Entertainment

A TRALEE chef is enjoying a fantastic career in Los Angeles, which has seen him feed Oscar-winning directors, supermodels, rock gods, rap moguls and NBA stars since he moved Stateside 15 years ago. Gavan Murphy, who grew up in Oakpark, is thriving with his company ‘The Healthy Irishman’ and just this […]

THERE’S a new sponsor and judges this year for Ladies Day at the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival with over €5,000 in prizes on offer. The day is the most stylish in Kerry’s social calendar with upwards of 30,000 people descending on the Island for the event which takes place on […]

THE ‘Féile Na mBláth @ The Park Family Festival’ is all ready to go this weekend. With events running from 9.30am to 6pm each day, open air entertainment and protective marquees on hand in case the weather decides to take a turn (it won’t!), it’s set to be a great weekend. It’s hard […]

FOLLOWING the success of the recent ‘Walk 4 Life Kerry’ (see here for story), people will be dusting off their running/walking shoes again  as a new fundraiser walk is organised for next month. The ‘Walk 4 Autism’ will be a 5km walk/run to take place on July 12 from the John Mitchels GAA […]

  REMEMBER the Castleisland student who found her doppelganger as part of a social experiment (see previous story here)? Well she’s gone and found another one! Twenty-year-old Niamh and her two friends, Terence Manzanga and Harry English from Dublin City University are taking part in an experiment called Twin Stranger where they made a […]

A KERRY man is part of a trio playing a hole in each of 32 golf courses, in all 32 counties later this month to raise much needed funds for ‘Breast Cancer Ireland’. DJ Geaney, from Castleisland, who lost his mother to cancer in 2011, will join his two friends Michael Sheehan and […]

AFTER a false start,  the ‘Vincent Browne People’s Debate’ is on its way to Kerry this month for an event that will no doubt bring its heated moments between the public and local politicians. The event, which was originally scheduled to take place in April and which was later cancelled, […]

THE GERMAN composer and big band leader, James Last, has passed away at the age of 86. James Last, played at The Rose Of Tralee festival in 1984 and was a huge hit with the crowds who came to see him and his band pack out Austin Stack Park. The […]

THE ten acts who will do battle to please the judges as part of The Voice Of Tralee 2015 met up in the Fels Point Hotel on Monday night. The contestants will be put through the paces over the next couple of weeks working on song and dance routines and there promises […]

  A TRALEE filmmaker won an award at the Limerick Film Festival at the weekend. ‘Sineater’, created by Bertie Brosnan, and filmed in Tralee, picked up the ‘Best Camera’ award at the festival. It’s more good news after the movie was taken by Bertie to the Cannes Film Festival for the second […]

HUNDREDS of runners and walkers turned out on Sunday in beautiful weather and perfect running conditions, to take part in the annual ‘Donal Walsh Spa 6K Challenge’. There was excitement and anticipation on the faces of the competitors, both young and old, as they geared up for the start of the event, a […]

ARDFERT village was the scene of a huge medieval and viking invasion on Sunday as hordes of knights, princesses and all sorts of wonderful characters descended on the area to enjoy the trappings of the ‘Medieval Festival’. The festival was celebrating the Feast of St Brendan which saw certain sections […]

  THERE’S almost 101 reasons to head down to the Féile na mBláth festival in the Town Park, but dog lovers may just need one. Sponsored by Kelliher’s Mills in association with Animal Net Kerry, the Féile na mBláth dog show, which is always a hit, is back again this year. […]

  Kingdom Food And Wine Store Oakpark Road THIS week’s column is more of an ‘in for lunch’ than ‘out for lunch’ as I took the food home to my own kitchen. You see the Kingdom Food And Wine Store isn’t a restaurant or cafe, rather a place to stop off to […]

  THE stage times have been announced for the ‘Killarney Festival of Music and Food’ at the end of June which promises to be a fantastic weekend. The family-friendly boutique festival will be taking place at the picturesque Killarney House Demesne on the weekend of June 27 and 28. The […]

