Articles by: Dermot Crean

IT’S been quite a week for a young Tralee athlete with success running for her school and in a 5k event on Sunday. Niamh O’Mahony of Presentation Secondary School Tralee came in second place in the All-Ireland schools cross country championships at W.I.T. sports arena on Saturday, March 10. Niamh, […]

  LEE STRAND TOWN LEAGUE BOARD FINAL: We played Austin Stacks in the Town League Final at home in Ballyseedy today. It was a bitterly cold day and a light snow fell continuously during the match. There was a close and exciting encounter in the first half and a Shane […]

Strictly Club Dancing: A capacity crowd rocked the Brandon Hotel for  a second year in  row as our Strictly Club Dancing took the place by storm providing a night of entertainment and fun for all present. From the moment the dancers took to the floor for the group dance,  appropriately […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 13, 14, 15 and 23.The five €30 consolation prizes went to Margaret Kennedy Asdee, Jeremiah Greaney c/o T. Casey, Pat Enright Port Laoise, John Kelliher Lohercannon and Joan Devane Blennerville. Next week’s Lotto will have […]

SENIOR FOOTBALL: John Mitchels 2-5; Austin Stacks 0-8. For the second year in a row we came up short in the Town League Final. Played yesterday afternoon (18th March) in the Mitchels pitch, which was in excellent condition despite the bad winter, we had a reasonably good first half and led […]

Seniors    Na Gaeil play Ardfert away in round 2 of the County League this Sunday March 25th at 2pm. They play Listowel in the first round of the Premier Junior Championship the following Saturday March 31st in Mountcoal at 5.30pm. U12    We had a very good turnout of lads at our training last Sunday […]

FRESH from their victory in the Town Board final against Austin Stacks at the weekend, John Mitchels GAA Club will be hoping for another great showing at a Table Quiz next Friday, March 23, at 8.30pm in Gallys Bar & Restaurant. Entry fee is €40 per table with teams of […]

CYCLISTS are getting ready for the sixth annual Fenit Coastal Cycle which takes place on Saturday, March 24. The cycling event is a fundraiser for St. Brendan’s National School, Fenit and they have two charities who will receive a monetary donation from the event — Diabetes Ireland & Kerry Cork Link […]

TRALEE photographer, John Cleary, has given us a few more images from his book ‘T’was Only Like Yesterday’ to show you. The book of photographs concentrates on the 1980s with images from sporting, religious, social and political life from Tralee and Kerry all contained therein. It’s a wonderful record of photos that […]

IT was quite a week for Mercy Mounthawk basketball teams as they created history winning both the 1st and 2nd year boys southwest “A” basketball titles for the first time in the school’s history. On Tuesday the 1st year boys faced up vs local rivals CBS Tralee in the semi-final […]

THE Eileen Rice ‘Country Against Cancer’ Memorial Music Weekend’ which took place in the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney last October raised €20,000 and two charities benefitted from the event. Jerry Moriarty presented €10,000 to Noreen Smiddy, of Marymount Hospice in Cork and country singer Trudi Lawlor presented €10,000 to Breda Dyland […]

Mike O’Halloran watched Crotta beat Ballyheigue in the County Hurling League tie… Crotta O’Neills 2-17 Ballyheigue 0-13 Brendan O’Mahony brought his Ballyheigue team to his old stomping ground in Dromakee, but it was a Crotta team that contained his son that came away with the two points. The game was […]

WITH an increase in planned building projects, national and regional infrastructure – demand for construction industry workers is on the rise. This year, the Irish construction industry is projected to grow by 14 per cent to €19.5 billion in value terms – following an increase of almost 20 per cent […]

IT was a memorable night for Kerins O’Rahillys as they held their second ‘Strictly Club Dancing’ event on Friday in The Brandon Hotel. Around 1,000 tickets were sold and unsurprisingly, many if them came dressed to impress on the night. Here’s some of the style from the night and more […]

