Archive for April, 2018

A DELEGATION from Kerry County Council will attend a series of meetings at the European Parliament in Brussels next week to engage with Ireland South MEPs and EU officials on matters of interest to Kerry. The focus of the visit is on policy and recent developments at European level in […]

TRALEE will host planners from all over the country this week for the Irish Planning Institute Annual Planning Conference 2018. The event will be based at The Rose Hotel, but will also see many of the 220-plus people attending taken on a walking tour of Tralee on Thursday afternoon. Victoria […]

Tralee Imperials won an All-Ireland Under 16B title in Dublin at the weekend. Martin Conway reports on a great weekend for the club… Tralee Imperials headed to Dublin at the weekend for the All Ireland U16B Girls Finals. This has become a yearly outing for this team having gone to the same […]

Premier Junior Championship Round 3 Na Gaeil V Ballymac Result Na Gaeil 0-13 – Ballymac 1-10 On what was a blustery evening at Killeen, Ballymac were the visitors in round 3 of the County Championship. It was the home side that put their mark on the score board when Diarmuid […]

Senior: Listry 0-06 ; Churchill 1-06. Churchill defeated Listry in dramatic fashion to book our place in the semi-final of the Premier Junior Championship for the first time in almost 50 years. Even after the win, there was still confusion as to who would progress between ourselves and Skillig Rangers, […]

Na Gaeil Annual Cycle    Na Gaeil Annual Cycle in aid of Na Gaeil Football Club will take place on this coming Saturday April 21st. This will be an ideal practice cycle for those intending to take part in the Ring of Kerry Cycle. There are two routes: 40km & 80km. […]

JOB MATCH: is back for 2018 – Summer, Part Time & Full Time Employment Opportunities.  With huge success for the last 3 years we are now taking CV’s for Summer, part time and full time employment or a change of employment. Please consider this golden opportunity where you will receive […]

Seniors: Club Championship: In the end it was all about the result, less about the performance. The final score line of 1-13 to 1-11 means we finish 3rd in our group behind winners Dr Crokes and second placed Austin Stacks but more importantly ensures the spectre of relegation from senior […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 02, 08, 09 & 26. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Ann Jones Tonevane, Mag Foley Spa Road, The Murphys Mounthawk , Therese Enright Derrymore East and Matt O Flaherty c/o Tommy Brosnan. […]

INTER-COUNTY : Gavin Slattery and Jedd Maunsell travelled to Limerick on Saturday with the Kerry U15 team where they played Limerick Development Squad. U12 : The opening game of the Co. League fell victim to the weather last week and was re-scheduled for last Tuesday evening in Abbeydorney. Kilmoyley were a very […]

Intermediate Championship Round 3 Results: Dromid Pearses 1-22 John Mitchels 1-08 Co League 2018 – Fixtures: Round 3 Templenoe v John Mitchels Saturday April 21st at 7.00 p.m. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SENIOR MEN Round 1 Beaufort 2-14  John Mitchels 0-13 Round 2 John Mitchels 1-13 Dingle 0-09 Round 4 John […]

Minors vs Ballyduff: Our minors had a great win against Ballyduff in the North Kerry league Sunday. Played in horrible conditions we played against a strong wind in the first half and were 4 points down at half time. Our boys upped the intensity in the second half and after […]

GARDAI are appealing to the public for information after a public house was broken into last week. In the early hours of last Friday morning, between 1am and 4am, O’Riada’s Bar/Restaurant in Ballymacelligott was broken into and an amount of cash was taken. Gardaí are asking if anyone saw anything […]

  TWO of Ireland’s best known public figures from the last 40 years will be among the list of high-profile speakers at the 2018 PROBUS All Ireland Rally from May 15-17 in Tralee. Dick Spring and Mary O’Rourke, who have both served as Tánaiste over the course of their careers, […]

THE annual Children’s Easter Tea Party held on Easter Sunday at The Ashe Hotel raised €820 for Cashel Children’s Ward at University Hospital Kerry. The sell-out event organised by Tralee Chamber Alliance and The Ashe Hotel welcomed over 100 children and their parents to the hotel for an afternoon of […]

