Archive for July 29th, 2016

THE Kerry Senior Football Team to play Clare in the All Ireland Senior Football Championship Quarter Final in Croke Park on Sunday at 2pm shows three changes in personnel from the side that defeated Tipperary in the Munster Final. It’s an all Tralee midfield as David Moran starts instead of […]

THE Kerry Minor Football Team to play Derry in the Electric Ireland All Ireland Minor Football Quarter Final at Croke Park on Sunday next (12 noon) is unchanged from the side that defeated Cork in the Munster Final. Tralee area clubs will be represented by Micheál Reidy from Ballymac at corner […]

IT’S set to be a fairly dry bank holiday weekend around Tralee, so that gives you no excuse for staying indoors binge-watching series on Netflix. Here’s a few things you can get up to around the place… 1. Go support the Tri-Kingdom Comers This Saturday sees hardy souls take on the Tri-Kingdom Come […]

TRALEE has great taste and the 2016 Dining in Tralee Booklet, a new guide to where to eat in Ireland’s Best Large Tourism Town is now available to locals and visitors. Published by Tralee Chamber Alliance, the guide features nearly 40 restaurants, cafés, bistros and pubs in the Tralee and surrounding […]

ST Vincent de Paul held a ‘Customer Appreciation Night’ at its Castle Street store on Thursday and also put out an appeal to the public for more donations. Shoppers and well wishers called into the store which has been opened since March this year. Along with loads of clothes to […]

THERE was an excellent turnout in the Ashe Hotel on Thursday night for a table quiz to help a Rose of Tralee escort with his expenses during festival week. Stewart Nolan from The Kerries asked friends and family to come along to the table quiz and they did so in numbers. The 23-year-old […]

SINCE the quarter-finals began in 2001 Kerry have appeared every year, winning 13 out of 15 encounters. In that time there was a few close shaves, more damp squibs than you would care to remember and also a handful blistering performance where the men in green and gold shot the […]

BRYAN Cooper suffered a partially collapsed lung after a fall at Galway Races yesterday, but his injuries could have been worse if he had not been wearing an upgraded body protector. It means the Tralee jockey could be out of action for up to a month. Cooper was riding the Gordon Elliott-trained Tiger Roll in the Guinness […]

  YOU know, it’s not looking half-bad at all. It’s the last Bank Holiday weekend until late autumn, so we could do with a nice spell of weather to go with the days off. Well it looks like Mother Nature will oblige as there’ll be a lot of dry weather in […]