Archive for December, 2018

PUPILS in Blennerville NS are are sending Christmas postcards to retails outlets in the locality to raise their concerns about plastic packaging and its impact on the environment. It’s part of a joint initiative with Ballinskelligs NS. While discussing the problem of plastic packaging at a meeting of the Ballinskelligs Environmental […]

TRALEE company Big Handsome Media owned by Brian Hurley and Damian O’Callaghan’s OC Productions have teamed up to secure the international distribution rights for the award winning film, ‘Mad Hannans’,  by director and Grammy-nominated producer Martin Shore. The film, which features Hollywood actor Sean Penn, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam […]

MANOR West Shopping Centre and Retail Park is set to host a fun weekend full of festive cheer at their Christmas Food & Craft Fair weekend on this weekend. A diverse mix of local artisan food producers and craftspeople will showcase their wonderful handmade products from 11am – 5pm on […]

THE founder and CEO/Artistic Director of the Dingle International Film Festival has been honoured for his work in bringing an international conference to Kerry at a Fáilte Ireland awards ceremony in Dublin. Maurice Galway was honoured for bringing Animation Ireland’s International Conference to the county in 2015. Fáilte Ireland commended the efforts […]

THE 26th annual Edward Dillon & Santa Rita Estates SuperValu Off Licence of the Year Awards took place last Thursday in the Galway Bay Hotel and Garvey’s Supervalu stores were well represented. The gala event was hosted by RTÉ’s Shay Byrne and saw Garvey’s SuperValu Dingle come away with one […]

  PEIL FAOI 6/8/10: The long-awaited end-of-year medal presentation for the Under 6/8/10 footballers will take place on Sunday next (9th) in the clubhouse. We will have the All-Ireland minor cup, the Tom Markham Cup, on display. Beidh Daidí na Nollag ann ón Mol Thuaidh. We can expect Santa from […]

NORTH KERRY HURLING BOARD AWARDS : The North Kerry Hurling Board awards took place last Friday night in Ballyroe Heights Hotel where our 3 award winners were presented with their Player of the Match awards. Jack Hannon was presented with the award for his performance in the tremendously exciting U14 ‘B’ C’Ship […]

Brandy Scramble 3 Person Team Results & Fixtures Results: 1st Sean McCarthy, Sean Reidy, Colm Sheehy (5) 36pts 2nd Tony O’Halloran, Danny Leen, James O’Halloran (3) 36pts 3rd Diarmuid McElligott, PC Lynch, Domo Lyne (5) 35pts 22 Teams Entered Monday 3rd Dec – Mens AGM Grand Hotel at 8pm – […]

By Colm Griffin Knockout Cup  Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre once again played host to a great day of entertainment of the shuttle variety on Sunday last (Dec 2nd) The Knockout Cup was contested at Division 3, 4 and 5 level and three different clubs took the respective titles on […]

Search for Lost 1925 Tralee Camogie Team Photo: With the launch of a Tralee Camogie adult team this month, the time is right to begin to rediscover some of the early history of Tralee Camogie, prior to the beginning of  adult Camogie team training in January 2019. A number of […]

A PROTEST was held on Saturday against the closure of Tralee Women’s Resource Centre which is due to take effect from tomorrow. To coincide with this, another protest will take place tomorrow at HSE buildings at the entrance to University Hospital Kerry from 1.30pm. People are asked to attend to […]

TWO Kerry men will be hoping get their Christmases off to a winning start spinning the wheel when they appear on the National Lottery Winning Streak game show this Saturday. Mark Sugrue, who comes from Castleisland is the first of two players this week on Winning Streak from the Kingdom. […]

THERE’S hardly a week that goes by these days without a weather warning and right on cue, Met Eireann issued one this afternoon. A Status Yellow Wind warning for Kerry, Limerick Clare, Connacht, Cavan and Donegal will come into effect on Thursday night. Southwest winds will reach mean wind speeds […]

RTE News is reporting that 11 patients had their cancer diagnoses delayed at University Hospital Kerry and four of those patients have since. The news comes as a result of the review of the 46,000 radiology scans at University Hospital Kerry concerning the work of a locum consultant who no longer […]

