Articles by: Gavin O'Connor

OVER 300 people took part in the St Pat’s GAA Dingle Bay Challenge on Sunday. The walk across mostly beach from Cloghane to Blennerville went off very well for both the club and participants. “We’d a great day with over 300 walkers, which is up about 60% on last year and most […]

IT WAS a miserable afternoon for Kerins O’Rahilly’s in Cahersiveen where, in the end, a seven point defeat to South Kerry flattered them writes Gavin O’Connor. South Kerry 1-14 Kerins O’Rahilly’s 1-7 The conditions were dreadful with heavy rain descending for the majority of this first round Garvey’s Supervalu County Championship […]

A TRALEE-BASED writer, has just released his children’s book and will showcasing it at Listowel writers week this weekend. Anthony Garvey has just launched ‘The Dark Green Book of Dreams”. The book was written in just 100 days and is set in Kilflynn. Anthony explained how he got started in writing. […]

AUSTIN STACKS open their Super Valu Senior Football County Championship campaign with a trip to Listowel to face Feale Rangers this Sunday at 3.30pm.  It’s now 20 years since Stacks lifted the county championship wearing those iconic Dee Butchers emblazoned shirts. Too long a wait for one of the most successful […]

THE KFest Arts festival takes place over the weekend in Killorglin and will showcase work from three Tralee artists. Mary Leen the creator of a stain-glass memorial to Donal Walsh which was unveiled in the The Green school recently will be taking her talents quite literally on the road. She has converted […]

KERINS O’RAHILLYS make the trip down south to face South Kerry in Cahersiveen in round 1 of the Super Valu Senior Football County Championship this Sunday at 2.30pm. Barry O’Shea’s charges have been promising so far in the league  this year which currently sees them unbeaten and top of division […]

  From bootlegged tapes out of a suitcase during the festival to being on stage with U2. Well known face on the Tralee music scene, Jason O’Sullivan, tells us his Songs In The Key Of Life…. “I think I will skip most of the eighties considering all that was in my cassette […]

Tralee-based musician, Ian O’Doherty, has released a brand new single called ‘Woven’ along with an impressive video to go with it. “The idea is to hit single after single and use them to raise awareness and maybe something will stick,” Ian said. “I plan to release three more singles this year, […]

A CHARITY fashion show will take place this Friday night in aid of three vital charities and organisations. The event called ‘Dance 2 Destiny’ is being organised by Joanne Barry School of Performance and will aid Breast Cancer Research, Recovery Haven and Pieta House, the latter which is particularly important to Joanne. […]

IT will be a case of rivalry renewed next month when the Bons and KGH staff take to the field in their annual soccer fundraiser. IT will also be a chance to pay tribute to a Bon Secours staff member and soccer fan  who passed away last month. On June 6 […]

THERE’S great speculation about the whereabouts of celebrity couple, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, who got hitched in Italy over the weekend and are now reportedly honeymooning in Cork. As we’re only a hop, skip and a jump away, ‘Kimye’ might decide to spend some time in the beautiful vale of […]

AUSTIN STACKS NOTES OF 26/05/2014. MONTH’S MIND MASS: Our Lady & St. Brendan’s Church was crowded last Friday evening (23rd May) for the Month’s Mind Mass for Trevor Barrett. Celebrant Fr. Padraig Walsh PP, in his brilliant unscripted six minute sermon, encapsulated everything that was good about Trevor in his […]

Lotto: There was no winner of last week’s jackpot of €10,700. The numbers drawn were 01, 12, 13 & 15. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Annette & Terry Boyle, Derrymore West; Tim Boyle c/o Terry Boyle; Mary O’Shea c/o Texaco; Geraldine & Catherine Hanafin, Curraheen & Cathy Hogan, […]

CLUB WEBSITE; Our Club website is available on www.stbrendansparkfc.com . All the latest club information can be found here . All coaches are asked to submit match reports and squad photos as soon as they can after matches so that they can be posted on the site. We can also be found on […]

LOTTO The Club lotto was held in Ballygarry House Hotel, on Monday 19th May 2014 and the numbers drawn were 6,8,14,25. There was no winner. Lucky Dips 1. Mike Fitzgerald, Coolnadeed 2. Joe Arthurs, c/o Tom Leen 3. Nicola McCarthy, c/o Half Way 4. Gerard O Sullivan, Flemby 5. Joe […]