THE Kerry Garda Division held a Black Tie Gala Ball in the Killarney Oaks Hotel on Friday night last. The last similar function was 26 years ago in Kerry and Gardai, business community and members of the public across the county gathered for a great night of entertainment. Scroll down […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Sheahan, has thanked the almost 6,000 volunteers who took part in the County Clean-Up across Kerry on Saturday. Thousands of bags of litter were collected from the roadsides and towns and villages during the seventh annual clean-up which was organised by KWD […]

Mike O’Halloran watched the Kerry camogie team claim the Division 3 League title yesterday with victory over Roscommon… Kerry 2-8 Roscommon 0-4 A comprehensive win then for Kerry Camogie over a fancied Roscommon team in The Ragg in Tipperary, in the final of Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League division three. The […]

THE rain stayed away around Tralee as volunteers took to the roads to take part in the annual County Clean-Up day on Saturday. Almost 6,000 volunteers took part around the county with many schools also joining in on Friday. The initiative of KWD Recycling and Kerry County Council is now […]

THE Dingle Way Challenge, an annual fundraiser by St Pat’s GAA Club, is set to be bigger and better this year and the club is looking for participants. The date has been set for Sunday, June 3 and Chairman of St Pats, Jimmy Mulligan, is promising a fantastic day out. […]

A TRALEE woman won €18,000 on Winning Streak last night, but she wasn’t the only Kerry person in the money. Catriona Dunne from Caherslee was joined by Margaret Flaherty from Milltown and Brosna native Pat Joe Walsh and between them they won €79,000. Catriona (37), a retail assistant in Penney’s Tralee, […]

I RECENTLY heard someone give a definition of the true meaning of mercy and I must say I found it very interesting. To be honest I had not given it much thought prior to this. He said – “Mercy is sending a loving reaction to any given human situation”. What […]

NOW that was a good morning’s work! The junction at the bottom of Rock Street looks a whole lot brighter thanks to the trainees at Kerry ETB. The Traditional Stonewall Construction trainees, along with instructor Donal Corcoran, installed a drystone flowerbed structure in front of the Brogue Inn on Saturday […]

SOME fantastic art was on display at The Ashe Hotel on Friday evening as students from Kerry College of Further Education held an exhibition and CD launch. ‘The Pursuit Of Artyness’ saw the QQI Level 6 Art, Craft and Design Post Leaving Certificate students put on a wonderful art and craft […]

A DETACHED five-bedroomed house in Ballyheigue and eight houses near Banna were among four Kerry lots which sold for a total of €594,000 at an online auction on Friday. Bidx1 (formerly Allsop) held the online auction where a detached five bedroom house at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, with a reserve not to exceed €120,000 eventually sold […]

HAVE you had your say yet? Time is running out to complete the ThisIsTralee.ie Survey aimed at helping build a strong brand for Tralee. Close to 1,000 people have completed the survey since it began last week. Tralee Chamber Alliance is developing a strong brand for Kerry’s capital town and the opinion […]

  Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I have a valid passport, but it will expire two weeks before I go on holiday. Will two weeks give me enough time to get a new one?  […]

John McCann says ‘A Quiet Place’ is a terrific tense horror thriller that might turn out to be one of the year’s best films… With the recent critical and commercial success of films such as  ‘Get Out’, ‘It Comes at Night’ and ‘The Witch’, the horror genre has enjoyed a […]

ASPEN Grove Solutions has issued a statement in response to media reports on its current restructuring process. The statement by the company, which has its offices at a premises on the Castlemaine Road, says that eight jobs out a total workforce of 145 “may be at risk”. The statement reads […]

BALLYSEEDY Garden Centre is the place to be on Saturday, April 21, as the Kerry Branch of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) are set to host the inaugural Unsung Hero charity cycle. The cycle will pay homage to renowned explorer Tom Crean and will also remember DSI Kerry member Emily Keohane […]