Health&Fitness

Roger Harty: Addiction

Roger Harty: Addiction

March 6, 2016 at 10:40 am Comments are Disabled

  AS you can see from my title above, addiction is but a simple word, but is so important to recognise all the pain and hardship that this simple word has inflicted and continues to inflict on individuals and families down through the years all over the world. It is […]

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Susanna Donohue of Victory Fitness and Mike Moriarty of Il Forno Restaurant at the launch of their new healty eating menu at the restaurant on Monday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Il Forno And Victory Fitness Launch Light Options Menu

March 3, 2016 at 12:26 pm Comments are Disabled

IF you’re heading out for a meal and wondering where you can get really delicious food without ruining your fitness programme, then a Tralee restaurant has just launched something special. Having opened in October last year on Courthouse Lane, Il Forno Restaurant has been bringing a real taste of Italy to […]

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Kerry People Help RTE Broadcaster Promote Organ Donor Awareness Week

Kerry People Help RTE Broadcaster Promote Organ Donor Awareness Week

February 23, 2016 at 10:05 am Comments are Disabled

A GROUP of people from Kerry helped kidney donor and RTÉ broadcaster Vivienne Traynor launch Organ Donor Awareness Week 2016 which is organised by the Irish Kidney Association. The RTE reporter has taken up the voluntary role of ambassador for the week. Like the previous ambassador Mary Kennedy, Vivienne has also […]

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Roger Harty: The Power Of Now (Audio Version)

Roger Harty: The Power Of Now (Audio Version)

February 21, 2016 at 11:54 am Comments are Disabled

  THIS is something that I came across by pure chance and all I can say is ‘boy has it made a difference to my life!’ As you know I have written and spoken about my recovery from serious depression on many occasions and if I was asked the single most […]

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RTE Cameras To Be At Tralee Park Run This Saturday

RTE Cameras To Be At Tralee Park Run This Saturday

February 18, 2016 at 3:08 pm Comments are Disabled

CAMERAS from RTE will be at the Tralee Park Run this weekend. RTE’s ‘Operation Transformation’ show will join up with the weekly 5k run held in the town park on Saturday. The very popular health and fitness show that aims to help contestants lose weight, has been teaming up with […]

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LISTEN: Documentary Shows Cancer ‘Support Bus’ Lives Up To Its Name

LISTEN: Documentary Shows Cancer ‘Support Bus’ Lives Up To Its Name

February 18, 2016 at 11:50 am Comments are Disabled

AN audio documentary has been recorded for the Kerry Cancer Support Group, which highlights the importance the Kerry – Cork Health Link Bus has to those affected by cancer in Kerry. The documentary was recorded by Tom McCarthy, a student on the Kerry ETB Media Techniques Radio Course, and Grainne McPolin, […]

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HSE

Public Meeting On Recovery From Mental Health Issues To Be Held In Tralee On Thursday

February 17, 2016 at 6:22 pm Comments are Disabled

HSE Mental Health Services in Kerry are inviting interested parties to two public events (one in Tralee and one in Killarney) where guest speaker Michael Ryan from Advancing Recovery Ireland (ARI) will be speaking about Recovery Principles as well as his own experience of recovery from mental ill-health. Representatives from the […]

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Runners at the start of the Valentine's 10 Mile Road Race from Tralee Wetlands on Sunday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: 500 Participants Spread The Love For Running At Valentine’s Day 10 Mile Event

February 15, 2016 at 2:37 pm Comments are Disabled

IT was a cold morning, but the love of running was in the air for the Valentines 10-mile road race yesterday in town. A sold out event, the 500 runners gathered at the Tralee Wetlands and some really made the effort for the day that was in it, with reds […]

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Roger Harty: Mindfulness

Roger Harty: Mindfulness

February 7, 2016 at 11:58 am Comments are Disabled

  THE meaning of the word paradox is an ‘an apparent contradiction’. Great examples of paradoxes are “I can resist anything but temptation,” Oscar Wilde, “what a pity that youth must be wasted on the young,” George Bernard Shaw, or in culinary terms the expression ‘Jumbo Shrimp’. I’m suggesting that the […]

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Orlagh Winters: Mental Health Should Be A Major Election Issue

