Archive for January, 2023

Lotto results: Lotto Tue 3rd January. No winner. Numbers drawn were 4, 13, 26, 30. Lucky dip winners of €20 were Doreen Tobin, Mary Maunsell, Noelle Kingston, Jim & Renee Fitzgibbon, Johnny Maunsell. Next week’s jackpot will be €1,950. Why not try your luck in our lotto. The links is […]

Club Lotto There was no winner of our club Lotto jackpot of €4800 on Sunday night last the numbers drawn were 08, 15, 16 & 28. The five €30 euro consolation prizes went to: George Poff Snr c/o Poff Motors Hannah Shanahan c/o Terry Boyle Bridget Keane c/o Keane’s Bar […]

Club of the year award  Thanks to the success of our juvenille teams and in particular our U15 Feilie winning team, Tralee Parnells were recently named as the 2022 Kerry Coiste na nOg Club of the Year. Well done to everyone and lets keep growing our fantastic club. Operation Transformation  Our […]

THE curtain came down on our All Ireland club odyssey in Croke Park today, but not how the experts had predicted, as we lay siege in the final quarter to the Kilmacud goals before bowing out on a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-14. Kilmacud, last year’s beaten finalists and bolstered […]

THE Mercy Mounthawk students’ debs ball brought style and glamour to Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday night. Over 260 teenagers donned their gladrags for the occasion where they enjoyed a meal and some great entertainment before getting back to the hard work of studying for the leaving cert. We brought […]

THE weather warnings are coming thick and fast these days. After the Status Yellow wind and thunderstorm warnings on Saturday, a Status Yellow rain warning has been issued by Met Éireann for Kerry and the rest of Munster for part of Tuesday. There will be spells of rain overnight and on […]

TRALEE Art Group will celebrate over 40 years in existence with an exhibition of works at Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee this month. This momentous exhibition, which opens on January 12, will comprise a wonderful collection of works, in a variety of media, created by members, to celebrate and capture their […]

Guidance Counsellor Billy Ryle says 2023 promises to be a great year for CAO college applicants, but he urges students to keep an eye on the timeline… As a new year begins with renewed hope and expectation, college applicants must focus on the CAO form as the deadline looms large. […]

KERRY County Council has today opened applications for the Community Support Fund for 2023. Community groups across Kerry can now apply to the fund through the Kerry County Council website and the closing date is Wednesday, February 8. A total of €750,000 is being made available through this year’s scheme. […]

A KERRY man is to appear on a new series on TG4 in which cameras visit four Irish universities to give a unique insight into the fun, the pressures, the joys and tribulations of university life in Ireland today. In the first episode of ‘Céim Chun Cinn’ Naoise Mac Gearailt from […]

KERRY man Sean Kennedy has signed to play for Kerry FC in the 2023 SSE Airtricity First Division campaign. Sean, who hails from Annascaul, will return home in 2023 to line out for Kerry FC in the club’s inaugural season at senior level in the League of Ireland. Having played […]

THEY may not have come away with the win, but they certainly had great support in Croke Park on Sunday afternoon. There was a big contingent of Kerins O’Rahillys fans in the Hogan Stand cheering on their side in their All-Ireland club semi-final against Kilmacud Crokes, but it ultimately ended […]

THE wind was howling around Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday night as over 260 teenagers arrived for the Mercy Mounthawk students debs ball. After the last students’ ball was held in late February, it was back to the traditional time of early in the new year for the event, organised […]

MET Éireann has issued a Status Yellow Thunderstorm warning for Clare, Kerry, Galway, Mayo this afternoon. There will be heavy showers and thunderstorms with the chance of hail may lead to spot flooding and hazardous driving conditions. The warning was issued at 2pm and is valid until 9pm this evening. There […]

AFTER a comprehensive defeat to Cork on Wednesday night, Kerry will play Clare in Round 2 of the McGrath Cup Football competition on Sunday at 2pm in Austin Stack Park Tralee. The team has been announced as you can see below. If you’re heading to the game, tickets are €10 […]

