Articles by: Dermot Crean

THE founding members of a Tralee basketball club which set the foundations for the great success of the sport in the town were celebrated on a night of nostalgia at the Grand Hotel on Friday. Founding members and coaches of Celtic Basketball Club, Tom Falvey and Joe Joe O’Sullivan were […]

A POPULAR local man will be remembered later this summer at a Memorial 10k Run/5k Walk. Robert O’Dowd of Lee Drive and formerly of Marian Park, passed away in late April after battling for some time against cancer. In the past few weeks, his friends decided to get together to […]

THE official itinerary for Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been released by Clarence House and, as widely reported, they will be visiting Siamsa Tíre on Friday. After spending the previous days in Northern Ireland and Cork, the couple will travel to Kerry on Friday to visit Derrynane […]

THE Board of Management of Inspired, based in Friary Lane in Tralee, have announced that they have been successful in their application for  Pobal funding under the ‘Ability’ program and will receive substantial support over the coming years. Inspired is one of 27 projects nationwide — and the only Kerry […]

By Club PRO, Hannah O’Leary Tralee Tennis Club hosted their annual Ladies’ Day last Saturday which was very generously sponsored by John Ross Jewellers. It was a fantastic day from start to finish, with the club decorated in style for this very elegant event. Banners, beautiful bunting and flower baskets […]

BANNA saw a fantastic turnout on Sunday for this year’s Clean Coasts Week. Forty enthusiastic volunteers, gave just one hour of their time to help clean up Kerry’s beautiful coastline. Approximately 30 bags of litter were collected, along with a tyre, two bags of bottles and some old wire fencing. […]

THE Special Olympics Ireland Torch Run swept into Tralee at around 5pm on Monday evening with Aidan O’Mahony and Kerry participants in the games carrying it to the Mall. An Garda Siochana in association with Special Olympics Ireland are holding the Law Enforcement Torch Run between Monday and Thursday this […]

THE generous folk at Kirby’s Brogue Inn are hoping that their fellow partners in tourism join them tonight (Tuesday) for  a celebration to mark the arrival of the summer season. Kevin and Fiona Cotter are inviting the owners/managers of bars, hotels, B&B owners, restaurants and caravan parks to join them […]

GARDAI are appealing to the public for any assistance with solving two crimes over the past week. Between Tuesday, June 5  at 5pm to Wednesday, June 6 at 8.30am, there was a container and portakabin broken into and items taken on a building site on the Killeen Road, Tralee. If […]

NOW in its 11th year, the Austin Stacks ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ fundraiser will return later this summer for what is sure to be another fantastic night in the Dome. It’s just 10 weeks away and the organisers are still looking for dancers to take part in the event which has […]

THIS year’s Roscommon Rose, Eimear Reynolds, will be visiting Kerry a little earlier than her fellow Roses this year as she heads up the 75-member Roscommon Solstice  Choir at a fundraising concert at Killarney Cathedral on Sunday, June 17. Eimear – the choir’s musical director and soloist – will lead […]

THE participants at Inspired at Friary Lane were delighted to hand over proceeds of a recent fundraiser to the Rosemary Day Centre. The members of the group held a tea morning last month and raised a total of €410 as Maree O’Connor, a co-ordinator with the group, explained. “One of […]

CLUBS, projects and individuals in Kerry who have benefitted from National Lottery Good Cause funding have been invited to enter an exciting new national competition with the chance of winning a total of €35,000. The new National Lottery Good Causes Awards, launched this week, are aimed at honouring the inspiring […]

FORGET Chelsea Flower Show, because the visit of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall coincides with the magnificent Féile na mBláth at The Park Festival from this Friday June 15 to Sunday, June 17 in Tralee Town Park. Organisers promise the crowds will be treated like kings, queens, princes […]

THE Kerry stars were out on Friday night for a big fundraiser at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. The Kerry GAA ‘Night of Champions’ saw people from clubs all over the county converge on the track for music, family fun, great prizes and racing in the company of Kerry senior and minor […]

I SIMPLY love the old sayings. It’s not just a simple love it’s often that they encapsulate within them an enormous amount of wisdom that can bring – if applied – great benefit to our lives. Very often all we need to do is to take the time to give […]

IT was a lovely evening made for cycling on Friday night and where better to start from than Tralee Bay Wetlands. Kerry Recreation & Sports Partnership, in collaboration with the Chain Gang and Kingdom Cycling Clubs, held the annual ‘Pedal in The Park’ as part of National Bike Week. It […]

A CELEBRATION of Kerry’s vibrant food and craft scene will take place at Manor West Shopping Centre and Retail Park on Saturday, June 23 from 11am to 5pm, where some of Kerry’s finest food producers and craftspeople will showcase all the county has to offer. A diverse mix of local […]

KERRY for Choice is calling for legislation to be pushed through sooner rather than later after the latest figures for Kerry women travelling to the UK for abortions were published this week. Statistics from the UK Department of Health show that 50 women from Kerry travelled to have an abortion […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I am 17 years old and I have just finished school. I would like to get a part-time job over the summer. Are there restrictions on the number of […]

John McCann says ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ is a non-stop visual rollercoaster that will thrill big budget blockbuster fans… Following on from the highly successful 2015 reboot Jurassic World comes the highly anticipated sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. With Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly again on writing duties and the return of the […]

KIDNEY transplant recipient Stephen Byrne from Tralee will travel to Cagliari, Sardinia with 23 other members of Transplant Team Ireland next week to represent Ireland at the 10th European Transplant & Dialysis Sports Championships which will take place from 17th – 24th June. Stephen will be joined on the team […]

AN explosion of colour, great music and tasty food was on show at Holy Family this week for Culture Week at the school. The school boasts children from 19 different countries so there was so much to learn for both pupils and staff. “It’s really for pupils to learn more […]

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help co-ordinate and marshal the multitude of events planned for this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival from 17th to 21st August. The Rose of Tralee, Dr Jennifer Byrne, travelled to Tralee to personally thank the current volunteer panel for their role in staging such […]

IT’S a familiar pairing but there’s a lot of novelty about the Munster football final in a couple of weeks. First of all, Cork will play Kerry in the Munster Football showpiece on a Saturday night (June 23) at 7pm. Add in the fact that it’ll be the Kerry seniors […]

OVER the last number of months, Tralee Art Group has been working with clients and staff of Baile Mhuire in an exciting, innovative approach and the result is a new exhibition, “A Sense of Baile Mhuire” opening at 2.30pm on Thursday, June 14 at the day care centre. Conversations with […]

THE Institute of Technology Tralee has secured over €1.2 million in funding and 346 places under the Government’s Springboard+ initiative for the academic year 2018/2019. In total 13 courses are offered by IT Tralee through its Life Long Learning Department, as part of its Springboard+ offering, with 11 of these programmes starting […]

THE running events keep on coming this summer and there’s a very enticing one on the horizon. There is just over a week left until the 2018 Half on the Head (Kerryhead Half Marathon and 10k run) which takes place on Saturday, June 16. There are very limited places left […]

PUPILS are Moyderwell Mercy Primary School were lucky with the weather over the past few days as they enjoyed exercises for ‘Be Active Week’. One of the highlights of the week was the ‘Walk A Mile With A Smile’ on Thursday where the whole school walked from the school, over […]

THE kind-hearted pupils of sixth class in Spa National School have put their hands in their pockets to help out a charity. The beautiful backdrop of Tralee bay provided the setting for a cheque presentation to Enable Ireland as Principal, Peter Linehan, explains. “They offer up part of their confirmation […]