Archive for March, 2020

THE CBS The Green Minor boys’ team took home silver medals in the All Ireland Cross Country Championships  in Santry, Dublin on Saturday last. The team consisting of Maurice Lenihan, Sean Og Brosnan, Eoin O’Flaherty, David Lucid, Hugh Lenihan, Keelan Best, Ryan Houlihan and Liam Og O’Connor ran the race […]

GARDAI in Tralee are warning businesses and the public about separate phone and change scams. Gardai say businesses have been hit by a scam where a person enters the premises and asks to change large notes into smaller notes. He then changes his mind, asking for his large notes back […]

GARDAI in Tralee are appealing to the public for information relating to theft and criminal damage incidents in the town over the past week. Between 3pm on Thursday, March 5, and 9am on Friday, March 6, a car was broken into in the Clonmore Grove area and about €10 and […]

LAST chance to enter! The Cheltenham festival begins tomorrow and the next best thing to being there is the craic in The Castle Bar. In fact, many racing fans in town take a week’s holidays to enjoy the atmosphere. The highlight at the Rock Street bar is the racing and […]

A CHOCOLATE business from Bonane, Kenmare is this year’s winner of the Kerry County Enterprise Award for 2020, the Kerry County Council Local Enterprise Office has announced. Benoit Lorge, Lorge Chocolatier took the top prize of €2,500 and will now represent Local Enterprise Office Kerry at the 22nd National Enterprise […]

KERRY College of Further Education and Training’s first ever Open Week has been a great success. Over 2,000 school leavers, jobseekers, career changers, teachers, tutors, instructors, guidance staff and industry professionals attended the four campus locations across the week with 700 attending the Apprenticeship Open Evening event at Monavalley on […]

KERRY Pride is hosting a Variety Bingo fundraiser on Saturday, March 14, in The Rose Hotel at 8pm with all funds going to Kerry Pride and Pieta House. The event will feature drag performers, live music, special guest bingo callers, games, and spot prizes. Entry on the night costs €10 […]

STRICT visitor restrictions, imposed on Friday, are still in place across the South/ South West Hospital Group, which includes University Hospital Kerry, due to Infection Control concerns. A statement issued this morning by the Hospital Group says this is in the interest of patient care and in order to prevent […]

  A woman has died in a two vehicle  road traffic collision on the main Killarney to Tralee Road near Farranfore at around 2pm this afternoon. Shortly after 2pm Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to a two car collision on the N22 at Brennans Glen, Killarney. The scene was […]

2006 was a very significant year for me. I was coming to terms with depression and was working at sorting it out. I began to look at the roots of the problem and came to the conclusion that the thinking mind (thoughts) was the culprit. Also, 2006 was the year […]

THE sun shone on Friday morning to deliver a brief reprieve from the terrible weather we’ve been enduring over the past month. It arrived just in time to for the boys and girls from two Tralee schools. Families gathered at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Thursday morning as pupils […]

PACO in Tralee will host another of its famous coffee/fashion mornings at their store on The Mall next Friday between 11am and 1pm. The beneficiary this time will be the Kerry Women’s Resource Centre. The centre closed its doors in December 2o18 despite protests from the local community, but a campaign […]

DESPITE the bad weather, CH Tralee and Recovery Haven Kerry hosted a successful fundraising coffee morning with a difference on Saturday. It was a morning of health, beauty and wellness in aid of the cancer support charity, with special guests, discussions and demonstrations on show from 11am. Dr Mary McCaffrey […]

CAHERLEAHEEN NS and Parents Association will host their ‘Gourmet Spring Grill’ fundraiser to support a facility which has been a huge support to parents of a child attending the school. The event on this coming Friday, March 13 at The Pavilion in Ballygarry House Hotel, will support the Hugh’s House charity, […]

THE Causeway community was out in force last night for a fantastic night of glitz and glamour at the ‘Oskars’. The Causeway Community Action Group Oskars was held in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel as a fundraiser to help purchase the Shannon Ballroom in the village. Produced by Dublin-based company, Kevin Rowe […]

