Articles by: Dermot Crean

ST. BRENDAN’S BASKETBALL CLUB Boys U18 County League Gneeveguilla 71 St. Brendan’s 63 It was a wet, miserable and freezing cold afternoon in Rathmore as the St. Brendan’s u18s prepared to battle with the six man army of Gneeveguilla. The game began with St. Brendan’s superstar big man Shane O’Connor […]

TRALEE Credit Union has teamed up with Top Part Kingdom Motor Factors to offer their members Free Breakdown Emergency Packs with their motor loans. “The idea to give Breakdown Emergency Packs with our motor loans came from the Road Safety Authority’s Road Safety Strategy proposal to make these packs compulsory […]

FUNDING of €3.8 million has been allocated for the upgrade of the N86 Dingle to Annascaul and Gortbreagoge to Camp Road sections of the N86, which will include a cycleway, road widening and improved pedestrian facilities. The N86 Dingle to Annascaul and Gortbreagoge to Camp Road Improvement Scheme comprises of […]

LOTTO : The draw for the jackpot of €1,500 took  place on Tuesday evening last. Numbers drawn were 8,17,25 27. There was no winner.  €50 winners were Catherine O Connor  Margaret Crean.€25 winners were Scotia 31 cards,Fintan Rogers, Jack O Driscoll Sorcha O Suilleabhain.Next week’s lotto is worth €2,000. All welcome for draw in […]

THIS Facebook post raised a smile when we saw it on a local buy and sell group page. A lot of presents were given out in households this year around town and while some of them were gratefully received, others didn’t get the desired reaction. This person went on ‘Tralee […]

Kerins O’Rahillys 10K 1916 Commemorative Run It is all systems go now and people have really started to train for the 10K at the end of the month. We are looking forward to another entertaining day and welcoming old and new friends to our club. Registration is now open for […]

THE current Rose of Tralee, has paid tribute to a little girl from Kilkenny, who has passed away after battling a brain tumour for the past few years. Elysha Brennan, who has herself battled against cancer in the past, went on her Rose of Tralee Facebook page today to express her […]

KERRY County Council and the Kerry Severe Weather Local Assessment Team has expressed its appreciation for the hard work and co-operation, in difficult conditions, of all individuals and agencies involved during the recent weather events. They also have urged caution as the bad weather continues over the coming week. “This was an […]

EARLIER we told you about Tralee’s disappointing placing in the latest Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) table. We went from third in August, to 17th today and down to ‘Clean to European Norms’ from the top standard of ‘Cleaner Than European Norms’. The start of the IBAL judges’ report on Tralee […]

IT’S not a great start to the year for Tralee as the town has slipped in its classification in the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) table. After being placed third in the table in August, with a standard of being ‘Cleaner Than European Norms’, the town has slipped back to 17th […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Limerick on Sunday for the Kerry senior hurling team’s first outing of the year… Limerick 2-23 Kerry 0-18 The Kerry hurlers began their 2016 season with a trip to the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Sunday, to play in round one of Munster Senior League. Kerry came […]

Continuing our ‘Review of 2015’, here’s some of the news we brought you in December… • THE festive season was ushered in at IT Tralee North Campus by breaking a Guinness world record at making the longest Christmas Cracker Chain. Needing more than 798 to break the record, it was smashed with a […]

  TRULY living in ‘The Now’ is a most wondrous and rewarding way to live life. It might sound strange to speak the obvious to people, but the only time you can truly live is Now. Have you ever managed to live five minutes ago or in five minutes time? It […]

KILLARNEY actor Michael Fassbender picked up an award last night night at an awards ceremony in California. It was a happy new year for the star of Steve Jobs and Macbeth – who spent Christmas at home in Killarney – as he received the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s (PSIFF) International Star […]

IT’S almost a daily occurrence now, but Met Eireann has issued yet another Status Yellow rainfall warning for Kerry and Cork. In what seems like a never-ending issuing of warnings, they are predicting rainfall totals of 25 to 40 mm in 24 hours from midnight last night to midnight tonight, […]

