Archive for February, 2020

GARDAI in Tralee co-hosted a ‘meet and greet’ event in Tralee last Friday in Cumann Iosaef Community Centre in Balloonagh. Local Gardaí, IFA branch representatives and representatives from community groups, including Kerry Fire Service, involved in the National Rural Safety Forum, engaged with the local community. It was an opportunity for […]

A FREE seminar in Tralee will deliver range of top tips and advice on positive ageing and encourage over 50s to embrace change in their physical, emotional and social lives. Leading expert on ageing, Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Trinity College Dublin, will deliver the seminar with former Kerry GAA player […]

LARGE crowds attended the Progressive Pathways Fair 2020 which was held at The Rose Hotel on  Friday. It was a great opportunity for people aged 16 or over, with health issues, illness, disability or other support needs, to find out more about their employment options. Special guest was former Armagh […]

TJ Heaphy reports on Tralee CBS The Green’s victory over Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra Rathmore in the Corn Uí Mhúirí semi-final… Tralee CBS 2-19 Rathmore 1-17 AFTER the two sides met earlier in the year in O’Sullivan Cup, this encounter was anticipated to deliver. Rathmore won the previous decider comprehensively […]

Alan Cantwell on Garvey’s Tralee Warriors win in Dublin at the weekend… Garvey’s Tralee Warriors 82 Griffith College Templeogue 81 Warriors moved to the top of the Super League table outright with an inspirational comeback win against their great rivals and recently crowned Cup champions Griffith College Templeogue in a […]

IT’S the new weight-loss fad that’s sweeping the nation in the past few weeks and a local TD is feeling the benefits. What is it? Canvassing! Yes, apparently traipsing up and down the roads and estates of the county looking for votes will get you fit and losing weight faster than […]

MORE of this please. If the last ten minutes of last night’s game proved anything, it’s that Austin Stack Park is the only place for Kerry’s Allianz National League games. The official attendance was 11,117 but you can add at least another 1,000 to that judging by the number of […]

THE Square was alive with colour on Saturday and as the Chinese New Year festival in town continued. The ‘Lion and Dragon Ritual’ which saw 19 performers with two lions and a dragon entertained those present while ‘A Taste Of Asia’ held in association with Taste Kerry brought a food and flavours […]

LIKE in every household, ever since being a small child and being told to go to bed early, we start to resist being told what to do. ‘Go to bed now’, ‘eat your vegetables’, ‘put on your coat and hat on when you go outside’, gets met with a very […]

THE Kerry Association in Dublin’s Kerry Person of the Year has been announced as Dr Patricia Sheahan. Listowel native Dr Sheahan, is Head of Palliative Care at University Hospital Kerry, has been central to the development of palliative care services in the county. She will receive her award in March. […]

A PERFECT example of the community coming together to help one of their own was in evidence in Benners on Friday night. The occasion was ‘Bands For Bubbles’, a fundraiser to help out Tralee native Siobhain Maher Sequeval, who, in December, suffered a major stroke and aneurysm in France where she […]

SO it’s over again for another year, but for some it could lead to a change of lifestyle and a healthier body and mind for 2020. The ’31 Day January Challenge for Positive Mental Health’, organised by Colin ‘Poshey’ Aherne, came to an end on Friday with a final 5k […]

A CEREMONY took place on Friday to mark the official opening of the refurbished Sliabh Mis mental health admission unit (also known as an approved centre) in the University Hospital Kerry. Minister for Mental Health Jim Daly officially opened the 34-bed unit. Since 2015, Sliabh Mis has undergone a significant phased programme […]

Armando Iannucci has revitalised a Dickens classic with ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ says our movie guy, James Finnegan… LET me say this right at the start.  This is David Copperfield, but not necessarily as you know it. It is delivered by director and co-writer Armando Iannucci with loving […]