Entertainment

MULTI­-Award winning salon group, Sean Taaffe Hair & Beauty was recently announced as the Official Hair Partner for this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival. The newly-crowned Kerry Rose, Danielle O’Sullivan, called in to the Tralee branch on Saturday morning to promote the fact that Sean Taaffe will be responsible for helping […]

TRALEE Musical Society certainly has something to sing about today as they have received five nominations in the Association of Irish Musical Society Awards (AIMS) announced this afternoon. They are all for their production of The Beautiful Game which wowed audiences in Siamsa Tire back in March. The nominations are […]

CONTESTANTS for the Kerry Rose 2016 came from all over the county on Friday night and there was no shortage of supporters for each of them. Banners abounded and the cheers were plentiful as each contestant met with Daithi on stage in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The eventual winner, Danielle O’Sullivan from Killarney received […]

Gallys Bar Castlemaine Road BEFORE heading out to lunch on Friday, I looked up my review from the last time I was in Gallys and saw it was May 17, 2014. Two years is a long time in the food game, so I decided to see if their standards were as high […]

JULETT Culloty was in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night for her last engagement as Kerry Rose 2015 and to hand over her sash to the new winner. We caught up with her at the hotel, which is hosting the Kerry Rose 2016 selection event tonight, to find out […]

THERE’S something new on the way for diners in Tralee this summer, as a restaurant hatches plans to combine culture and cuisine in a new upstairs venue. Il Forno Wood Fired Pizza and Italian Restaurant at Courthouse Lane hosted the first of many planned events with a night of comedy and […]

SOCCER fans will congregate in the Square this summer to cheer on the boys in green, as a big screen will be erected for the Republic Of Ireland’s clash with  Belgium in Euro 2016 on Saturday, June 18. It’s all part of the Tralee 800 celebrations in a festival which takes place […]

FOUR students from the IT Tralee have created a fascinating look at the 1916 Rising, featuring innovative technology and even a hologram of Padraig Pearse reading the Proclamation. Noel Nash, Jenny Plunkett, Liam McElligott and Aine Brennan spent the past working on ‘Media Rising’ as part of their final year […]

Earlier we brought you 16 of the 31 young ladies hoping to win the Kerry Rose 2016 honour tomorrow night in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. Now here are 15 more for you to meet… LOUISE DALY SPONSORED BY MD O’SHEAS Louise, 23 from Killarney is currently working at Kerry University […]

There’s 31 contestants is the running for the honour of being selected Kerry Rose 2016 at Ballyroe Heights Hotel tomorrow night. Here’s a little bit about 16 of them (we’ll have the other 15 ladies later)… ÁINE SHEEHAN SPONSORED BY CABLE O LEARYS BAR & RESTAURANT Áine is a graduate of C.I.T.  having […]

THE official opening of the Fleadh Cheoil Chiarraí took place at the Rose Hotel last night, kicking off four days of competitions and entertainment in town. Thousands of contestants and trad music lovers are expected in town until Sunday with a host of sessions on the streets and concerts in the […]

TWO lucky ladies won pairs of tickets to the Bruce Springsteen concerts next weekend thanks to a competition run by Barry Packaging, which raised thousands for Kerry Hospice. Breda Barry from the Monavalley-based company ran the competition over the past few weeks and Susan King was drawn out as the winner […]

THE Kerry Rose contestants had a busy weekend as they went on a mini-tour in preparation for next Friday’s selection. The ladies got together at Kerry County Council on Friday before going on to Pieta House and later to Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. They were busy on Saturday too as they […]

ATLANTIC, the new award-winning film directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill and narrated by Brendan Gleeson, will be screened in the port village of Fenit this Sunday, International Day of Biodiversity. The film which follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities struggling to maintain their way of life in the […]

Johnny Franks Bar Meadowlands Hotel WE finally got some really good weather on Friday and it appears the whole town took advantage of it. There was an exodus to the beaches while the Town Park saw an influx of lunchtime walkers and diners, probably keen to soak up any fine weather ‘just […]

