Archive for August 3rd, 2023

IT’S been an awful summer and it’s not going to improve by that much any time soon. In fact, Met Eireann has issued a Status Yellow Wind warning for Kerry which takes effect from the early hours of Saturday. Met Eireann says there will be very strong north to northwest […]

IT was a visiting European tourist who scooped €1m after buying their ticket in Kenmare last week. The female tourist got her holiday in Kerry off to a winning start after she won the €1m after winning the top prize in the Wednesday, July 26th’s Lotto Plus 1 draw and […]

SIAMSA Tíre has announced that famed satirist, mimic and comedian Mario Rosenstock is bringing his live show to Tralee on Friday, October 20. The creator and voice behind ‘Gift Grub’ on the Ian Dempsey breakfast show on today FM since 1999, Mario has sold over 500,000 comedy albums in Ireland while his one-man stage […]

FOR the third year in a row, the ‘Dip in the Nip Kerry’ is returning to a local beach this September with funds raised going towards Recovery Haven, and The Kerry Cancer Support Group. Last year over 180 lovely ladies shed their clothes and went for a swim in aid […]

REGISTRATION is still open for a big fundraiser in aid of Recovery Haven Kerry later this month. People are invited to join Munster and Ireland rugby legend, Ciara Griffin, and many more recruits, at Thomond Park for an abseiling event on Saturday, August 26. Registration is open for the novel […]

THE most up to date statistics from the Residential Property Price Register shows that there were 28 property sales in the Tralee area in June in transactions fetching a total of €6,693,120. The property that sold for the most money in one transaction in the Tralee environs in June was […]

JULY saw an increase in the number of new car sales in Kerry compared to the same month in 2022, according to the latest statistics from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI). There were 559 new car registrations in the county in July compared to 518 in the […]

TFI Local Link Kerry has recently launched a new bus service, which will improve connectivity between Tarbert and Tralee. This new route is part of the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan which is a major national public transport initiative developed and funded by the National Transport Authority (NTA) as part […]

VOTING opens today in the national ‘Nose of Tralee’ competition and a Kerry dog needs your help to win the title. Fudge is an eight years old, long-haired Jack Russell and the much loved family pet of Sandra O’Sullivan from Ballybunion. She entered Fudge in the annual competition run by […]

UNIVERSITY Hospital Kerry has lifted the visitor restrictions that were in place over the 10 days due to high numbers of patients presenting with COVID. Today, the hospital has issued a statement which says there is now a significantly reduced volume of COVID 19 positive admissions and they are in […]