Archive for April, 2018

PUBS in Tralee, supported by local Gardaí, have backed Tralee Chamber Alliance’s roll-out of the ‘Ask For Angela’initiative for people who feel unsafe on a night out. The campaign encourages people who might find themselves in an uncomfortable situation to ‘Ask for Angela’ at the bar. When a customer uses the code-phrase ‘Ask For […]

A YOUNG Tralee boxer will fight for an All-Ireland on Saturday morning. Christopher Mongans of Tralee Boxing Club will take to the ring to compete for an All Ireland Boy 2 54Kg title after a convincing 5-0 win over much fancied Jake Buckley Rosslare B.C at the National Stadium on […]

A TRALEE man is going to abseil down Croke Park to raise awareness of a mental health support organisation. Mike Edgar, a student in IT Tralee, decided to take on the challenge because he is passionate about the issue of mental health. The former Mercy Mounthawk student has set up […]

BLENNERVILLE Playschool is holding a Food Demonstration in association with Croí Restaurant next weekend. The renowned Tralee Culinary Gangsters will be demonstrating how to cook wild, local, fresh foraged food at Blennerville school on Sunday, April 15 at 1pm. This promises to be a fun-filled, family-friendly event and adults are asked […]

NOT long to go now. Following on from the huge success of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ staged in 2017, the award-winning Tralee Musical Society (TMS) will present ‘Children of Eden’ next week in what is an eagerly anticipated production. The show will run nightly from Wednesday, April 11 to Saturday, April […]

The Easter holidays are coming to an end but there’s still a few things to do over the weekend… Friday 1. Getting lippy in Churchill… With just a month a go, the Churchill GAA Club Lip Sing 2018 event will be officially launched at the Oyster Tavern tonight. The contestants […]

WELL you have to keep some traditions, don’t you? I mean it’s been going for, oh, a whole six years now, so I mean it wouldn’t be the same sitting down to watch the US Masters without a Kerry jersey flashing across our screens. It all started in 2012 with […]

TASTE Kerry’s Annual Food Showcase will see the launch of the Kerry Seafood Resource pack, an in-depth exploration of Kerry’s Fishing Industry and its communities, a valuable resource developed for the hospitality and tourism industry. The one-day TasteKerry Food Showcase will be held at IT Tralee on April 26, 9.00 am – […]

HERE’S a great idea to get kids reading this season. ‘Spring into Story-time’ is back on Saturdays this April at Tralee Library. These events provide an ideal opportunity for children to take time to enjoy stories in their local library and experience reading as an activity which is fun, entertaining and […]

THE young actors, singers and dancers from the Bryan Carr School of Performing Arts put on a marvellous show at Siamsa Tíre this week. In four performances over Tuesday and Wednesday they thrilled hundreds of people of all ages with the popular musical based on the 1988 John Waters movie […]

The Rose Hotel will be a hive of activity this Sunday as the base for the Circuit of Kerry Rally which has attracted a strong entry field this year. Martin Walsh previews what’s to come… The splendid and iconic west Kerry scenery provides the backdrop to Sunday’s second round of […]

Mike O’Halloran on the Kerry County Hurling League Division 1 clash in Ballyduff on Wednesday night… Ballyduff 0-8 Causeway 0-19 Causeway overcame the county champions in this game played in Ballyduff’s home patch on Wednesday evening. The game was hardly a classic, but Causeway were worthy of their win in […]

IT’S about to get a bit wet tomorrow afternoon after the lovely sunshine we’ve been enjoying today. Met Eireann has issued a Status Yellow Rainfall Warning for eight counties including Kerry. In the 24 hour period from Thursday afternoon to Friday afternoon, there’ll be between 30 and 50 mm of […]

Mens results Sunday 1st April  MC1 Sponsored by TLI Group 1st: David Sheehy (9) 37 Points 2nd: Padraig Daughton (7) 37 Points 3rd: Michael Leahy (8) 37 Points 4th: Ger Hill (18) 37 Points 5th: Gerry Ryan (13) 36 Points 6th: Donal O’Connell (15) 36 Points Best Gross: Eoghan O’Donnell 34 […]

By Junior Griffin Competitive badminton returns to the Tralee Sports Centre next Sunday April 8th for the first time in 10 years with the staging of the Paddy Sugrue Tournaments which caters for divisions 2 to 5. Mr Sugrue was former President of Tralee’s County Club and also the Kerry Badminton […]

