Articles by: Dermot Crean

Continuing our Review of 2015, here’s some of the news we brought you in July… • A TRALEE architect’s building design, which scooped four national awards, was shortlisted for the ‘2015 World Architecture Festival Award’. Louise Cotter, who is originally from the St Brendan’s Park area and now based in Cork, designed the Dún Laoghaire Lexicon […]

THE weather outside may be frightful, but in Siamsa there was a delightful tornado of fun as ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ began its run of performances on Tuesday. Families came in from the rain to fill the theatre yesterday afternoon to see the much loved story performed by the cast in the Oliver Hurley […]

SO 2015 is coming to an end and what a year it has been for good and bad reasons. I have compiled what I think have been the highs and lows. I know that everyone has his or her own list but this is just mine and what I loved […]

A ONE-DAY course to help SME Food Producers manage their social media infrastructure will take place early in the new year. The next TRADEIT Network event at the Irish Hub ‘Managing your Social Media Infrastructure’ will provide attending food producers with key insights, tools and tips on using social media […]

THE final event of the Christmas Spraoi in Tralee will take place at Midnight on Denny Street on New Years Eve when a Countdown Clock will welcome 2016. Seán Murphy, whose electrical team erected the magnificent Christmas lights over the streets of Tralee, along with Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry County […]

Continuing our Review of 2015, here’s some of the news we brought you in June… • A TRALEE woman picked up a nice cheque  after winning a Radio Kerry Bingo Jackpot. Breda Curran from Ballinorig,  dropped into Radio Kerry to collect her Radio Bingo Jackpot cheque for €14,750. (click here) • […]

HAPPY NEW YEAR: NA GAEIL wishes all members a happy,peaceful and prosperous New Year. BINGO HAMPER: A Very Big Thank You to everyone who supported the Bingo Christmas hamper. It was a great success. Congratulations to Brid de Rath who won this fabulous hamper worth over €5OO. The Na Gaeil […]

LOTTO The lotto was held in Glenduff House on Monday 21st December 2015 for a lotto jackpot of €9,700.  Numbers drawn were 7,12,17,25 There was no winner. Lucky dips 1 John & Genie Griffin Ballymac. 2 T McCarthy Rathanny. 3 Theresa Gill c/o O’Riada’s 4 Denis McCarthy c/o Tony Marshall 5 Julia […]

Lotto: There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Monday night last. The numbers drawn were 4, 12, 15 & 27. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Paula O Sullivan Ballyrickard, Noreen Walsh c/o O’Dwyer’s Bar, Annette Boyle Derrymore, M  Quirke Kerin’s Park and J & S […]

Continuing our Review of 2015, here’s some of the stories we brought you in May… • The first day of May brought the confirmation that Dick and Eileen Henggeler, the parents of the late Dorothy Henggeler, the 2011 Washington DC Rose who sadly passed away last year, succeeded in their bid […]

THERE were laughs and no small amount of great memories recalled at a reunion in Cassidy’s Restaurant on Monday night. Over 20 girls from the Moyderwell Secondary School ‘Class of 1985’ met up again to share stories, catch up on how their lives and careers have developed and talk about boys no […]

Continuing our Review Of 2015, here’s some of the news we brought you in April… • The month started with local bar which had its application to open at midnight on Good Friday turned down. The Blasket Bar made an application to Tralee District Court to open from midnight until 2am on Easter […]

IF you’re still dithering about what to do on New Year’s Eve, then Tralee Chamber Alliance may have the solution. The fireworks display, which was held out in Manor last year, has moved into town and takes place at 7.20pm sharp. Families are encouraged to come down, eat out before […]

THE Kerry GAA community is in mourning today as news filters through that Patrick Curtin has died. The news of the Moyvane man’s death was relayed through the Kerry GAA website this morning. A statement on the website reads as follows: “It is with deep regret that Kerry GAA has learned […]

A TRALEE-BASED milliner has won a Best Dressed Lady competition at a race meeting today. Carol Kennelly scooped the top honour at the Leopardstown race meeting wearing a design by Killorglin designer Tina Griffin which was a cream and gold brocade coat, a gold leather skirt and a hat made by herself. Carol won a […]

