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KERRY has been awarded 14 Blue Flags this summer including 12 at beaches around the county, one at Fenit Marina and one at the Portmagee Seasonal Pontoons in south Kerry. The decision of the International Blue Flag jury was announced today and sees the following beaches awarded Blue Flags for […]

THE 2021 Community Support Fund was launched today by the Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr. Patrick Connor Scarteen. Kerry County Council has issued a call for applications for this year’s €750,000 fund which is offering supports to community-based projects and initiatives in Kerry. The fund, which is now in […]

TWO projects from Tralee schools are among the four Kerry entries which have reached the final of this year’s Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA). Hosted by ECO-UNESCO, the winner’s will be announced virtually at the YEA ceremony on this Wednesday. ‘Feabhsaigh Fast Fashion’ from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí is a finalist in the Climate Change […]

KERRY College will hold the latest in their series of live information webinar events tonight (Tuesday), at 7pm. Information will be issued on the various supports – fees, grants and funding, learning supports, and adult and career guidance. Staff will be there on the night to answer any questions you […]

Gardaí have arrested and charged a man in relation to the seizure of €23,000 of suspected cannabis herb in Kerry on Sunday. Arising from investigations in the use of controlled drugs in the county, Gardaí from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit executed a search warrant at an apartment in Killarney […]

THE Square in Tralee was the setting for a rally on Saturday to show solidarity with the people of Palestine. There was a good turnout in the sunshine for the event, which was organised by John Loughrey of the Kerry branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Kerry Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: My partner and I have two young children together. We live together but we are not married and haven’t got around to making our wills. If something happened […]

KERRY Biodiversity Week has been running all this week, with International Biodiversity Day taking place today. The week is being coordinated with Kerry County Council in collaboration with the Irish Environmental Network (IEN), who are hosting a calendar of events nationally.  The theme this year is ‘We are all part of […]

THE annual Tidy Towns contest will go ahead this year, Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys has confirmed today. Tralee Tidy Towns secured its eighth Gold Medal in a row back in 2019 and will hope another supreme effort will be made by volunteers to retain its status. […]

Gardaí have seized €2,600 of suspected cannabis jellies and cannabis herb in Tralee on Thursday . Arising from investigations in the use of controlled drugs in the Kerry division, Gardaí from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit executed a search warrant at a house in Deerpark Manor, Tralee, shortly after 6.30pm. […]

A SINN Féin Kerry County Councillor has said that it would be outrageous if Ardfert National School was to lose a teacher next September because it is down one pupil from the threshold. Cllr Deirdre Ferris said that the loss of a teacher would be a huge blow to the school […]

AN announcement of €1,170,000 in funding for the refurbishment and re-letting of 78 vacant social homes in Kerry this year has been made this afternoon by Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien. As a result of the funding made available to Kerry County Council, there will be refurbishment of […]

A KILLORGLIN Community College student has won the Central Bank of Ireland Award at the Young Economist of the Year competition. Luke Diggin was honoured for his project which explored the impact of central banking and monetary policy on inequality. Luke was also was also recently part of the Killorglin […]

THE 9th County Clean-up will take place from Saturday, May 22 to Sunday May 30 and people are urged to take part in their local area. The event will be held in compliance with public health guidelines. No groups are allowed and clean-up is limited to family pods. People are […]

THE annual Kerry ETB Student Awards ceremony took place on the week of May 10. This key event in the ETB academic calendar, celebrating the achievements of students and learners from their primary, post primary schools and youthreach centres, was not going to be put on hold due to the […]

A GATHERING is to take place in Tralee on Saturday in solidarity with the people of Palestine. People are asked to gather at The Square from 1.30pm until 2.30pm, to wear a mask and to adhere to social distancing rules at all times in groups no bigger than six. Hundreds […]

NORTH, East and West Kerry Development (NEWKD) in partnership with Trakt Piastów of Wielka Polska (Greater Poland) have launched a new programme entitled ‘Women Active in Society – Transnational Development Programme’. This training programme aims to increase awareness and fuller participation of women in the north, east and west Kerry […]

ACCORDING to Met Éireann, Thursday will be a very wet and windy day in Kerry. They have just issued Status Yellow Wind And Rain warnings for the county and both come into effect from midnight tonight. Southerly winds, later veering westerly, will reach mean speeds of 50 to 65 km/h with […]

UP to 50 new jobs will be created if a multi-million-euro redevelopment of Dingle Distillery gets the green light from Kerry County Council next month. A decision on an application for the development at Milltown, Dingle — which involves demolishing a small section of the existing distillery, the construction of over […]

TRALEE Rotary Club presented €1,500 to the ADAPT Womens Refuge this week. “Rotarys motto is ‘Service above Self’ and we as a club and as Rotary members, try to keep this in mind in everything we do,” said Sharon Hayes, President of Tralee Rotary Club. “We are delighted considering the difficult […]

A NEW book on the Ballymacandy Ambush of June 1921, where a senior figure in the IRA in Tralee was the only casualty on the IRA side, has just been published by a local author and historian. Owen O’Shea’s book tells the story of the ambush which happened in mid-Kerry just […]

THE team at Ballygarry House Hotel were delighted to hand over a cheque for over €1,000 to Barnardos last week. For the last decade, Ballygarry House Hotel & Spa has hosted an annual Easter egg hunt to raise funds for both local and Irish charities. Unfortunately, in light of the […]

CONSTRUCTION work on the new Listellick NS is scheduled to begin this summer according to Principal Annette Dineen. Ms Dineen said the tenders for the project were back in and work will start on the site, directly across the road from the current building, during the summer months. Minister for […]

THE pupils from St Joseph’s NS in Ballyheigue are once again collecting filmmaking accolades as they have just taken the overall prize in the TrendMicro Film Competition for schools. Their film ‘The School Around The Corner’ won the overall prize in their age category and € 1,000 is on the […]

THE Government has allocated €325,866 in funding to Kerry projects/clubs under the new LEADER Transition Programme. In this tranche of funding, North and East Kerry Development (NEWKD), receives €89,881 as part of a transnational co-operation project with Finland aimed at supporting rurally-based cosmetic companies in both countries whose products utilise […]

GARDAI in Tralee are looking to reunite a woman with a piece of jewellery she lost on Friday last. A woman was walking into the rear entrance to Garvey’s Supervalu on Friday morning at 10am when she dropped something from her pocket. A woman nearby spotted what happened, but by […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating a break-in to a house in Tralee last week. On Thursday, May 13, between 12.30pm and 1.30pm a house was broken into in the Caherslee area of town. The owners returned home to find the front door forced open. A number of rooms had been […]

FORMER Presentation Secondary School Tralee teacher and current Minister for Education Norma Foley paid a quick visit to the school on Friday to lend her support to a fundraiser. A former student, Catherine Canavan, left the school in 2005 and now lives in India. She previously worked with the Edith […]

THERE were Kerry winners on Sunday evening as Rásaíocht Con Éireann / Greyhound Racing Ireland hosted the 2020 National Greyhound Racing Awards, honouring the stars in Greyhound Racing from last year. In line with the current restrictions on gatherings in place, this year’s event was hosted virtually and streamed live to both a national and […]

PAVEMENT plans for Tralee don’t make sufficient accommodation for outdoor seating, elderly people, cyclists, families or those with mobility impairment, according to the Green Party’s Kerry branch. In a detailed submission to the Council, they have made 12 specific recommendations (detailed below) and called for the plans to be reviewed. […]