THE glorious weather has arrived for the weekend and so have the Kerry Rose contestants. It’s just one week until the Kerry Rose selection night at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel and most of the ladies met up yesterday afternoon for the beginning of a weekend of appointments in Tralee, Killarney and elsewhere. […]

THE ‘Climb to Remember’, founded by a Listowel woman in honour of her late mother, will be held on May 29 this year in aid of The Mercy Hospital Foundation. The fifth annual charity ‘Climb’ will see people from all over Munster rise to the challenge of climbing Ireland’s highest peak, […]

TWO Kerry writers came away with prizes from the ‘Write Here, Write Now: A Story of Ireland’ competition run by Hot Press magazine, as part of the Ireland 2016 commemorations. Fenagh Mahoney from the Spa and Aoife Gallogly from Kenmare made the shortlist for the competition and the winners were announced at The […]

THIS is not a drill people! Met Eireann has made some howlers in the past, but we’re going to trust them for once on this one. That big yellow thing in the sky that you’ve woken up to, will be visible all day today and temperatures are set to be […]

IF you want to get a crowd to come to your table quiz, make it Harry Potter-themed! That seems to be the message from O’Donnells in Mounthawk on Wednesday night, as around 200 people took up tables for a quiz to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society and to […]

THE Imperial Hotel was the location for a test of movie fans’ knowledge as Kerry Film Festival held a table quiz to raise funds for their outdoor screenings this season. There were questions on classic cinema, the 70s, 80s, 90s and movies since 2000, a theme tunes round, film poster round, Irish […]

A SPARKLING future lies ahead for the Rose of Tralee International Festival after the Rose of Tralee, Elysha Brennan and RTÉ Presenter, Dáithí Ó Sé unveiled premium Irish giftware brand, Tipperary Crystal as the new lead sponsor. The announcement at the Tipperary Crystal Showroom at Arnotts Department Store, Dublin came […]

TO celebrate the UN World Day for Cultural Diversity, Bank of Ireland will host a Multicultural Day on Saturday, May 21 at the Tralee Branch  from 12pm-4pm. The events in the branch on the day will feature local performance groups and food stands run by people from different nationalities who have been […]

THE launch of Fleadh Cheoil Chiarraí 2016 took place on Saturday night last in the Ashe Hotel Tralee. The event takes place in Tralee this year for the first time since 1979 and the town can expect an influx of around 7,000 visitors over the five days, from Wednesday, May 18 […]

WITH the weather on the up for the weekend (fingers crossed!), John Mitchels Sports Complex might be the perfect place to bring the kids this Sunday. A Family Fun Day in support of and in association with the ‘Make A Wish Foundation’ will take place on Sunday May 15th in John […]

A LOCAL charity will benefit from a competition to give Bruce Springsteen fans a chance to see the man himself play Croke Park on Friday May 27. And they’ll be no need to go ‘hiding on the backstreets’ either with accommodation in a city centre hotel thrown in as well for […]

THE Council hopes to move towards introducing another activity at Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre this year and is looking at developing the windmill, the steam train rail line and the Wetlands as a “Lee Valley attraction”. Director of Economic Development and Community Services, Michael Scannell, was replying to Cllr Terry O’Brien’s request to inform members […]

IT was a fantastic afternoon of entertainment at Kingdom County Fair in Ballybeggan yesterday, as thousands made their way to the old racecourse. It was a dry day – for the most part – so families were able to enjoy the dog show, children’s amusements, arts and crafts and the many […]

KERRY deputies Michael and Danny Healy-Rae donned their leathers and motorcycle helmets to “rev up” support for the Muscular Dystrophy Ireland National Harley-Davidson® Raffle which sees one lucky member of the public ride off with a Harley Davidson® at this year’s Ireland BikeFest taking place in Killarney over the June Bank […]

A TRALEE man has been compensated for cutting short his holiday with friends in Turkey to attend ‘Winning Streak’, by winning a €3,000 trip to Croatia, as well as €18,000 in cash. Marian Park native, Vincent Lynch, heard he was going to appear on the show while on holiday in […]