Business/Property

THE deadline for entering a competition with a €50,000 fund in Kerry alone is fast approaching and young entrepreneurs are invited to take part in this great opportunity. Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) is a programme run by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), including LEO Kerry  with the support […]

TRALEE-woman Mandy Mc Kenzie Vass has been appointed as Admission and Discharge Manager at the Mater Private Hospital, Cork. Mandy trained as a Registered Nurse in St Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park, Dublin and during her career she worked in Cardiology, Medical, Orthopaedics, General Surgery and Palliative Care Settings. Mandy is […]

A TRALEE company is among the finalists for the third annual Pakman Awards sponsored by Repak. Dillon Waste is shortlisted in the Waste Recycling and Recovery Facility of the Year. The Kerries based business will be hoping for repeat of their 2015 success when they won the top award in the […]

KERRY County Council Local Enterprise Office, in association with Peevers Slye Cotter (PSC Taxation Services), will present a Budget 2018 Breakfast Briefing in Ballygarry House Hotel, Tralee on Thursday, October 12 from  8.30am to 10.30am. The briefing will summarise the main points arising from the Budget announced on the afternoon of October 10. There will be particular emphasis […]

THE National Q Mark Awards 2017 nominations for Hygiene and Food Safety have been announced and SPAR Tralee outlets are among those up for awards. SPAR Byrne Tralee Caherslee, SPAR Byrne Tralee Monavalley and SPAR Byrne Tralee Oak Park have been nominated alongside fellow Kerry nominees Fitzpatricks SPAR Express Cahersiveen, Keanes […]

THE tourism group Go Kerry has collaborated with Kerry Education and Training Board with the support of Kerry County Council and Destination Kerry, to introduce a Tourism with Business Course. This course when finished will offer a level 5 FETAC major award. Participants will learn a whole range of new […]

THREE new lots of properties in Tralee have been added to the upcoming online auction being held by BidX1 (formerly Allsop). We previously told you about the 16 Kerry properties going to auction on September 27/28 on the website (click here for previous story). One new addition  is 20 residential […]

A WELL-KNOWN Kerry doctor has been shortlisted in a category in a National GP Awards. GPBuddy.ie, the online resource for GPs in Ireland, has announced details of the shortlisted nominees for this year’s GPBuddy National GP Awards and Dr Eamonn Shanahan (Farranfore Medical Centre, Farranfore) is shortlisted in the ‘GPs in […]

  A NEW employment programme for women begins next week at Aras An Phobail in Tralee aimed at offering women training, support, work placements and links with employers. The ‘Moving On’ programme is co-ordinated by Lisa Singleton while Dolores Gallagher is the Employment Liaison Officer. They are based in the […]

One of Ireland’s oldest and most well known hotels will soon be known once again as the Great Southern Killarney. In a move that will no doubt please the residents of Killarney, The Malton Hotel will have its name retired as the Great Southern Killarney is reinstated on January 26, 2018. Owned […]

NOT bad for a month’s work. While it’s not uncommon for us to hit 800,000 and 900,000 hits in a 31 day period, yesterday TraleeToday.ie went past the 1,000,000 page views a month mark on the website for the first time. Our many stories on the Rose of Tralee Festival and […]

TRALEE Credit Union are now inviting second round applications for the Lauri Healy Community Project Fund. At Tralee Credit Union’s AGM in December, the Board of Directors announced the approval of a fund of €260,000 to be shared with the community over the next four years. Mr Tom Lawlor Chairman […]

A NUMBER of Tralee and Kerry properties — including a mansion in Sneem with a reserve of around €1.4m and Tralee Food Court at Mile Height, also for over €1.4m — will go to an online auction at the end of the month. The auction is being held by BidX1, […]

LUCIE Hanrahan and David Leonard are a busy couple these days. As if having their first baby together three weeks ago wasn’t enough, the Tralee couple have just opened a new coffee shop, the curiously titled Ugly Mug, on Edward Street this week. Lucie and David returned to Ireland in […]

