Business/Property

AIB hosted a lunch event for women in business on Tuesday. The event in Ballyseede Castle shared findings from research the bank has undertaken on the barriers that women face when setting up a business and heard insights from the invited guests on how the bank could support women to set up and grow […]

OVER 150 people attended Tralee Credit Union’s prize giving event dedicated to young people on Friday night in Manor West Hotel. Presentations were made to students from primary, secondary and third level for Tralee Credit Union’s Annual Art Competition, their Education and Dan Kellegher Memorial Awards and Schools Credit Union in […]

LIDL Ireland has applied for planning permission to build a new supermarket at the former Heiton Buckley premises on Edward Street. The German multi-national intends to build a store comprising 2,767 sq m floor area and two storeys in height. The construction of the supermarket will include a retail sales area with […]

A LOYALTY scheme that had involved three local businesses in Manor, Tralee has been rebranded and has expanded to include two new shops. Sullycard, founded by Seamus O’Sullivan who has the well known butcher’s shop in Manor, is now known as B Local. “Sullycard was great but now we have developed to B […]

THE Kerry Group Global Technology & Innovation Centre by Arup, a state-of-the-art, flagship facility in County Kildare, has won the prestigious title of Engineering Project of the Year at the Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards. The project, which created 900 jobs over a three year period and featured a €100 million euro […]

BRITISH supermarket giant, Iceland, are all set to open their new store in Tralee on Wednesday. It’s one of two stores opening in Ireland in the coming weeks which, between them, will create 70 new jobs. The other outlet is opening in Talbot Street in Dublin. Work was continuing on the […]

THERE’S just five weeks to Christmas and the activities at weekends are piling up. There’s loads to do around town this weekend, so here’s a few suggestions… Friday 1. Crafty work at the Haven… Between 4pm and 8pm the Recovery Haven at Haig’s Terrace will host its annual Christmas Craft […]

  FÁILTE Ireland met with representatives of the Kerry tourism industry in the Malton Hotel, Killarney on Thursday to discuss the recent performance of tourism in the South West. The body also presented Fáilte Ireland’s outlook for the year ahead and outlined the tourism authority’s plans for the year ahead. The meeting […]

THE IDA will lodge a planning application with the Council by the end of the year for a multi million euro advance factory facility in Kerry Technology Park. At this point, no company has been lined up to use the facility, but it’s hoped the development will give Tralee a fighting chance of attracting […]

A FOUR-BEDROOMED bungalow near Abbeydorney with a reserve of €35,000 is one of six Kerry properties to go under the hammer at the December Allsop Auction. Over 250 properties in all will go to auction at the RDS in Dublin on December 9, with the Kerry properties located north and south […]

A TOP hotel search site website has released its Top Hotel Awards for 2015 and Kerry hotels make up six of the Top 10 in Ireland. The hotels were ranked using the trivago Rating Index (tRI) which combines over 190 million online ratings from over 30 different websites worldwide. The top […]

AN Ardfert man’s company has won a Gold Award at the Bank Of Ireland Start Up Awards on Thursday night in Dublin. Martin McGowan’s business, Ullcatch, won the Product Start-Up Of The Year category, mainly due to his product, the Bait Weaver, which is proving enormously popular with anglers. Continued below… […]

THERE was a lot of nice cars around the Fels Point Hotel on Sunday last for the Audi  Future Now 2016 sales event. There was also a special guest present in the shape of Kerry star Paul Galvin who participated in a Q&A with guests. The event offered motorists in Kerry the opportunity to […]

A FORMER Castleisland Desmonds GAA star, and recently retired Kerry Group Executive, will launch two new ventures at the Castleisland Bank of Ireland Enterprise Town Exposé on Friday night, November 13, at 7.45pm. Michael John Kearney’s first venture, MJK + Associates Business Consulting, (mjkconsulting.ie) is a business consulting company, providing business advisory […]

IT’S always nice to get a bit of national publicity for our town and yesterday, local businesses got a great plug on a popular RTE show. Orla Diffily, who hosts a weekly fashion slot every Tuesday on RTE’s Today Show, flagged Tralee as a shopper’s paradise with everything from high street retail to […]

