Archive for February 22nd, 2022

ROCK singer Mark Lanegan has passed away at his home in Killarney. The news of the death of the former lead singer of Screaming Trees and one-time member of Queens Of The Stone Age, was announced via his twitter account this evening. Just last December he released a book, ‘Devil […]

A CASTLEISLAND man has seen a film he directed nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award. Shaun O’Connor, a former Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí student, directed ‘A White Horse’ which has already won a plethora of awards on the film festival circuit. It won Best Irish Short Film at the Foyle Film […]

SCÓR na nÓG: Who’s going to represent the Black’n’Amber in song, in story, in dance or in tráth na gceist(eanna)! Have we a solo singer? Have we four lads to try the table quiz? (The girls’ section and the hurling section could do the same….we could enter three singers, etc!) […]

THE 68th edition of the Lacey Cup hosted by Tralee Manor West Bicycle Club will be held on Sunday, March 6. As is customary, the Lacey Cup will be the grand opener to the Munster road racing season. The challenging 75km circuit always lends itself to aggressive racing with cyclists eager […]

The Kerry badminton grade C, E, and G teams played in UL on Sunday the 20th February for the Munster Inter-County Championship. The Grade C team played Tipperary first, it was a very close result but unfortunately Tipperary came out on top with a 5-4 win. Kerry then went on […]

ACADEMY Our u10 Boys and Girls had a great morning in Moyderwell at the weekend. It was an action packed two hours of games against St. Brendan’s. The sides acquitted themselves very well. Well done to the teams and coaches Niamh and Erika. Thank you to Fergal and St. Brendan’s […]

WHILE the Christmas or Summer holidays are the normal times for Debs Balls, the past two years have been anything but normal. The students from Mercy Mounthawk were unable to hold their debs at Christmas due to COVID restrictions, so the mid-term break proved an opportune time to get together […]