Entertainment

POPULAR local politician, Sam Locke, got a shock on Friday night when he went into The Slieve Mish Bar to be greeted by cheers and flashing cameras. The occasion was a surprise party to mark the Tralee Municipal District Councillor’s 60th birthday and he hadn’t a clue it was planned […]

John McCann says ‘Searching’ has strong performances and is an inventive, tense thriller… After two fruitful weeks at Tralee Omniplex with ‘BlackkKlansman’ and ‘Black 47’ amongst the best of 2018’s productions, I was delighted to see that this marked rise in quality continued with this weeks’ feature ‘Searching’ – a tense […]

A FREE screening of a short film shot in Tralee back in February will take place next Thursday at Tralee Omniplex. ‘Abbeyleaks’ is produced by local actor/writer man Patrick McDonnell and directed by Philip Briggs who has worked on a number of top US TV shows. Local actors taking part […]

CÉILÍ Afro Dabke will take place in Baile Mhuire Day Care Centre in Balloonagh, Tralee on Culture Night, Friday, September 21 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. This is a world music céilí dance developed by dancer and choreographer Catherine Young and The Welcoming Project with a cast spanning performers from Ireland, Europe, Palestine, […]

A NEW Irish movie will be screened at Tralee Omniplex next month to support Recovery Haven and Kerry Cancer Support. ‘For Molly’ tells the story of a young Irish couple ‘Evan and Laura’, engaged to be married and preparing for the arrival of their first child ‘Molly’ when a shock […]

THE award-winning Croí Restaurant in the Square was the venue on Monday night for a special ‘Celebrity Chef’ night to raise money for Cycle Against Suicide. Almost €3,000 was raised when Irish rugby team captain, Ciara Griffin, took to the kitchen to cook up an amazing five course dinner for […]

MANOR West Shopping Centre and Retail Park will host its annual ‘Wellness on Your Doorstep’ exhibition on Saturday, September 22nd from 12pm to 5pm. The event will provide information to the local community and visitors to Manor West about organisations, clubs and services which are right on their doorstep in […]

DUE to phenomenal demand 2FM Live with Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra have announced a second date at the INEC Killarney on Saturday, December 8. After selling out two shows in 2017 2fm Live are back to do it all over again with two more shows this December. […]

CANCER support charity, Recovery Haven Kerry, is calling on the men of the Kingdom to come together and show their support for its inaugural “100 Men/€100” Movember Challenge. The charity, which offers free, therapeutic support to almost 1,300 cancer patients across Kerry, is hoping to recruit 100 men to shave […]

TRALEE Toastmasters will be holding an opening meeting (no charge for guests) on Monday, September 17 at Kerins O’Rahilly’s Club at 8pm. Everyone is welcome. For those who are not familiar with Toastmasters its aims are to enable people to build confidence in general and in public speaking and leadership […]

THE race is on  to Munster’s biggest and best racing festival – the 7 day Listowel Harvest Racing Festival, from Sunday, September 9th until Saturday, September 15. This year Listowel Race Company is celebrating 160 years of racing at the scenic course, making it one of the longest established race […]

KERRY’S architectural heritage will be the focus of the inaugural Architecture Kerry festival which takes place later this month. The event, which will showcase and celebrate the best of the county’s architectural heritage, will take place from September 28 to 30 and will feature talks, free guided tours, exhibitions, workshops […]

THE season of food festivals has arrived in Kerry and where better to set the table to treat the palette than Kerry’s Capital, home to Tralee Food Festival from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd September. The 4th Annual Tralee Food Festival in association with Tralee Chamber Alliance and Taste Kerry […]

KIRBY’S Brogue Inn has once again won the annual Knorr Great Carvery Pub of the Year competition for the Munster region. The Rock Street hostelry was one of three pubs shortlisted for the Munster final of the competition and will now go forward to Great Carvery Pub of the Year […]

John McCann says ‘Black 47’ delivers as a historical piece and on an entertainment level… A constant presence on the film festival circuit throughout the country this year, including a gala screening at the Dingle International Film Festival last March, Black 47 finally gets its long-awaited nationwide release this week. Incredibly, the […]

