Archive for May 10th, 2016

Darkness into Light Swim 51 brave swimmers showed up in Fenit at 4 am Saturday morning to help raise funds for Pieta House. All swimmers had been briefed beforehand and arrived ready to go at 4.15am. Complete with 2 glow sticks each, it made for a spectacular sight as they […]

RESULTS : 1st: Bobby O’Keefe (16) 42 Points 2nd: Rory Doyle (18) 42 Points 3rd: Darren P O’Sullivan (1) 40 points 4th: Gerard Carmody (17) 39 Points 5th: Eamonn Fitzgerald (18) 39 Points 6th: Kevin O’Connor (13) 39 Points Best Gross :  Fergal O’Sullivan (0) 37 Points. 18 + Handicap: Gerald […]

St. Brendan’s Basketball Club brought the curtain down on the 2015/2016 season with the Club AGM and Annual Awards night last Friday in Moyderwell. Over 150 members, players and the club committee gathered to reflect on a very successful year for the club and to reward the Most Valuable Player […]

All Ireland Club Gold for Moyvane That was the wonderful, fantastic, incredible story that emerged from Dublin on Sunday last where the All Ireland Badminton club finals were played off between two venues, Baldoyle and Terenure. A total of up to 30 clubs from the Provinces of Leinster, Connacht and […]

THE Council hopes to move towards introducing another activity at Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre this year and is looking at developing the windmill, the steam train rail line and the Wetlands as a “Lee Valley attraction”. Director of Economic Development and Community Services, Michael Scannell, was replying to Cllr Terry O’Brien’s request to inform members […]

FOUR Kerry companies have been shortlisted for the Bank of Ireland Startup Awards 2016 national final in The RHA Gallery, Ely Place on Thursday, May 26. The companies are among the shortlist of 133 companies nationally in the awards. Kerry Signature Furniture in north Kerry and Tom Henry’s TSH Photography have been shortlisted in the Home or […]

AMIDST all the football chatter around the county, the Kerry senior panel are getting down to the serious business of building for the Munster Championship which is now a month away. Kerry legend and current selector, Mikey Sheehy, was quoted in the Irish Examiner speaking about preparations and changes to the panel […]

A MAN who helped raise €11 Million over 27 years for a cancer charity in Kerry was honoured with a civic reception on Monday. Ted Moynihan of the Kerry Hospice Foundation was given the civic reception by the Tralee Municipal District at Kerry County Council buildings in Rathass. The ever humble […]

THE new extension in Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School was officially opened on Monday. The ‘Centenary Building’ contains seven classrooms, a number of special needs rooms and these rooms wrap around a large hall which contains a stage for school performances. The €1.6 million development was officially opened by Jimmy Deenihan who, while Minister […]

A WHEELCHAIR user was found sleeping in the boathouse in Banna during the May Bank Holiday weekend, a Sinn Fein councillor told the meeting of the Tralee Municipal District on Monday. Cllr Toireasa Ferris was speaking after her party colleague, Cllr Pa Daly, proposed a motion that the Council commit […]

BON Secours Hospital Tralee were the big winners at the inaugural Bon Secours Health System Staff Awards in the Rochestown Hotel, Cork last weekend after winning four of the nine awards and a number of runners-up prizes. The CEO of Bon Secours Hospital Tralee, Niall Donnelly, said: “I wish to commend everyone […]

SCOIL Mhic Easmainn pupils showed their generosity recently to help out a great cause. Rang a cúig pupils had a used clothes and sports drive to raise funds for their school but also donated €100 of the proceeds to the Kerry Cancer Support Group. The event was held in the school and was a […]