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Taking a look back at some of the news we brought you in April…
• GARVEY’S Tralee Warriors were crowned as InsureMyVan.ie Super League champions in early April.
The Tralee side completed a remarkable double — having won the National Cup in January — winning 78-72 in the final over C&S Neptune at the National Basketball Arena.
• KERRY Group announced it had suspended its operations in Russia and Belarus as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Kerry Group has been operating in Russia since 2006 with a research and development operation in Moscow situated there since 2014 and they also have a manufacturing facility in the city. They employs 250 people between Russia and Belarus.
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• THE Kerry footballers picked up their second piece of silverware of the season when they beat Mayo by 3-19 to 0-13 in the Allianz Football League Division 1 Final on Sunday April 3 at Croke Park.
Goals from Gavin White, David Clifford and Jason Foley helped Jack O’Connor’s charges retain their crown.
• THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Jimmy Moloney, thanked all those who participated in the County Clean-Up on Saturday, April 2.
Thousands of volunteers collected hundreds of bags of litter across the county on Saturday during the tenth annual County Clean Up.
For the first time in three years, the event was able to take place at full capacity and almost 5,000 volunteers registered with KWD Recycling to participate.
• GARDAI in Tralee told older teenagers not to go into the Town Park playground engaging in anti-social behaviour.
The warning came after a number of calls to Tralee Garda Station from parents, complaining of older teenagers being intimidating towards younger children and families.
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• IT was also a good month for the Kerry ladies footballers.
Danielle O’Leary scored 1-2 off the bench as Kerry secured the Lidl National Football League Division 2 title with a comeback victory over Armagh at Croke Park on April 10.
Trailing by four points, and facing the prospect of a third second-tier final defeat in the space of four years, O’Leary pounced for a 44th minute goal, and this inspired the Kingdom to promotion.
• IT was revealed in April that the new greenway projects in County Kerry will be known and branded as the ‘Kingdom of Kerry Greenways.’
At a meeting of Kerry County Council, councillors were presented with naming options and brand concepts for the two greenway projects — Tralee-Fenit and Listowel-Abbeyfeale greenways.
The decision on the name of the greenways followed a stakeholder survey in relation to the two north Kerry projects which was undertaken by Kerry County Council, Fáilte Ireland and local community and business representatives.
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• A TRALEE company has been named the Best Online Training Experience at the Education Awards held last week.
The category included some of Ireland’s most prestigious education colleges and universities, including Griffith College, Mary Immaculate College and University College Cork, but Flúirse Education Solutions, based in Monavalley, emerged as the winner.
• IT was a very lucky April for one Kerry lotto player. An online player matched five numbers and the bonus to win an incredible €161,300.
The National Lottery confirmed that a notification to the user’s online account and a separate email had been sent to the lucky Kerry ticket holder.
Joe Hanley.
• A PALL of sadness fell over Tralee on Friday, April 29 as news broke of the passing of Joe Hanley.
The popular local photographer died after a battle with illness, bravely borne. Joe was one of the most familiar faces around town thanks to his work for The Kerryman, Kerry’s Eye, Tralee Outlook, Tralee Advertiser and many more publications down through the years and he left an indelible impression on everyone he met.
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