Articles by: Dermot Crean

For story update click here GARDAÍ are at the scene of an incident at a house in Upper Rock Street. Garda Forensics and three Garda vans are at the house opposite St Brendan’s Church, but nothing is known about the nature of the incident at this time. We’ll have more […]

Seniors: County Senior Football League Div 2 Rd 6: St Pats 1-12  Listry   4-05 A hat trick from Listry stalwart Derry Aherne saw Listry claim the spoils in a high scoring encounter in sun drenched Blennerville on Sunday. St Pats opened this game in flying form racing into an early […]

A TRALEE businessman is left frustrated and angry that he has been told to apply to Kerry County Council for planning permission to change the wording of a sign outside his premises, two years after making the alteration. Tim Galvin of Gally’s Bar And Restaurant on the Castlemaine Road, changed the […]

EACH and every person knows someone who has needed to get blood at some stage. I myself have had to have transfusions too many times to remember. It is a vital service needed in every hospital throughout the country. This week I am urging everyone to go out and donate […]

FAOI 6: The Rock Under 6 footballers will be in action at 11am in Caherslee on Sunday. Our evening football sessions for the Under 6s will continue at 5.45pm on Thursday i bPáirc Uí Chonghaile. See you all, lads! FAOI 8: We’ll be in Caherslee – Sunday ag 11am. The Under 8 Go Games Blitz […]

Junior League Churchill 1-11 1-11 St Pats The Churchill B team drew with St. Pats in The Spa on Friday evening. Their final match in the group stages is vs Castlegregory next Friday 12th June in the Spa @ 7:30pm. A victory should ensure qualification for the knock out stages. Senior […]

NA GAEIL SENIOR: NA Gaeil faced Annascaul in the fifth round of the county league. In near perfect conditions Na Gaeil started the stronger with early scores from Diiarmaid Herlihy, two 45s from Mike Griffin and Jack Barry. The vistitors settled and brought the game back to two points, with […]

  HEARTLESS thieves hit a charity shop for hundreds of euro and caused hundreds more worth of damage during a break-in last night. The Manager at Kingdom Care Charity Shop at the Mart Buildings in Mounthawk, arrived at the shop this morning and was greeted with the awful sight. Around €200 […]

  A TRALEE filmmaker won an award at the Limerick Film Festival at the weekend. ‘Sineater’, created by Bertie Brosnan, and filmed in Tralee, picked up the ‘Best Camera’ award at the festival. It’s more good news after the movie was taken by Bertie to the Cannes Film Festival for the second […]

WE’RE almost there folks. For many of us, the summer really starts this Sunday when Kerry begin their defence of the All-Ireland against Tipperary. The game in Thurles will be almost 40 years to the day since Kerry beat the Premier county to set in motion the greatest period in […]

TRALEE could win the 2015 Supervalu Tidy Towns Competition but it’s up to the people of Tralee to play their part, according to the Chairman of Towards a Better Tralee, Cllr Sam Locke. The judges will visit Tralee next week to scrutinise a number of areas in the town and […]

IT was a night of winners, style and great fun at the Connect Kerry Lee Strand Women in Business Awards on Friday night. Yesterday we brought you all the winners from the night and some amazing style (click here for previous story). “The Connect Kerry Lee Strand Women in Business Awards […]

Advertorial SLATTERY’S Carpet and Blind Store is pleased to announce their relocation to 65 Boherbee, Tralee (between O’Mahony’s Bakery and O’Donoghue’s Pharmacy). The family business has been covering Tralee and the wider environs of North Kerry; from Tarbert to Dingle since 1982. The local business is run by brothers Mike […]

  ABOUT 10 years ago, I began to start my journey of recovery from severe depression and I came to the conclusion that ‘if my mind could make me sick then my mind could make me better’. What I mean by the mind, is ‘the thinking mind’. So the opposite of […]

  Kingdom Food And Wine Store Oakpark Road THIS week’s column is more of an ‘in for lunch’ than ‘out for lunch’ as I took the food home to my own kitchen. You see the Kingdom Food And Wine Store isn’t a restaurant or cafe, rather a place to stop off to […]

