Archive for December 19th, 2018

CANCER support charity Recovery Haven Kerry has received the ultimate Christmas present this week with confirmation that proceeds from their recent Movember challenge have exceeded a staggering €30,000. The charity, which offers free support to cancer patients and their families across Kerry, had hoped to raise €10,000 from the initiative, […]

THE Dingle New-Music Choir And Orchestra will perform a concert in St John’s Ashe Street tonight (Wednesday). It’s set to be a wonderful occasion with the works of Stamitz, Vaughan Williams and Ennio Morricone performed under conductor an composer Gabor Peli. The Orchestra and Choir’s repertoire will include freshly written […]

A LOCAL family received a fantastic early Christmas present during the week when they won a big cash prize. During the ad breaks for this year’s Londis-sponsored ‘Tastes Like Home’ RTE ONE series  with Catherine Fulvio, a text-in competition was run for a family to win a cheque for €5,000 […]

WITH the holidays in sight, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí kids got festive for a great cause last week. Transition year class 4Y at the school in Moyderwell ran a small fundraiser for Bumbleance. They sold personalised Christmas candy canes at break time during the week to students. Santa Claus then distributed the […]

JOHN Cleary’s new book ‘As Time Goes By’ is a wonderful collection of photographs from the 1990s in Tralee and Kerry. It’s the third book in as many years from the well-known Tralee photographer, having previously captured the 1970s and 1980s in ‘Through The Lens’ and ‘Twas Only Like Yesterday’ […]

MEMBERS of the Mitchels Boherbee Historical & Heritage Group gathered at The Rose Hotel on Monday evening to launch their 10th annual calendar ‘Memories Of Times Gone By’. The calendar is always a must have for residents in the area and indeed for people from Mitchels/Boherbee who now live elsewhere. […]

ONCE again, gardaí brought some seasonal cheer to the streets of Tralee with their annual fundraiser on The Mall on Tuesday. Members of the force carried collection buckets for their annual festive fundraising drive aided by local musicians — including retired garda Dave Rath — and created a great atmosphere […]

CONSTRUCTION company Sisk & Son is delivering some 500 handcrafted wooden toys to children’s hospitals and charities in Ireland and across the United Kingdom in the lead up to Christmas and University Hospital Kerry is one of those to receive the toys. The beautiful wooden toys were handmade over the […]