Archive for April, 2017

RESULTS Mens Div 1 Cup St. Brendan’s 81 KCYMS 66 St. Brendan’s ended the 2016/17 season on a high with a hard fought but well deserved win over rivals KCYMS in the Div 1 Cup final in Castleisland on Friday night. Both sides featured players that had enjoyed Champions Trophy […]

Mens results Saturday 9th April (Arthur spring medal) blue tees /stroke 1st : Ian O’Doherty (16) 66 Nett 2nd : Verners Tess (5) 70 Nett 3rd : John Moran (8) 71 Nett Best Gross: Graham Spring (0) 72 Gross Sunday 10th April (AIB Scotch Foursomes) 1st : Kieran Ruttledge(17) & […]

  TESCO stores in Kerry alone raised over €4,250 to support the little heroes of Temple Street last Friday. Over €130,000 was raised by Tesco stores across the country  in support of Temple Street’s Great Irish Bake. Tesco colleagues and customers baked, bought, ate and sold an abundance of culinary creations […]

THE Spa/Fenit branch of Kerry Hospice will hold their annual Good Friday 10k scenic route walk and run on Friday, April 14, in memory of the late Jerry O’Sullivan. Participants will take off from The Tankard, Kilfenora, at 11am.  Walkers of all ages are invited to come along, take part and […]

CH Chemists are planning the ultimate skincare event for Saturday, May 20, where award winning beauty therapist Jennifer Rock, the Skin Nerd, will appear as a special guest. Jennifer will go through her favourite products and offer advice and recommendations for those that wouldn’t be the best at keeping on […]

AFTER his man of the match winning performance on Sunday, it comes as no surprise to see Kerry’s David Moran voted GAA.ie Footballer of the Week. The midfielder was inspirational against Dublin in the league final  and earned 50% of the votes on the GAA’s Official Twitter (@officialgaa), Facebook, and Instagram pages with Tipperary’s […]

TEAMS from supermarkets, the hospital and the Gardaí will take to the astroturf up in the North Campus of IT Tralee on Easter Sunday for the second annual Turner’s Bar Invitational Cup. There will be ten teams in all taking part with a women’s tournament also taking place. It’s all in aid of Acquired Brain […]

TRALEE schools enjoyed big success at the annual Kerry Colleges Track and Field Championships  held in ideal conditions at An Riocht Athletic Track on Thursday last. Around 400 athletes representing 15 secondary schools contested sprints, middle and long distance races;  shot putt, long and high jumps, and to finish off the day, […]

  THE rejuvenation of Tralee Town Centre West and the former Denny bacon factory at the Island of Geese in Tralee has taken another step forward with the appointment of consultants to draw up a master-plan for the 2.3 acre site. Reddy Architecture + Urbanism have been tasked with identifying options […]

THE launch and draw for the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Football Championship took place this evening at the Pavilion at Austin Stack Park. For the Tralee teams, Austin Stacks will face St Kierans, while Kerins O’Rahillys play the formidable South Kerry side. It’s a local derby with East Kerry facing Rathmore, West Kerry take […]

THE Kerry Minor Football Team to play Clare in the Electric Ireland Munster Minor Football Championship Quarter Final at Austin Stack Park on Wednesday evening has been named. It contains just four of the side who played in the All-Ireland Minor Final last year – Michael Potts, Na Gaeil’s Diarmuid […]

Seniors: We travelled to Glenbeigh on Sat night last to take on the locals in Round 3 of the county league with a first league win the priority after our opening day loss and subsequent draw. The loss of the US bound Kieran O’Mahony plus the injuries to Con Barrett […]

  Seniors    Na Gaeil entertained Ballydonoghue in Round 3 of the County League in Killeen on Saturday evening in what were ideal conditions for football. Ballydonoghue played with the aid of the breeze in the first half. Na Gaeil’s Stefan Okunbor won the throw in and scored the first point […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 12, 14, 20 & 30. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Margaret Keane Tonevane, Stevie Boyle Derrymore, Michael Moran The Kerries, Jason Sinnott Derryquay and Margaret Foley c/o The Rock Inn. Next week’s […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Austin Stacks 5-14; Castleisland Desmonds 2-8. Played in ideal conditions in Connolly Park on last Saturday evening (8th April) we recorded our first Co. League win, in this our second game of the competition. After a rather timid first half, which produced only ten scores (we were ahead […]