THE proceeds of a road race event last weekend were presented to a local charity on Friday. Michelle Greaney of MG Coaching organised the third annual Tralee 10 Miler/5k race on Sunday last, where hundreds of runners took part in what was a hugely successful event in aid of Kerry […]

PARTICIPANTS in the ‘Moving On’ programme and TIRC (Tralee International Resource Centre) Women’s group came together this week for a vibrant and inspiring morning to celebrate International Women’s Day 2020. Over 60 women attended from all over the world. The group took photos making the equality/equal sign to join in […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I am due to return to work after maternity leave in a few months, and I am looking into my childcare options. Our income is modest, and I’m afraid […]

Our movie guy, James Finnegan, says you should definitely see ‘The Invisible Man’… “What did you see this week?” “The Invisible Man” “How did you manage that?” I’m not a great devotee of modern horror films – far too many graphic decapitations.  But I love the old Universal and Hammer […]

A MAN was arrested and brought to Tralee Garda Station today after being found in possession of suspected heroin. Following a planned operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs, Gardaí from Tralee stopped a car with three occupants in Listowel on Friday. One of the men was found to […]

STRICT visitor restrictions have been introduced with immediate effect at University Hospital Kerry and seven other hospitals in the South/ South West Hospital Group, due to Infection Control concerns. The hospitals where these restrictions have been implemented are University Hospital Kerry; Cork University Hospital; Cork University Maternity Hospital; University Hospital Waterford; South Infirmary Victoria […]

GARDAI in Kerry are asking motorists to be especially mindful when driving in the vicinity of schools, after an operation over the past couple of days in Kerry saw 13 fixed charged penalty notices issued for speeding offences outside a school in Killarney. The Kerry Roads Policing Unit (RPU) carried out […]

DON’T get used to the sunny weather we’ve enjoyed today in Tralee, as it’s about to change for the worse. Met Éireann has issued a Weather Advisory for Kerry, Connacht, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Donegal, Clare, Cork, Limerick and Tipperary. Periods of heavy rainfall from Saturday to Tuesday may lead […]

IF you’re heading out this weekend, then why not try something different which hasn’t been seen (or tasted) in Tralee before. A collaboration between Stewart Lyons (former leaseholder of Roundy’s Bar) and Noel Keane of Croí Restaurant, the seeds of this enterprise were sown just before Christmas, when Noel invited […]

AFTER months of work, a traffic light system at the junction of Basin Road/Low Field/James Street is scheduled to come into effect from Friday, March 13. The area has long been a dangerous spot for motorists attempting to cross Basin Road from the Basin View/James Street sides and councillors had […]

TRALEE’S live register number decreased for the first time in months in February, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. The number of people signing on in Tralee last month was 3,203 a decrease of 23 on January. That’s a drop of around eight per cent on […]

CBS The Green athletes taking part in the All Ireland Cross Country Championships this weekend in Santry. The school’s minor boys’ team consisting of Maurice Lenihan, Sean Og Brosnan, Eoin O’Flaherty, Keelan Best, Hugh Lenihan, David Lucid, Ryan Houlihan and Liam Og O’Connor recently won gold in the Munster team […]

THE Kerry Businesswomen’s Network (KBN), will mark its most important day of the year with a unique celebration this Sunday. KBN invites all Kerry women to lace up their trainers and walk 5km in a ‘March for Change’ in support of Kerry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre, and the Kerry […]

WITH less than two weeks until the St Patrick’s Day Parade many are looking forward to a noisy and colourful extravaganza of entertainment. However, for people with autism, the parade can be distressing. Because of this, there will be a sensory path for children/families with autism and additional needs this […]

COUNCILLORS have asked if there could be a campaign to let every householder know what not to put down their toilet as it’s causing difficulties in the local sewerage system. The call came after a discussion leading from a motion by Cllr Mikey Sheehy, asking what is the long-term proposal […]