Archive for January, 2023

FOR the first time in Kerry Motor Club’s 50-year history, its Person of the Year Award was presented to a couple. The club’s Annual General Meeting took place on Friday night at the Rose Hotel in Tralee with Mike Cleary and Christina Fealy honoured with the award. Gathered members at […]

THE Rose Hotel will presents a series of free literary evenings with special guests this February and March. The Rose Hotel will host three evenings designed to inspire, educate and celebrate language this spring to bring some literary light into our lives. Starting on Tuesday, February 7, children’s author, Emma […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… What are tips, gratuities and service charges? Tipping is mainly associated with the hospitality sector. It is also common among other services such as taxi drivers, hairdressers, tour guides […]

AN information evening on funding opportunities available to businesses in Kerry’s coastal communities will take place on Tuesday, February 7 at 6.30pm in The Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee. People are invited to come along to learn how businesses in Kerry’s coastal communities can apply for funding through the Brexit Blue Economy Enterprise Development […]

Our movie guy, James Finnegan, on some decent films on the box tonight for your viewing pleasure… In what has been an extraordinary week for Irish Film with multiple Academy Award nominations across the categories, it seems ironic that there is a distinctly English tone to today’s film offerings on […]

THE Kerry ladies football side are in action in the Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 – Round 2 game tomorrow. They face Mayo at 12.45pm in the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence, a game which will be broadcast live on TG4. Kerry have made three changes to the starting […]

IT’S back! After the light workouts that were the McGrath Cup games, the Allianz National League returns this weekend and Kerry make the long journey north to face Donegal on Sunday at 1.30pm. With a number of injuries and some players given a rest after club duties, Jack O’Connor’s charges […]

THE Kerry Colleges Cross Country Championships were held in Killarney yesterday. Conditions at The Demesne were perfect for Cross Country running with a countywide participation of 16 schools and 270 athletes. The overall best boys and girls shields went to Killarney schools, St. Brendans College and St. Brigids Presentation Secondary School. […]

“We may all be different fish, but in this school we swim together.” Unknown author. In this day and age when we can do almost anything with the touch of a button on a phone, it is often easy to forget the barriers that remain firmly in place for so […]

DON’T forget to call down to The Square this Saturday when a dreary January day will be livened up with the sights and sounds all things Chinese. It’s all to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the local community from China and Malaysia will bring colour to the area as […]

NATIONAL Broadband Ireland (NBI) today announced that construction has commenced to deliver high-speed broadband to almost 3,000 premises in the Kilgarvan and Castlegregory deployment areas and almost 1,500 premises in the Ballyheigue deployment area. Customers there will soon be able to order or pre-order a high-speed fibre broadband connection on […]

THERE was a great turnout at Kerry County Museum on Thursday evening as the Art in the Park artists, in association with Tralee Chamber Alliance, showcased their works. Their Off The Rails exhibition is titled ‘Our Creative Identities’ and Tralee Chamber President Nathan McDonnell was on hand to officially open […]

FINAL preparations are being made for the fourth Tralee 10 Miler and 5k Road Race which takes place in in just over two weeks.. Michelle Greaney is organising the event in aid of the Kerry Hospice Foundation which will be run from 10.30am on Saturday, February 11. This year it […]

KERRY Airport Ireland has been announced as the proud sponsor of the first Kerry FC Jersey ahead of the club’s debut in the SSE Airtricity First Division. The home kit, which is green with a white and gold trim and supplied by New Balance, was unveiled today on the Kerry […]

KERRY footballers Cáit Lynch and Gavin White were at West Kerry’s Inch beach recently to announce details of the Lidl Comórtas Peile Páidí Ó Sé 2023, the famed club ladies and men’s Gaelic football tournament, taking place all across the Dingle Peninsula from February 24th to the 26th . This year, current Rose of Tralee Rachel Duffy will line […]

KERRY County Council is to commence the undertaking of dredging operations in Fenit Harbour next month. This relates to the disposal of around 60,000m³ of material which has accumulated within the marina and inner harbour. Dredging is for the purposes of maintenance of the design and operational depths within the harbour […]

