Archive for June 1st, 2016

THE latest CSO figures on baby names has revealed the most popular names for boys and girls in the county last year. For the third year in a row, Jack is the most popular boy’s name while Amelia is the name most given to girls in Kerry in 2015. Amelia takes over […]

KERRY County Council and the Kerry Recreation & Sports Partnership, in collaboration with local cycling clubs, are inviting families of all ages to participate in a  ‘Pedal To The Park’ in Tralee. It’s part of three events which are aimed at getting all the family involved in a cycle in the county’s amenities […]

FÁILTE Ireland is hosting a group of high profile international journalists on a trip to Skellig Michael to follow in Luke Skywalker’s footsteps to see for themselves how the force was awakened. The journalists write for some of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers including the National Geographic Traveller India, the […]

ROSE of Tralee, Elysha Brennan has called on young Irish people to stop self-hating and self-shaming, but instead show the world that they are all beautiful #insideANDout. She has launched a social media campaign, entitled #insideANDout, which is aimed at empowering teens and young adults to feel good in their own skin […]

KERRY County Council is urging people to take care at beaches and along the Kerry coast in the coming days as the fine weather is expected to attract large crowds to the county’s beaches. The council is asking people to take care in the water during the warm weather and […]

A KILMOYLEY man, now living in Tralee, is looking to reunite Kerry hurling county championship medals which were thrown out and rescued from the dump. After a chance scroll though Facebook, Micheal McCarthy of Connolly Park came across GAA medals  for sale that were unwittingly advertised as running medals. The […]

MEMBERS of Save Tralee are growing increasingly frustrated with county councillors whom, the group feel, are not taking on their recommendations to proposed work that will remove 66 car spaces in Denny Street and The Mall. After the first Save Tralee meeting last week, it was recommended to the group […]

THE man who died in yesterday’s road accident at Ballyroe yesterday has been named. Michael ‘Mikey’ Martin was killed when he was struck by a car while walking on the road near the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Tuesday morning at 8.35am. The driver of the car, a man in his 20s, […]