KERRY College of Further Education has launched an initiative which will see a variety of unusual and collaborative fundraising events being organised to support local charities, not just for Christmas, but also running through the entire academic year. The first scheduled event  is ‘Santa Claus is Coming to You!’, the brainchild of […]

A LOCAL company is taking part in a special fundraising event over the next number of days in aid of Arlington Lodge. Tralee-based ViClarity kicked off their annual charity fundraiser on Tuesday in in aid of the homeless facility, part of the Novas group, which is located on Church Street […]

WELL done to students at Coláiste Gleann Lí who are doing their bit to help people in need in the locality this Christmas. A presentation of goodies and money, raised by the students was made to representatives of St Vincent de Paul on Tuesday morning. The students organized a raffle […]

WITH less than three weeks to go until Santa arrives, children are understandably getting excited about what the big man will bring them. With that in mind, parent at Caherleaheen NS, Michelle Culloty, assisted by teachers Adrienne Heaslip and Caroline Brick, put together a clip of the Junior and Senior […]

KERRY Sinn Féin will hold their annual Volunteer Charlie Kerins commemoration on this Friday, December 7 to mark the anniversary of his death by execution in 1944. Members and supporters of Sinn Féin will march from the Pikeman monument on Denny Street at 7.30pm to the monument at Charlie Kerins […]

TRALEE Lions Club will hold its annual street collection this Friday and Saturday and they are hoping the public will give towards the causes they support throughout the year. They will have collection points at AIB, Penneys, Garvey’s SuperValu and Dunnes Stores NCR and are looking forward to meeting people […]

THE Tour de Munster charity cycle raised a phenomenal €256,404 in total for the Munster branches of Down Syndrome Ireland and individual beneficiaries. Members of Down Syndrome Kerry were at a special celebratory event attended by cyclists, branch members, and their families at Clayton Hotel Silver Springs in Cork on Saturday, December […]

TRALEE Art Group has had a hectic couple of weeks. Just three weeks ago their new exhibition opened in Tralee Library and at the weekend some of their members’ work went on display in the ‘Off The Rails — Art In The Park’ exhibition in Kerry County Museum. Now they’re […]

THEIR heyday may have been nearly three decades ago, but The 4 Of Us can still create a beautiful noise as Tralee will find out this week. The Murphy brothers will play an acoustic show in Banners Hotel on Thursday, December 6 at 9.30pm. The gig is the third in the […]

CH Chemists is renowned for their in-house masterclasses and next week will see another expert visit the store. Benefit Cosmetics’ National Brow Artist, Katie Tiernan, will give a masterclass in-store on Wednesday, December 12, with doors open at 6.30pm. The Masterclass will ensure all ladies present will be ready for […]

INSTITUTE of Technology Tralee has been awarded €1.26 million in new funding to partner in two new research initiatives. This brings to over €11m the total value of research grants secured by IT Tralee from competitive national and EU funding bodies in the past 12 months. IT Tralee will receive […]

  Lotto Results 26/11/2018 Venue: O Riada’s Bar Jackpot: €7,500 Numbers Drawn: 4, 7, 9, 21 NO WINNER Lucky Dip Winners…. 1. John Groves c/o Dave Allman 2. Mary B o Sullivan c/o Tony Marshall 3. Brid Doyle c/o Diarmuid Lynch 4. Tina O Connor c/o Paula Silles 5. Vera […]

SENIORS Another epic encounter in Lewis Road saw Dr Crokes take the division 1 league title but only after a see saw battle which was eventually decided in extra time. We went into this game with only one competitive outing in the last 6 weeks but belied this stat when […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 17, 18, 23 & 26. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Denis Foley Blennerville, Con O Shea Curraheen, Patrick Dillane Clahane, Dermot Sugrue Tonevane and Mairead Commane c/o Mono Ryle. Next week’s Lotto […]

CLUB AGM: All registered Club Members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Austin Stacks Hurling and Football Club on Sunday 6th January, 2019 at 12.00 p.m.  Details of the outgoing Executive Committee (excluding Nominees and Co-options) can be found on our club website. Nominations are invited for all positions […]

Race Night     There was a great crowd in Na Gaeil Clubhouse on Friday for the Annual Race Night. It was a great occasion with nine races on the card, tote facilities, raffle prizes galore and a best dressed lady and gent competition. This fundraiser was very well supported by the […]