Archive for July 5th, 2017

KILLORGLIN is already preparing for the influx of tens of thousands of visitors in just over  a month for the annual Puck Fair. Thousands of Irish emigrants are planning a visit home this summer to coincide with the 3-day festival, which takes place from August 10-12. The 2017 festivities will […]

THERE were eight Kerry properties up for auction online at the Allsop website today and between them they fetched €663,000. It was part of their residential online auction with three more Kerry properties up for bids in tomorrow’s commercial auction. In Tralee, a vacant house at 13 Urban Terrace with […]

PADRAIG Harrington has named two Kerry courses among his Top 5 in Ireland, but Rory McIlroy didn’t include any when asked for his choices, according to a story in the International edition of the New York Times yesterday. Speaking before the Irish Open which begins tomorrow, Padraig Harrington, the two-time […]

PAUL Galvin may be a Man United fan, but he was honoured to meet Man City’s managerial maestro this morning. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss, Pep Guardiola, was in Ireland and bumped into the ex-Kerry player and current fashion designer. Paul even managed to pass on some of […]

TRALEE Municipal District Sinn Féin councillor, Toireasa Ferris, has advised medical card holders that they should not be charged for blood tests by their GPs. Councillor Ferris has been contacted by a number of constituents, one of whom is a patient recovering from cancer, about the issue. “I have told them and […]

AN Oakpark man has started a series of tough challenges to raise funds for a Tralee woman’s orphanage project in Africa. Patrick Daly from Derrylea completed the Ring of Kerry Cycle at the weekend, but that’s only the beginning. In the next few months he will take on the ‘Tough […]