Articles by: Dermot Crean

THE new extension to St Ita’s and St Joseph’s School was opened last Wednesday and a global giant has stepped in to make sure the kids there have a great place to play during breaks. Two new post-primary ASD rooms, a multi-sensory room, social space, play area and staff room […]

  TRALEE people enjoyed a nice windfall thanks to RTE this weekend as two women scooped €20,000 between them on the station’s flagship chat shows. The final ‘Late Late Show’ of the season saw Ryan Tubridy handing out sums of €10,000 to members of the public who entered their weekly […]

Our hurling analyst, Mike O’Halloran, was in Newbridge yesterday for Kerry’s comprehensive victory over Kildare in the Christy Ring Cup semi-final… Kerry 6-27 Kildare 0-9 Kerry strolled to the most convincing of wins ever I would guess in the history of Kerry hurling. I predicted a close game that would end […]

  THERE is a powerful saying by The Buddha which goes like this – ‘Don’t believe me try it for yourself’ – in other words it is in the ‘doing’ of something that the real benefits reveal themselves. This is certainly a truism in the case of laughter and is […]

THERE’S no end to the changes in our bars and restaurants around town and The Abbey Inn is the latest hostelry to revamp their business. The bar on the right hand side is now closed for refurbishment and when it reopens it will be a cafe bar with a ‘funky’ feel […]

AN entertaining night for a worthy cause took place last night in CH Chemists in aid of the Kerry Hospice Foundation. There was a good crowd present to witness ‘The Beauty Battle’ which tested the knowledge of experts Mary O’Donnell, Danny Russell and Helen Parker. Continued below… Each time they got  a question right, […]

Benners Cafe Castle Street WE’RE going through some sort of food and drink revolution in Tralee at the moment. Let’s recap. In the past two months, two new hotels – The Ashe and Benners – have opened, each with their own gastropub; a new nightclub started with Quarters; the lads […]

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ By John Lyons Oh what a day. What a lovely day. It seemed like it was never going to happen, but die-hard ‘Mad Max’ fans the world over can finally rejoice, because the wait is officially over. The fourth entry in the series, ‘Fury Road’, has […]

  WHILE ladies from all over the world are vying for a place in the Rose of Tralee at the Regional Finals in Portlaoise this weekend, Ballybunion is picking its own Rose on Sunday. If you’re around the north of the county this Sunday, then a visit to the event  in Ballybunion could […]

IF you still don’t have plans for the weekend and you’re feeling energetic, then you still have time to sign up for the Dingle Way Challenge this Sunday. Registration closes at 9pm on Friday so click here to sign up for this amazing event. A fundraiser for St Pat’s GAA club, the […]

IT should be a fantastic night of music and fun for a great cause when contestants compete for ‘The Voice Of Tralee’ next month. The Mayor of Tralee launched new event – which to replace annual Mayor’s Ball and raise funds for Recovery Haven – at the Fels Point Hotel on Thursday evening. […]

IF you’re heading away for the Bank Holiday Weekend you might want to follow the Gardaí’s advice about home security here. Yesterday, Gardaí launched its Supporting Safer Communities Campaign 2015 and part of it is the Home Security Checklist Challenge to see how secure your home is. Figures from An Garda Síochána […]

  FENIT and Banna are among the 13 Kerry beaches which have won Blue Flags (12 retaining  from last year) at an awards ceremony in south Kerry today. An Taisce announced the International Blue Flag Award and the National Green Coast Award recipients for 2015 with a total of 144 awards presented by the […]

THE culmination of five years of planning and work came to fruition on Wednesday with the opening of a new extension to St Ita’s and St Joseph’s Primary and Post Primary School. A special celebration day was held at the school with a Mass, celebrated by Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne in […]

  OVER €3.6m in Government funding has been allocated for Kerry’s housing needs. The funds will be used across a range of housing schemes to make more social housing available and to improve housing for people with disabilities, as well as retrofitting homes to improve energy efficiency. Labour TD, Arthur […]