TRALEE entrepreneur, Jerry Kennelly, was today presented with the TK Whitaker Award, the highest honour that the Irish Academy of Management (IAM) can bestow, at the Queen’s Management School at Queen’s University in Belfast. Previous recipients include Denis Brosnan (2014), Margaret Downes (2015) and Dr Martin Naughton (2016). The pre-eminent […]

KERRY County Council will host a major national tourism conference in Listowel next week with a focus on growing and enhancing the Wild Atlantic Way. The event at the Listowel Arms Hotel on September 5/6 will hear from a wide range of tourism experts and aims to strengthen the links […]

A KERRY man’s company has made the shortlist for two national awards. Avalanche Designs is nominated in the Best Social Media Activity and the Best Web Development Agency category in the Dot IE Net Visionary awards. “These are one of the most prestigious awards in Ireland so it is a fantastic […]

A TEAM of Irish 25-year-olds — including a Cahersiveen man — are expanding their tech start-up to international markets to help young people worldwide choose the right third-level course. UniBrowse was co-founded by Cahersiveen native Kenneth Casey and college friends Alan O’Beirne, Walter Holohan and Niall Cronin as an online […]

WHETHER it’s a late night feast after a feed of pints or an alternative to cooking on any given evening, Tralee’s takeaways have been expanding our waistlines and raising our cholesterol for decades now. Now, Just Eat, Ireland’s leading online food ordering app, has called on the people of Tralee to […]

  AS Leaving Certificate students mull over their CAO offers, they can take heart that the majority of third level students are now highly optimistic about their future job prospects. A new survey, commissioned by the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU), has examined the attitudes and concerns of 474 […]

STAFF at Woodie’s Tralee raised nearly €6,000 for four children’s charities over the last four weeks. A very successful Charity Soccer Tournament, a Monster Draw in-store and table quiz all helped the Tralee team to smash their €4,000 target. Continued  below… On Monday a team of 16 cyclists from Woodie’s […]

TraleeToday.ie’s coverage of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is brought to you by AIB Tralee… AN X Factor finalist, an actress, and high ranking business women will all share the stage at Norah Casey’s Rose Women’s Academy next Monday at Siamsa Tíre. Broadcaster and publishing entrepreneur, Norah Casey will delve […]

NOMINATIONS for the Hotel & Catering Review Gold Medal Awards have been announced and two Tralee hotels will be represented at the black-tie gala dinner to announce the winners on September 26 at The  Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny. Nádúr Spa Ballygarry House Hotel & Spa,  has been nominated in the Ireland’s Four Star […]

MCDONALDS restaurant at Manor is to undergo a major refurbishment in September which will result in the business closing for a month. Earlier this year it was reported that McDonalds were to build a new two-storey restaurant adjacent to the existing building, but they since changed their plans. Continued below… […]

THE price of petrol and diesel has changed very little in the past six weeks in service stations around the town. In our regular check on the prices of fuel, it shows that most garages were around the same as the last time we checked, with Top in Caherslee the cheapest for […]

HERE’S some great news if you want to head to the beach over the coming weeks…once we get the weather! Local Link Kerry, in Partnership with Tralee Chamber Alliance, is running a Pilot Bus service, two days a week from Tralee to Fenit and two days a week from Tralee […]

THE Kerry Rose, Breda O’Mahony, visited Tamarind Asian Restaurant, last week to announce that they will welcome all 64 Roses for dinner to celebrate the restaurant’s 12th birthday on Wednesday, August 16. The owners of Tamarind Restaurant on Matt Talbot Road, Andrew Ong and his wife Angeline, are looking forward […]

TRALEE will compete in the Bank of Ireland National Enterprising Town Competition with a total prize fund of €110,000. Bank of Ireland’s national competition to find the country’s most enterprising town is set to reach its climax, with 78 entries from 31 local/city authority areas vying to be crowned Bank […]

SOME of the barriers lining both sides of The Mall came down this week and the first thing you notice is how much space there is! The barriers came down from Costa Coffee/Penneys down as far as Elverys/Easons and  while it’s far from the finished article, it looks really impressive, […]

WE’VE got great cafes and restaurants, but not enough parking. We feel safe by day but not as much by night. We have a very good standard of service in shops, but more to do when it comes to the range of events on in Tralee. These were some of […]