FAMILIES gathered at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday morning as children from two Tralee schools received their Confirmation. There were 49 children from Listellick NS and Holy Family who were Confirmed by Bishop of Kerry Ray Browne as their families looked on. A number of other clergy […]

TraleeToday.ie’s coverage of the Tralee St Patricks’ Day Parade is brought to you by AIB Tralee… THE St Patrick’s Day parade is all about showing what a wonderful community we have here  in Tralee. Well there were enough clubs and organisations who put their names forward to take part yesterday. […]

Mike O’Halloran on the Kerry County Senior Hurling League round one game between Abbeydorney and Ballyduff played in Abbeydorney on Friday… Abbeydorney 3-12 Ballyduff 2-8 The county champions went down to Abbeydorney in a keenly contested game. Both teams were short a few regulars but perhaps Ballyduff more so than Abbeydorney. […]

IF you were to look up the meaning of the word precious in the dictionary you would find the following…‘of great value; not to be wasted or treated carelessly’. Another bit of trivia is that the word precious originates from the Latin word pretiōsus costly, valuable, equivalent to preti(um) price. […]

GARDAI in Tralee have identified a suspect in the incident where a slide was doused in bleach earlier last month. Back in late February, Tralee man Timmy Collins took his daughter to the playground in the Town Park and when she went on the slide she noticed her jeans got […]

TraleeToday.ie’s coverage of the St Patrick’s Day parade is sponsored by AIB Tralee… THE rain stayed away as hundreds turned out a little early this year for the St Patrick’s Day parade in Tralee. Sometime after 12 noon the hundreds of participants came down Castle Street  led by Grand Marshall, Dan […]

THE County Final of the Kerry County Council Annual Student Enterprise Awards was held on Friday at IT Tralee and there was a very high standard of entries as always the year. Outstanding participation levels saw 30 mini-businesses being set up by over 120 second level school students involved in […]

INCREDIBLE dancing performances electrified the crowd in the Brandon Hotel Conference Centre last night for the second Kerins O’Rahillys ‘Strictly Club Dancing’ night. Around 1,000 tickets were sold for the event and they got their money’s worth from the 12 couples as they danced their hearts out for the audience. […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: What is parental leave? Can both parents take it? Answer: Each parent of an eligible child may take up to 18 weeks of unpaid parental leave from work. Leave can […]

Our movie guy, John McCann, says The Shape of Water is a wonderfully crafted Oscar winning film, but it may not be for everyone!… With an underlying sense of injustice among some cinema goers at ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri’ missing out on the Best Picture Oscar among audiences, reviewing […]

THE Kerry football team to face Kildare on Saturday night in Austin Stack Park has three changes from the side defeated by Dublin last week. Brian O Beaglaioch moves to corner back in place of Shane Enright with Fionn Fitzgerald coming into the side at wing back. Daithi Casey starts […]

‘PROSPER Kerry’, a networking series for Kerry’s diaspora in Dublin, is calling on Kerry people in Dublin to attend its next event in the Guinness Enterprise Centre on Thursday, March 22 at 6.30pm, and support budding entrepreneurs and start-ups in the county. Each event sees three Kerry-based start-ups showcase their […]

THE kids at Scoil Eoin got a head start on the St Patrick’s Day festivities by staging their own parade on Friday morning. Pupils from every class donned the green in the school yard for an event which has become a tradition at the county’s largest primary school. Jimmy Diggins […]

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IT’S been some week of fun at The Castle Bar with racing, a few pints and the chance to win thousands in the rollover providing a great atmosphere in the Rock Street establishment. The place was packed as usual on Thursday with some ladies joining in the craic and being […]

WITH the St Patrick’s Day parade taking place tomorrow there’s a change from previous years to remind you about.   The 2018 parade theme is Ireland’s Most Enterprising Town and will start at The Rose Hotel roundabout on Dan Spring Road at 11.45am. However, the finish is different this year as […]