THE site of the old Baily’s Corner on Ashe Street will come alive again, as a new pub is set to open there this July. Patrick McCarthy of Paddy Mac’s has taken the lease on the premises and his sons, Tommy and Pat, will take the reins in the new […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance has received €57,000 from Kerry County Council to help continue the work of marketing the town. The Alliance’s funding made up over a third of the Community Support Fund total of over €159,000, allocated to many Tralee Municipal District area organisations. The €57,000 equalled the amount allocated to the Chamber last […]

  AROUND 30 volunteers went on a trip yesterday to familiarise themselves with some of the town’s top tourist attractions. Tralee Chamber Alliance organised this ‘Familiarisation Trip’ for  hotel receptionists, business managers and volunteers who will work in the tourist kiosk in Tralee throughout the busy summer period. They met at […]

Chris Murray of Casey and Co. on the new Companies Act… The Companies Act 2014 is replacing the Companies Acts 1963-2013 and will commence on June 1, 2015. This is the largest piece of legislation Ireland has ever seen, comprising a total of 25 Parts (over 1440 sections) and 17 […]

BEAUTY and hair experts will be battling it out for the Kerry Hospice this Friday in what promises to be a fun night. ‘The Beauty Battle’ at CH Chemists pits the beauty knowledge of TraleeToday.ie’s and RTE’s ‘Today’ programme’s Mary O’Donnell, hair expert Danny Russell and Helen Parker from Lancome […]

KERRY South TD Michael Healy-Rae had an unusual request for the Taoiseach last night in the Dáil, eventually getting him to agree to be interviewed on Radio Kerry. During the Order of Business on Tuesday evening, Healy-Rae said to Enda Kenny that he was the only Taoiseach to have refused to go on Radio Kerry […]

Our hurling analyst, Mike O’Halloran, on the Christy Ring Cup semi-final this Saturday as Kerry travel to Kildare…  THE stated aim of the Kerry Hurling management team for the 2015 was to win The Christy Ring Cup and not be relegated in the Allianz Hurling League. Not alone were they not […]

  A TRALEE man has traversed the hills and walks of the county to bring a great guide to ‘The Kerry Way’. Donal Nolan has travelled on Ireland’s longest way marked trail, looping around the Iveragh Peninsula, following narrow country roads, forest paths, abandoned coach roads and mass paths, national park land and […]

WELL the Regional Rose of Tralee contest takes place over this weekend up in Portlaoise and for one hopeful, the experience got off to an interesting start. The London Rose, Aisling Hillary, whose dad hails from Kerry, shared a flight to Dublin with former X Factor judge Louis Walsh and […]

RECOVERY Haven Cancer Support House Kerry has won the top prize at the Rural Innovation Awards. The awards, sponsored by Dairymaster, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Teagasc and the Farmers Journal, took place in the Ballygarry House Hotel last night. Continued below… There were three categories – Farm Innovation, Rural Business […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance has asked the Minister for Justice to allocate more Garda resources to Tralee to help overcome some anti-social behaviour problems in the town centre. Minister Frances Fitzgerald has been asked formally by the Chamber, to prioritise Tralee when the next 200 Garda Probationers are allocated to various […]

  THE volunteers at a Tralee charity organisation came across an unexpected item when they were going through donations at the weekend. A box was handed into the Kingdom Care charity shop at the Mart Buildings at Mounthawk last week. The box contained Christmas lights, wreaths and decorations, but at the bottom of […]

SOMETIMES there is someone who is on our TV screen that seems to be part of the family. We enjoy his banter and opinions, we love his laugh, we love his catchphrase and we never turn the channel when his face is on. This person for me was Bill O’Herlihy. […]

THE ‘Yes Equality Kerry’ campaign group have thanked the people of Kerry for their support in Friday’s referendum. In a statement, Lisa Fingleton, the chair of the group, said: “We want to sincerely thank the people of Kerry for your support. We especially want to thank the grandparents who voted in […]

AFTER last year’s success, Pet Sitters Ireland have proudly announced the second year of the Annual Nose of Tralee Pet Competition. Organisers are looking to show off your pets hidden talents, like the Kerry entry last year, Roxy ‘the talking dog’ from Tralee, owned by Maria O’Carroll (see video below). They are […]