Archive for July, 2017

A COFFEE morning raised funds for two young women’s fundraising efforts for the Meningitis Research Foundation yesterday. An Teach Beag was the venue as family and friends of Rachel Walsh, Ballyheigue, and Úna O’Connell, Kilflynn, gathered with other customers to give their support and the event raised over €500. Continued below… […]

A TRALEE couple has told of the hugely rewarding experience of being puppy walkers for the Irish Guide Dogs For The Blind, as the organisation looks for people in Kerry to become volunteers. The purpose of Irish Guide Dogs’ Puppy Walking Programme is to develop and care for a guide […]

The weather isn’t going to have us rushing to the beaches this weekend, but there’s other stuff on to help you pass the time… Friday 1. A celebration of community… If you’re in the Ballymullen area this evening at around 7pm, you might notice a gathering in Christ The King […]

TRALEE taxi drivers met with Kerry TDs, Tralee Municipal District councillors and Garda P.S.V. Inspector Jim O’Brien at a meeting on Wednesday evening about the ongoing rank issues in the town. In a statement to TraleeToday.ie, Tralee Taxi Association described the meeting in The Rose Hotel as “a worthwhile exercise” in […]

THE Banna lady who won Best Dressed Lady at Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show last year, has given tips to ladies travelling to the event next month and revealed how she spent her €10,000 in vouchers for the Dundrum Town Centre. This year’s Dundrum Town Centre Ladies Day takes […]

THERE’S a range of activities planned for tomorrow in Shanakill to bring out families for a great fun day. The Shanakill Family Resource Centre are giving something back to the community with a day filled with bouncy castles, a barbecue, sports games, music and more. There will be a chance […]

DAVID Moran is not taking anything for granted coming into Kerry’s clash with Galway in Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final in Croke Park Speaking at the launch of Kerry GAA’s new sponsorship deal with Alliance Medical, the Kerry midfielder said that it’s been a good season so far but ultimately they’ll be judged […]

FABRIK Nightclub will close its doors after Saturday night as the leaseholders have decided not to renew their involvement. The club at Godfrey Place first opened as Fabric in 2004, but closed in 2012. It reopened in May 2015 as Quarters, but was rebranded last August as Fabrik with new […]

HAVE you or someone you know any stories to tell about the Boherbee/Mitchels area? Do you have family, friends or old neighbours returning home over this coming summer? Well the people from the Mitchels Regeneration Project are producing their 5th ‘Memories of the Mitchels CD’ and their 10th anniversary calendar […]

Ok, so let me start this column by saying that I only realised that football is a religion when I moved to Kerry ten years ago, before that I had only a mild interest in it. The reason for this is that I come from a town where hurling and […]

AFTER last year’s emotional event at the Tralee Bay Wetlands, Recovery Haven’s Celebration Of Light, in association with Rose of Tralee International Festival and Kerry Choral Union, returns to the centre next month. The annual fundraiser for the Cancer Support House is in its sixth year and will see the candle […]

THE Sinn Féin councillor who initially proposed Tralee make an application for Purple Flag status, has criticised opponents of the process. The judges arrive tomorrow to assess the town for Purple Flag status, which is a positive initiative that indicates an entertaining, diverse, safe and enjoyable night in a town. […]

THE Open Arms Kerry project, which aims to provide help for people with mental health issues, is looking for volunteers to man their new office when it opens in September. “It is one of our aims to set up a movement of people who will play a part in helping […]

TIS only weeks away now. The images below are enough to bring joy to hundreds and a sense of foreboding to many more younger readers. The Dome is going up which means the Rose of Tralee Festival and all the fun it brings is near. But as night follows day, […]

THE time is fast approaching when judges arrive to consider if the town should be awarded the Purple Flag and the town’s businesses have really got behind the effort. Receiving Purple Flag status is an internationally recognised endorsement of a town centre’s ambience between the hours of 5pm and 5am. […]

WE are all driven by something. Whether it be by a singular dream, by money, by love or perhaps by a particularly pleasant glass of wine. Without drive, we would all lie marooned on our couches, moaning away. Sadly, those people do exist and they can drag those around them […]