IRISH Water, working in partnership with Kerry County Council, is to begin replacing almost 350m of aged cast iron water mains with new modern pipes along Pembroke Street, Tralee next week. To facilitate safe delivery of the project and manage traffic levels on Pembroke Street, works will be carried out […]

TRALEE-BASED company, ViClarity, concluded its annual charity campaign last week raising €2,000. The ViClarity team completed their scheduled events and challenges to raise funds in aid of local charity Enable Ireland Kerry, Children’s Services. The ViClarity team undertook a number of challenges in the run-up to Christmas, including a detox […]

Mary Lucey of Career Ahead says that while leaving certificate students and their parents are getting frantic around the February 1st CAO close of application date, there is no need for panic… Leaving Certificate students currently only need to focus on two main items prior to that date: • Ensuring […]

KERRY Football Club is delighted to announce shot-stopper Callan Scully has joined the side ahead of the 2023 SSE Airtricity First Division season. Scully, who is 21 years old, has joined up with Billy Dennehy’s senior team ahead of the first game of the season against Cobh Ramblers in Mounthawk […]

KERRY FC has signed 27-year-old central midfielder Alex Ainscough to the squad ahead of the 2023 season. Alex signs from US club Flower City Union, who are based in Rochester, New York and play in the United States third-tier league, the NISA. Previous to that, Ainscough played the game internationally in […]

THE new February Bank Holiday weekend will see renowned DJs at a night of 90s and 00s dance music at The Greyhound Bar. ‘Retrospective’ will see Mark Kavanagh and Eibhlin take to the decks on Saturday, February 4 at the Pembroke Street venue. They’ll be joined by Dollar, Cian Shields […]

Kerry Schools Badminton Competition 2023 The Schools Badminton Tournament took place Monday last the 17th of January in the Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre. All in all, it was a great turnout from schools across the county. 10 different schools took part on the day with 37 teams entered altogether […]

UNDER 7 FOOTBALL: Boys born in 2016/17/18 had their 2nd session of 2023 on Sunday last in the Mercy Mounthawk Gym. Our 6 and 7 year olds with shining morning faces glowing with enthusiasm eagerly followed their coaches’ directions and, ergo, another enjoyable and successful babhta traenála took place! We’d […]

Gerry Ryan Memorial Gala A great weekend of swimming was had at the Gerry Ryan Memorial Gala in UL, held over the weekend. The three day invitational Gala welcomed clubs from all over Ireland to compete in LC (Long Course -50m) and provided the first opportunity of the year to […]

FUNDING of €4,403,073 for Kerry County Council as been announced today through a new Community Recognition Fund. This initiative is designed to specifically support communities across the country that have welcomed and are hosting families and citizens from Ukraine and other countries. This funding will support the development of facilities […]

Lotto: Sponsored by Almas Takeaway, Milltown The fortnightly club lotto draw took place on Monday, January 23rd at the club grounds. There was no jackpot or match 3 winner on this occasion. The numbers drawn were 12,26, 30 and the bonus ball was 2. Lucky Dip winners were as follows: €50 […]

Result of 12-hole Club-sponsored 3-person Waltz 1. Mary Fitzgerald, Eamonn Fitzgerald, Grainne Sheehy 64 points 2. Mary Savage, Maria O’ Connor, Kathleen Houlihan 59 points 3. Cianan Ferris, David Spring Jnr, Conor J. Foley 58 points (on countback) Fixtures: Sunday 29th January Captains Drive-in. Front 9 Champagne Am-Am. Back 7 […]

REPRESENTATIVES from Recovery Haven Kerry Cancer Support House paid a return visit to Ballyseedy Home and Garden this week where they picked up the proceeds of a very successful Christmas charity collection that was run at the centre throughout December. Hundreds of euro was raised for the charity, and marked […]

THE next phase of social housing in Lohercannon will deliver an extra 94 units, but they won’t be delivered for around four years. Council management gave an update on the their social housing plans at the meeting of Tralee Municipal District councillors last Thursday. Three housing  schemes by approved housing […]