Articles by: Dermot Crean

THE HQ Coworking Space Ltd. and the Kerry Innovation Centre CLG / Tom Crean Business Centre will both receive grants under Enterprise Ireland’s Enterprise Centres Fund. In all, seven Enterprise Centres around the county will receive €557,000 in total. Eligible enterprise centres could apply for funding of a minimum of €10,000 and […]

THREE Mercy Mounthawk students are competing for the Scifest STEM Outreach Award 2020, but they need your votes to win. At the moment, Dara Newsome, David Hughes and Conor Bradshaw are in second place in the online competition with their ‘Specs’ project which is a spectacle system for Dementia patients. You can […]

THREE Kerry groups are among the 82 nomination for the IPB Insurance Pride of Place awards which take place virtually this Saturday. Ireland’s largest community awards are to go ahead this year online, honouring communities across the island for their work during the Covid-19 crisis and Dingle Food Festival Committee, […]

YESTERDAY would have been one of Tralee’s best loved sons, Christie Hennessy’s 75th birthday, so it was only fitting the occasion was marked. His good friend, entertainer and businessman, Mark Leen, laid flowers at his statue in Abbeycourt on behalf of himself and the Tralee music fraternity and also laid […]

NINETEEN Kerry meals on wheels projects will receive over €135,000 between them with funding provided under Measure 3(a) of the CLÁR programme. This will enable community-based organisations which deliver Meals on Wheels and linked services to purchase equipment and make adaptations to existing vehicles to support the provision of their […]

ST Vincent de Paul Tralee received a welcome boost this week when it benefitted from a raffle run by an Irish company. Timberkitbuildings.ie is an online company selling flatpack log cabins, sheds, garden furniture and much more, with showrooms in Dublin and Donegal. They are running a weekly online raffle […]

GALLYS Bar and Restaurant presented cheques for over €2,000 to Recovery Haven on Thursday morning thanks to a fundraiser last week. The business on the Castlemaine Road, which has been big supporters of Recovery Haven for many years, urged people to visit their drive-thru facility on Monday, November 9 to pick […]

RESEARCH has been ongoing in Tralee for the past number of months by IT Tralee students as part of a project undertaken for Tralee Chamber to support retailers in Tralee. Following detailed work undertaken earlier this year as part of the ‘Lets Talk About Town’ surveys, Tralee Chamber and a […]

CLEAN Coasts are asking the people of Tralee to join well-known Tralee people to ‘Think Before You Flush’ this World Toilet Day. Tralee Tidy Towns and GLAN Tralee, in conjunction with Clean Coasts and Irish Water, have presented a new ‘Think Before You Flush’ video featuring well-known Tralee folk at […]

KERRY College of Further Education and Training (Kerry College) has announced a new fee-free and fully funded skills development programme focused on sterilisation and sanitation for the Beauty Therapy and Spa industry. Given the ongoing pressures on this sector due to COVID-19, Kerry College and CIDESCO International felt that schools, […]

THE Kerry County Council Arts Grants application process is now open for projects and activities taking place in 2021. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1pm Thursday, December 17, 2020. Under the Arts Act 2003, funding is allocated to individuals or groups where activities, projects and undertakings stimulate […]

RADIO Kerry’s annual county wide Christmas Jumper Day fundraiser for St Vincent de Paul will take place on Friday, December 11. It is the seventh year of the fundraising initiative which to date has raised over €95,000.  The 2020 target is to achieve at least €15,000. Christmas Jumper Day is […]

A NEW CD featuring some of Kerry’s best loved songs has just been launched to raise funds for cancer support charity, Recovery Haven Kerry. The perfect Christmas stocking filler for fans of Irish ballads, ‘Songs of Kerry and Others’ has been compiled by well-known Dingle man Thomas O’Callaghan and was […]

A TRALEE man raised thousands of euro for two great causes after a marathon swim a couple of months ago. Ger McDonnell from Clogherbrien swam from Locke’s Beach in Fenit to Mucklough Rock and back, a distance of 18km, on September 14 with funds raised going to Tralee Mens Shed […]