Orlagh Winters: Mental Health Should Be A Major Election Issue

February 3, 2016 at 10:17 am Comments are Disabled

I’VE debated with myself for a while on whether or not to write about this subject as thankfully it is not something that has ever knocked on my door but it has affected many friends. The subject is suicide and there is not a day that I don’t hear of […]

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Roger Harty: Taming The Monkey Mind

Roger Harty: Taming The Monkey Mind

January 31, 2016 at 10:49 am Comments are Disabled

  PICTURE, if you will, a large ship with many sailors on board in heavy storm conditions heading for the rocks off the Southwest coast of Ireland (not too difficult to picture with the weather we have been experiencing recently!). The sailors are terrified as disaster seems imminent, when suddenly a […]

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Kerry Volunteers Wanted For Daffodil Day

Kerry Volunteers Wanted For Daffodil Day

January 28, 2016 at 2:20 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Irish Cancer Society has called on the Kerry public to volunteer as support on Daffodil Day is needed more than ever. The event, which takes place on March 11, raises money for the  Irish Cancer Society’s free nationwide services for those with, and affected by, cancer in Ireland. Daffodil Day […]

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Last Chance To Donate Blood This Week At Clinic In The Brandon

Last Chance To Donate Blood This Week At Clinic In The Brandon

January 28, 2016 at 9:56 am Comments are Disabled

THE Irish Blood Transfusion Service needs your help, and today, Thursday, January 28, will be your last chance to donate blood at the mobile clinic, which has been at the Brandon Hotel all week. The service is urging members of the public to donate blood due to a shortage in […]

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Millions Of Euro To Be Invested In Kerry Community Hospitals

Millions Of Euro To Be Invested In Kerry Community Hospitals

January 26, 2016 at 4:40 pm 1 comment

LISTOWEL, Killarney and Cahersiveen Community Hospitals will see over €28m in investment in the next five years after funding was confirmed by Labour’s Minister for the Elderly, Kathleen Lynch, today. Listowel Community Hospital will undergo a €2.69 million refurbishment to be completed in 2018, Caherciveen €2.25 million with completion in 2020 […]

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Roger Harty: The Monkey Mind

Roger Harty: The Monkey Mind

January 24, 2016 at 11:04 am Comments are Disabled

I GREW up in Boherbee Tralee (AKA The Yellow Road). My mother ran a local grocery store for more than 30 years. Coming from this background it gave me an early and great insight into (a) dealing with the public and (b) the importance of structure and organisation in running a […]

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Roger Harty: Conditioning – Not Just A Shampoo

Roger Harty: Conditioning – Not Just A Shampoo

January 17, 2016 at 10:38 am Comments are Disabled

  OUR conditioning – What is it? I suppose a good place to start is to firstly declare the type of conditioning I am referring to. As the title suggests, I am not referring to hair, nor am I referring to the physical attributes of our bodies. The specific type […]

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Roger Harty: Let’s Make Sense

Roger Harty: Let’s Make Sense

January 3, 2016 at 12:07 pm Comments are Disabled

  TRULY living in ‘The Now’ is a most wondrous and rewarding way to live life. It might sound strange to speak the obvious to people, but the only time you can truly live is Now. Have you ever managed to live five minutes ago or in five minutes time? It […]

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Roger Harty: Stepping Out Of My Comfort Zone (Part 2)

Roger Harty: Stepping Out Of My Comfort Zone (Part 2)

December 27, 2015 at 10:40 am Comments are Disabled

  THIS is a continuation from last week’s column (click here for previous column) To appreciate and understand this fully, I believe we have to go back to the origin of man which I refer to as ancient man. Why is this so? Well we have to understand the origin of […]

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Roger Harty: Stepping Out Of Our Comfort Zone

Roger Harty: Stepping Out Of Our Comfort Zone

December 20, 2015 at 11:27 am Comments are Disabled

  IT is a fact that anytime we do something new we are stepping out of our comfort zone. Why am I so confident about making this statement? On examination the reason is obvious. The fact that we are doing something new would suggest that we have never done it […]

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Asbestos Type Tile To Be Removed During Work On KGH Wards

Asbestos Type Tile To Be Removed During Work On KGH Wards

December 16, 2015 at 1:16 pm Comments are Disabled

AN asbestos type tile will be removed during work on the refurbishment of two wards at Kerry General Hospital. The HSE South Estates Department obtained the services of a competent asbestos surveying company to undertake a survey of Valentia and Reask wards which are being prepared for refurbishment. This identified an […]