  A RECENT poll conducted by website, ‘The Sliced Pan’, to find the best accent in the country, has resulted in a  very respectable finish for the dulcet tones of Kerry as we took home 6th place. Only Donegal, Galway, Cork, Derry and Roscommon finished ahead of us in the poll, conducted by […]

THE trailer for Michael Fassbender’s new Shakespearean film ‘Macbeth’ hit the internet yesterday in which the man from Fossa plays the troubled titular character and who is featured heavily in the dark preview. The Academy Award nominated actor will be joined by the award winning producers from the ‘Kings Speech’ […]

  A NEW video has recently been uploaded to YouTube showing the hustle and bustle of life on one of our main streets over a 12-hour period. Denny Street gets the timelapse treatment in the one minute, 13 seconds clip that shows the 12-hours from 6.30am to 6.30pm on Friday May 29, all filmed […]

  THE countdown to August has now well and truly started after the 23 finalists for this years ‘Rose Of Tralee Festival’ were announced on Sunday night in Laois. There will be some brand new faces at this year’s festival with Meath and South Carolina set to have their first ever representatives […]

A STAND-UP comedian, born and raised in Ard Na Lí Oakpark, is beginning to make waves on the Irish comedy scene. Ronan Grace along with his writing partner, Trevor Browne, have written and performed several comedy sketches that will feature on RTE’s ‘Comedy Bites’, comedy shorts series on RTE Player. Each […]

  TRALEE people enjoyed a nice windfall thanks to RTE this weekend as two women scooped €20,000 between them on the station’s flagship chat shows. The final ‘Late Late Show’ of the season saw Ryan Tubridy handing out sums of €10,000 to members of the public who entered their weekly […]

THE fast-food institution that is ‘The Burger Shack’ in St Brendan’s Park is scheduled to re-open this Monday with a bigger and better look after a period of renovation. The restaurant has been closed in recent weeks for a complete overhaul of their current premises, while also extending into the building next door, […]

THERE’S no end to the changes in our bars and restaurants around town and The Abbey Inn is the latest hostelry to revamp their business. The bar on the right hand side is now closed for refurbishment and when it reopens it will be a cafe bar with a ‘funky’ feel […]

A FORMER Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí student has been commissioned by RTÉ for his second project with the national broadcaster in just under a year. Shaun O’Connor, who is originally from Castleisland, along with his friend and writer Tadhg Hickey were delighted to get a series of weekly sketches as part of RTE’s ‘Comedy Bites’ […]

Benners Cafe Castle Street WE’RE going through some sort of food and drink revolution in Tralee at the moment. Let’s recap. In the past two months, two new hotels – The Ashe and Benners – have opened, each with their own gastropub; a new nightclub started with Quarters; the lads […]

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ By John Lyons Oh what a day. What a lovely day. It seemed like it was never going to happen, but die-hard ‘Mad Max’ fans the world over can finally rejoice, because the wait is officially over. The fourth entry in the series, ‘Fury Road’, has […]

  WHILE ladies from all over the world are vying for a place in the Rose of Tralee at the Regional Finals in Portlaoise this weekend, Ballybunion is picking its own Rose on Sunday. If you’re around the north of the county this Sunday, then a visit to the event  in Ballybunion could […]

THE Abbey Inn played host to another great night of fundraising on Wednesday night. The quiz in aid of Kerry Hospice and the Marymount Hospice in Cork drew a large number of tables thanks to Leith resident, Sarah O’ Donnell, who wanted to organise the event to help out the two organisations which are very close […]

IT should be a fantastic night of music and fun for a great cause when contestants compete for ‘The Voice Of Tralee’ next month. The Mayor of Tralee launched new event – which to replace annual Mayor’s Ball and raise funds for Recovery Haven – at the Fels Point Hotel on Thursday evening. […]

FORMER United stars, Lee Sharpe and David May are returning to the Stretford End Bar in Causeway this weekend. The pair had only recently made an appearance at the United-crazy watering hole where they signed autographs, posed for photos and talked about their glory days. More used to the cobbled streets of […]