Archive for September 14th, 2021

AS part of An Garda Síochána’s  investigation into the death of Baby John in Caherciveen in 1984, the remains of the baby were exhumed by Gardaí at Holy Cross Cemetery, Caherciveen, this morning and taken to the morgue at University Hospital Kerry, for examination. The exhumation commenced at first light and […]

A TRALEE student has won a category in the 67th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. The winners, runners-up and merit award recipients in seven different categories were announced on their website today. Clodagh McCluskey, a 15 year old student at Presentation Secondary School Tralee, won Category B (14-15 years) for ‘Feathers’, […]

A LEADING bookmakers has Jack O’Connor the clear favourite to return as the Kerry senior football team manager. Paddy Power believes the ‘third coming of Jack’ will be the most likely recommendation from the Kerry GAA sub-committee formed last night tasked with finding the next manager. Jack is 5/4 for the […]

THE stars of Sky TV’s ‘A League Of Their Own’ are understood to be filming in West Kerry today. Regular panellists on the comedy sports TV quiz show, Jamie Redknapp and Fredde Flintoff are joined by former Man Utd footballer Patrice Evra and TV/movie star Idris Elba of The Wire […]

THERE’S still tickets available for the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival next week, but you better act fast because four of the seven days are sold out. In compliance with current guidelines, only 2,000 spectators are allowed to attend each day of the celebrated festival which starts this Sunday. Sadly, tickets […]

IT was a busy Saturday morning at St John’s Church as families of 47 Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn pupils arrived for First Holy Communion Day. Like the rest of the Tralee schools, the ceremony was postponed from the traditional May date due to COVID restrictions and had to be divided into […]

AROUND 30 bags of litter were collected by 67 dedicated volunteers in just one hour at the Big Beach Clean on Banna last Sunday. Banna Coastcare in collaboration with Tralee Tidy Towns & MTU Kerry Green Campus organised the cleanup. The Big Beach Clean is an annual call-to-action organised by […]

TOGETHER again, one last time. The boys and girls of the Caherleaheen NS Class of 2021 were reunited on Sunday for their belated Confirmation Day. The 23 friends wore the uniforms of their secondary schools for the ceremony celebrated by Fr Seán Jones while their former teacher Ms Bradley was […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: Austin Stacks 1-13; Kerins O’Rahillys 0-12. This round 2 Club Championship game played in Connolly Park on last Sunday afternoon (12th Sept) was a typical old-style Town Derby with both sides playing to the edge and Donal Casey, the experienced referee that he is, issuing many yellow cards […]