Business/Property

KELLIHER’S Mace shop in Rathass will host a HB Ice Cream Funday in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland on this Friday afternoon between 2pm and 6pm. It coincides with the official unveiling of their new look shop. There’ll be face-painting, a magician, a balloon modeller, a DJ, food tastings and […]

A FREE seminar on Day Place in Tralee will take place next Tuesday, June 18 at Tralee Library between 10am and 1pm. Day Place is Tralee’s earliest Georgian terrace, built by Justice Robert Day at the turn of the nineteenth century. It was the first time in the town’s history […]

THE increased VAT rate is having a major negative impact on hotels and restaurants in Tralee according to the results of surveys commissioned by Tralee Chamber Alliance. The hospitality sector in Tralee is now calling for greater action to sustain the industry over the coming 12 months. Ken Tobin of Tralee […]

KERRY Fine Gael TD and Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin, has announced major funding of €2,208,911 for Kerry Airport towards improvement works, safety and security. The amount is almost €1 million of an increase on the 2018 figure. This Government funding from the Department of Transport, Tourism and […]

So you’ve finally decided to start your own business, or maybe you’ve taken over the family farm. How will you structure your business? Will you form a company or will you be a sole trader?  What’s the difference? Alex Hoffman of Pierse McCarthy Lucey takes a look at the pros […]

IBAL (Irish Business Against Litter) announced their first results for 2019, which sees Tralee leap from a lowly 30th in January, right up to 5th in the overall rankings, the biggest difference of any town in Ireland. The rankings show Tralee to be ‘Cleaner Than European Norms’ in their report. […]

IT Tralee will receive €300,000 in funding towards apprenticeships at the college. Capital funding of more than €7.5 million for nine Institutes of Technology and the Technological University (TU) Dublin was announced on Monday. In Tralee, €200,000 will go towards carpentry apprenticeships and €100,00 for machine shops. The funding forms […]

THE London Luton route at Kerry Airport was the most popular at Kerry Airport in the first quarter of 2019. 68,606 passengers travelled through Kerry Airport during the first quarter marking a 4.8% increase on the same period for 2018. The most frequent services – Kerry to Dublin with Aer […]

SIAMSA TÍRE has announced the appointment of Róisín McGarr as the new Executive Director for Siamsa Tíre – Home to the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. The role of Executive Director will be to lead and manage Siamsa Tíre strategically into the future as a national cultural institution. The current […]

AS you all know by now, Caballs on Bridge Street will be closing its doors for the last time later this month after 99 years in business. Local filmmaker Timmy Dowd went to see Ann Laide and she told of the history of the shop, how it evolved over the […]

As work finally starts on Trump’s infamous wall with Mexico, Alex Hoffman of Pierse McCarthy Lucey Solicitors takes a look at an issue that has soured many friendships over the years – the dreaded boundary dispute… Boundary disputes have been around as long as property ownership itself and can be […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance (TCA) has confirmed that they are currently in advanced talks with four national and international retailers with a view to setting up in Tralee. It follows the strong representation from the business representative body for Kerry’s capital at the recent Retail Excellence Ireland National Expo in Dublin. […]

THE most up to date statistics from the Residential Property Price Register shows that April was a relatively quiet month for sales with 16 properties changing hands around Tralee, fetching a total of €2,488,100. The property that sold for the most in the Tralee environs in April was a house […]

FREE flights will be given away by Cork Airport next Friday, June 7, as part of a ‘Spin the Wheel’ competition in Killarney. Pairs of return tickets to Verona, Budapest, Bristol and Birmingham will be up for grabs from Main Street, Killarney, starting from 3.30pm. Also available to win on […]

MANOR West Shopping Centre and Retail Park recently launched their 2019 Food and Craft Fair Awards in association with the Kerry Local Enterprise Office (LEO) and Connect Magazine. The launch of the awards took place at Manor West’s recent Food and Craft Fair, the first of a series of popular […]