A FOUR-Bedroom house in Causeway, with a price tag of between €8,000 and €12,000, is one of three Kerry properties going to online auction in a couple of weeks. The detached four bedroom house at Ardagh, Causeway, extending to approximately 96 sq. m (1,033 sq. ft) will go to auction on the […]

  TRALEE and Kerry schools are being urged to apply for a share of the €40m available for the Summer Works Scheme next year. The scheme funds small and medium scale building works such as gas, electrical and mechanical works, roof and window upgrades, and structural improvements. Local Labour TD, Arthur […]

  ALL of the Kerry Citizens Information course participants received their FETAC accredited, Advanced Certificates for the Information, Advice and Advocacy Programme with distinction, in the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown last week. Development Manager, Frances Clifford, commended the programme participants, who were both staff and volunteers, for making the […]

MOTHERCARE Ireland has exited the interim examinership process and the Tralee store is safe from closure. There are 10 staff employed at in the Manor Retail Park, Kerry’s only Mothercare outlet. While three out of 18 stores nationwide will close, the Tralee store will continue to trade. Over 250 jobs in all will be secured after the […]

TRALEE company, Dillon Waste, scooped a national award at a ceremony in Dublin last week. The Kerries based business won the top award in the ‘Waste Collection Operator of the Year Award’  for Small to Medium Business category in The Pakman Awards run by Repak. The Repak Excellence in Waste Management and […]

LOCAL arts and crafts people in Kerry have got together and opened a new shop to sell their goods in Tralee. ‘Atlantic Creations’ has been open nearly two months in Courthouse Lane, but had their official launch on Saturday with Kerry footballer Kieran Donaghy lending a hand by showing up […]

A KERRY company has reached the national final of the prestigious 2015 Sustainable Energy Awards. Killorglin-based company Astellas Ireland has been selected as a finalist of the awards, now in its 12th year. The Awards encourage and reward excellence in energy management and are organised by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland […]

A PRESENTATION Secondary School Tralee teacher is the latest person to drive off with a brand new car courtesy of the Tralee Credit Union members car draw. There were plenty of smiles outside Tralee Credit Union, as draw winner, Kay Kirby from Ardfert, was joined by family members and ex-pupils […]

A TRALEE service station property was sold at a Dublin auction on Thursday for €490,000, making €90,000 over the reserve. The Monavalley property is at present let to Doon (Mayfly) Limited, and had a reserve of between €350,000 to €400,000 at the Allsop Auction where it was sold at the RDS on […]

TRALEE Bay Wetlands Centre has won further recognition for their efforts to promote green tourism and environmental responsibility at the Green Hospitality Awards in Dublin last Thursday, collecting the 2015 award for Responsible Activity Provider. The Green Hospitality Programme recognises the efforts of hoteliers, tourism destinations and activity providers in reducing their […]

  DAIRYMASTER has been shortlisted for the ‘Tech Innovation Award’ category, sponsored by NSAI, of the National Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards 2015. The Causeway company’s revolutionary Dairymaster Swiftflo Goat Rotary system allows one person to milk 1,300 goats per hour, meaning farmers can hugely increase both output and productivity. The Kerry […]

THE Taste of Tralee Food fair will return to Manor West Retail Park this Saturday and Sunday from 12-6 on both days. Local artisan food producers are gearing up for the event, organized in association with Taste Kerry, which highlights the high level of talent and creativity of Kerry’s artisan food producers. […]

KERRY GROUP have today announced that they will be completing the purchase of three US based companies in a deal reported to be worth close to €642 million. The companies that have been acquired are the Red Arrow Products, Island Oasis and Biothera’s Wellmune business, all of which are in the nutrition […]

THE Kerry Business Women’s Network have teamed up with a number of similar branches in Munster to help organise an event designed to celebrate the role of women in business. The Synergy Southwest event will take place on Friday October 23 from 10am to 1pm in Charleville Park Hotel in Cork and will promote […]

BALLYGARRY House Hotel are currently in the midst of redeveloping their bar and casual dining facilities which will create new jobs upon its completion. The hotel is undertaking a new development broken into two phases. The first will involve removing the former N21 road, building a new gated entrance, 70 additional car […]