Archive for April 10th, 2019

IN case you didn’t know, there’s elections coming up this month in the county. So to give people an idea of what issues are affecting Tralee and how the candidates plan to deal with them, a Pre-Election Forum will take place tomorrow morning from 8.30am to 11.30am at The Rose […]

KERRY County Council has today published details of the nomination process for candidates for the local authority elections which will take place on 24 May 2019. Nomination papers will be available from Thursday, April 11 from the Corporate Services Office (Room 223) at County Buildings for the elections in the […]

A TRALEE man has won a trip of a lifetime to the US Masters in Augusta with Paddy Power this weekend. Aidan Teahon, who is floor manager at Kirby’s Brogue Inn, entered a competition with the Paddy Power Rewards Club and was notified this week that he won the competition […]

TRALEE is getting a sprinkling of movie magic this week as Brian Nolan and his team of Broadcast Production trainees begin work with an impressive group of industry professionals to make their first ever ‘Mentored Movie’ in Kerry’s ETB’s National Digital Skills Centre in the Monavalley Campus. It all takes […]

CARA Credit Union is the focus of a brand new eight-part RTE One series titled The Borrowers, commencing on next Tuesday, April 16 at 8.30pm. The fly-on-the-wall programme will take viewers behind the scenes and into a credit union loan office, for the first time ever on Irish television. Viewers […]

GARVEY’S Tralee Warriors heroics this season are to be honoured this Friday with a civic reception at Kerry County Council buildings. The team won the Basketball Ireland Men’s Superleague title for the first time last month in only their third season in the league, having won the Champions Trophy in […]

GOOD food, wine and great company was on the menu at The Old Market Bar in the Ashe Hotel on Tuesday night, for an event to celebrate the All-Ireland Tapas and Pintxo Championships taking place in Tralee. Hosted by the hotel in association with Connect Marketing and Events and Taste Kerry, […]

A LIMERICK mother-of-two is on a mission to introduce a potentially life-saving treatment into University Hospital Kerry and all of Ireland’s 19 maternity hospitals. Carmel Finnegan first became aware of the term ‘brain cooling’ during her work as a solicitor with Dennison Solicitors in Abbeyfeale. Brain cooling –  medical term […]

KERRY College of Further Education (KCFE) has begun to establish itself as a feeder for students wishing to progress to Universities and Teacher Training Colleges. From next September, KCFE plans to expand its array of Pre-Teaching courses on offer.  The aim of undertaking a Pre-Teaching course is to educate a […]