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Caherleaheen NS pupil, Aoife Ross, who made her First Holy Communion at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rathass, joined by grandad John O'Shea, parents Mike and Carmel, sister Katie and grandmother, Paula O'Shea. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: First Holy Communion Day For Caherleaheen NS Pupils

May 22, 2016 at 9:03 am Comments are Disabled

THE weather forecasters said it wouldn’t be the greatest of days, but the sun shone for Caherleaheen NS pupils making their First Holy Communion yesterday. The Church of the Immaculate Conception was packed on Saturday morning as the class of 30 boys and girls celebrated a milestone event in their […]

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Mary B Murphy, Colleen Grady, Laura Murphy, Jennifer Murphy and Katie Murphy supporting the three Cahersiveen contestants at the Kerry Rose 2016 Selection at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Supporting The Rose Contestants In Ballyroe On Friday Night

May 22, 2016 at 9:02 am Comments are Disabled

CONTESTANTS for the Kerry Rose 2016 came from all over the county on Friday night and there was no shortage of supporters for each of them. Banners abounded and the cheers were plentiful as each contestant met with Daithi on stage in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The eventual winner, Danielle O’Sullivan from Killarney received […]

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Roger Harty: It’s A Funny Auld World

Roger Harty: It’s A Funny Auld World

May 22, 2016 at 9:02 am Comments are Disabled

  HOW often have you heard the phrase ‘Life can be funny’? I suppose we use the phrase when life throws stuff at us that we weren’t expecting to happen, or when something jumps up out of the blue and quite simply knocks us out. Another saying that I love […]

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Contestants Sinead Boyle, Aine Sheehan, Ciara Walsh and Siobhan Clifford at the Kerry Rose 2016 Selection at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Amazing Style From Contestants At The Kerry Rose Selection

May 21, 2016 at 10:24 am Comments are Disabled

A CROWD of over 500 packed into the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night for the Kerry Rose selection and it was a Killarney woman who was chosen to represent the county in August. Out of the 31 contestants, Daithi O Se called out the name of Danielle O’Sullivan, representing […]

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Meet The New Kerry Rose 2016

Meet The New Kerry Rose 2016

May 21, 2016 at 12:37 am Comments are Disabled

  And the new Kerry Rose is…Danielle O’Sullivan from Killarney! Danielle was shocked when host Daithi O Se called out her name on stage at the Kerry Rose selection 2016 at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel just after midnight. Danielle is currently studying for her masters in human rights law in […]

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at the Kerry Rose 2016 Selection at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

Julett Reflects On An “Incredible” Year As Kerry Rose

May 20, 2016 at 10:18 pm Comments are Disabled

JULETT Culloty was in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night for her last engagement as Kerry Rose 2015 and to hand over her sash to the new winner. We caught up with her at the hotel, which is hosting the Kerry Rose 2016 selection event tonight, to find out […]

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PHOTOS: Meet The Kerry Rose 2016 Contestants (Part 2)

PHOTOS: Meet The Kerry Rose 2016 Contestants (Part 2)

May 19, 2016 at 4:05 pm Comments are Disabled

Earlier we brought you 16 of the 31 young ladies hoping to win the Kerry Rose 2016 honour tomorrow night in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. Now here are 15 more for you to meet… LOUISE DALY SPONSORED BY MD O’SHEAS Louise, 23 from Killarney is currently working at Kerry University […]

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PHOTOS: Meet The Contestants For The Kerry Rose 2016 (Part 1)

PHOTOS: Meet The Contestants For The Kerry Rose 2016 (Part 1)

May 19, 2016 at 3:29 pm Comments are Disabled

There’s 31 contestants is the running for the honour of being selected Kerry Rose 2016 at Ballyroe Heights Hotel tomorrow night. Here’s a little bit about 16 of them (we’ll have the other 15 ladies later)… ÁINE SHEEHAN SPONSORED BY CABLE O LEARYS BAR & RESTAURANT Áine is a graduate of C.I.T.  having […]

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Orlagh Winters: We Need To Look At Our Attitude To Mental Health

Orlagh Winters: We Need To Look At Our Attitude To Mental Health

May 19, 2016 at 1:21 pm 2 comments

SO here we are after less than two weeks after Darkness Into Light and once again the issue of mental health is at the forefront of social media. This time the singer Sinead O’Connor was subjected to the most vile, vitriolic and basically inhumane abuse at the hands of the […]

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PHOTOS: Beautiful Weather And A Perfect Setting For Marathon In Killarney

PHOTOS: Beautiful Weather And A Perfect Setting For Marathon In Killarney

May 15, 2016 at 12:23 pm Comments are Disabled

KILLARNEY National Park was the perfect location for this year’s Lakes of Killarney Marathon and Half Marathon, set against the backdrop of  the spectacular  Lough Lein, Ross Castle, ancient cooper mines, and this years crop of wild garlic and bluebells. Over 400 Athletes competed in the event organised by Alan Ryan,  Hardman […]

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PHOTOS: Kerry Badminton Clubs Gather For Annual Awards In Ballyroe

