Archive for March, 2019

THE Austin Stacks senior team secured their first silverware of the season when they beat Ballymac last night in the Tralee Town Board League Final. Played under lights at Austin Stack Park, the Rockies proved too strong and clinical for Ballymac team running out 1-18 to 0-10 winners and captain […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I’m starting a new job. I heard that there are changes to the rules about terms of employment for new employees. What are they?  Answer: Your employer must provide you […]

Anchored by some magnificent performances, John McCann says ‘The Favourite’ is a worthy of all the praised lavished upon it… It’s fair to say that Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is an acquired taste. His previous features ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ and ‘The Lobster’ whilst bold and at times brilliant, […]

KERRY senior footballers are going for five in a row league wins this Sunday with Monaghan standing in the way. The Round 5 game of the Allianz Football League Division 1 has a 3pm throw-in (the Kerry hurlers are on first in a double-header from 1pm) at Fitzgerald  Stadium. Peter […]

KERRY’S representative organisations have united to ask the Director of the Southern Regional Assembly for an extension to the March 8 deadline for receiving submissions to the Draft Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) Plan. The plan, which is a new framework for economic development and planning for the Southern […]

THE Golf Doc Academy has announced the official launch of the inaugural Kerry Schools Cup golf competition for 12 – 16 year olds. Teams of six kids are being invited to represent their secondary school in the Kerry Schools Cup and unlike other sports for 12 -16 year olds, teams […]

THERE was the usual steady stream of customers to Nolan’s Londis on Thursday morning and many of them were in generous mood. The garage on North Circular Road hosted a fundraising coffee morning  in aid of the Kerry Cancer Support Group/Kerry Cork Health Link Bus and people enjoyed a free […]

LAST year, dancers from University Hospital Kerry took to the stage for “Sickly Come Dancing 2018” event where a phenomenal €67,000 was raised. Well the staff are doing it all over again later this month when they hold ‘UHK’s Got Talent 2019’ at the Brandon Hotel Conference Centre on Friday, […]

March is here and while spring was in the air this week, the weather isn’t supposed to be as kind in the coming days. Nevertheless, you should try to get out and about to a few things… Friday 1. Tops of the town… There’s some silverware up for grabs in […]

ROUNDYS Bar in Tralee has shut its doors…but only for two weeks. The popular bar had been run by Stewart Lyons for over four years, but the lease has expired and the owners have decided to take up the mantle again. Alan and Francis Fitzgibbon will be reopening the bar […]

A KERRY woman who loves a game of bingo, will be hoping to hit the jackpot and spin the Winning Streak wheel when she appears on the Winning Streak TV game show on RTÉ One this Saturday. Patricia Foley from Killarney was out and about last Saturday evening when she […]

A STUDENT at a Kerry school will be recognised at an awards ceremony in Dublin in a couple of weeks. Hannah Ní Shearcaigh of Coláiste Íde in Dingle won the “Young Translators, 2018” competition for Munster with the European Commission recently. Hannah had to undertake a specific test for translating […]