THE organiser of a family gathering later this month is encouraging people with a connection to the Cullotys of Currovough to register to attend the event before this Sunday. Mike Culloty has had a great response to his appeal to find relations to come to the event and one of […]

IF you fancy getting a bit of exercise on Saturday evening, then the annual Tony O’Donoghue Memorial Walk is for you. Taking place from the Blennerville Windmill Car-Park at 5pm, the walk remembers Tony, a great stalwart of St Pat’s GAA Club who passed away in September of 2014. Organised […]

IT’S all systems go as organisers rev up for The Irish Ford Fair later this month. Banna Beach Resort & Kerry Motor Works Tralee are proud to present the fair where they are looking for vintage, classic, modified, new, old, race, rally, agricultural and pretty much anything with a Ford badge […]

THE newly-formed Ballymacelligott Vintage Club will hold its inaugural rally and family fun day, in the field adjacent to O’Riada’s Bar and Restaurant, on Sunday, September 16. The rally will be preceded on Saturday night, September 15, from 8pm with a ‘pig on the spit’, music and dance at O’Riada’s […]

SIAMSA Tíre’s artist-in-residence, Conor O’Grady will be giving a talk on his residency in Tralee and the work he has been undertaking over the last two months. The talk will take place on Thursday, September 6 next at 3pm in the Gallery at Siamsa Tíre and is open to the public and […]

John McCann says ‘BlackKklansman’ is a powerful feature from veteran director that may well be one of 2018’s finest features… After enjoying the exploits of Denzel Washington last week in ‘Equalizer 2’ this week, it was the turn of Washington Jnr, John David Washington and Adam Driver in Spike Lee’s […]

  LAST year they lifted the roof off the INEC Killarney with two sell out shows and now 2FM Live with Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra are returning to the INEC Killarney on Friday 7 December to do it all over again. The collaboration has sold out shows all over the […]

THERE is to be a candlelight vigil held next month, with those who have been affected by suicide encouraged to come down to Pearse Park to remember those  they have lost. The event will take place on World Suicide Day, September 10 at 8.30pm in the with members of the […]

  The search is on for Kerry entries for Top Security’s Frank Maher Classical Music Awards for 2018 and, with a €5,000 top prize, they are Ireland’s largest classical music competition for secondary schools. The Awards are open to sixth year post-primary students of string, woodwind, brass and piano. The […]

A RANGE of events have been announced for Tralee venues for Culture Night which takes place on Friday, September 21, 2018. In Kerry the event is in its 14th year and the selection this year is “one of the best to date”, said Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Norma Foley […]

TRALEE Rowing Club is inviting people to their Open Day for adults on Saturday, September 1, at the Canal in Tralee from 11.30am to 2.30pm. This is a great opportunity to try rowing, meet their coaches and adult rowers. The club will have rowing machines and boats available and no […]

A KERRY journalist and author is about to release her latest book, ‘Eat the Moon’. Killarney native Breda Joy has already published three books, ‘Brian Crowley: Against the Odds, A Biography’; ‘Hidden Kerry, The Keys to the Kingdom’  and ‘The Wit & Wisdom of Kerry’. Now she turns her attention to […]

THOSE with an interest in getting back into education should pay a visit to Tralee VTOS at Clash on Wednesday, August 29, for an Open Information Morning, from 10am to 1pm, about the services they offer. The information morning gives details on the two year Leaving Cert course, QQI Level 3 General […]

THE sun came out and so did the crowds as the traditions and skills of the past were celebrated at the newly refurbished Old Forge in Churchill. Spa/Fenit Community Council celebrated National Heritage week with a whole host of events on Saturday. The day of events included a farrier at work, […]

AS we told you earlier (click here if you missed it), it was a super night in the Festival Dome with around a thousand people watching the Austin Stacks’ ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Amy Roche and Daniel Tuohy celebrated when they were announced as the Judges Winners, while the public voted […]