Archive for June 14th, 2016

FURTHER visitor restrictions have been placed on children visiting University Hospital Kerry due to the measles outbreak. Children are not allowed as visitors to University Hospital Kerry until further notice – apart from exceptional circumstances – as the HSE attempt to curb the spread of measles in the Kerry where there are now 15 […]

THE winner of this year’s Best Dressed Lady will receive a cool €3,000 in cash as the details of the McElligott’s Honda Ladies Day were announced today, including a new prize for Most Stylish Selfie! Taking place  on Friday, September 16, on the penultimate day of the popular Listowel Harvest Racing Festival. […]

Mens results Junior Scratch Cup Stroke Competition 11th Jun 2016 Sponsored by Premier Irish Golf 1st: Gareth O’Donnell  (05) 76 2nd: Shane O’ Driscoll, Monkstown (05) 77 3rd: Philip Somers, Athenry (06) 78 4th: Richard Greer, Castlegregory ( 07) 78 5th: Donie O’Keeffe, (06 ) 78 1st Nett :Ciaran Nolan […]

A SCULPTURE made entirely out of tyres is currently on display at Kerry County Council Buildings in Rathass. Sculptor Mick Davis, who was a recipient of a Kerry County Council Artist Bursary this year, is responsible for the piece of art which is modelled on Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’. It will […]

IT’S time to get the walking shoes out to prepare for an annual charity event which is always great fun. The Jamie Wrenn Walk is an event which has raised tens of thousands for charity over the past six years and organisers are hoping people support it again when it […]

A WARNING was issued by Ballymacelligott Community Alert today, after a white van was seen behaving suspiciously in the area last night. The owner of a house in Ashill was alerted by a neighbour, who, while passing in their car, saw an empty small white van parked at the gateway of the house at […]

THE race is on to find a successor to a Tralee dog which was named the ‘Nose of Tralee’ last year. ‘Ginger’, owned by Stacey Wallace from Tralee is the reigning champion of the competition run by Pet Sitters Ireland which is now in its third year. Ginger got just under 15,000 […]

TRALEE is preparing for a fantastic weekend of family entrainment, medieval banqueting, music, exhibitions and much more for the Tralee 800 celebrations. An Anglo-Norman banquet featuring knights and jester of old is just one of the many attractions this weekend where the town will go all medieval for three days from Friday, […]

KERRY County Council will open Books of Condolence for the victims of the Orlando shootings at their offices in Tralee and Killarney this afternoon. The Books of Condolence will be opened at County Buildings (Áras an Chontae) in Tralee and at the Killarney Municipal District Offices (Town Hall) in Killarney. […]

GARDAI are calling for the public to be vigilant after people purporting to be collecting cash for a suicide awareness charity, had their monies confiscated by gardaí in Killorglin on Friday. There were reports last week of persons claiming to be from Suicide Aware collecting money in Tralee and Newcastlewest under false pretences. Vigilant […]

A NEW documentary which explores the life of the renowned Irish touring cyclist and travel writer, Dervla Murphy, will be screened in Tralee as part of National Bike Week. The Kerry Cycling Campaign presents ‘Who is Dervla Murphy?’,  a free event which will take place at Kerry County Library, Tralee, on Thursday, June 16 […]