TWO Tralee teenagers blagged their way into a $1,000 New Year’s Eve party in Sydney and uploaded a video to YouTube. Joe.ie have a story on their site reporting that Jack Stuart and Rory Doyle spent $65 on a ticket to the Sydney Opera House area on New Year’s Eve but they […]

CYCLISTS are being asked to dust down the bikes as the Jimmy Duffy Memorial Cycle takes place next Saturday from St. Pat’s GAA Club, Blennerville. The annual cycle is in memory of Jimmy Duffy, who lived in Blennerville all his life and was a fine musician and avid cyclist. He was 67 years old when […]

YESTERDAY we brought you some of the stand-out photos we took at Kerry GAA games during the year with our own cameras. Here’s the second part, featuring memorable moments of action, joy and heartbreak.            

Continuing our ‘Review of 2015’, here’s some of the news we brought you from November… • There was sad news around Kerry at the death  of well-known Kerry GAA figure, Leo Griffin. Leo, who grew up in the Mitchels area, was a familiar face around town, but came to be known […]

FORMER Tralee RFC player, Ultan Dillane, has been called into Joe Schmidt’s extended Irish training squad for a Six Nations camp at Carton House. It’s the latest step in the 22-year-old Connacht lock’s progression since he left Tralee some years ago. Continued below… French-born Dillane moved to his mother’s native Kerry […]

THROUGHOUT 2015, we brought our cameras to Kerry games around the country and to see how Tralee teams fared in various competitions. We took loads of photos and here, in no particular order, is a selection of some which stood out (we’ll have more tomorrow)…  

Continuing our ‘Review of 2015’, here’s some of the news we brought you in October… • Gardai in Tralee began a murder investigation following a post mortem on a 24 year old man who had been assaulted outside a house in Killeen Woods on September 30. The deceased, Dmitry Hrynkevich, moved with his […]

A SPECTACULAR fireworks display on New Year’s Eve was a great way for families to  mark the end of 2015. Although it was on in the early evening, there was still a great atmosphere as the younger kids were able to see the skies lit up before bedtime. MC John Drummey […]

MET Eireann has just issued another rainfall warning for Kerry for tomorrow. While we can expect a dry enough New Year’s Eve tonight, in what is a relentless barrage of terrible weather, Kerry and Cork have been put on Status Yellow rainfall alert from 9am on Friday to 9am on […]

PETROL prices have seen a big drop on this time last month. Last month the cheapest price per litre was €1.28.8 in Applegreen stations at Fairies Cross and Manor Village. Now the price has dropped to €1.21.8 in both stations and that priced is matched by Top in Caherslee. We […]

Continuing our Review of 2015, here’s some of the news we brought you from September… • It was announced that the Balloonagh convent would close its doors by the end of September. The convent had operated since 1858 and resident nuns at the convent moved to other accommodation. (click here) • A Tralee woman decided […]

We posted thousands of stories this year but these ten proved the most viewed by our readers (figures refer to page views on our website verified by Google Analytics)… 10. A house party that went out of control on the outskirts of Tralee piqued your interest back in July. It registered 13,500 page views […]

CONTINUING our Review of 2015, here’s some of the news we brought you from August… • The month got off to a great start as a Tralee man  won a Gold Medal at the Special Olympics in Los Angeles. Brendan O’Connell from Oakpark won in the 800m freestyle event. The 29 […]

  2015 has been a year of a lot of changes. Some good, some bad. I think perhaps the biggest change is the way that people in our society approach things now. This is the year that the gay marriage referendum passed in Ireland and that alone is an amazing […]

  KERRY received a battering from Storm Frank on Tuesday and Wednesday morning with parts of Killarney being particularly badly affected. While the rain and wind has abated in many places, according to Met Eireann, there’s more bad weather on the way. They have issued a Status Yellow Wind Warning for Kerry, […]