Beauty&Fashion

AN evening of style was held in The Abbey Inn on Thursday night where Danny Leane of Annbury’s Boutique gave tips on making the best from your wardrobe. Entitled ‘Buy Less, Wear More’, ladies enjoyed complimentary cocktails and canapés while hearing how to identity items from their wardrobe that they may have bought […]

AS the old saying goes, behind every good man there is a good woman and this has never been more true of the wonderful girls behind the Kerry boys. At the helm is Eamonn Fitzmaurice who is married to the stunningly beautiful Tina. On Sunday night at the post match […]

Our teen columnist, Zoë O’Connor, was at Listowel Races Ladies Day on Friday and was impressed with what she saw… LADIES day at Listowel Races was a huge success as always, but I decided to turn my focus away from all the beautifully dressed women and instead I focused on teen […]

HERE’S the final instalment of our coverage of the glamour and style on Listowel Races Ladies Day which took place on Friday. Orlagh Winters interviews stylish ladies in the video below, while further down are more great photos from the day. If you missed our previous coverage click here, here […]

WE’VE got more stylish glamour from the Listowel Races Ladies Day on Friday. (If you missed our previous coverage click here and here) In the video, our fashion columnist, Orlagh Winters, talks fashion with elegant women enjoying the day, while below are even more great photos from the ‘Island’. More great photos […]

WHILE things looked bad for a while weather-wise, the rain stayed away and the crowds thronged Listowel Races Ladies Day on Friday. There was an abundance of style on show and TraleeToday.ie was there with our cameras to capture the glamour (click here for our previous story on the winner and pics). Scroll […]

THE rain stayed away all afternoon at Listowel Race Ladies Day on Friday where 30,000 people packed ‘the Island’ for an afternoon of fun and style. TV personality and Kerryman, Daithi O’Se and top model Pippa O’Connor Ormond had the difficult task of selecting the 15 finalists from the very well dressed […]

IF you look through my wardrobe, you will see a whole pile of clothes gathered from a multitude of high street stores. However, if you look through my mom’s wardrobe, you will see a whole pile of clothes from all the different boutiques in town. So who do you think […]

OK so where is the fine line in dressing for your age? “Mutton dressed as lamb” is the phrase that every woman over a certain age dreads so here is how to avoid it. In your twenties, you can basically afford to experiment with all styles and can also afford […]

A NIGHT of ‘Music, Fashion & Fun’ is promised at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel next month in aid of Multiple Sclerosis (Tralee/West Kerry Branch). Organised by Eileen Whelan, manager of Carraig Donn, Tralee, and Audrey Moran, PRO of Multiple Sclerosis (Tralee/West Kerry), the fashion show on Saturday, October 18 hopes to raise much […]

LADIES enjoyed an evening of fashion and fun in Expose Hair Studio in Mounthawk on Sunday. The event was the autumn/winter launch of their Friendtex range of clothing and customers enjoyed some bubbly and refreshments before seeing the range worn by local models, described by MC for the evening, Orlagh Winters. […]

  THIS time of year people think about pigmentation. No matter how hard we try after a good summer we all get a little sun damage. UVA stimulates your pigment cells called Melanocytes to manufacture the pigment called Melanin. This is responsible for your tan and also your unwanted dark […]

WHILE about 30,000 women will invade Listowel’s ‘Island’ track on Friday, September 19, the lads also have an incentive to spruce themselves up for the Races. A day dedicated to fashion conscious men will take on Thursday, September 18, sponsored again by Lyons of East River, with a prize fund of €1,300. […]

RIGHT now, as you are reading this, I am probably being handed a little white envelope containing my results from my Junior Certificate. Contrary to popular belief, I am actually not nervous about the results themselves. What can I do about them now anyway? I am actually quite excited about […]