Fixtures: It has been a busy fixture list across the age groups recently. The 14s hosted Deel Rangers from Limerick, the 11s travelled to Abbeydorney the 8s played in the first of 2 Ballyduff blitzes, while the 6s had their first outing away to Ardfert. Under 11: Our U11’s travelled […]

Laune Rangers 1-15 St Brendan’s 0-12 ST BRENDAN’S were knocked out of the opening game in the County Championship yesterday in what was a miserable blustery evening in Killorglin. Preparations hadn’t been ideal for St Brendan’s who draw their players from John Mitchels, Na Gaeil, Ardfert, St Pat’s and Churchill clubs, […]

THIS weekend sees the start of this year’s senior county football championship. Kicking it all off will be Laune Rangers v St Brendan’s in Killorglin 6:30pm this Saturday evening. St Brendan’s, as with any divisional side have found their preparations difficult, but this year it was made even more so […]

The most successful underage club in Kerry will once again be called Tralee Dynamos. As of August 2 this year Kingdom Boys will be no more and all underage teams with the club will revert back to the name Tralee Dynamos. “We’ve decided rename all underage teams Dynamos to avoid […]

THIS week saw the start of the annual Kerry Pride Festival for the LGBTQ community in the county and there’s plenty of events coming up over the weekend in the town. “It’s going really well, we have received fantastic support from the businesses in the town,” said Margaret O’Donoghue of Kerry Pride.  […]

THE Brookfield College Leaving Cert class celebrated their graduation last night in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The school, which opened its doors in 1988, has a long history of providing education to senior level students in Tralee. They are 26th alumni to finish the school, based in Oakpark. “They’re a […]

WHILE exclamations like ‘Yerra’ and ‘hAnam an Diabhail!’ might be heard anywhere in the county, we wondered if there are phrases which may be unique to the Tralee area. Here are some of the colloquialisms we here in the office have only heard around town over the years… Warning: Some – well […]

THE Kingdom Alliance Tour of Kerry takes place again this year over the the June bank holiday weekend and over 200 cyclists have signed up to take part. The tour is the only one in Ireland based in one town over the three days (Saturday, May 31 – Monday, June […]

Report by Tommy Naughton St Brendan’s Park  0 St Kevin’s Boys (Dublin) 2 UNFORTUNATELY the Park’s U16 team’s fantastic run in the SFAI National Cup competition came to an end at the final hurdle. Despite going down on the day, the boys acquitted themselves very well and were in with a chance right […]

A MEMORIAL stained glass window was unveiled yesterday at CBS The Green in honour of Donal Walsh. Family, friends and CBS students watched Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne unveil the piece on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s an incredible piece, it incorporates family, friends, even strangers who wrote to Donal. It really is […]

ONE of the highlights of the Kerry greyhound racing calender is nearly upon us. ‘The Boylesports.com Race of Champions’, takes place on Friday, June 6 at The Kingdom Greyhound Stadium and huge crowds are expected for the popular event. “This year we are delighted to welcome back Boylesports as the main title […]

Premier ‘B’ – Ballymac Galaxy 2 Fenit Samphires 6 Last Wednesday evening we kept our push for promotion alive with a superb performance against Ballymac Galaxy. The midweek kick-off meant we were without some of our hardcore supporters but we didn’t let this distract us. We knew we needed to […]

Round five of the county league took place over the weekend in which there were five Tralee area sides in action with only one side victorious. Here is our GAA Weekend Round-up. Saturday County League Division 1 Waterville 0-15 Kerins O’Rahillys 2-9 (Report from Kerins O’Rahilly’s Notes) The blues made the […]

FORMER Austin Stacks player Mike Finn has unwittingly found himself part of a Youtube video that has gone viral around the globe. In the video Mike, an Australian Rules player, is being interviewed on a football field (still wearing the black and amber). In the background, a man carrying a child tries to […]

THE Kerry Rose contestants were in Ballyroe Heights Hotel yesterday to take part in their individual interviews before the selection night which takes place this Friday at the same venue. It’s been a hectic few weeks for the ladies which has seen them take part in a whistle stop tour around the […]