Articles by: Dermot Crean

TRALEE people watching Celebrity Big Brother Final on TV3 tonight might recognise the champion from a wild night in town not so long ago. Scotty T, real name Scott Timlin, of popular TV series ‘Geordie Shore’, won the competition coming out of the house to wild cheering from fans and watched […]

  IN what is an election bombshell for the Kerry constituency, sitting Independent TD for Kerry South, Tom Fleming, has announced he is pulling out of the race. The ex-Fianna Fáil man made the decision based on the conclusion that he was lagging behind in the north Kerry constituency and […]

THE Kerry team for Sunday sees Tommy Walsh named as full forward while his Strand Road team mates retain their positions in a side which has three changes in personnel from last week’s defeat to Dublin. The team to play Roscommon in Round 2 of the Allianz League in Fitzgerald Stadium […]

THE Tidy Tralee Together group are holding their AGM on Tuesday next in the Fels Point Hotel at 8pm. Having enjoyed great success in recent years, the group will be hoping to retain Tralee Gold Medal in the Tidy Towns and kick on for next year’s competition. They have done sterling work […]

A VISUALLY impaired Tralee woman is regularly left standing at a crossing in town, sometimes for up to ten minutes, because the audible function at the traffic lights has been inactive for the past five months. Sabrina McKiernan, from the Mitchels area, must wait at the crossing on Castle Street, outside the entrance to […]

TWO Tralee women will start for Ireland in their Six Nations game against Wales tomorrow in Donnybrook. Tralee RFC’s Zoe Grattage and Galwegians Ruth O’Reilly, a native of Ballyroe, will take to the field for the opening clash of the tournament in Donnybrook at 1pm. Hooker Zoe Grattage will win […]

A CHALLENGE match, organised for the Kerry senior hurlers in Limerick,  has forced the Kerry Hurling All Stars event scheduled for Saturday in The Abbey Tavern, Ardfert, to be moved to this Sunday night. Other arrangements remain in place with a pre-awards reception at 7.30pm. Andrew Morrissey of Radio Kerry – a huge hurling […]

NONE of this craic on Sunday now young man! The Allianz League issued a Dubsmash challenge to some footballers recently and Kerry’s David Moran looked happy to impart his impeccable lip-syncing skills to Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’. For the few of you who don’t know what Dubsmash is, it’s a video messaging app where users can […]

A UK CLOTHING chain is to open a new store on Abbeycourt this Friday. A number of new jobs will be created at Mountain Warehouse – the UK-based discount outdoor clothing seller which has branches in Dublin, Wexford, Banbridge and Antrim – when opens next to Holland & Barrett on Friday afternoon. […]

FOR the first time, viewers will be able to see live coverage of the All-Ireland Junior and Intermediate Club football and hurling finals in Croke Park. There is great Kerry interest on Saturday as St Mary’s of Cahersiveen and Templenoe are both in action. Ardnaree Sarsfields from Mayo take on Kerry […]

  KERRY County Council is asking candidates and political parties to refrain from placing posters for the general election on road traffic signs or poles as well as overhead bridges. Posters should not obstruct sight lines for motorists and the view of motorists or present a traffic hazard. Kerry County Council […]

AS part of their Catholic Schools week programme of events, students from Presentation Secondary School Tralee invited representatives from Cuan Mhuire to meet with Transition Year students from each of the local secondary schools. On Wednesday morning, February 3, the Cuan Mhuire team consisting of an addiction counsellor and three […]

NOW in its fifth year in St Brendan’s NS Blennerville, Grandparents Day took on special significance this year as it was the first in the new school. Staff, pupils and the grandparents all gathered in the gym at 11am for a Mass celebrated by Fr Francis Nolan, followed by a […]

THE National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is encouraging the 1,997 young people in Kerry who have turned 18 in the past 12 months, to make sure they are registered to vote, given that a General Election is just weeks away. If the election is held at the end of February, […]

I’VE debated with myself for a while on whether or not to write about this subject as thankfully it is not something that has ever knocked on my door but it has affected many friends. The subject is suicide and there is not a day that I don’t hear of […]

