Archive for July 13th, 2016

  THE death has occurred of popular Tralee woman Tess Leane. Originally from Tipperary town, Tess, wife of Danny Leane of The Abbey Inn, passed away last night after a very short illness. Tess was known to many who frequented the Abbey over the decades for her kind and genial manner. Tess almost […]

COLOURFUL works of art filled Kerry County Library on Tuesday night for the opening of the ‘Gentle Reminder’ exhibition. The inspirational art exhibition is showcasing the work of adults with intellectual disability at the Tralee library until the end of the month. The ‘Gentle Reminder’ exhibition is the culmination of work done by […]

A COUNCILLOR is to put forward a motion that Kerry County Council move to establish a twinning arrangement with the US city of Philadelphia. Fine Gael Cllr Pat McCarthy believes it would be beneficial to establish such links from an economic and tourism perspective. He said there is a large Irish community in […]

HORANS Healthstores has been unveiled as the official Healthfood Partners of the Kerry GAA for the next three years. Among those present at the launch of the partnership on Monday evening at the Rose Hotel Tralee were Dan Horan, Sandra Breen, Deirdre Murphy and Mary McElligott from Horans Healthstores with […]

SINN Fein Cllr Toireasa Ferris has had a complaint that the Irish Times breached Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice of the Press Council of Ireland upheld by the Press Ombudsman. Cllr Ferris made the complaint after an article was published in January this year which she felt […]

A TRALEE woman is off to play for Ireland in the European Seniors Team Championships in Poland next month. Mary Sheehy was selected for the Irish Ladies Seniors Team for the competition which takes place at the end of August. Mary, daughter of former Kerry player and John Mitchels legend […]

THE local community has come together to help a mother of one who was a victim of a sneaky theft of her bag. Last week, Vicky Wilson, was going into her home in Tralee when her bag, which she had left in her car, was stolen behind her back. The bag contained a month’s […]

SO for this week’s column I posed the question on both my personal page and my blog page (Winters Tales); “What advice would you give your sixteen year old self?” Why did I ask this question? Well I wonder if – at the age of sixteen – I knew what would happen in […]