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A COMPANY is looking for Kerry people to appear in a TV commercial, earning up to €4,000 for a day’s work…no acting experience necessary. Ali Coffey Casting will be in Scott’s Hotel in Killarney this Sunday casting for the TV ad which will be partly shot in the county later […]

  I KNOW that if you have a child, you probably think that you are out of the woods, so to speak, when you get them out of diapers. This, of course, is totally untrue. The real hard part comes when they become teenagers. When they have an ability to form […]

THE biggest race meeting in Kerry is set to take place next month as the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival was officially launched at the course yesterday. The seven days of racing starts on Sunday, September 13 and continues until Saturday, September 19 and includes the €175,000 Guinness Kerry National Handicap Steeplechase (Grade […]

LOOKS like it’s a fine day in Dublin too today as the Roses enjoyed an ice-cream with the man who’ll be asking the questions next week. Kerry man Dáithí Ó Sé met the 32 Roses for the annual photo-shoot at the RTE studios in Montrose and it looks like they […]

CLEARLY Mother Nature didn’t get the memo that at this time of year the sun is supposed to be shining. It’s really hard to believe that the Rose of Tralee festival begins in a few days. I know that there will be knockers who come out of the woodwork every […]

TWO intrepid Tralee people are taking on a 110km trek this week to raise funds for the Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust. Rachel Boyle from Alderwood Road and Cathal Geary from Caherslee set off this Sunday morning on the gruelling journey which will take them four to five days. “The 110 km long hike […]

  IN a previous article (here) I gave the best definition of stress from a working point of view that I have ever come across. It is as follows. If you ask the question ‘what is stress?’ the answer is ‘stress is being here and trying to be there’. Now […]

THE Presentation Tralee Students’ truly turned on the style at their Debs Ball in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday night. Over 190 teenagers enjoyed a excellent night of food, fun and great music. Yesterday we brought you many images from the ball (click here for previous story) and now here’s some more glamour. Scroll down […]

THE buses of tourists arriving at Ballyroe Heights Hotel last night, must have thought  they were gatecrashing a glitzy awards ceremony such was the style at the Presentation Tralee Students’ Debs Ball. Over 190 ladies and gents looked elegant and dapper as they posed for photos outside the hotel as the rain actually stayed […]

THE Dublin Horse Show is a happy hunting ground for Carol Kennelly, as a woman wearing one of her creations won Most Creative Hat at Ladies Day yesterday. Linda Morrison from Dublin wore one of the Tralee designer’s pieces and won the first prize at the show. Linda picked up €1,000 worth of Great […]

THE Dome will be rocking next month when 12 couples battle it out for the ‘Austin Stacks Strictly Come Dancing 2015’ title. The 24 fleet-footed movers gathered for a photoshoot on Thursday night at the club’s base in Connolly Park and judging by the laughter and craic there, they’re having […]

  THE number of patients waiting on trolleys at Kerry General Hospital last month, was up 38% on the 2014 figure according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO). The 98 patients is the highest number for July since records began 2006 – the year when the INMO began recording the information – and 300% […]

WE know who the people of Boherbee will be supporting in the upcoming Rose of Tralee competition. Mitchels woman, Claire Connolly, got in touch with us to tell us about this year’s South Australia Rose, Chelsea Thursby-Milovanovic’s connections to Tralee. She takes up the story… “Chelsea’s granddad, Paddy Connolly, was born […]

KERRY ETB Training Centre’s, Tara O’Halloran, will be in Brazil next week showcasing her beauty therapy expertise as part of the 43rd World Skills Competition held in Sao Paulo. The competition under way next Monday, August 11 and will run for the entire week up until Sunday. Tara is a beauty […]

  I HAVE always been proud to be who I am. I have always been proud to be a  part of my family. I have held my family name since I have been born; and forevermore, whether you like it or not you are associated with your family name. You will […]