Catholic Schools Week Catholic Schools Week is an all-Ireland annual event which invites Catholic schools to give expression in a special way to the ethos of Catholic education. This year’s theme is: “Challenged to Proclaim God’s Mercy”. The pupils in Kilmoyley National School celebrated Catholic Schools Week by honouring Saint […]

IT’S going to be the highlight of spring for fashion lovers as the Kerry Boutique & Designer show returns to Ballygarry House Hotel Pavilion on Wednesday, March 2. Kellihers Toyota, Tralee, were today officially announced as the official associate sponsor of the show which is a major part of Kerry Fashion Week. Featuring […]

OVER 500 people recently attended a coffee morning at the Ballygarry House Hotel to mark the retirement of Chief Superintendent Pat Sullivan after 41 years service in An Garda Síochána. The event on Friday, January 22, doubled as a fundraiser for the Kerry Hospice Foundation, which is a charity very […]

TRALEE area schools were to the fore in the prizes in the Tralee Credit Union Noreen Lynch Annual Schools Quiz on Sunday in the Brandon Hotel Conference Centre. This year, 164 students participated in their Quiz representing 23 primary schools throughout Tralee, Castleisland, Killorglin and surrounding areas. It was a busy […]

THE Friends of the Tralee-Fenit Greenway are to walk the line next Sunday and are hoping to be joined by as many members of the public as possible. “We last Walked the Line in protest nearly four years ago in April 2012,” reads a press release from the group. “Since then, the […]

Kerins O’Rahillys 10K 1916 Commemorative Run Kerins O’Rahillys held their second 10K run on Sunday last. It was a commemorative run and held to honour one of the men whose names we are privileged to have associated with our club. The run honoured “The O’Rahilly” and we were very thankful […]

LOTTO Congratulations to Frank Sayers, Derryquay and Aidan Pollard, Kielduff who both picked numbers 3,9,17,25 which were drawn in the Ballymac GAA Lotto which was held in Ballygarry House Hotel on Monday 25th January 2016. Both Frank and Aidan are regular lotto players and will share the jackpot of €10,000.  […]

TRALEE will be one of the Kerry towns to host the ‘Darkness Into Light’ event this coming May. The event, in aid of Pieta House, has captured the hearts of people all over the country as a fundraiser and a powerful way of raising awareness of mental health issues. It has […]

FOR any of you looking for tickets for the Katie Taylor fight against Queen Underwood in Tralee later this month, please note that Tralee Chamber Alliance will not  be selling tickets for this event. This was the previous arrangement, but tickets for the February 20 event in the Brandon Hotel, will […]

GARDAI say burglars are hitting homes while people are out to work and are looking for cash and jewellery, rather than bigger items. They are warning the public to be vigilant after two homes were hit in the Abbeydorney and Ballymacelligott areas in the past week. On Monday, January 25, […]

GARDAI are warning the public about another phone scam. A woman contacted Tralee Garda Station, saying they were called by a man this morning, with a middle eastern accent, claiming to be from an Irish bank headquarters. The call was made to a landline. The caller had the person’s name and address, which […]

OVER 340 runners and walkers took off from the Kerins O’Rahillys GAA Club on Sunday for their second annual 10k fundraising event. There was a bit of a breeze and ‘misty’ rain but otherwise conditions were fine for the run, which also celebrated the 1916 hero The O’Rahilly, from whom […]

THE Status Orange wind warning for Kerry and other counties has been extended until 4am on Tuesday. Kerry County Council has advised people to take precautions ahead of strong winds and gusts which are forecast for Kerry this afternoon and evening. The warning was initially valid until midnight but Met […]

ARDFERT & District Community First Responders attended 42 emergency callouts in 2015 after going live with the National Ambulance Service on February 23. In the time the scheme was live in 2015, it attended 10 stroke calls, seven cardiac arrest calls and 25 chest pain calls. The busiest month was November. It has […]

KERRY County Council is advising everyone to take heed of a Status Orange wind warning for counties including Kerry which has been issued by Met Éireann. Met Éireann is forecasting strong winds for the county from 10pm tonight as Storm Henry arrives. Southwest to west winds will reach mean speeds […]