Business/Property

Sponsored Content IF you haven’t been down to AIB for a while, then you’re in for a surprise when you next visit the Castle Street branch. The premises has been completely transformed over the past couple of months  to provide a banking experience that suits today’s busy customer. Gone are the lengthy queues and in […]

KERRY products have won awards at one of the world’s biggest food fairs. The Anuga trade fair held in Cologne, Germany, is one the most important driving forces of the international food and beverage industry. Kerry Foods won two innovation awards for its ‘Yollies’ frozen yogurts and its Denny Fire and […]

Chris Murray of Casey & Co. Consultants, Day Place, Tralee, goes through the main points of yesterday’s Budget… Families are the big winners in this year’s budget with an increase in child benefit and the introduction of a second free preschool year. Significant cuts to the USC, including a 1.5 […]

HOTELS and guesthouses in Kerry have reported an upturn in business during the first nine months of 2015 according to the latest quarterly barometer from the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF). With overseas visitors to Ireland up 12% year to date, local hoteliers are reporting an increase in business from key […]

BRITISH supermarket giant Iceland is to open their Tralee store by early December creating around 25 jobs. The store is to be located at the Horan Centre at the former Kiely’s Electrical shop near Argos on 665 sq metre premises. Auctioneer, Ger Carmody, who handled the lease on behalf of the landlord, said work […]

KERRY County Council has welcomed the ruling of the Commercial Court today, dismissing the challenge taken by An Taisce against the planning approval by An Bord Pleanála, in November 2014, for proposed 28kms of improvement works to the N86 Camp to Dingle Road. The estimated cost of the scheme is €69m […]

A SERVICE station in Monavalley is one of five Kerry properties for sale at the latest Allsop Auction later this month. Over 200 properties in all will go under the hammer at the auction at the RDS in Dublin from 9am on Thursday, October 22. Monavalley Service Station, will go to auction with […]

ALL Strand Road ears will be turned to the wireless this evening for a special ‘In Conversation With Weeshie Fogarty’ show with the daughters of the late great John Dowling. The Kerry and Kerins O’Rahillys legend’s daughters Kayrena, Bernice and Antoinette will talk about their father, the shop and football of course, […]

  QUINLAN’S Fish, which has a shop in Tralee, has won the prestigious Supreme Champion Award at this year’s Blas na hÉireann, The Irish Food Awards. The company’s winning entry is its fresh crabmeat. The entry won over the judges’ taste-buds because of its fabulous flavour, freshness and delicate texture. There […]

  OVER 96 local causes across Kerry have shared a donation of €24,000 thanks to customer votes in the Tesco Community Fund. And Tesco customers across Kerry have been quick to show their support for the wellbeing of their community, voting (with their blue tokens) for more Cancer Support Services […]

A WELL known shop in town will close its doors for the last time this coming weekend. Mr Duffy’s Traditional Sweet Shop, located on the corner of The Mall and Ashe Street, will close this coming Saturday, October 3. The shop which is a purveyor of all sweet things, including the much beloved […]

THREE of the county’s best young entrepreneurs have won a total investment of €50,000 through the Kerry County Council Local Enterprise Office, as part of the €2million Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition (#IBYE). The three winners were Brendan O’Connell from Listowel, Shane Hassett, Killarney and Erika Fox, Glenbeigh who was also named ‘Kerry’s Best Young Entrepreneur’. […]

THE BALLYGARRY House Hotel was the venue for the Kerry Business Woman’s Network Open Night on Monday. The night, which was well attended, played host to some of the most powerful women in business in Kerry and offered members old and new a chance to learn what the organisation can do […]

A REPORT from the Restaurants Association of Ireland has said that 713 jobs in the Food, Tourism and Hospitality sectors have been created in Kerry since the reduced VAT rate of 9% was introduced in July 2011. The Kerry figure is part of 22,300 new jobs in total that have been created […]

TRALEE has once again kept its Gold Medal status in the National Tidy Towns competition, but what had the judges to say about the town in their report. Here’s just a few extracts, but if you want to read the full report on Tralee or other Kerry towns and villages, click here. […]

