Archive for December 18th, 2018

  PRIMARY school pupils from around the county have used their artistic skills to highlight and promote road safety through their winning submissions to the 2019 Kerry County Council Road Safety Calendar competition which is hosted annual by the local authority. Charlie O’Sullivan, Deputy Chief Executive, Kerry County Council this […]

AGM: Our juvenile Cruinniú Cinn Bhliana (Annual General Meeting) will take place at 7pm on Tuesday January 8th in Connolly Park. Fáilte roimh chách. SCÓR na nÓG: (i) Our singer, Ella Nic Gabhann, sang beautifully in the Kerry Scór na nÓg final and came a very creditable second….tá sí beagnach […]

By Colm Griffin Munster Closed Championships U-11 / U-15 Kerry were well represented at the Munster Closed Championships last weekend at the University of Limerick and our young Badminton players certainly made the county proud. In the U-11s clubmates Nicole Vesko and Ben McElligott from Listowel both had double success. […]

Results & Fixtures 16.12.18 Results: 14 Hole Scramble 1. Ger Power, Mikey Sheehy, Grainne Sheehy 38pts. 2. Sean McCarthy, Sean Reidy, Colm Sheehy 38pts 3. Kieran Rutledge, Brian Durran, Alan O’Connor 38pts Cards processed 19 Fixtures: Tuesday 18th December – 18 hole Singles Thursday 27th December – Sean Walsh AmAm

TRALEE will see a major boost next  Spring when thousands of cyclists are expected to base themselves in town for the SRAC Atlantic Challenge which features Irish cycling legends Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and Nicolas Roche. Cyclists from all over the world will gather in town on Saturday, March 30 to participate […]

95% of INMO nurses and midwives have voted to go on strike in a dispute over staff shortages and pay. The INMO’s Executive Council, made up of elected nurses and midwives from across Ireland, will meet on January 7th and 8th to discuss the result and decide the next steps. […]

OVER 30 bags of litter was collected by 40 volunteers in less than two hours at a Pre-Christmas clean-up on Banna beach on Sunday. It was a fantastic turnout in the cold weather where many of the volunteers  included lots of young children. The beach, the car-park and approach road […]

KERRY County Council has launched a survey of the skills of people in Kerry which will assist in targeting investment and employment for the county. The online survey is being targeted at everyone living in Kerry, as well as those thinking about relocating to the county, those planning to set […]

TRALEE and Ballybunion have been chosen as the venues for the Irish Golf Tour Operator Association National Golf Tourism Conference 2019. The Networking event and Gala Awards Dinner will be shared across The Rose Hotel Tralee and Ballygarry House on October 20/21, 2019. A golf tournament will be hosted at […]

NATIONAL Learning Network Kerry were recently honoured when its Sporting Chance course received a People Make Places award at the National Inclusion Awards in the Castleknock Hotel, Dublin. The awards, which are a Cara initiative, aim to highlight the outstanding work of people and organisations all over Ireland, who are […]

THERE was tremendous excitement in the Bon Secours Hospital Tralee earlier this month when pupils from six schools received cash prizes for themselves and their schools. As part of a staff led initiative and in conjunction with the Bon Secours Community Initiative Fund, all primary schools in County Kerry were […]