Business/Property

  MEMBERS of the Tralee branch of the Irish Cancer Society are asking the public and businesses to support Daffodil Day by buying merchandise or by holding a coffee morning  on Friday, March 27. In 2014 Daffodil Day raised an amazing €3.4m nationally, this year the Society needs to raise their […]

A NEW service from Google Earth is allowing businesses in Tralee to let customers view their premises online. Google Business View is an extension of the very popular Street View service which provides panoramic views from positions along streets in almost ever corner of the world and Tralee is one of the first […]

KERRY has received over €10m in LEADER funding. Fine Gael TD for Kerry North/West Limerick Jimmy Deenihan, has welcomed a funding package of €10,219,868.29 for the LEADER element of the Rural Development Programme announced by the Government. “The economic recovery is underway and the Government is determined that the recovery […]

  WORKERS at three Dunnes Stores branches in Kerry are set to join their colleagues around the country in a national one-day strike on Holy Thursday. About 200 workers in the Kerry stores, who are members of the Mandate trade union, are set to join about 5,000 other staff from 112 outlets […]

NEARLY 160 businesswomen from all over Kerry attended the event ‘Agents of Change-Empowering Women through Education’ last night, at the Ballygarry House Hotel and Spa. The event was held in advance of International Women’s Day, and was jointly hosted by Kerry Businesswomen’s Network and the European Parliament (EP) office in Dublin. It […]

BALLYGARRY House Hotel and Spa has recently invested over €250,000 in the refurbishment and renovation of one of its major banqueting suites in the hotel. The four star hotel which was recently voted  Number 5 hotel in Ireland on TripAdvisor, oversaw the massive investment which led to their ‘Monarch Suite’ being completely […]

  BALLYGARRY House Hotel is preparing to play host to a very special event on Thursday March 5, as the Kerry Business Womens Network (KBWN) arrives at the venue for their conference. The KBWN’s conference will be entitled “Agents of Change–Empowering Women through Education” where there will be keynote speeches […]

  THE managing director of a HR company in Tralee has joined a new government commission. Caroline McEnery, of The HR Suite has joined the Low Pay Commission which is a new body that will advise the Government on what is the appropriate rate of the national minimum wage. Eight other […]

NINE units in Tralee Shopping Centre remain unsold after going under the hammer at today’s Allsop Auction in Dublin. The units had a reserve price of between €475,000-€525,000 and had a bid at the minimum of €475,000. Units 1, 6, 8, 10, 10a, 12, 14, 20 and 20a were offered collectively as one […]

A CONTROVERSIAL site in Ballybunion, where there were plans in the past to build a €25m hotel development, fetched €200,000 at an auction today  in the RDS Dublin. The 2.45 acre site opposite Ozone Terrace, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, was once the location of The Castle Hotel and is situated in the town centre […]

TRALEE will now be able to access even better high-speed broadband as part of €9 million investment by Eircom in the county’s broadband infrastructure. Most of Tralee will now be able to access broadband speeds of up to 100 Mb/s through eircom’s Open Access Network (click to enlarge map to find out if […]

FÁILTE Ireland met members of the Kerry tourism industry in The Ballygarry Hotel, Tralee on Friday about the Wild Atlantic Way. It was all part of a series of briefings by the tourism body which were being held, with a special focus focus on the route. The national tourism authority is seeking […]

CONSTANTIN Gurdgiev, a Russian economist will be speaking at a business event at the Manor West Hotel here in town on February 18. The event, a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunity for accountants, lawyers and business people is being organised by Sheehy and Manning Financial, who have offices based here […]

THE Tralee Food Court at the Mile Height which houses Burger King, Subway and Bakewell Cafe has come on the market with a price in excess of €1.6m. The Food Court opened just this time last year (having formerly existed as Rocky Mountain restaurant since July 2013) and extends to C.5000 sq.ft. or 465 […]

A TRALEE owned and based sports equipment company is taking the next step in their evolution by opening their first ever store in Ivy Terrace this week. Radar Sports, have been in business now for eight years. The company was the brainchild  of Una O’Mahony who, up until now, operated […]