Mike ‘Masterchef’ O’Halloran has been sampling the delights of north Kerry hospitality while covering the county hurling championship for TraleeToday.ie over the past month. So whose buns have impressed him…  SINCE the games in this year’s Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior hurling championship were moved to the five North Kerry clubs of […]

  QUINLAN’S Fish, who have a shop in Tralee, are celebrating after winning three star golds in the prestigious Great Taste 2015 judging. Quinlan’s Fish based in Cahersiveen, took three-star golds for its smoked Irish Organic Salmon and its Smoked Irish Organic Salmon cured with Irish Atlantic Sea Salt. Top […]

LADY luck smiled on a Currow woman at the weekend when she won €30,000 in prizes on the Winning Streak gameshow on RTE. Noreen O’Sullivan, Currow, was one of five players from Dublin, Galway, Kerry and Louth who won prizes to the value of  €245,000. Noreen’s prize included a holiday […]

GALWAY was where it was at last week and boy was it fun! Racing, friends, a little champers and lots of craic is always the recipe for a good meeting. I caught up with my childhood friends and lots of the Cork and Kerry girls too. Ladies Day at any […]

THIS is a very powerful story that I came across a few years ago. I suppose to say it is more like a parable than a story would be the correct description, as the message it delivers is of far more importance than the story itself. Like a good movie, […]

TRALEE actor, Timothy V Murphy and his wife Caitlin Manley are currently celebrating the arrival of their first child. The 55 year old who hails from the Oakpark area here in town, is currently starring in the second season of ‘True Detective’ and is already well known for his role in the hit show […]

KERRY designers will be to the fore at an Irish fashion event in New York this September. The Ireland Fashion Showcase will feature emerging Irish Fashion Designers who will showcase collections in New York during New York Fashion Week. Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan TD, officially announced details of the event which will be held in […]

MOUNTHAWK Montessori have been chosen as one of four finalists for the national finals of the ‘Boots Maternity & Infant Awards 2015’ with voting taking place now to determine who will take home the prize. The ‘Mounthawk Montessori School & Busy Bees Nursery’ is the only Kerry service nominated for the […]

THERE will be a series of free education sessions held in and around Kerry this coming Autumn for people with Type 2 diabetes. The sessions are planned for Dingle, Tralee, Listowel, Kenmare and Castleisland over the next few months. This award winning X-PERT programme is being organised by the HSE […]

SUMMER style was on show last night as teenagers from mid-Kerry enjoyed a night out. Just under 170 students looked dapper and glamorous at the Presentation Secondary School Miltown Students’ Debs Ball at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The teenagers started arriving from 7.30pm and posed for pictures from the photographers present, before […]

  I THINK that people can stand in two positions. Either they are pressured to do everything, or they pressure themselves to do everything. What I mean by this is, an individual is expected to be able to sit through a football game, even if they have no interest in […]

CH CHEMISTS have  announced that they will be welcoming Kendall Jenner’s very own Estee Lauder Global Makeup Artist, Alan Pan, to their store on the evening of Thursday, September 24. The internationally renowned make-up artist to the stars will be holding a very exclusive make-up masterclass session on the night where […]

ANIMALS are something that have always been a huge part of my life, in fact it is safe to say that there have been times that I preferred the company of animals to humans. My two cats are my babies and I cannot imagine ever harming them. Over the weekend, readers […]

JUST under 100 people took to the roads on Saturday morning for the annual Jamie Wrenn Walk for the Kerry Hospice. The walk sets off in the sunshine at 10am from the Aquadome and along the way, the walkers stopped off for refreshments at O’Sheas in Curraheen, then The Junction Bar, Camp and finally at the […]

OUR self-esteem connects deep into our inner core – I suppose you could say it is our inner Sat-Nav and our driving force all in one. Without it – to borrow a phrase from former Kerry footballer Tomás Ó Sé – we are rudderless. But what is self-esteem and why […]