PHOTOS: Kerry Badminton Clubs Gather For Annual Awards In Ballyroe

May 15, 2016 at 11:17 am Comments are Disabled

CLUBS from all over the county gathered at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday for the annual Kerry Badminton Association Social and Awards night. Around 150 members from 10 clubs around Kerry were there to mark another successful year for the association and enjoy a night out, with a four course meal and entertainment. Continued below… […]

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Roger Harty: A Non-Judgemental Attitude

Roger Harty: A Non-Judgemental Attitude

May 15, 2016 at 11:16 am 1 comment

OK, as humans we like to engage in things that are worthwhile and that are both beneficial to ourselves and to the world around us. Well that is the ordinary run-of-the-mill way, but we all know, it’s a funny world we live in. As my father used to say, “the […]

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CBS pupils Alex Gaudino and Sarah Burke who made their first Holy Communion in St John's Church on Saturday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: First Holy Communion Day For CBS Primary And Listellick NS Children

May 14, 2016 at 10:33 pm Comments are Disabled

“WEREN’T they blessed with the weather?” This was probably the most uttered rhetorical question in Kerry on Saturday morning as children from all over the county received the sacrament of Holy Communion for the first time. Children from CBS Primary and Listellick NS were among the many enjoying the sunshine posing for […]

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Aoife Daly (IPT Group 135), Carmel O'Leary (Kenmare Mart) and Maureen Cournane (Gleneagle Hotel) on the grounds of Kerry County Council where the Kerry Rose contestants visited on Friday afternoon. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Kerry Rose Hopefuls Catch The Sun As They Get Together For Weekend

May 14, 2016 at 9:49 am Comments are Disabled

THE glorious weather has arrived for the weekend and so have the Kerry Rose contestants. It’s just one week until the Kerry Rose selection night at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel and most of the ladies met up yesterday afternoon for the beginning of a weekend of appointments in Tralee, Killarney and elsewhere. […]

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Zoe’s World: Creative Inspiration From A Film Of Beauty

Zoe’s World: Creative Inspiration From A Film Of Beauty

May 13, 2016 at 3:24 pm Comments are Disabled

IN many ways, as a community, Tralee is very lucky to have so many people to look to for inspiration. We have our sporting heroes, our fashion heroes and our general local heroes. If we didn’t have these people to look up to, I fear that such expression would hardly be […]

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A Carrauntoohil ‘Climb To Remember’ Loved Ones Will Take Place This Month

A Carrauntoohil ‘Climb To Remember’ Loved Ones Will Take Place This Month

May 13, 2016 at 3:08 pm Comments are Disabled

THE ‘Climb to Remember’, founded by a Listowel woman in honour of her late mother, will be held on May 29 this year in aid of The Mercy Hospital Foundation. The fifth annual charity ‘Climb’ will see people from all over Munster rise to the challenge of climbing Ireland’s highest peak, […]

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Tralee And Kenmare Writers Are Munster Winners In ‘Hot Press’ Writing Competition

Tralee And Kenmare Writers Are Munster Winners In ‘Hot Press’ Writing Competition

May 13, 2016 at 10:42 am Comments are Disabled

TWO Kerry writers came away with prizes from the ‘Write Here, Write Now: A Story of Ireland’ competition run by Hot Press magazine, as part of the Ireland 2016 commemorations. Fenagh Mahoney from the Spa and Aoife Gallogly from Kenmare made the shortlist for the competition and the winners were announced at The […]

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Orlagh Winters: It’s Time We All Stood Up To The Bullies Out There

Orlagh Winters: It’s Time We All Stood Up To The Bullies Out There

May 12, 2016 at 3:15 pm Comments are Disabled

THIS morning I saw a powerful video on Facebook called The Power to Stand Up by Kerry woman and former Irish Rugby star Siobhan Fleming (it can be viewed at the end of this column). It is a thought-provoking video encouraging us all to stand up to bullies. Bullies are everywhere […]

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James Clifford, Brendan McCarthy and Billy Revington at the start of the Fenit Lifeboat Cycle from O’Donnell’s Mounthawk on Saturday morning. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

PHOTOS: Cyclists Take To The Roads For Fenit Lifeboat Cycle

May 8, 2016 at 11:28 am Comments are Disabled

THE Fenit Lifeboat cycle took place on Saturday morning as riders set off in dry conditions on the 50km route. Around 65 people departed from O’Donnell’s Bar & Restaurant in Mounthawk at 10.30am  and headed off to Farranfore, Castleisland and finished up back at O’Donnell’s again where refreshments were provided. This was fewer than the 85 […]

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PHOTOS: Kerry Camino Provided An Active Bank Holiday Weekend For Pilgrims

PHOTOS: Kerry Camino Provided An Active Bank Holiday Weekend For Pilgrims

May 8, 2016 at 11:08 am Comments are Disabled

Adrienne McLoughlin provides a report and photos from the Kerry Camino event held last weekend on the Dingle Peninsula… The Kerry Camino annual 3-day walk of the Dingle Way, Tralee to Dingle, took place on the May Bank Holiday Weekend and 185 pilgrims took part this year. This year’s event […]

