of Allianz National League football we’ve seen in a while? With all […]

THE rise in new motor sales in Kerry continued in March with 543 vehicles sold compared to 418 in the same month in 2015, a rise of 29.9%. It’s continues the trend from the start of the year where there has been a 34% rise in new registrations compared to the […]

  The Kerry Senior Football Team to play Cork in Round 7 of the Allianz Football League in Austin Stack Park Tralee on Sunday (2:00pm Live on TG4) shows four changes in personnel from the side that defeated Monaghan in Round 6. Brendan Kealy starts in goal in place of […]

AT an special house in Killerisk, newly elected Fianna Fáil TD, John Brassil, helped launch Organ Donor Awareness Week which runs from April 2-9. The purpose of the week is to raise awareness of the Irish Kidney Association and the importance of carrying a donor card. The launch took place at the […]

‘ON Doubt’, an exhibition by artist, Denis Buckley, has opened in Siamsa Tíre, Tralee. Originally from Killarney, Denis Buckley’s latest work explores doubt in the life of an artist. His Unfinished & Abandoned 2016 Painting, almost 5 metres in width and 2 metres high, opens a conversation on doubt and failure and explores why […]

WOMEN in Media, the annual celebration of the most influential women working in the public eye, is set to take place again at Kilcooly’s Country House Hotel, Ballybunion, from Friday, April 15 to Sunday, April 17. Women in Media is in its fourth year and aims to provide a forum for women to come together […]

SO yesterday I got a message via Facebook from a friend of mine to tell me that someone was using my profile pic as theirs. The person, who set up the fake account under the name ‘Catherine Ruff’, had sent him a friend request. When I looked them up I couldn’t find […]

Mike O’Halloran on Kerry v Laois in the relegation play off match in Austin Stack Park on Saturday (throw-in 5pm)… Around this time last year, John Egan propelled Kerry hurling into the second tier of the National Hurling League with a point in Parnell Park. Since then, he has kept […]

A FORMER Dynamos Player played his part in a very important win for Ireland U17 as they bid to qualify for the European Championships in Azerbaijan this May. Rian O’Sullivan started Ireland U17’s European Championships Elite Round Qualifying 3-0 victory over Montenegro in Siedlce, Poland on Wednesday. Along with making inroads […]

ACTOR Dominic West was on Radio Kerry this morning talking about his Irish connections, why he’s in Ballybunion this Saturday and why he attracted the attention of mothers at a Cúl Camp in west Limerick last year. The 46 year old Sheffield-born actor, who shot to fame as Jimmy McNulty in […]

IT’S been a few weeks since we had one of these but it was inevitable really. A Yellow Status Rainfall Warning for Kerry, Wicklow, Donegal, Galway, Mayo and Cork is in effect at the moment and it’s going to last until midnight tonight. Heavy rain is forecast for  Friday with accumulations over […]