Entertainment

‘Get fresh at the weekend’ sang upbeat pop duo Mel & Kim on their 1986 hit ‘Showing Out’. We recommend you do the same by checking out these events around town over the next few days… Friday 1. Tips for top style The Manor West Hotel is hosting the ‘Fashion Soirée at Manor […]

THERE’S an old saying that states that ‘everyone has a story to tell’, and this much is definitely true for one talented Tralee woman as she prepares to see her play ‘Tomatoes’ take to the stage in Listowel. Eimear Sheehy, originally from Ballinorig East, has put pen to paper on […]

IRISH TV will broadcast a special show on the All-Ireland Football Final from the Fels Point Hotel during a week where match fever will have taken hold of the county. Taking place on Tuesday September 15 from 8pm to 10pm, ‘Mad For Sam’ will showcase the wonderful passion for football here in the […]

THIS may be the greatest Kerry All-Ireland song we’ve seen and heard since Noel Nash’s ‘The Kerry Victory Song’ in 1978. The children at Thai Tim’s school over in Thailand have put together a song to cheer on the lads later this month. Thai Tim’s is a school in rural Thailand which […]

    KERRY County Council has announced that award winning artist/filmmaker Lisa Fingleton is returning as the County Filmmaker in Residence. This residency is co-funded by the Arts Council. Lisa Fingleton has over 20 years experience in participatory projects and recently completed an MA in documentary film at Goldsmiths College London. In […]

  WE’RE all really hoping for this mythical ‘Indian Summer’ some are predicting. After the miserable rain of the past two months we could do with some sunshine. Mind you, when the sun did come out, it tended to create a spectacular effect as the images below show. Sometime TraleeToday.ie photo contributor, […]

LAST Friday night saw the first screening in Tralee Omniplex of the WW2 documentary ‘A Doctors Sword’ which was shot and created by IT Tralee lecturer Bob Jackson. The documentary tells the story of how a young doctor from Castletownbere, Aidan McCarthy served in WW2 and who survived the dropping […]

  TRALEE folk are getting ready to dust off their walking shoes for a good cause on September 12 when they take part in the #Walking4Families campaign being run by the Ronald McDonald House Charities. It will be a fancy dress themed 5km family fun walk, (so dressing up is […]

  THE Kerry Choral Union has announced that they will be holding auditions for the Junior Choir this Saturday, September 5. They will be taking place in St Brendan’s Pastoral Centre in Upper Rock Street from 11am-1pm. Those wishing to attend can contact 087-4412700 for a time slot. For those wondering about […]

IF you’re sticking around town on All-Ireland Final weekend, the first ever Tralee Food Festival has more than enough to tickle your tastebuds from September 18-20. The event will feature a Taste Trail, Craft Beer Trail, Artisan Food Market, Cookery Demonstrations and a variety of menus at some of Tralee’s top food and […]

THE Eric Roche Acoustic Sessions, which were held in the Brandon Hotel Conference Centre last Saturday night will be remembered in a lot of different ways by the people that were there. Some may choose the amazing technical skill of the six performing guitarists as their abiding memory, while others […]

IT’S not often Christy Moore ventures to the Tralee area, normally playing venues like the INEC in Killarney. No wonder then, that the Ballyroe Heights Hotel gig was a sell-out with just under 500 fans paying in to see one of Ireland’s finest artists. Christy was joined on stage by […]

THE second of the Secret Cine Club’s open air summer screenings in the Town Park took place on Friday night. The nights are getting colder so cinema lovers came prepared for the elements with umbrellas, hats and coats as they settled down to watch the classic Close Encounters Of The […]

  THERE was cause for pride and celebration in one small part of town today as a highly creative 10 year old girl generously donated copies of her book ‘Bob The Bully’ to the staff of Kerry Library. Sandra Agwu is a 6th class student in the Presentation Primary School […]

