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PHOTOS: The Meadowlands Rocks With Music And Motorcycles Weekend

PHOTOS: The Meadowlands Rocks With Music And Motorcycles Weekend

November 13, 2016 at 12:29 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Meadowlands was the venue this weekend for a celebration of rock, blues and motorcycles as bikers and music lovers converged on the hotel. The third Annual Tralee Rock, Blues and Motorcycle Festival was held in aid of Kerry S.P.C.A. The Gin Palace Bar Stewardsorganised an exciting line up of entertainment rock […]

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Katie Ross, Tralee, at the Ceol an Geimhridh competition at IT Tralee on Saturday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: IT Tralee Hosts Musicians From All Over Kerry For ‘Ceol An Geimhridh’ Competition

November 13, 2016 at 11:26 am Comments are Disabled

SATURDAY saw hundreds of musicians, singers and dancers compete to represent Kerry in the Munster finals of ‘Ceol an Geimhridh’ to be held in Limerick in February. IT Tralee was a hive of activity as musicians and singers from all over the county competed for county titles. This winter competition in the Comhaltas […]

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Top Comedy And Music Acts Coming To INEC This December

Top Comedy And Music Acts Coming To INEC This December

November 13, 2016 at 11:25 am Comments are Disabled

SOME of the biggest names in music and comedy will appear at the INEC Killarney this December as part of their Christmas schedule and the gigs are selling out fast. Nathan Carter, The Coronas, The Saw Doctors, Mario Rosenstock, Tommy Tiernan and many more are set to arrive for their Christmas Carnival. Continued […]

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Want To Take A Grand Tour With Francis Brennan?

Want To Take A Grand Tour With Francis Brennan?

November 12, 2016 at 3:29 pm 1 comment

FANCY a holiday with Francis Brennan? Well read on. The expert hotelier from Kenmare and host of ‘At Your Service’ is looking for a group of travellers to join him on a two week escorted holiday for a new series of ‘Francis Brennan’s Grand Tour’. Following the success of his ‘Grand […]

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Spailpin CD Launch To Raise Funds For Great Cause

Spailpin CD Launch To Raise Funds For Great Cause

November 12, 2016 at 1:14 pm Comments are Disabled

POPULAR trad band Spailpin are set to launch a retrospective of their work at the start of next month and they’re helping out a great cause in the process. Mary Lynch is trying to raise €20,000 for 10 new chemotherapy chairs for the unit at University Hospital Kerry and the band […]

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PHOTOS: Tralee Parnells Holds End Of Season Table Quiz

PHOTOS: Tralee Parnells Holds End Of Season Table Quiz

November 12, 2016 at 1:14 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE Parnells hurling and camogie club held their final fundraiser and social event of the year on Friday at the Kerins O’Rahillys GAA Club. The table quiz saw the club’s supporters gather at the end of another great season for the club to test their knowledge. Continued below… “After a […]

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Walking On Cars Is Irish Winner In European Music Awards

Walking On Cars Is Irish Winner In European Music Awards

November 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm Comments are Disabled

DINGLE band, Walking On Cars, has won a 2017 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA). The EBBAs are the preeminent European music awards for emerging artists. Walking on Cars, who appeared on The Late Late Show last night, are the fourth act to be announced as winners of an EBBA award. Continued below… […]

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Circus Festival In Full Swing Around Town

Circus Festival In Full Swing Around Town

November 12, 2016 at 9:35 am Comments are Disabled

IF you’ve been around town for the past couple of days you may have noticed there’s a circus festival going on. Well it’s in full swing at the moment and there’s loads to see and do between Saturday and Sunday. Today sees numerous events in town with children’s workshops at […]

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Jennifer’s Coffee Morning To Help Irish Premature Babies Charity

Jennifer’s Coffee Morning To Help Irish Premature Babies Charity

November 11, 2016 at 2:00 pm Comments are Disabled

A TRALEE woman is organising a coffee morning next Thursday to mark World Prematurity Day. The event, on November 17, is being organised by Jennifer Kissane, following the birth of her and husband Greg’s premature baby boy Fionn in June, arriving six weeks early at 5lb 2. Jennifer herself was born 12 […]

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Baby Market To Facilitate Donations For Kerry Women’s Refuge

Baby Market To Facilitate Donations For Kerry Women’s Refuge

November 11, 2016 at 9:36 am Comments are Disabled

THE Baby Market is back in The Rose Hotel Tralee later this month and they are helping a local organisation in the process. They are running a Christmas Appeal in conjunction with Kerry Women’s Refuge on Sunday, November 20th from 12 noon to 2pm, where they are seeking donations of for women’s, children’s and […]

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Students To Step Out At ‘Strictly’ Event For Pieta House

