Archive for August 30th, 2016

IT’S the time of the year when parents around the country can get very emotional as a milestone event in their child’s life comes around. Schools around Tralee are welcoming new Junior Infant classes and we’re going to travel around town all week to see how they settle in. Though […]

THE founder of the successful ‘Hairy Baby’ company, who hails from Tralee, has revealed that a t-shirt, inspired by the O’Donovan brothers from Skibbereen, is their biggest selling t-shirt to date. Daragh Murphy, of the Cork company which makes novelty t-shirts and other products, also said he received inspiration for a t-shirts from […]

KERRY had some outstanding performers in the clash against Dublin at the weekend, but one of them has beaten off blue opposition to win the the GAA.ie Footballer of the Week award. Paul Geaney, who scored 1-4 for the Kingdom, topped the poll with 7,956 public votes. Dublin’s Kevin McManamon came […]

NOW that the Kerry seniors are out of the All-Ireland championship, the focus returns to the Garvey’s Supervalu Senior Football Championship which is at the quarter-final stage. The competitions control committee (CCC) will meet on this Wednesday evening to put the finishing touches to the autumn schedule of games. The […]

THE Austin Stacks Hurling & Football Club/Lee Strand Under 13 Invitational Football Tournament will take place in Connolly Park over the weekend September 10/11 with 16 teams taking part from all over the country. This prestigious competition began 30 years ago, when four teams took part, but it has grown so […]

THE Rose of Tralee has received a lot of bad press over the last week – and a lot of it, I have to agree with. I think the annihilation of the poor hopeful girls on the RTE TV documentary was heartbreaking and completely unnecessary. I think that the Sydney Rose should not […]

FANS of musical drama – not to mention Irish history – will have one last chance to see the hit show about a Rathmore man who died in the 1916 Rising. The hit drama ‘Patrick’ returns to the INEC for a one-night-only showing at the INEC on Thursday, October 27. Written and directed by […]