Archive for May 2nd, 2024

KERRY have announced their team to play Clare in the Munster SFC Final in Ennis this Sunday. The game has a 1.45pm throw-in time at Cusack Park and Kerry are hot favourites for the decider. It’s an all Tralee midfield pairing of Joe O’Connor and Diarmuid O’Connor while Rockies Dylan […]

THE MTU Clubs & Societies Awards Evening 2024 was held on Monday, April 22 at the Meadowlands Hotel. Over 180 students, staff and invited guests gathered to celebrate student participation and achievement in Clubs and Societies. The Awards Ceremony is a formal tribute to the University’s student ambassadors and Professor […]

A TRALEE Municipal District Councillor said access points need to be opened along the Tralee Fenit Greenway for the safety of children who wish to cycle to school. In a motion before the meeting of Municipal District District on Monday, Sinn Féin Cllr. Cathal Foley asked the Council provide an update […]

Tralee Tidy Towns were out again this week with staff from the Kerry Group head office braving the rains for a clean up of the River Lee walk as part of the an Taisce National Spring Clean. Before this, Tralee Tidy Towns had undertaken large scale clean ups along the […]

A LOCAL councillor is asking the Council to look at joining the Ballyseedy walk with a well-known hotel. Fine Gael Cllr. Jim Finucane has a motion before the meeting of Tralee Municipal District on Monday, that the MD in conjunction with hotel owners would look at the feasibility of connecting […]

By Ivan Hurley Excitement is at fever pitch in the Kingdom and the build-up to a long-awaited acquaintance with Cork City is coming to an end tomorrow night (kick-off 7.45pm). The ‘Sold Out’ signs are being erected in Mounthawk Park for the first time this season as there is only […]

LIVESTOCK farmers (beef, dairy, sheep, poultry and goat) from Kerry and surrounding areas are invited to attend a workshop hosted by FRED, the Food Resource Efficiency Decision Support Hub at MTU North Campus in Tralee on Tuesday, May 7 between 2pm and 4pm. The purpose of the workshop is to […]

A TRALEE Municipal District Councillor has asked the Council to investigate issues at an estate in Ardfert. Sinn Fein Cllr. Deirdre Ferris asked that this council inspect the houses in Lathair na hArd Eaglaise in Ardfert for defects reported by tenants to determine what remedial work is required. Cllr Ferris […]

AFTER three consecutive months where numbers of patients waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Kerry were decreasing on same period the previous year, there was a sharp increase in April. There were 325 patients waiting on trolleys at UHK last month, the most in April since records began and an […]

THE National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has confirmed that Cuach KP, one of the first Irish Cuckoos to be tagged as part of a Cuckoo Tracking Project, has landed home in Killarney National Park after a winter spent in the rainforests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa. Cuach […]