Archive for October 21st, 2016

RESIDENTS in the Caherslee area have expressed safety concerns for next weekend, after huge groups of teenagers congregated in the area last Halloween drinking alcohol and throwing firecrackers at each other. Speaking on Radio Kerry’s Talkabout programme this afternoon, resident Padraig Foley, told host Deirdre Walsh about what happened last year and […]

KERRY County Council has today published a new seven-year action plan for tourism in Kerry which was launched this morning at St John’s Theatre in Listowel by the Leas-Cathaoirleach of the Council, Cllr Liam Purtill. The County Kerry Tourism Strategy and Action Plan 2016-2022 comes following the most widespread consultation and in-depth analysis […]

HUNDREDS of people packed themselves into the Ballygarry House Hotel on Thursday night for the launch of Kieran Donaghy’s autobiography What Do You Think Of That? Along with Maurice Fitzgerald and Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, who helped launch the account of the Stacks man’s life, were other legends of Gaelic Football scattered around the room on […]

A POLISH electronic music producer who has lived and worked in Tralee for just over a year has paid tribute to the town and surrounding area by releasing the four track EP ‘Tra Li story’. Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, or ‘Krissky’, created the music during a 12 month stay in town which […]

THE students and staff at St Ita’s and St Joseph’s School in Balloonagh were delighted this week when a local family made a kind-hearted donation to the facility. Martin Moore and his wife Deirdre from Caherslee, presented the money at the school – which caters for young people with special needs – on Friday […]

THERE were GAA legends everywhere you looked at the launch Kieran Donaghy’s book, What Do You Think Of That? at a packed Ballygarry House Hotel on Thursday night. But it was up to one in particular to launch the much-anticipated, guaranteed bestseller. Maurice Fitzgerald never lined out alongside Star in green and gold, but he was […]

THE latest winner of the Tralee Credit Union Car Draw has won himself a 15 year upgrade which will see him ditch his Nissan Micra for a brand new car. “Any Joe Soap can win it if I can win it!” said a ecstatic Maurice O’Regan who was presented with a brand new […]

MORE than 120 businesswomen joined forces this week with the Local Enterprise Office Kerry to celebrate ten years of ‘National Women’s Enterprise Day’ with a major event in The Brehon Hotel, Killarney. The Local Enterprise Office Kerry was amongst 31 LEOs in local authorities all over the country which participated in inspiring National Women’s Enterprise Day gatherings […]