Articles by: Dermot Crean

  TRALEE has slipped to 33rd place out of 40 towns and cities in the latest survey of towns in Ireland by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) and is deemed  ‘moderately littered’. Killarney was placed 8th in the league and is again  “Cleaner than European Norms”. It continued […]

SO they’re all settled in by now. Hundreds of junior infants started school this week and they begin a wonderful journey through primary school. We took photos in schools in town and on the outskirts, visiting Caherleaheen, Listellick, Flemby, Tralee Educate Together and St John’s in Ashe Street, while St […]

TRALEE Art Group is holding an exhibition of new works based on the theme “Art Inspired by Literature” at Kerry County Library, Moyderwell on Tuesday September 12th at 6pm. Works in a wide variety of media will be on display, accompanied by the literature which inspired them. The group has […]

SUMMER’S over, the weather’s getting colder, Kerry are out of the championship, moan, moan and, furthermore, moan.  Enough. There’s a lot more to look forward to than you think as September begins… 1. Listowel Races… In Listowel, Ballybunion and the surrounding villages, the summer isn’t really over until after the races. […]

  IT is nigh on 40 years since I did my Junior-Cert and anyone of my vintage would even remember that it was then called the Inter-Cert. One of the subjects that I undertook for this exam was music. My music teacher in St Brendan’s Killarney at that time was a […]

AN Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was among 300 people in The Rose Hotel last night to celebrate the political life of a man who served Kerry in ministerial offices over the years. Jimmy Deenihan, who retired from political life earlier this year, was feted by the Fine Gael party and the […]

LUCIE Hanrahan and David Leonard are a busy couple these days. As if having their first baby together three weeks ago wasn’t enough, the Tralee couple have just opened a new coffee shop, the curiously titled Ugly Mug, on Edward Street this week. Lucie and David returned to Ireland in […]

A CANDLELIGHT vigil  to remember the homeless people who died in Dublin and Kildare in the past two days, was held in Tralee last night. Around 20 people gathered in The Square to remember Jack Watson who died after being found unconscious outside a shop on Suffolk Street in Dublin’s […]

SIX Bewley’s employees presented a cheque for €1,000 to Kerry Hospice on Friday morning before they set off from Tralee on a 500km cross country cycle to raise much needed funds for Hospices nationwide. It’s all part of Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice Together with Bewley’s which takes place […]

YESTERDAY Met Eireann issues a Yellow Status Rainfall Warning for Kerry and 13 other counties to take effect today. Well things got worse this morning when the status was elevated to Orange for Kerry, Cork and Waterford. Rain will turn heavy and persistent this afternoon and persist for a time […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: Who qualifies for Fuel Allowance and how is it paid? Answer: Fuel Allowance is paid under the National Fuel Scheme, operated by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. […]

Our movie guy, John McCann says American Made is highly entertaining with an excellent performance from Tom Cruise… American Made tells the amazing true story of Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, who is recruited by the CIA to provide intel on the growing communist threat in Central America. Soon he finds […]

IT’S been awhile since we had a weather warning but all good things come to an end. Met Eireann has issued a Yellow Status rainfall warning for Kerry and 13 other counties from Saturday at 3pm to Sunday morning at 6am. Heavy rain developing in the West Saturday afternoon will […]

NCBI employee Breda Sheehan from Kilflynn, sees jumping out of a plane to raise funds for the  national sight loss agency as “the easy option”! The intrepid lady who manages NCBI retail shop in Ashe Street, Tralee is about to take a skydive for the the National Council for the […]

NOW this is something you’re gonna like. If you fancy a night at Tralee Omniplex at a reduced cost then read on. Omniplex Cinemas are holding a Flash Seat Sale which will see prices of regular seats slashed to €6 and MAXX screenings down to €8. Taking place from Monday, September […]

SINN Féin organised a picket of Bank of Ireland in Castle Street Tralee on Friday in protest at their decision to remove the Irish language option on new ATMs. The party is calling on Bank of Ireland to reverse their decision and they asked people to sign a petition outside the bank during […]

A CANDLELIGHT vigil  to remember the two homeless people who died in Dublin and Kildare in the past two days will be held in Tralee tonight. “We want to give them the dignity and respect that they should have gotten while alive, and for all the homeless in the country,” […]

AN Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will be in Tralee tonight to pay tribute to Jimmy Deenihan. The Rose Hotel will be the venue for a special evening to honour the former Minister and TD for his 33 years of political service. Hundreds are expected to attend the event organised for the […]

THE parents were more anxious than the pupils at Spa NS on Thursday morning as the junior infants started their schooldays. Teacher Valerie Linehan had them all relaxed (the pupils that is!) when we called to take a few photos and there were no tears as the children got used […]

A NORTH Kerry man has died in a drowning accident in the Netherlands. Alan Lucid, a 28 year old man from Ballyheigue, died after getting into difficulty in the water in Egmond aan Zee in northern Holland at around 4am Thursday morning. Police have confirmed they are treating Mr Lucid’s […]

TRALEE entrepreneur, Jerry Kennelly, was today presented with the TK Whitaker Award, the highest honour that the Irish Academy of Management (IAM) can bestow, at the Queen’s Management School at Queen’s University in Belfast. Previous recipients include Denis Brosnan (2014), Margaret Downes (2015) and Dr Martin Naughton (2016). The pre-eminent […]

AS a child, I always dreamed of moving away from home, spreading my wings and exploring the world. I know that not every child is like that, people who don’t want to join the masses of people in airport queues or who don’t want to go to college. Which of […]

MAYOR of Tralee Municipal District, Norma Foley, along with Moira Murrell, CE of Kerry County Council were in Tralee Town Park on Wednesday to announce more details of Culture Night which will take place this year on Friday, September 22 from 5.00 to 11.00pm. Arts and Cultural venues across the […]

THE new arrivals at St Brendan’s NS Blennerville, Moyderwell Mercy and Presentation Primary weren’t long in settling in on Wednesday morning. There’s 30 pupils out in Blennerville this year, while both Moyderwell and Pres have two classes each. All schools said the kids settled in well. Principal of Moyderwell, Moira […]

A NEW experience and new friends awaited pupils at schools all over town on Wednesday. At Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn there were two classes of junior infants  beginning their schooldays and everything went smoothly, with the tears drying up once parents left the little ones with the teachers. The same was […]

TRADING online vouchers to the value of €2,500 are still available to support small Kerry businesses to enhance their online trading presence. The vouchers can be used in a variety of ways, including to advertise online on websites such as TraleeToday.ie. There is a free training session in Tralee next month and is the first […]

A FUNDRAISING cycle in honour of a great Kerryman who is ill in London, has already raised over £20,000 for a hospital there. Kerry Association London Chairman, Danny Sullivan, who owns a successful construction company, his charitable work and helping out new arrivals from Ireland, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in June […]

THE Austin Stacks juvenile teams are on a high of late with numerous titles won over the past few months. With this being the centenary year of the club, they decided to mark the success by gathering in the clubhouse on Tuesday night to capture the teams for posterity. The […]

THE sun may have been beaming down on us this morning, but summer’s certainly over for primary schoolchildren this morning as thousands head back to the books. For junior infants it’s a daunting but exciting time, as we could see when we visited Scoil Eoin in Balloonagh early on Wednesday. […]

AN event to mark World Suicide Day will be held for the fifth year in a row in Tralee on September 10, to remember those lost to suicide. Organised by Tralee resident and mental health issues campaigner, Gerard Collins, a candlelight vigil will be held in Pearse Park at 10pm. […]