Students To Step Out At ‘Strictly’ Event For Pieta House

November 10, 2016 at 12:09 pm Comments are Disabled

THERE’S a great night planned for the Ashe Hotel in a couple of weeks time as nine couples take to the dance floor for a charity event. Students Katie O’Donoghue and Akeem Mollow have organised a ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in aid of Pieta House and tickets are going fast for […]

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Fashion Blogger Finds Vintage Kerry Jersey And Hasn’t A Clue What It Is

Fashion Blogger Finds Vintage Kerry Jersey And Hasn’t A Clue What It Is

November 10, 2016 at 9:35 am Comments are Disabled

YOU’LL find Kerry fans in every corner of the world, but you don’t expect the green and gold to show up in a video by a sports fashion blogger in Texas. Paul Cantu, who has over 275,000 subscribers to his YouTube page, drives around thrift stores in the US looking […]

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Super Fashion Event For A Great Cause At ADAPT

Super Fashion Event For A Great Cause At ADAPT

November 9, 2016 at 3:19 pm Comments are Disabled

THE ADAPT shop on Matt Talbot Road will be the venue for a special fundraising fashion show later this month. Helena Slattery – manager of the shop which raises funds for the ADAPT Kerry Women’s Refuge Centre on the Killeen Road – said she is really looking forward to the event on Friday, […]

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Boxing Club To Play A Blinder With Charity ‘Fight Night’

Boxing Club To Play A Blinder With Charity ‘Fight Night’

November 9, 2016 at 1:18 pm Comments are Disabled

THE gloves and blindfolds will be on in The Ashe Hotel on Saturday week when a ‘White Collar’ boxing night will take place in aid of Recovery Haven. Organised by St Margaret’s Boxing Club, the event will see members taking to the ring with two of the bouts being contested blindfolded […]

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Blennerville Club Prepares For Major Fundraiser In Ballygarry

Blennerville Club Prepares For Major Fundraiser In Ballygarry

November 9, 2016 at 12:01 pm Comments are Disabled

THE season for club fundraisers is in full swing these days with Lip Sync Battles, ‘Strictly’ nights and Battle Of The Parishes all gracing hotel venues around town in the past month. St Pat’s GAA club in Blennerville has decided to steer away from the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ event they’ve […]

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Meadowlands To Rock This Weekend With Fundraising Music And Motorcycle Festival

Meadowlands To Rock This Weekend With Fundraising Music And Motorcycle Festival

November 9, 2016 at 11:59 am Comments are Disabled

MEADOWLANDS Hotel is hosting the third Annual Tralee Rock, Blues and Motorcycle Festival on from Friday to Sunday this weekend in aid of Kerry S.P.C.A. The Gin Palace Bar Stewards have organised an exciting line up of entertainment as the Festival kicks off at 7pm Friday evening with a Gin Cocktail sponsored […]

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Eibhlin and Dick Henggeler at the official reopening of The Rose Hotel on Friday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

The Rose Hotel’s Owners Are Preparing A Thanksgiving Feast

November 7, 2016 at 10:04 am Comments are Disabled

WHILE we’re not big on celebrating the US holiday that is Thanksgiving this side of the Atlantic, but we might make an exception for this soirée in a couple of weeks time. Dick and Eileen Henggeler are throwing a party on Thursday, November 24, and it looks like a mouth-watering […]

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PHOTOS: More Style From The Aughacasla NS Fashion Show At The Rose Hotel (Part 2)

PHOTOS: More Style From The Aughacasla NS Fashion Show At The Rose Hotel (Part 2)

November 6, 2016 at 3:04 pm Comments are Disabled

THERE was incredible style on and off the catwalk at the Aughacasla NS Fashion Show fundraiser on Friday night in The Rose Hotel. Co-MC’d by RTE comedy star, Bernard O’Shea and Tralee fashion designer Rebekah Wall, it was a fantastic night of entertainment in aid of the west Kerry school with […]

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PHOTOS: A Day Of Family Fun In Manor West Retail Park

PHOTOS: A Day Of Family Fun In Manor West Retail Park

November 6, 2016 at 2:42 pm Comments are Disabled

THE crowds are truly flocking to Manor West as Christmas shopping begins in earnest now that there are just seven (yes, SEVEN!) weeks to Christmas. The atmosphere was added to on Saturday by a “Family Funday” where there were huge crowds enjoying a host of activites for little ones. The highlight was […]

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Free Performance Of Award-Winning Play At Siamsa Tíre This Evening

Free Performance Of Award-Winning Play At Siamsa Tíre This Evening

November 6, 2016 at 12:44 pm Comments are Disabled

A REHEARSED reading of the 2016 Listowel Writer’s Week Eamon Keane Full-Length Play winner, ‘Three Sessions with Annemarie’ by Harriet O’Carroll, will take place at Siamsa Tire, Tralee at 7pm this Sunday evening. ‘Three Sessions With Annemarie’ is one of six finalists shortlisted earlier this year at Listowel Writers Week. The Eamon […]

