Health&Fitness

With the restrictions extended for a further three weeks, local writer, Fidelma Fitzgerald, said there is still much to be grateful for in our lives under the shadow of COVID-19… TO the good people of Tralee and surrounding areas, many of us recall the great Boomtown Rats and their No.1 […]

TWO of my favourite life philosophers (gurus) are Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. When you combine the knowledge and the wisdom of the two of them it is like putting a match to dynamite but in a positive way. Both can be extremely helpful but when you combine them the […]

I SAW a lovely post on Facebook this week that funnily enough I had posted myself about 6 years ago and it came up as a memory. It goes like this. One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for […]

NEVER, at least in my lifetime, has the Serenity Prayer been more apt or more helpful than it is at the current moment. What is the Serenity Prayer? I’m fairly sure you have heard of it and perhaps even said it, but this time I’m asking you to slow down […]

ST John of God Services in Kerry are seeking urgent support in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis. If you are a qualified nurse, social care worker, care assistant or would like to help in household or catering and are interested in supporting the service in this current crisis, please […]

THE Alzheimer Society of Ireland is appealing for public support after it had to postpone it’s annual Alzheimer’s Tea Day because of the Coronavirus crisis. It has launched an urgent appeal for vital dementia supports to help them to continue their vital work with people with dementia and their families during the […]

A LOCAL man has already raised thousands of euro from a charity initiative where he is encouraging people to walk or run 5k, on their own, to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. Shane Kenny from Churchill, who now works in Cork City, came up with the idea after […]

THERE is no doubt that we are living in unprecedented times. If normality was in place, we would now be preparing earnestly for next Tuesday’s St Patrick’s days celebrations, but now all of the talk is of the Covid-19 virus and all of its implications. Unprecedented for this generation at […]

2006 was a very significant year for me. I was coming to terms with depression and was working at sorting it out. I began to look at the roots of the problem and came to the conclusion that the thinking mind (thoughts) was the culprit. Also, 2006 was the year […]

DESPITE the bad weather, CH Tralee and Recovery Haven Kerry hosted a successful fundraising coffee morning with a difference on Saturday. It was a morning of health, beauty and wellness in aid of the cancer support charity, with special guests, discussions and demonstrations on show from 11am. Dr Mary McCaffrey […]

THE Kerry Businesswomen’s Network (KBN), will mark its most important day of the year with a unique celebration this Sunday. KBN invites all Kerry women to lace up their trainers and walk 5km in a ‘March for Change’ in support of Kerry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre, and the Kerry […]

CH Tralee and Recovery Haven Kerry are joining forces this Saturday, March 7 for a fundraising coffee morning with a difference. The store will host a morning of health, beauty and wellness in aid of the cancer support charity, with special guests, discussions and demonstrations on show from 11am. First […]

THERE was a huge turnout for the Tralee 10 Miler/5k race on Sunday. Hundreds or runners set off from outside The Rose Hotel and thankfully the rain held off for the most part. It had to be postponed a few weeks ago because of the weather but yesterday was more […]

TO understand emotions I believe we have to go back to basics. Just like building a house we have to go back to the foundations. The basic ingredient of a cake is flour.  Without flour you cannot have a cake. No flour – No Cake. The basic ingredient of emotion […]

I HAD an aunt who used to give advice that in the event of a row “don’t get involved”. She is long passed on now, God rest her, but I can still hear her voice in my head and she used to pronounce the ‘v’ in involved like a ‘w’, […]

THE Tralee 10 Miler and 5k event was one of the sporting events that had to be postponed at the weekend, but it has now been rescheduled for Sunday, March 1. Michelle Greaney of MG Fitness who organised the race made the call to postpone the race on Saturday morning. […]

THERE is something special and exciting about writing on a subject that is very topical to the moment. It’s as if the universe has somehow decided that now is the time to write this article. Well the whole talk in Ireland at the moment is all about storms. We have just […]

THERE’S still time to enter the Tralee 10 Miler/5k which takes place this Sunday. Organised by Michelle Greaney of MG Coaching, the event returns for the third consecutive year and will bring together the ideal combination of club athletes and recreational runners over relatively flat fast courses taking in the outskirts […]

LIKE in every household, ever since being a small child and being told to go to bed early, we start to resist being told what to do. ‘Go to bed now’, ‘eat your vegetables’, ‘put on your coat and hat on when you go outside’, gets met with a very […]

SO it’s over again for another year, but for some it could lead to a change of lifestyle and a healthier body and mind for 2020. The ’31 Day January Challenge for Positive Mental Health’, organised by Colin ‘Poshey’ Aherne, came to an end on Friday with a final 5k […]

TO mark World Cancer Day, Recovery Haven Kerry will host an Open Day and Afternoon Tea at its base at 5 Haig’s Terrace, Killerisk, Tralee on Tuesday next, February 4, from 1-3pm. Everyone is invited to pop in for a cuppa and see for themselves the wonderful services provided by […]

CONDITIONS were favourable on Sunday as around 250 people took part in the Kerins O’Rahillys GAA Club 10k/5k race from the club. There was a great atmosphere as runners warmed up in the club grounds before the race, which was held this year in memory of Charlie Kerins, whose 75th anniversary […]

THERE’S still time to enter the annual Kerins O’Rahillys 10k run and 5k fun run which is set to take place tomorrow, Sunday, January 26. Held in association with FBD Insurance, this year’s run will honour the memory of Charlie Kerins. The run will once again take place from the […]

THE annual ’31 Day January Challenge for Positive Mental Health’ will, of course, come to an end next Friday and the organisers are inviting everyone — even those who haven’t been taking part in the challenge — to come together for the final 5k. Over €12,700 has already been raised […]

LAST week I wrote about change and the fact that accepting change as a constant is a great awareness for living. Change by its very nature is beyond our control and nobody can ultimately guarantee you what is going to happen be it in the next minute, hour, day, week, […]

A BEAUTIFUL, crisp Saturday morning at the Wetlands greeted walkers of all ages for the annual walk to coincide with the Operation Transformation TV show. Kerry Recreation and Sports Partnership, with the support of Sport Ireland, joined up with RTE show once again for the National Walk Day with two […]

EVERYONE’S out and about walking and running these days (between the storms and driving rain that is) and the folks at John Mitchels GAA Club are no exception. Like other clubs in town, they’ve joined up with Operation Transformation and Get Ireland Walking to host a series of walks at […]

OVER 2,000 people visited the Kerry Sports Academy on the grounds of the IT Tralee North Campus on Saturday and they could not help but be impressed by the range of facilities at the building. The Academy is open to the public for membership and ‘pay as you go’, so […]

IT was a Greek philosopher called Heraclitus who lived around 500 BC who came up with the statement “The only constant is change”. It goes without saying that he didn’t say it in those exact words as he spoke in some sort of Greek/Turkish language but it had exactly the […]

KERRY Recreation and Sports Partnership, with the support of Sport Ireland, has joined up with Operation Transformation for the National Walk Day on Saturday, January 18 with two walks in Kerry. The national event, now in its tenth year, has always had a great turn out with thousands of people […]