TOURISM and business interests were present for the launch of the new ‘Tralee By The Sea’ brochure yesterday at Tralee Bay Wetlands. ‘Tralee by the Sea’ showcases the variety and diversity of activities and attractions on offer in Tralee and has been distributed to hotels and businesses around the town. […]

With some schools introducing no-photo policies for events such as First Communions, school concerts and sports days, all in the name of GDPR, Alex Hoffman of Pierse McCarthy Lucey Solicitors reviews some timely guidance on photos at school events… Confirmation and First Communion season is all but over, and school […]

ONE of Kerry’s best small businesses, Annascaul Black Pudding will represent Local Enterprise Office Kerry at the National Enterprise Awards on May 29 at the Mansion House in Dublin. Run by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices in the local authorities nationwide, the National Enterprise Awards are now in their 21st […]

IT Tralee has announced details of two low cost summer camps for young people aged between 10 and 16. The camps are named Goalmine and STEAMing Ahead and are based around fostering computer skills and entrepreneurship. Goalmine is a 5-day non residential living-lab experience targeted at secondary level students using […]

A FREE breakfast workshop on Dementia Awareness Training for the business and retail sector will take place on Thursday, May 30 at the Workbench space at Bank of Ireland, Tralee from 8am-10am. Cork/Kerry Community Healthcare, in association with Tralee Chamber Alliance and the HSE are providing the training which will be given […]

THERE was a great turnout at Bank of Ireland Tralee branch on Monday as tourism business interests from around the county heard from experts in the industry. Around 100 representatives from local hospitality businesses registered their interest in attending the Go Kerry — ‘Grow Your Business’ in the Workbench event […]

IF a career as an Computer Systems Technician or IT Support Specialist is something you have ever considered, an upcoming traineeship at Kerry ETB Training Centre is something you should look at. Boasting 80%+ job placement rate, 12 weeks industry work placement and a range newly updated professional certifications from […]

SEVEN Kerry properties are for sale at the latest Bidx1 online auction on Wednesday and Thursday this week. In Tralee, a two storey building at 7 High Street, Tralee, has a guide price of €60,000. This is an office investment comprising a two storey office building, extending to approximately 102 sq. m […]

KERRY Airport has released the Annual Report & Accounts for the 12-month period ended 31st December 2018, reporting an operating profit after taxation for the period of €966,056 as compared to €728,626 in the previous year. Passenger numbers handled by the Airport for the year of 365,339 are up +9% […]

GARDAI in Kerry are warning businesses about the continuing existence of invoice redirect fraud and so called CEO fraud and urges businesses to remind employees to treat any request to change bank account details with extreme caution. A case where a Kerry company lost tens of thousands of euro was […]

BANK of Ireland is calling on local hospitality businesses in Kerry to register their interest in attending the Go Kerry — ‘Grow Your Business’ event taking place this Monday, May 20, in the Workbench event space in Bank of Ireland, Tralee from 6pm to 7.30pm. As part of its 2019 […]

  BALLYGARRY House Hotel’s Balance Fitness & Wellness Suite is a state of the art fully equipped gym with specialised cardiovascular and resistance training equipment by BLK BOX who are leaders in gym installations. It steers away from the cardio-based hotel gyms that are slowly evolving to the style of […]

OVER 50 businesses and individuals from Kerry, today attended Fáilte Ireland’s ‘Taste the Island’ workshop in the Great Southern Killarney Hotel. This is part of a series of workshops taking place across Ireland over the next number of weeks to develop a strong programme of food and drink experiences that […]

THE Rose Hotel has once again been recognised for its high standards of excellence, having recently received the Service Excellence Business Award from Fáilte Ireland. Highly regarded in the hospitality industry, the Fáilte Ireland Service Excellence Programme encourages the optimisation of individual and collective operational capability, leading to improved profitability […]

THERE’S sad news today that a well-known fast food restaurant in town has had to shut its doors. Abrakebabra at Tralee Shopping Centre on Bridge Street has been operating for 22 years in town, but due to high insurance costs, it has been forced to shut since last Friday. Speaking […]