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Co-MC for the evening, RTE star Bernard O'Shea, with Ailbhe Keogan, Aine O'Dwyer, Liz Moore, Caroline Hayes, Jennifer Barry, Catherine Keane and Susan Keane at the Aughacasla NS Fashion Show at the Rose Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: RTE Star Entertains At School’s Fashion Show Fundraiser (Part 1)

November 5, 2016 at 10:58 am Comments are Disabled

THEY came from the west to pack out the Lee Suite in The Rose Hotel last night, for a highly entertaining fashion show in aid of Aughacasla NS. The special guest MC was Bernard O’Shea from RTE’s ‘Bridget And Eamon’ and ‘Republic of Telly’ comedy shows, who has ties to […]

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Five Things To Do Around Town This Weekend

Five Things To Do Around Town This Weekend

November 4, 2016 at 3:08 pm Comments are Disabled

Aren’t Bank Holidays great for shortening the week? It’s almost the weekend and here’s a few suggestions on what to get up to… Friday 1. ‘Eamonn’ to MC at Fashion Show Bernard O’Shea of ‘Bridget and Eamonn’ fame is coming ‘home’ tonight to MC a fashion show. Bernard, whose dad hails from […]

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Ashe Street Gears Up For First Of Exciting Seasonal Street Festivals

Ashe Street Gears Up For First Of Exciting Seasonal Street Festivals

November 4, 2016 at 2:19 pm Comments are Disabled

ASHE STREET has undergone a bit of a renaissance of late and that continues with announcement of a series of seasonal one day street festivals, the first of which happens on Saturday, November 19. The first Winter event will celebrate the season that is upon us with street entertainment, discounts and special offers across a range […]

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SPONSORED: Crag Cave Is Preparing To Welcome Santa For December

SPONSORED: Crag Cave Is Preparing To Welcome Santa For December

November 4, 2016 at 12:35 pm Comments are Disabled

CRAG Cave is a hive of activity at the moment as they busily prepare to welcome a special visitor on December 1. Yes, Santa’s Winter Wonderland is coming back to the popular attraction just outside Castleisland with loads in store for little ones. Santa will once again be arriving on December […]

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WATCH: RTE Archive Footage Of Tralee In 1966

WATCH: RTE Archive Footage Of Tralee In 1966

November 4, 2016 at 10:03 am Comments are Disabled

BACK in 1966, RTE broadcasted ‘Discovery In Tralee’ which showed off the town’s advances into modern living as it was at the time. Thanks to the RTE Archives website, we can sample the sights and sound of what the likes of The Mall and St Brendan’s Park were like 50 years ago. […]

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The First Acts For Other Voices Have Been Announced

The First Acts For Other Voices Have Been Announced

November 3, 2016 at 2:45 pm Comments are Disabled

THE pilgrimage to Dingle on a cold December weekend is back again this year for music fans and today saw the first announcement of acts to play Other Voices from December 2-4. Over 70 artists will perform over the weekend in the St. James Church and the pubs around Dingle, the first slated to perform are Lisa Hannigan, […]

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PHOTOS: Great Turnout For First Screening Of Feature Film Set In Tralee

PHOTOS: Great Turnout For First Screening Of Feature Film Set In Tralee

November 3, 2016 at 12:31 pm Comments are Disabled

AROUND 150 people made their way to Siamsa Tire on Wednesday night for the first screening of feature film ‘CON’. ‘CON’ was shot in Tralee over the summer and written and directed by Tralee filmmaker, Bertie Brosnan. He also played the lead part in the movie, which which was filmed in a documentary style. […]

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Top Irish Comedians To Entertain At Il Forno Christmas Party Nights

Top Irish Comedians To Entertain At Il Forno Christmas Party Nights

November 3, 2016 at 11:26 am Comments are Disabled

IT’S November, so it’s ok to talk about it now. Christmas party season is not too far away and venues all over town are pulling out all the stops to attract businesses, clubs and groups of friends to their establishments. One restaurant which decided to do something very different this […]

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The Santa 5k Fun Run Is Back This Year

The Santa 5k Fun Run Is Back This Year

November 2, 2016 at 3:25 pm Comments are Disabled

THE TV ads have begun, radio DJs are on starter’s orders to spin ‘Last Christmas’, so what better time to announce that the Santa 5k Fun Run is coming back this December. The fourth annual run, which has proved so popular over the years, will take place on Sunday, December 11, at 11am from […]

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Family Fun As Exotic Animals To Appear At Manor West This Saturday

Family Fun As Exotic Animals To Appear At Manor West This Saturday

November 2, 2016 at 12:35 pm Comments are Disabled

AS PART of their winter schedule of free events and activities, Manor West Shopping Centre and Retail Park are organising a “Family Funday” on this Saturday, November 5 from 12 noon. The day will feature lots of fun things to do for kids of all ages, the highlight of which […]

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