ELEVEN new jobs will be coming to Kerry as part of multi million investment deal with Killarney based company Mobacar and global car rental brokerage Auto Europe and venture capital firm Delta Partners. The company currantly employs 30 people at their Killarney offices where the company is working on the world’s first […]

  TRALEE has retained its Gold Medal status in the national Tidy Towns Competition and has increased its points total on last year. Tralee was one of four Kerry towns to achieve gold status along with Listowel, Killarney and Kenmare as the results were announced this afternoon at a ceremony in […]

TRALEE is one of four towns shortlisted for the Best Large Town award in the upcoming 2015 Fáilte Ireland Tourism Towns Awards. It’s fantastic news for Tralee and shows how much has been done locally to get the town to this level. Tralee will face stiff competition from Cobh, Kilkenny and […]

  THE NUMBER of empty council houses in Kerry has been revealed after new figures were obtained by the Fianna Fáil environment spokesman Barry Cowen through a Freedom of Information request. The figures, which were given out after a series of information requests were sent to each local authority by […]

  AROUND 60 businesspeople heard a lunchtime seminar from an expert on the retail sector in the Fels Point Hotel on Friday. Simon Healy AIB’s Retail Sector Specialist gave the seminar entitled ‘Grow your top line and help your bottom line’ which essentially provided advice and clarity on the most important key performance […]

  THE Kerry Local Enterprise Office is getting ready to hold the ‘Budget 2016 Breakfast Briefing’ next month in association with the PSC Taxation Services. It will take place on Thursday, October 15 in the Ballygarry House Hotel and will run from 8.30am to 10.30am, where a full breakfast will […]

THERE’s good news motorists as petrol prices fell in town for the third month in a row in the past month. Back in June the the lowest price in Tralee for a litre of petrol was €1.41.8, now you can fill up in Applegreen, Fairies Cross and Manor Village for […]

  A TRALEE shop is set to close its doors for the last time soon. ‘Stitch In Time’ on Maine Street is advising customers that the final date for collecting garments is this coming Saturday, September 26. Customers can contact Gerard on (087) 6781122 to arrange a collection, with any items not collected set […]

THREE award-winning speakers and presenters, Anthony Garvey, Sean Lyons and Justin McCarthy,  will deliver an 8-week Presentation and Public Speaking Course in the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee next  month. The course will run from 10.00am to 12.00pm every Saturday morning beginning on October 3. “Many people get nervous presenting in front of an […]

Advertorial WE all know that free parking is a rare commodity in the town centre but one business has come up with a novel idea to change that. The Ashe Hotel on Maine Street is to provide free parking for its lunchtime customers. General Manager, Stephen O’Connor explains; “At The Ashe […]

The BAFTA award-winning company Jam Media, which has an Abbeydorney man as its Chief Executive, has secured a 52-episode commission for a new animated series on the BBC. As a result of this commission for ‘Little Roy’, the company is to increase its workforce from 60 to 90 employees in its Dublin and […]

THERE is a great sense of excitement all around the town as the day of the All Ireland Final clash with Dublin approaches with local businesses keen to show their support to the team ahead of the match. TraleeToday.ie were out and about yesterday afternoon capturing a selection of the […]

A LOCAL RETAIL complex located near the centre of the town that features with it 23 apartments has gone on sale by private treaty with the market price for €1.25m. The complex is located on John Joe Sheehy Road and is made up of an 8,000 square feet ground floor retail […]

TWO working days was all it took for the business community in Tralee to achieve their target contribution figure within the overall one million euro fund to develop Austin Stack Park Tralee. A five year All-Ireland Final ticket-scheme, costing €1,000 a year for five years, was created to encourage businesses in […]

TRALEE has received the flags from TripAdvisor confirming Kerry’s capital town as one of Ireland’s top 10 towns based on ratings and reviews in the Annual Travellers’ Choice Awards. The flags will be proudly flown above Kerry County Museum in the Ashe Memorial Hall in the town centre, at the […]