Ballymac V St.Senans County League Match Report Saturday 08/04/2017 Ballymac …. 01-19 St.Senans …. 02-13 Ballymac took on St.Senans tonight in Round 3 of the County league. The conditions were excellent  in what was a lovely evening for a fine game of football which both teams served up. This reflected […]

Division 1 – Round 3 of Co League – Revised Fixtures Please note in light of Kerry qualifying for Allianz Football League Final next Sunday April 9 @ 4pm in Croke Park, Rd 3 of the SFL will revert to Sat April 8. Therefore Rathmore v John Mitchels match will […]

Easter Camp Hurling and Camogie: Tralee Parnells will hold and Easter Camp for 7 to 14 year olds. This is during the Easter Holidays.Tue 11th to Thu 13th April, 10 am to 1 pm each day at Caherslee, only EUR25 per player, open to members and non members. We are delighted […]

Lotto: Our Lotto Jackpot Draw for €13,800 took place in Griffin’s Bar, Castlemaine  – on Friday last. The drawn numbers were 6,27, and 30 with the bonus ball number 13. There was no outright winner but we had six lucky consolation prize winners. €50 each to Betty McCarthy, The Dawn […]

U14: Our U14s went on their travels to Listowel on Wednesday last, searching for their first win of the season. We had a great start with 1-3 from Darragh O’Sullivan playing outfield for the first time which was answered by a goal from Listowel’s centre-forward. We moved ahead with three […]

GARDAI are seeking the public’s help after a car was vandalised in Tralee at the weekend. It happened in the St John’s Park area on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The owners came out on Sunday morning to find vandals had smashed the windows and appeared to have jumped all over the […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating three burglaries in town at the weekend. In Caherslee on Saturday, between 3pm and 6pm a house in the Caherslee area was broken into. Nothing was taken in the course of the burglary. Another house in the Caherslee area was broken into between 3.30pm and […]

THE children from Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn in Tralee will star in a jam-packed episode of TG4’s ‘Cleas Act’ on Easter Sunday, April 16. This series brings Ireland’s funniest, cheekiest and most talented kids to your TV screens. Expect the best ‘out of the mouth of babes’ wisdom as the pupils reveal […]

  AN Abbeydorney woman won a trip to New York and a Tuosist lady went home with €28,000 in prizes after RTE’s Winning Streak show on Saturday.   Eighty-eight-year-old Maureen O’Sullivan of the Tuosist Post Office near Kenmare was one of five contestants on the National Lottery Show. Maureen had lots […]

THERE was a stream of people all day at the opening of the new World of Tiles store at the Mile Height on Saturday. Kerry GAA star Johnny Buckley was there to help do the honours and draw the winners of a raffle for €500 worth of tiles. The Dr […]

THE sun was shining outside but there was still a great crowd in Siamsa on Saturday afternoon for the annual show from Tenacity School of Performing Arts. A cast of over 90 took part in both the matinee and evening performances of ‘Wonderland’. The young performers are from Tralee and all […]

A MEMBER of Tralee Toastmasters won the Division contest in the Toastmasters International Speech contest on Saturday, April 8. Tricia Healy, originally from Tarbert, beat seven competitors in this round of the competition in the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick, having previously won her club and area competitions. She will […]

A YOUNG girl from Boherbee made a very kind-hearted gesture on Saturday morning when she shed her locks for a great cause. Rachel O’Connor, a nine year old pupil in Moyderwell Primary, went to Vogue Hair and Beauty on North Circular Road to get her hair cut. Rachel saw a video recently […]

VOLUNTEERS came out in force yesterday for the 2017 County Clean-Up Day. Now in its sixth year, the County Clean-Up, which took  place with the support of Kerry County Council and KWD Recycling, has proven to be a wonderful community event in which people clean up their respective areas and make […]

THE Darkness into Light London committee members were joined by Brian Higgins, CEO of Pieta House, and representatives of the Clayton Crown hotel last Wednesday to present a cheque to ICAP, the Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy charity. Thanks to the generosity of the London Irish community, £3,500 was donated to the […]