  THE Rose of Tralee festival has featured on one of the world’s largest news and entertainment websites. The US media giant, Vice, have thrown the spotlight on the festival, with Tralee woman and Irish Times journalist, Sarah Waldron, penning an article for Vice’s feminist wing, Broadly, published yesterday. The article looks at […]

MICHAEL Fassbender has played some of the biggest roles that the industry has on offer lately and this trend is set to continue as a teaser picture for his latest film ‘Assassins Creed’ is released online. The Foss man, who is still very much considered a young actor, has played already iconic […]

It’s almost the weekend already which means that there’s places to go, things to do and people to see. Here’s some stuff you can get up to around the county… Friday 1. Enjoy a Close Encounter The Secret Cine Club’s Free Open Air Cinema returns (weather permitting!) to the town […]

Mike O’Halloran says talks food and hurling on a mouth-watering weekend in prospect… THE semi-finals of the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship are taking place next weekend in Abbeydorney and they will generate a certain amount of interest, I guess. But the spotlight will also be on which club catering crew […]

  NUMEROUS cultural activities will take place in Tralee as part of the national ‘Culture Night’ event on Friday,  September 18. A wide range of  free arts events will be made available to the public and will take place over the course of the night. Ten different venues will host events with it […]

ANOTHER Tralee man is getting set to grace one of the stages at Electric Picnic in two weeks time, when he plays the famous festival in Stradbally. with his band Naoise Roo. Earlier this month we brought you the story of Gary Keane’s band, White Boys, who are to play […]

KILLARNEY is gearing up for one of the biggest events of the year when it hosts the Killarney Adventure Race on Saturday, October 3. The massively popular sporting event, now in its 5th year, is expected to attract over 2,500 adventurers to the area for a day that was voted the […]

BORG Warner employees, including those from the Tralee branch of the company, took part in the Hardman Triathlon in Killarney on Saturday last as part of a series of team building exercises. Twenty-seven workers from all over Europe, including Tralee employees were involved in the challenge as they worked in teams of […]

  YOU’VE got to hand it to the lads at Joe.ie, they’re a sharp bunch! On Monday, they put up an archive video of Pat Spillane on The Sunday Game, hilariously describing the infamous brawl during the 1996 All-Ireland final replay between Mayo and Meath (click here to see that video). […]

A WELL known local man yesterday finished up recording his track for for an upcoming black metal album which is set to be released towards the end of the year. Christy McCarthy, a well liked character and singer from town, was busy in the Meadowlands Hotel yesterday evening as he recorded […]

  THE back to school mania is in full swing, because Summer is officially coming to an end. I can’t have a conversation with someone without mentioning school in some shape or form; which is totally okay. What other topic are you going to mention when speaking to a 16 […]

A TRALEE woman completed her charity skydive this past weekend at the Aerodrome in Longford as she aimed to raise both much needed funds and awareness of the debilitating disease Ataxia. Connolly Park native, Paula Walsh, has been effortlessly striving to raise the profile of the disease in recent years and months […]

THIS year’s Roses released 364 balloons into the sky over Meadowlands Hotel Tralee to celebrate the hotel’s long association with the Rose of Tralee International Festival since 2005. The Meadowlands Hotel, which has undergone a major transformation throughout, hosted the annual Traditional Irish Party Night for the Roses and their […]

ONE Tipperary man certainly earned the right to put his feet up after he completed the gruelling feat of running six marathons in six days to help raise funds for the BUMBLEance organisation, with Tralee being his final stop on Saturday afternoon. Noel McCarthy, from Nenagh, took it upon himself […]

  THERE are reports in the media today that suggest that filming for Star Wars Episode 8 is set to take place on Skellig Michael in September and that the location could play a big part in the overall Star Wars story. The team over at ‘themoviebit.com’ in their article […]

  AN IT Tralee lecturer whose documentary about an Irish doctor who survived the bombing in Nagasaki is gaining rave reviews in Cork and Dublin, will see his film open in Tralee Omniplex this Friday, August 28 (see previous story here). Bob Jackson, a lecturer in the college since 2006 who […]