Archive for October 31st, 2019

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following the discovery of the body of a man in his 60s at Tousist on Thursday, October 24. Shortly before 7am on Thursday, October 24, Gardaí received a report of a possible road traffic collision at Clonee, Tousist, off the main Kenmare to Castletownbere Road. […]

WE had a lot of rain in Tralee this afternoon and evening and that is set to return tomorrow afternoon. A Status Yellow – Rainfall warning has been issued for Kerry, Limerick, Clare and Kerry taking effect from 2pm on Friday. Spells of heavy rain will lead to accumulations of […]

GARDAI in Tralee conducted ‘Operation Lifesaver’ today with 20 motorists stopped for mobile phone use or not wearing their seat belt. One driver was stopped with a three year old child standing in the front seat. Another driver texting while driving, failed to notice Gardaí with blue lights and sirens. […]

A TRALEE businesswoman has been shortlisted for a national entrepreneur award. Margaret Kissane has received national recognition for her successful publishing and events group, Connect Publications. She has been shortlisted from hundreds of nominations in the prestigious IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards. Margaret was officially announced last week in the shortlist […]

HALLOWEEN is here with children (and no doubt a few adults) going all out with make-up and costumes for trick or treating tonight. Well, just before mid-term, the pupils at Caherleaheen decided to put this creativity to good uses by holding a fancy dress fundraiser. They raised €500 for Jigsaw Kerry […]

VOLUNTEERS from the Kerry Hospice Foundation were at RTE Studios in Dublin on Tuesday where two well-known faces helped launch an upcoming fundraiser. Andrea O’Donoghue, Maura Sullivan and Margaret Crean met up with Kerry Hospice patron Katie Hannon and her Prime Time colleague Miriam O’Callaghan to officially launch the ‘Light To […]

AIB Tralee is presenting ‘RX – Future of Retail Developing Your Retail Business’ which is a must attend event for retailers in Kerry, at The Ashe Hotel next Tuesday, November 5 at 8am. In November 2018, AIB held the Retail Tech event at the same location and one year on, […]

IT was the worst October since records began for numbers of patients waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Kerry according to new figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Nationally, it was also the worst October and the second worst month ever for overcrowding with not enough beds for […]