Archive for May 24th, 2016

Men’s Result: MC 7 Singles Ballybunion Exchange Day – Sponsor Calibration Services 1st Gerard Hussey            H/c 13                    41pts 2nd Gerard MacNamara    H/c 12                    40pts 3rd Mike Halloran              H/c 13                    40pts 4th Colm Sheehy               H/c 16                   39pts 5th Richard Rafferty         H/c 8                   39pts 6th Gerard Deegan           H/c 1           […]

PEIL FAOI 6: (i) Sunday morning as usual for all our Under 6 boys. (ii) Our Under 6-ers will also be in action in Connolly Park on Thursday (26ú) evening at 5.45pm. PEIL FAOI 8: (i) More football at 11am on Sunday next i bPáirc Chathair Sailí. (ii) Thursday night football is […]

  KERRY macra held their A.G.M. on Wednesday 18th May in Pat Sheehans Bar Firies. The following committee was elected chairperson Padraig Lucid, secretary Louise Flynn, treasure Sean Joy, P.R.O.’s Edel O’Connell and Louise O’Connor, young farmers development group Kevin Keane and Kevin O’Connor, competitions chair P.J. Dalton and competitions secretary […]

TRALEE Library will host a lecture titled ‘Austin Stack: Portrait of a Separatist’ on Tuesday, May 31, at 7pm. The lecture will be given by historian, Rev. J. Anthony Gaughan, a native of Listowel.  The lecture is based on his biography of Austin Stack.  The lecture forms part of Kerry […]

ALMOST 200 members of the public, traders and disability groups attended a ‘Save Tralee’ meeting in the Grand Hotel on Monday. The meeting was in relation to plans being made for 66 car spaces to be removed from Tralee town centre as part of Kerry County Council proposal to make changes […]

STAFF at Tesco at Manor West are set to go on an indefinite strike this Thursday after talks broke down between the Mandate union and the supermarket giant. The Tralee town centre branch will not be affected, but staff at the Killarney outlet will also go on strike. Staff will mount pickets from 7am […]

AN Irish local community initiative is looking for people to host their own ‘Street Feast’ as part of the State’s 1916 / 2016 Centenary Celebrations. Over 850 Street Feast parties around the country have been registered to date, including two in Tralee. The 7th Annual Street Feast Day will be held on Sunday, June […]

IT was great to wake up to the sunshine in Tralee this morning and the good news is it’s set to be mainly dry for the rest of the week. Looking at various weather weather websites – including Met Eireann – it shows a consensus of highs of around 17ºC […]

  THE programme for the Tralee 800 Weekend in June has just been released and it looks like everyone will be catered for, from rock fans to history buffs, food lovers to the little ones. Medieval re-enactments, pageants, a history village, a ‘Battle for Tralee’ and ‘Ye Olde Banquet’ all form […]

A CHEQUE of €1,000 was presented by the President of the Irish International Bridge Congress Trish Stack to Maureen O’Brien of Recovery Haven. The sum was raised through the annual Bridge Congress that is played over the New Year’s period in Tralee. The Bridge community in Tralee have raised over €3,000 […]

A GROUP of Presentation Secondary School students came second in a national competition recently and won €3,000 for their school. The girls took part in the AIB Build a Bank Challenge which offers transition and 5th year students a chance to run their own School Bank. Joe Shannon, Manager of […]