Archive for November 22nd, 2016

The Kerry juvenile doubles played in Killarney and the Munster Butterfield Cup competition played in Thurles, County Tipperary dominated the Badminton scene last weekend. This years Butterfield Cup was the 70th anniversary of this very prestigious Munster Badminton competition with Cork defeating Kerry in that first final of the 1946/47 […]

Our Academy is now in full swing in Cumann Iosaef every Saturday morning and the training times are as follows Boys 7, 8  and 9    9-15 to 10-15 Boys and Girls 4, 5 and 6     10-30 to 11-15 Girls 7, 8 and 9         […]

Mens results (Sunday 20th November) Singles 1st: John Byrne (10) 41 Points 2nd: Ian O’Doherty (18) 39 Points 3rd: Kieran Ruttledge (18) 39 Points CSS : 37 Points Fixtures: 22nd Nov : Tuesday Singles 26th Nov : Casual Golf 27th Nov : Club Singles 29th Nov : Tuesday Singles 3rd Dec: […]

By Club PRO Tommy Naughton  Sean McGrath MAKES INTERNATIONAL DEBUT; Congratulations Sean McGrath on making his International U15 debut on Thursday November 17th for The Boys in Green away in Poland. Well done Sean, everyone at St Brendans Park fc are so proud of you. CLUB RESULTS; Saturday 19th November 2016 […]

ST. BRENDAN’S BASKETBALL CLUB NOTES Boys U14 Div 2 Plate St. Brendan’s 27 St. Paul’s 36 The U14 Boys B team played St. Pauls of Killarney in Tralee last Sunday morning in Round 2 of the cup. A win was required in order to progress and St. Brendan’s were out […]

  JUVENILE CLUB NOTES BOYS UNDER 6/8/10: We look forward to Sunday 11th December….our Presentation and Calendar Day. Well deserved awards and hard-earned medals will be given to our legion of Under 6/7/8/9/10 boys. The 2017 club calendar, with photographs of the best players in town, will be on sale. An exciting occasion awaits! Between […]

THE support of the Tralee business community towards the redevelopment of Austin Stack Park has reaped rich dividends with the confirmation that both this year’s All Ireland Finalists, Dublin and Mayo, will play their 2017 Allianz Football League matches in Austin Stack Park. The new development and state of the […]

TRALEE’S Austin Stack Park will host two Allianz National League football clashes involving Kerry next spring, including the glamour tie with the All-Ireland champs. Tralee will also be the venue for a clash with the All-Ireland finalists Mayo in February. They will welcome Dublin on March 18 which is sure to make […]

THE contract has been awarded for the construction of two new sections of the N86 road between Tralee and Dingle. The contract for the major improvement works between Lispole and Ballynasare and between Ballygarret and Camp has been awarded to Kerry-based Allman Contracts Ltd and Mid-Cork Tarmacadam Ltd operating as a […]

THERE was a great turnout of family and friends of Laura Shanahan at a walk in her memory on Sunday afternoon. Laura from Gallowsfield was just 17 years old when she passed away in August from a rare bone cancer called Ewings sarcoma. Her family wanted to do something for Ronald McDonald […]

STUDENTS at Mercy Mounthawk are gearing up for their annual fashion show and they’re planning something special this year. The secondary school’s Transition Year event will commence Thursday, December 1 and this year’s show has a theme of ‘All Things Irish’. With it being the centenary of the 1916 rising, it seems the […]

OFFICE Chair Racing, free parking, food markets, fun runs and much more are included in the exciting Christmas Spraoi in Tralee which runs from November 26th to New Year’s Eve. To kick things off, Kieran Donaghy will join the Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Terry O’Brien to switch on the Christmas Lights in […]

YESTERDAY I read a tweet from a man who I hugely admire as he has spoken candidly about his battle with depression and written some heartbreaking pieces about his own mental health and suicidal thoughts. Conor tweeted a frightening statistic, that in a 16 day period in Cork, 16 people […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School, Tralee are holding a “Night at the Dogs” at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium on this Friday, November 25, doors open at 7pm. The school hasn’t done a major fundraising campaign like this in 20 years and they are hoping for a big attendance on the night. There will be […]

A look forward to the U15A Br Colm Taft Final with St Brendan’s Killarney v Tra Li CBS at Fitzgerald Stadium this coming Friday at 1.30pm… Tralee CBS will go head to head with their age old rivals The Sem in Fitzgerald Stadium next Friday as their respective under 15 teams […]