THE Sports and Social Club in University Hospital Kerry this week received a consignment of the Kerry Gift Card. Looking to throw their support behind Kerry businesses and to show their gratitude for the ongoing assistance from local businesses, the Club have purchased a batch of the new gift cards […]

Christmas will be here before you know it, so it’s time to select those wonderful Christmas presents for loved ones. John Fitzgerald Jewellers in The Square, Tralee, will see you right with this selection of gifts for her, available instore for collection and online… Buying a meaningful gift for a […]

CARA Credit Union has come on board to support a community organisation which has provided fantastic service in the Tralee area for decades. The Tralee Branch of The Irish Red Cross celebrated 80 years in Tralee last year. Over these years, the volunteers have served our communities in Kerry diligently. […]

CHRISTMAS is just over five weeks away, so it’s time to get serious about buying presents for the special people in your life. Well The Ashe Hotel and Manor West Hotel have the ideal solution which will offer the gift of happy memories at both properties with their flexible gift […]

RECOVERY Haven is hoping the public will support their annual flag day which this year is taking place online. Friday, November 20 was due to be Recovery Haven Kerry’s official fundraising Flag Day when hard-working volunteers take to the streets in towns across Kerry for the collection. However, with Level […]

KERRY County Council is inviting people in the county to participate in and avail of a programme of events and initiatives which are being rolled out across Kerry under the national ‘Keep Well’ campaign. The local authority will be providing information online about keeping well during the coronavirus pandemic and […]

YET another weather warning has been issued by Met Éireann for the county. It’s only been a few days since the last one and now another Status Yellow Wind warning will be in effect for Kerry, Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork and Limerick tomorrow. Southwest to west winds veering northwest will […]

SIAMSA Tíre is looking for a local visual artist that can create an impact with a creative representation of Siamsa on a prominent shop window in the town of Tralee. The aim of the piece is to add some colour and festive cheer within the town to help the local […]

ACADAMH NA nÓG Tá fáilte romhat chuig nótaí Céirín O Rathaille,  serving our community for many years. With all of our prizes from our Halloween prize draw for each member of our Juvenile Academy nearly delivered it is time for us to start planning Christmas. What have we planned ….. […]

NOVEMBER MASS OF REMEMBRANCE: The annual November Mass for the deceased members & friends of the Austin Stacks GAA Club will take place on Sunday next (22nd Nov) at 10am.  The Mass will be live streamed on www.stbrendansparishtralee.net or available to listen to live on www.radiokerry.ie ONLINE CLUB SHOP OPEN […]

GARDAI in Tralee are appealing to the public for information after a burglary in the Caherwisheen area of town on Sunday night. They are especially asking people to lookout for a grey Skoda Octavia car which could be connected with the incident, where a house that is currently under construction was […]

GARDAI in Tralee are warning the public about an online scam after a Kerry man was conned out of a substantial amount of money recently. The AIB customer received a text message from what he thought was his bank, advising him to change his account details through a link provided […]

Annual Mass    A reminder that Na Gaeil Annual Mass for club members with special remembrance of deceased members will be streamed live from St. Brendan’s Church on this coming Thursday October 19th at 7.30pm. Go to www.stbrendanstralee.org to get the live streaming. Virtual Race Night    Na Gaeil is organizing an […]

THE first ever online meeting of Kerry County Council took place on Monday following the signing of the necessary ministerial order to enable local authorities to meet remotely and to allow councillors to vote on various matters. The Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Patrick Connor-Scarteen, chaired the meeting from […]

Tralee Parnells Hurling & Camogie Club AGM The club held its AGM last Friday night virtually via Zoom. As the club now has Senior club status, Tralee Parnells elected a Senior Chairperson & Secretary for the first time. At a well attended meeting, the following was a list of the […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 02, 13, 14 and 20. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Patrick Dillane Clahane, Cliona Ekren Blackrock, Siobhan O’Connor Curraheen, Mary Savage Curraheen and John Savage Annagh Lawn. Next week’s Lotto […]