THE Fels Point Hotel played host to 120 Kerry-based businesses on Sunday for the Business Expo 2015. Organised by Kerry Businesswomen’s Network, exhibitors showcased a wide variety of services and goods ranging from the food and tourism sectors to health and fitness, coaching, consultation, fashion and retail, dance and leisure, IT, […]

  THERE was bad news for spring and autumn sun worshippers as Ryanair have announced a reduction in their service from Kerry to Faro in Portugal. Normally operating from April to October, the twice weekly service has now been reduced to just the three peak summer months of June to August. […]

Charity nights,  business expositions and a one-man play? It must the weekend and it must be Tralee. Here’s what’s on for you… FRIDAY 1. What Lies Underneath… If you’re not completely beat from the week come Friday evening, you should definitely head down to Síamsa Tíre! ‘Underneath’ is one play […]

JOHN PAUL O’CONNOR is a well known face at Tralee Farmers Market and Taste of Kerry events selling his award winning ‘Sásta Sausages’. Due to the success of the brand John Paul, from Cromane, has expended his business by opening a new factory in Firies with the creation 20 new jobs. […]

BALLYROE Heights Hotel has a cause for celebration after being voted as ‘Ireland’s Top 3-Star Wedding Hotel’ for the second year running in the WeddingDates.ie 2014 Wedding Venue Awards. The Tralee Hotel which has fared very well in the area of awards in recent years came up trumps after receiving the […]

            A NEW business opened in Tralee on Monday last, where golfers can hit the fairways of the Tralee and Ballybunion courses from inside a building in Killerisk (that’s some drive)! The golf performance centre, which is located opposite Manor Village Filling Station, is already garnering rave reviews […]

BUSINESSWOMEN from all over the county will exhibit at the Business EXPO which will be held at Fels Point Hotel on Sunday, February 8 from 12-6pm. Over 100 exhibitors range from the food and tourism sectors to health and fitness, coaching, consultation, fashion and retail, dance and leisure, IT, web and […]

  WE checked out where the cheapest petrol price in town was three weeks ago and €1.28.9 was the lowest we found at Nolan’s Esso on North Circular Road and ‘Top’ at Manor. In that short space of time, a quick drive around to the stations on Wednesday morning revealed […]

TEN new jobs will be created in the coming days with the opening of a new cafe where Charlie Nelligan’s Coffee Shop used to be located. Mr Nelligan retired from the coffee shop on Christmas Eve and sold the business to Jaroslaw Lukasiewicz, a Polish man, who has been living […]

A CONTROVERSIAL site in Ballybunion, where there were plans in the past to build a €25m hotel development, is up for auction next month in the RDS Dublin with a reserve of between €125,000-€175,000. The 2.45 acre site opposite Ozone Terrace, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, was once the location of The Castle […]

DATA collected by the Irish Independent shows that there is a critical shortage of rental properties in Tralee and that house prices will rise as new jobs come on stream in the county capital this year from the reopening of new hotels, resulting in increased demand. According to the figures […]

A BLOCK of unfinished apartments in Tralee, which had an asking price of €120,000, has been sold. The 12 two-bed apartments on the Oakpark Road are located in the residential area that is adjacent to the IT Tralee North Campus. They were marketed by agents Sherry Fitzgerald Stephenson Crean as an investment opportunity […]

  THERE was another jobs boost for Tralee today with the news that Acorn Life is to create 10 new jobs in Kerry. The financial services firm has an office in Ashe Street and the new employees will be operating out of there. The company opened new offices in Sligo […]

IRISH TV’s new Munster regional hub in Tralee was officially launched by Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan on Monday afternoon. Twenty new jobs will be created with the opening of the offices at the Kerry Technology Park. Tralee man, Brian Hurley, has been appointed as Munster Regional Manager for Irish TV, responsible […]

  THERE are 468 less people on the live register in Tralee than this time last year, but the town still accounts for more than a third of Kerry’s unemployed. In January 2014 there was a total 5,996 people unemployed in Tralee, by the end of December the number was 5,528. […]