IT was a rotten, wintry night outside, but a warm welcome was given to members of the Kerry football team at a civic reception to honour the achievements of 2022 at  County Council buildings in Rathass on Friday evening. Last year’s captain Joe O’Connor of Austin Stacks and David Moran […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Q. This is also the time of year when a lot of people are getting colds and flus and may have to take time off work. Today we are […]

Mary O’Donnell of the Cosmetic and Hair Restoration Clinic on treatments for hair loss for men and women… MALE pattern baldness refers to a loss of hair on the scalp in men. It happens as hormone levels change over a man’s lifetime, and especially in the later years. It is […]

Our movie guy, James Finnegan, wishes all readers a Happy New Year and hopes for a memorable year of film watching in 2023… In Dr Seuss’ The Lorax (Saturday 12.35pm TG4), 12 year old Ted Wiggins (voiced by Zac Efron) lives in Thneedville, a walled city where all vegetation and plant life […]

THERE were 37 arrests for driving under the influence in the Kerry Garda Division during An Garda Síochána’s Christmas and New Year Road Safety Campaign from December 1 to January 3. An Garda Síochána revealed the breakdown of figures from each garda division this evening. In Kerry, 34 people were arrested […]

THE dulcet tones of a local choir helped raise funds for a great cause just before Christmas. Members of the Curraheen Choir assembled for their annual Christmas carol service in aid of St Vincent De Paul at O’Shea’s Gala in Blennerville on Friday, December 16. They were there for just […]

THE Adapt Kerry Women’s Refuge Centre has been allocated €120,000 in funding. It’s part of total funding of over €5.25m announced today by Minister for Justice, Simon Harris TD, for more than 65 organisations to support victims of crime . The allocations range from €3,000 to €740,000, and they cover national and […]

A STATUS Yellow Wind warning has been issued for Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo and Donegal with the weekend not looking great weatherise. Met Éireann says southerly winds, veering southwesterly, will be very strong and gusty, especially near coasts with localised wave overtopping possible. The warning is valid from 10am on […]

IT’S been a very merry Christmas for Kerins O’Rahillys GAA Club and they’ll be hoping for a joyous January too if things go their way this weekend. After the historic Munster Senior Club Final victory last month, the Blues supporters have been on a high and excitement is building ahead […]

AFTER the footballers received a beating last night from the Rebels in Páirc Uí Rinn, it’s the turn of the Kerry hurlers to face to Cork tonight. Kerry have home advantage this evening in Round 1 of the 2023 Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League.  The game takes place at 7pm […]

DID you have a teacher that changed your world? Teachers Inspire 2022, organised and run by Dublin City University, is calling for nominations of inspiring teachers in Kerry (and around the country) and for stories about the positive impact a teacher has made in their lives. The initiative, which celebrates […]

THE Wander Wild Festival, Ireland’s great outdoors festival, returns to Killarney from March 24th-26th. The adventure and wellness festival, set in the lakes and mountains of the 25,000-acre UNESCO Killarney National Park, has doubled in scale with a host of outdoor events for the body, mind and soul. Over the […]

AFTER the social whirlwind that is December, dreary January is here and many will choose to go into hibernation for the month. However, GAA fans have a lot to look forward to with the Kerry footballers and hurlers back in McGrath Cup and Munster League action in the coming weeks. […]

THERE were 2,281 new car sales in Kerry last year according to the latest statistics from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI), up 2.6% on the 2021 figure of 2,223. December saw just three new car sales compared to 18 in 2021. Nationally, there were 105,253 new car […]

WHILE Friday is Women’s Christmas, a group of men will take centre stage at Kerry County Council buildings at an event to mark their achievements in 2022. A Civic Reception to honour the Kerry Senior Football Team, 2022 All-Ireland Champions, will take place in the Council Chamber at 6.30pm, hosted […]