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Roger Harty: Love

Roger Harty: Love

May 8, 2016 at 10:54 am Comments are Disabled

WHEN the announcement of the engagement of Prince Charles to Lady Diana was made in 1981, Charles came out with a ‘classic’ when asked “if they were in love?” His answer hit the headlines of every newspaper around the world; it was “Whatever in love means”. Now I think it […]

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Organiser Colin Aherne with Kerry Rose Julett Culloty cutting the tape to start Darkness Into Light Tralee. Photo by Dermot Crean

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Celebration Of Community At First Darkness Into Light Tralee

May 7, 2016 at 11:30 am Comments are Disabled

THE first Darkness Into Light Tralee event, held in the early hours of Saturday morning, was an emotional celebration of all that is good about the people in our community. They turned up in their thousands – figures mentioned were between 2,000 to 3,000 – at CBS The Green for the fundraiser in aid of […]

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Charity Table Quiz With A Difference To Be Held In Honour Of Marian

Charity Table Quiz With A Difference To Be Held In Honour Of Marian

May 5, 2016 at 3:09 pm Comments are Disabled

A TABLE quiz with a difference will be held next week where the family of a Ballymac woman who died from cancer will be remembered. The daughters of Marian McCarthy, who passed away in January, will host a Harry Potter-themed quiz to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The quiz […]

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Great Racing, Family Fun And €5,000 In Ladies Day Prizes In Listowel

Great Racing, Family Fun And €5,000 In Ladies Day Prizes In Listowel

May 3, 2016 at 7:49 pm Comments are Disabled

GREAT racing, family fun and stylish ladies will again be the to the fore at the upcoming Listowel Races June Bank Holiday Meeting on Sunday and Monday, June 5/6. As always, in addition to top quality National Hunt and Flat racing, the Listowel Race Committee have organized Children’s Entertainment on the […]

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Andrew O'Regan gets hosed down by John Keane at the Lee Strand-sponsored 'BWildered' event on Saturday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: More Mucky Shenanigans From The ‘B Wildered’ Hordes

May 2, 2016 at 10:40 am Comments are Disabled

CAKED in mud, muscles aching, feeling like they went three rounds with 13 Conor McGregors, the participants made the finish line in ‘B Wildered’ and felt every inch of the 7.5km course they just completed. They came from all over the county – and well beyond – to Glanageenty for the Lee Strand Protein+ […]

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Roger Harty: A Key Question

Roger Harty: A Key Question

May 2, 2016 at 10:38 am Comments are Disabled

  I HAVE said it on numerous occasions that to help understand the deeper aspects of life, that it is far better and dare I say, much easier, to ask the right questions rather than looking for the right answers. May I say at this stage a huge congratulations to […]

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PJ Houlihan, Jason Power, Charlie Lynch and Jane Sharp who took part in the Lee Strand-sponsored 'BWildered' event on Saturday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Hundreds Get ‘B Wildered’ Out In Glanageenty

May 1, 2016 at 11:26 am Comments are Disabled

THE weather was kind, but that was all nature conceded to the 450 participants in the ‘B Wildered – John Lenihan Wilderness Challenge’ on Saturday at Glanageenty, Ballymac. Sponsored by  Lee Strand Protein+ Milk, the event was another massive success and Ballymac GAA club were the big winners as proceeds […]

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Sinead Murray Anna Marie O'Sullivan and Claire O'Sullivan at the night of fashion and beauty for Tralee Lions Club at CH Chemists on Friday evening. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Ladies Get Styled For Summer At Charity Event In CH

April 30, 2016 at 10:51 am Comments are Disabled

LADIES are all set for summer after a fashion show and beauty night at CH Chemists on Friday night in aid of Tralee Lions Club charity campaigns. Over 100 ladies enjoyed refreshments on arrival before getting advice from a number of speakers. Sandra Rusk of Weardrobe talked about the latest fashions […]

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PHOTOS: Comhairle Na nÓg Reels In The Years At 1916 Centenary-Inspired Fashion Show

PHOTOS: Comhairle Na nÓg Reels In The Years At 1916 Centenary-Inspired Fashion Show

April 30, 2016 at 10:33 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY Comhairle na nÓg put on a hugely impressive and entertaining ‘Reeling in the Years 1916-2016’ Fashion Show in The Ashe Hotel last Sunday night. Around 30 teenagers took part in the show which took the audience on a time travel adventure through the decades from 1916 to 2016 with costumes, music […]

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Zoe’s World: Creativity Is Just As Important As Sporting And Academic Talents

Zoe’s World: Creativity Is Just As Important As Sporting And Academic Talents

April 29, 2016 at 3:07 pm Comments are Disabled

NO matter what you believe about how we came to be on this earth – Big Bang or Adam and Eve – we can all generally accept that we are here right now. I say generally because I may be dealing with some Matrix or Inception fans, and I don’t […]

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