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Roger Harty: Courage II – To Thine Own Self Be True

Roger Harty: Courage II – To Thine Own Self Be True

December 13, 2015 at 10:20 am Comments are Disabled

POLONIUS: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee! This is a quote from Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ and it is the advice that Polonius […]

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Mental Wellness Services Directory To Be Delivered To Thousands Of Kerry Homes

Mental Wellness Services Directory To Be Delivered To Thousands Of Kerry Homes

December 10, 2015 at 11:13 am Comments are Disabled

HOMES throughout Kerry will receive a free copy of a new mental wellness services directory in the post over the coming week. The Killarney-based voluntary group, Be Aware Prevent Suicide, is distributing 56,000 free copies of ‘Minding Our Minds: A Guide to Supports and Services’ throughout Kerry in a mail […]

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Tralee-Based GP Seriously Injured In Car Accident Thanks People For Support

Tralee-Based GP Seriously Injured In Car Accident Thanks People For Support

December 8, 2015 at 5:11 pm Comments are Disabled

A TRALEE-based doctor who broke her neck in a car accident back in September has thanked the community for their support and prayers over the past number of months. Dr Caitlin O’Connor, originally from Ballyduff, spoke to Radio Kerry’s Deirdre Walsh on the Talkabout show this afternoon and described the accident […]

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Roger Harty: Courage

Roger Harty: Courage

December 6, 2015 at 11:39 am Comments are Disabled

  IF truth be known, I am often fascinated by the hidden messages of childhood fairy-tales and animated Disney productions. Often these messages can be very subtle, but once revealed become glaringly obvious. There is no better example of this than the great Disney film, The Wizard of Oz. I […]

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Well-Deserved Active Schools Flag Raised At CBS Primary

Well-Deserved Active Schools Flag Raised At CBS Primary

December 3, 2015 at 12:55 pm Comments are Disabled

CBS Primary School, Tralee took great pleasure in raising their well deserved Active School Flag this week. The flag was awarded earlier in the year, to acknowledge the work undertaken by the school in reviewing, planning and promoting physical activity. The Active School Project is a Dept of Education initiative […]

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Two Defibrillators Donated To Tralee Community Responders

Two Defibrillators Donated To Tralee Community Responders

December 2, 2015 at 10:47 am Comments are Disabled

TRALEE Community Responders has hailed their public meeting last Thursday as a success and revealed that two defibrillators have already been donated to the group in recent weeks. The equipment was donated by Bank of Ireland and from the Tralee branch of the Irish Red Cross. The Responders need four defibrillators […]

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Roger Harty: Anger (Part 2)

Roger Harty: Anger (Part 2)

November 29, 2015 at 9:27 am 1 comment

I WROTE in last week’s article – here – about how anger as an emotion has got particularly bad press,  but that in reality, if one is to explore it properly, I believe there are as many, if not more, positive aspects to this phenomenal emotion as there are negative. It is […]

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Roger Harty: Anger

Roger Harty: Anger

November 22, 2015 at 11:00 am Comments are Disabled

IF I am to be honest, anger was a stranger to me all of my life in the sense that I never gave it too much thought. It wasn’t that I didn’t get angry at anything, of course I did, but I wasn’t aware of the different aspects to it so […]

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Ray Darcy Overcome With Emotion As He Hears Joe’s Story

Ray Darcy Overcome With Emotion As He Hears Joe’s Story

November 20, 2015 at 9:30 am Comments are Disabled

RTE Radio and TV host, Ray Darcy got very emotional on air yesterday, as he listened to a Tralee man’s story of terminal illness. Joe Flynn from Rahoonane was invited to appear on the show with his daughters Bernie and Joanne, after Bernie sent in an email telling Ray about […]

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Free Directory To Be Launched At Mental Wellness Exhibition In Tralee

Free Directory To Be Launched At Mental Wellness Exhibition In Tralee

November 16, 2015 at 2:48 pm Comments are Disabled

A NEW and comprehensive guide to mental health support services throughout Kerry will be launched at the Open Our Minds Mental Wellness Exhibition at the Brandon Hotel, Tralee, on Sunday, November 29. ‘Minding Our Minds: A Guide to Supports and Services’ is an information resource for those experiencing challenges to their […]

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