  WE’RE going to get the worst of the weather tomorrow according to Met Eireann as they issued a Status Orange rainfall warning for Kerry this evening. They’re saying we’re potentially going to get up to 70mm of rain between Tuesday noon and Wednesday noon and with a Status Orange […]

Parnells Facebook: Some nice recent photos on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TraleeParnellsHurlingClub/ including Kerry hurler Tweek Griffin showing the locals how to hurl on the All Star tour in Texas. Scór na bPáistí: Parnells are hoping to enter Scór na bPáistí for the first time ever in 2016.  We have a volunteer who is […]

New Year  Wishes The Senior, Juvenile and Ladies Committees at Kerins O’Rahillys would like to wish all of their members, supporters and players a very happy and healthy New Year both on and off the field. We would also like to sincerely thank all of those who have volunteered their […]

SEASON’S GREETINGS: We wish all our members, supporters, sponsors and readers of these Notes a very happy and successful New Year. SCÓR SINSIR: Senior Scór will commence in early January.  For more information read Brian Caball’s detailed Juvenile Notes. THE YEAR PAST: In next week’s Notes and for the following two weeks thereafter […]

DESPITE the spitting rain, the inaugural Tralee RFC fund-raising fun run went ahead at O’Dowd Park in Ballyard on Saturday. Around 170 adults and kids registered in the clubhouse before the event kicked off at 1pm. There was a 5k and 3k route for this timed event, sponsored by Noyeks Newmans of […]

Continuing our Review Of 2015, here’s the news we brought you in February… • The first day of February saw Kerry senior footballers begin their Allianz National League campaign with a lacklustre performance against Mayo at Fitzgerald Stadium , losing 0-10 to 2-11 to the westerners. Barry John Keane had a good day with […]

THERE was good news over Christmas for the Run The Kingdom company as two of their events were nominated for the 2015 Running in Ireland awards. The Tralee International Marathon has been nominated in the marathon of the year category and the Tralee 100K has been nominated in the Ultra Marathon […]

IN case you hadn’t noticed, the weather has been pretty bad of late. There seems to be no let up in the rain and wind as it pummels the country and Kerry seems to be getting it very bad. There’s Status Yellow rainfall and wind warnings in effect for the […]

EARLIER we brought you photos and a video from the Christmas Day Swim in Fenit (click here for images). The annual dip, in aid of the RNLI, was another massive success and hundreds made the three dashes into the water as hundreds more looked on in the driving rain. Here […]

IT was a wet Saturday morning but there was a decent turnout for the annual Bill Kirby Memorial Walk in aid of the Kerry Hospice. The rain teemed down but around 200 showed up for the walk with Mike Gaffney and friends keeping spirits up playing music before the participants headed away to walk off […]

IT was a miserable Christmas morning weatherwise, but that didn’t deter the hundreds of swimmers who made the annual dash into the cold waters of Fenit. Well over a thousand people gathered at the beach to either take part in or watch the swim which again was  in aid of […]

  THIS is a continuation from last week’s column (click here for previous column) To appreciate and understand this fully, I believe we have to go back to the origin of man which I refer to as ancient man. Why is this so? Well we have to understand the origin of […]

  WE’RE taking a bit of a break for the next couple of days here at TraleeToday.ie, but we’ll be back on Sunday, December 27 with coverage of the Christmas swim in Fenit, the Bill Kirby Memorial Walk and we’ll be starting our ‘Review of 2015’. I hope you all – our readers […]

IT was a very stylish affair at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Tuesday night for the Mercy Mounthawk Students Debs Ball. Yesterday we brought you images from the glamorous event (click here for previous coverage) and now here’s the rest of our photos. Scroll down for photos…  

  THE earlier Status Yellow wind warning for Kerry has now been changed to the more severe ‘Orange’ status by Met Eireann. Issued at noon today, the new warning applies to Kerry, Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, and Cork. Southerly winds of mean speeds of 60 to 65km/h gusting 100 to […]