PIPPA Ormond O’Connor has been announced as a judge for Chic Boutique Ladies Day in Listowel on Friday, September 19. The most glamorous ladies day of the fall season has a prize fund of €9,000 and the model will join RTE’s Daithi O Se as judge. Sponsored for 25 years by Patricia and Mary […]

  EVERY now and again a town can boast about an über stylish lady and Tralee certainly has that in Claire Murphy. Claire has graced every fashion page in the country thus allowing us all see her magnificent ensembles. She has won lots of best-dressed competitions at events and race […]

  A RECENT survey found that men prefer women to look natural than a make-up look. Lads, this is a myth, most ladies who look effortless have in fact worked very hard to achieve this. I recently did a lady’s make up for a poster, the look was to be natural […]

A VIDEO made by a popular make-up blogger about her visit to Tralee, where she praises CH Chemists and The Grand Hotel, has received over 28,000 hits in just two days since she put it on Youtube. Cork city-based, Sinead Cady, who is behind ‘The Make-up Chair’ website, was in town […]

Everyone rushes to judgement on people and it isn’t right says our teen columnist Zoë O’Connor… Something hit me the other day. It wasn’t a bus or a car, but a Lulu Guinness iPad cover. This was not my own purchase but a gift from the amazing Orlagh Winters. Not only […]

SO now is the time that we start to think about one of our big wardrobe investments, a winter coat! Much to the despair of my very own Irish mammy, I love the colour black so much that it makes up 90% of my wardrobe. She thinks I look like […]

EAR-SPLITTING laughter was the order of the night at O’Donnell’s in Mounthawk  on Friday, as ladies recalled their 90s heyday. The Balloonagh Secondary School Class of 1997 got back together to reminisce about their schooldays with a ‘Dress To Impress’ theme and they certainly didn’t disappoint. The glamorous bunch of […]

Our teen columnist, Zoë O’Connor, wants to use her time in transition year to jumpstart her career… TRANSITION year can be seen in many different ways. It can be seen as a doss year, a year of work or a year to grow. I don’t see the point of wasting […]

STOP the clock, the Rose of Tralee came out as…a Mayo Supporter! What a beautiful lady Maria Walsh is and what a wonderful response to her publicly saying that she is gay, not that it should even be considered as something different. I do however understand how there has been […]

IF you were like me and your nails come way down the line on the list of things to do before a special occasion, you will know the panic of last minute nail shaping and painting usually ending in disaster! So, I put together some facts and tips so that […]

WELL folks that’s it for another year, we have our winner! Maria Walsh is our new Rose of Tralee and we here at TraleeToday.ie wish her the very best of luck for the coming year. We will be looking forward to seeing her style and glamour over the coming 12 months. Speaking […]

THE Rose of Tralee Fashion Show was amazing. Did I watch it? No, but I got one better, I worked at it. Everyone knows that I am a Team Upfront girl and don’t worry, that hasn’t changed. But I moved from my role of Backstage Manager and Boss’s Girl to […]

  OK, this is our last batch of photos from The Kerryman Rose of Tralee Fashion Show on Sunday night in The Dome. We took 60 photos on the night, not to mention our short videos featuring our fashion columnist, Orlagh Winters, interviewing a host of stylish local ladies and […]

  THE Rose Fashion Show was attended by over 1,600 people at the Dome last night and we were there to capture all the style (see previous videos and photos here and here). See our fashion columnist Orlagh Winters interview stylish women from the event in the video below and scroll […]

  DON O’Neill promised high-octane Red Carpet glamour and he didn’t disappoint after bringing his most spectacular gowns to The Kerryman Rose of Tralee Autumn Winter Fashion Show in the Dome. The Ballyheigue native, who is based in New York, said the 1,600-strong audience was bigger than attendances at any […]

WHILE waiting in a very humid airport during the Summer, my husband turned around, looked at me and started laughing. In between his fits of laughing he said “go look at your hair”. I was like a cross between Diana Ross and one of the Jackson Five, but yes, very funny. […]