PEIL FAOI 6: Our Sunday action will take place in Caherslee on Sunday at 11am. PEIL FAOI 8: (i) Caherslee is the place to be at 11am on Sunday. (ii) On Wednesday April 4th we participated in the Kerry County Board U8 7-aside football blitz at the John Mitchel Club. Our two teams […]

RADIO Kerry has launched this year’s award in memory a former journalist at the station who passed away in January 2017. The Kevin Casey Award for Young Sports Journalists is for young people aged between 15 and 18 and fancy becoming a sports journalist or reporter. Entrants are asked to write up […]

THE annual Kerry Garda Divisional Community Alert Neighbourhood Watch Text Alert meeting takes place this Thursday, April 5, at 7pm in The Rose Hotel. The meeting will be chaired by Kerry Garda Division Chief Supt Tom Myers and superintendents from each district in Kerry will be attending. Chief Supt Myers will […]

GARDAI are asking the public for any assistance into their investigation into a break-in to a car last week. The incident occurred on Tuesday, March 27, between 7pm and 8pm in Monavalley Industrial Estate. The owner returned to their car to find the window of the car smashed and a […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance is looking for feedback from the people who live and work in Tralee to develop a strong brand for the town. A short survey is available from www.ThisIsTralee.ie and the questions range from perceptions of pride in Tralee to how the respondents would like others to view the town. […]

CARA Credit Union is warning about a phishing scam which is targeting members. The newly-rebranded Credit Union with offices in Tralee, Killorglin and Castleisland, put a post on its Facebook page yesterday where they said members who have been targeted will receive an email from an address that seems legitimate, […]

THE final call has been made for groups and individuals to sign up for this year’s County Clean Up which takes place on Saturday, 14 April. This week, several local organisations including Kerry GAA, Kerry IFA and Kerry ICMSA have announced their support and that of their members for the day-long […]

A TRALEE businesswoman has called on Irish Rail to review their security policy after an incident as she travelled between Mallow and Tralee on Sunday. Mags Kissane of Connect Publications was attending Mallow Races with her husband and decided to travel by rail to the event. Everything was fine on […]

  AUSTIN Stacks were presented with a national GAA award for “Best New Digital Initiative” for the Stacks100.ie website initiative. at Croke Park last Thursday night.   This is the club’s second national MacNamee Award, previously winning in 2014 with ‘Rockumentary’ – the story of that year’s Co & Munster […]

  INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIP – Round 1 Ardfert​​​ v ​​John Mitchels​​​: We played Ardfert in Round 1 of the Intermediate Championship on Saturday evening with throw in at 5.00 p.m. It was a dry and sunny evening with a strong wind blowing from the Mitchels end to the Horans side. Ardfert […]

Seniors: Churchill 1-09 Ballydonoghue 0-10. Churchill kicked off their Junior Premier Championship campaign with a 2 point victory over Ballydonoghue in a wet and windy Finuge on Sunday afternoon, and they had to battle to the end having played much of the second half with 14 men. Both sides settled […]

Good Luck U12 Boys in Croke Park: Best of luck to the under 12 boys who travel to Croke Park this week to represent Tralee at the Go Games Blitzes. Successful Easter Camp:  Credit to the 2 Davids and their helpers on another great Easter Hurling and Camogie camp at Caherslee […]

MEDIA AWARD: Last Thursday (March 29th) Austin Stacks Club members travelled to GAA HQ to collect our National GAA Media Award. Austin Stacks were winners in the category – Best New Digital Initiative 2017 for our ‘Stacks 100’ website produced by Rory Kirby. The award citation reads:  This website was commissioned especially to […]

Seniors    Na Gaeil travelled to Mountcoal on Saturday evening last to take on Listowel Emmets in the first round of the Premier Junior Championship. The conditions were perfect and Emmets playing with the wind at their backs scored a point with their first attack through wing forward Cormac Mulvihill. Na Gaeil’s […]

SENIORS The Castleisland Mart Junior Premier Club Championship Round 1 Ballymac 0-08 Finuge – 1-07 Referee- Paul Hayes ( Kerins O’Rahillys) It was Easter Sunday and the venue was John Mitchels GAA where Ballymac kicked off on their Championship campaign. It was not to be Ballymacs day but not from […]