THE inaugural Connect Kerry Lee Strand Women in Business Awards took place last night and what an event it was! The black tie gala ceremony was held in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel and around 350 people witnessed a host of winners receive accolades on the night. Organized by Margaret Brick, Editor of Connect Magazine, […]

  A TRALEE man who played online poker on a major online betting company’s website yesterday, ended up winning a sum believed to be in the region of €390,000. The man, believed to be aged in his late 30s and from the Rockies’ side of town, was playing the game over a period […]

IT was an exciting, yet poignant, day for Dick and Eibhlín Henggeler on Thursday, as they officially became the owners of the Fels Point Hotel. A large group of family and friends joined hotel staff and members of the Rose of Tralee International Festival, to celebrate the signing of the contracts transferring […]

GARDAÍ in Tralee are appealing for information after a young man suffered an unprovoked assault in the early hours of Thursday morning. The 21 year old man needed hospital treatment after he was assaulted in the Castle Street area between 1.30am-2am. An investigation is underway and Gardaí are appealing for […]

  RURAL areas in rural areas around Tralee and all over Kerry are to get greater broadband services announced Eircom today. Minister Jimmy Deenihan has welcomed Eircom’s announcement that they are to significantly expand access to high speed fibre broadband in rural Ireland benefiting a number of areas in Kerry. In Kerry, […]

GARDAI are investigating break-ins at two multi-storey car parks in town. The car parks at Maine Street and Edward Street were broken into in the early hours of this morning in incidents the Gardaí believe are connected. No arrests have been made thus far. Damage was caused to the parking […]

THE June bank holiday is just gone; and we haven’t seen a ray of sun. Usually, this is where things begin to get very depressing in the town square. I normally do not hold much faith in the regular Irish citizen to remain upbeat and positive, but on this occasion, […]

  WHILE 23 Roses were picked in Portlaoise on Sunday to go on to the final at the Festival in Tralee, Ballybunion was holding its own Rose contest. Nine local ladies vied for the Ballybunion Rose 2015 crown at the Cliff House Hotel, but in the end there could be only one […]

ONE of the things that I hate most in my life is attending funerals. Yesterday I went to my friend’s mother’s funeral in Cork and it reminded me of why I hate them so much. It breaks my heart to see people I care about so upset. I end up […]

A TRALEE woman picked up a nice cheque last week after winning a Radio Bingo Jackpot. Breda Curran from Ballinorig,  dropped into Radio Kerry last Thursday to collect her Radio Bingo Jackpot cheque for €14,750. Radio Kerry’s breakfast duo Elaine Kinsella and Andrew Morrissey along with Richard Maher of ELMCo Ltd, […]

THE weather did not make for a good day at the races in Listowel yesterday. Lucky then that Ladies Day was held on Sunday in the sunshine – all be it a bit windy – at the Island. Yesterday we brought you the news that Tralee native Caroline O’Sullivan won […]

HURLING: Austin Stacks 3-17; St. Pats (East Kerry) 1-9. The final score might suggest an easy win but, certainly in the first half, that was far from the case in the final of the South Kerry JH League played at a cold, breezy and dry Connolly Park on last Wednesday […]

Under 15 Munster Blitz: Good day out Saturday for our U15’s in Abbeydorney at the Munster U15 ten a side blitz qualifier. After a slow start we beat Lixnaw 4-07 to 1-02, Abbeydorney were clear favourites against us in the decider but we gave them a good aul fright and […]

  SENIOR MEN: County League – Division 2 Round 5 – Mitchels v Listowel Emmets Sunday June 7th (Home) ALL SUPPORT. APPRECIATED Round 1 – Mitchels 0-10 – Templenoe, 0-06 Round 2 – Tarbert​ 0-08 – John Mitchels 0-14 Round 3 – Mitchels 0-16. – Spa Killarney 1-08 Round 4 […]

  FAOI 6: (i) The Rock Under 6 footballers will be in action at 11am in Caherslee on Sunday. (ii) Our evening football sessions for the Under 6s will continue at 5.45pm on Thursday i bPáirc Uí Chonghaile. See you all, lads! FAOI 8: (i) We’ll be in Caherslee again on Sunday ag 11am. […]