A TRALEE singer-songwriter who has received great reviews for her music so far will release her new single this Friday (watch below). Twenty-seven year old Kate Dineen is from the Spa outside town, but is now based in Dublin. The former Presentation Secondary School student’s new single ‘Flames’ is the […]

THERE was some great skill and talent on show at the KDL pitches in Mounthawk on Tuesday for the annual Tralee Garda Soccer Blitz. The event was organised by Tralee Community Policing and KDYS Key Service -A Kerry Garda Divisional Service Model Funded by IYJS & Supported by EU structural […]

Mike O’Halloran previews this weekend’s Garveys SuperValu Senior Hurling Championship action in Austin Stack Park… Friday 7pm Round 2B — Crotta O’Neill’s V Causeway Causeway come into this game having two games under their belt after drawing with St Brendan’s in the first round. Crotta O’Neills went down to Kilmoyley in […]

A TRALEE woman was one of the winners at the annual U Magazine ’30 Under 30′ awards last night She has a background in journalism and new media and had been blogging on other sites since 2011, before starting her website. BeforeMamDies.com is a celebration of life and travel with […]

IT’S become a very popular annual event at the Oakpark club and this year is set to be no different as Na Gaeil prepares for its annual fundraising cycle. Over 100 cyclists took to the road last year and on Saturday, August 26, the club is hoping as many people […]

WELL we won’t see Nancy Myles opening again as a pub. Kerry Independent TD, Michael Healy Rae, owns the property and has applied for planning permission to redevelop the building which ceased operating as a public house/restaurant some years ago. He is seeking permission from the Council to change the […]

CAMPA PEILE: Our Austin Stack Club FOOTBALL Camp will take place in Connolly Park from August 8th to 12th…just a week to go! PEIL FAOI 6: (i) Under 6 football fun at 5.45pm on Thursday and (ii) again at 11am on Sunday in Caherslee. PEIL FAOI 8: (i) We’re back to football […]

Results : Saturday  22nd and Sunday 23rd  July  (Presidents Prize to the men  (Des Fitzgerald) 1st : Tommy Walsh (18) 44 Points 2nd : Jim O’Donovan (9) 43 Points 3rd : Ger Hussey (12) 43 Points Best Gross: Ger Deegan (1) 41 Points 4th :Tom Moore (15)  40 Points 5th :Ger […]

IT was a massive success last year and it’s hoped the public will respond for a great cause when Enable Ireland Kerry holds its ‘Lip Sing’ event this autumn. However, they’re going to need some performers first, so the call has gone out for participants in this year’s event which […]

IF you’re not Dublin-bound for the big Kerry match this Sunday, then this might be something to do. Abbeydorney GAA are hosting a free Family Fun Day which will take place in Tom Healy Memorial Park this Sunday at 2pm. Activities will include Novelty Races, Fun Hurling and Football Games, Penalty […]

A TRALEE native is currently recording his debut album over in Los Angeles, where he has been living and playing to audiences for the past year. Steven Forde, a 24 year old recording artist/actor who performs under the name Stiofán, left Ireland in 2016 to follow his musical dreams in […]

CALLING all young entrepreneurs in Kerry! Kerry County Council Local Enterprise Office has a €50,000 county investment fund available for winners and runners-up in the Kerry finals of the Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition (IBYE). Last year a Tralee man, Derek Counihan of Harpoon, won the top prize in Kerry […]

RESIDENTS in the Ballymullen area will be hoping the weather stays kind as they plan a summer get-together this Friday. The residents of Castlemorris, Ballymullen, Murphy’s Terrace and Stephen’s Terrace are organising the event, as they put it, “to celebrate our beautiful place.” And why not? The residents there always make […]

SUNDAY will renew a rivalry between the Kingdom and the men from the west. There have been some memorable clashes between Kerry and Galway over the years but we’ll just take a look at some of the ties we won this time!… 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York: Kerry 2-6 Galway 0-7 […]