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RADIO Kerry’s Deirdre Walsh and Kerry Person of the Year Dr Patricia Sheahan were on hand to launch Kerry Hospice’s annual Sunflower Day on Thursday evening. The annual fundraiser, which raised over €40,00o in 2019, will take place on June 12 but, like many of these events over the past […]

KERRY County Council has €1,268,652 in funding through the Disabled Persons Grant scheme (DPG) and Improvement Works in Lieu of the Social Housing Scheme (IWILs). Under both schemes, Government funding meets 90% of the cost of the works in each property, with the local authority providing the remaining 10%. This […]

THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry again this evening. There were eight additional deaths and 393 new cases of the virus reported nationally. Of the deaths notified today, three occurred in May, two in March and three occurred in February or earlier The 14 day […]

MUSIC Performance and Music Technology students from the Kerry College Clash Campus are collaborating with the Photography students from the Listowel Campus, to organize a virtual photography exhibition, that will feature both original and covered music. The ’21&Us’ exhibition will display a collection of work the photography students and the […]

THE Public consultation process on the construction of an underpass at Ballygarran as part of the Tralee-Fenit Greenway project has begun A pedestrian / cycling underpass is required to cross under the local road L-2006 at Ballygarran (Cotters Bend) and submissions are sought on the proposal which will provide a coherent […]

KERRY Fine Gael TD and Deputy Government Chief Whip, Brendan Griffin, has called for an early signal to the tourism and hospitality sector that the 9% VAT rate will continue into 2022. The reduced rate of 9% VAT was introduced as a temporary measure to help businesses during the Covid […]

THIS Friday is Guide Dog Day, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind’s national fundraising campaign and day of celebration of the guide dogs and assistance dogs who enable people with sight loss or autism to lead independent lives and actively participate in their communities. The charity aims to change 80 […]

LIKE yesterday, there were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry this evening. There were seven additional deaths and 418 new cases of the virus reported nationally. Of the deaths notified today, five occurred in April, one occurred in February and one occurred in January. The 14 day incidence of […]

TOTAL Cleaning Kerry are currently hiring for a busy summer season ahead in their warehouse and their two retail stores — at the Horan Centre and the newly renovated store in Clash Industrial Estate which is opening soon. CVs are being accepted for various roles in retail and warehouse sectors of the […]

HOT lunches will be provided for pupils in Presentation Primary School from this week. In order to deliver healthy, freshly prepared food, the school has installed a kitchen which will be staffed by the School Food Company. In March it was revealed Presentation Primary School had been added to the […]

THE Rose Hotel joined forces with Tralee businesses during the month of April in aid of Kerry Mental Health and raised €1,100. “If the last year has highlighted anything it’s the need to keep in touch with people,” said The Rose Hotel’s General Manager Mark Sullivan. “As we are missing our […]

GARDAI issued a number of fines to motorist in Molls Gap, Killarney, on Saturday night. Following reports from local residents of cars gathering late at night, Gardaí from Killarney Roads Policing Unit, assisted by uniform Gardaí and a trained Garda Public Vehicle Inspector, set up an operation targeting drivers who […]

A LOCAL man is organising a fundraiser at the end of the month for a mental health awareness service. Trevor Leen from Tralee has organised the Row 10k event to raise funds and awareness for “Text About It (50808)”. Trevor and friends aim to row 10k on a rowing machine, […]

KERRY College will hold the first in a series of live information webinar events on Tuesday, May 11 at 7pm. The event will feature staff, learners and graduates. Participating on the night will be teachers and current students to talk of their experiences with Kerry College and to answer any […]

THERE has been a call for action to be taken by the Government to tackle the waiting list for driving tests in Kerry. Labour Party activist, Ben Slimm from Tralee and Kerry Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly have both spoken about the issue calling for immediate action. Figures released to […]

KERRY Local Creative Youth Partnership is calling on experts in creativity and facilitation to join an online listing. It is envisaged that listing creatives online will help communities to engage creative skillsets to help child and youth participation in creative activities. Established in May 2019 the LCYP has been working […]

THERE were less than five new cases of COVID-19 reported for Kerry this evening. There were two additional deaths and 383 new cases of the virus reported nationally. The 14 day incidence of new cases for Kerry is just 13.5 per 100,000 people. There have been 20 cases reported in […]

GARDAI are investigating a number of separate criminal damage and burglary incidents in the Tralee area over the past week. On Monday, April 26, between 11pm and the following morning, a car window was damaged when a rock was thrown at through it in the Doon North area of Tralee. […]

THERE was a huge rise in new car sales in Kerry last month compared to April 2020, according to the latest statistics from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI). However, this increase was due to the COVID pandemic and the lockdown in place in the country in April […]

CASTLEISLAND Community College has scooped the overall award for the Construction Industry Federation’s ‘Design a Home for Everyone’ competition. The community college was selected over the other finalists at the first CIF’s Design a Home for Everyone Awards ceremony that saw its “No Man is an Island” entry edged out […]

TWO teams from CBS The Green in Tralee emerged victorious from the Kerry regional final of the Bank of Ireland Money Smarts Challenge last Wednesday and now will go forward to the Grand Final tomorrow. The Money Smarts final, comprising six rounds of money related questions and puzzles, saw the […]

KERRY is seeking to retain its position as one of the safest destinations in Ireland to visit as it rolls out its new updated Safe Destination Programme for 2021 to coincide with the gradual reopening of society and the economy. Kerry County Council and its tourism and training partners are […]

THE most up to date statistics from the Residential Property Price Register shows that March was a very busy month for property sales around Tralee with 37 transactions taking place fetching a total of €6,812,333. The properties that sold for the most money in one transaction in the Tralee environs […]

KERRY businesses are invited to apply for the Virgin Media ‘Backing Business’ Initiative. The Initiative, in collaboration with Digital Business Ireland (DBI), Permanent TSB, Milk Bottle Labs and Munster Local Enterprise Offices, is a €100,000 programme to select and support five businesses across the Munster region with bespoke digital transformation packages. […]

AN announcement of €1,413, 750 in funding has been made for four of Kerry’s fishery harbour centres. The funding is part of the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme which provides finances for safety, maintenance and new development works of the fisheries and seafood processing sectors nationwide. Dingle […]

Did you enjoy the dry weather this weekend? Well unfortunately it comes to halt this tomorrow. A Status Yellow Wind and Rain warning has been issued for Kerry as well as Clare, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Wexford. We can expect unseasonably wet and windy weather on […]

A LOCAL business in Tralee raised an amazing €11,705 for two cancer charities by staff taking part in a ‘Shave Or Dye’ challenge on Good Friday. Kellihers Crash Repair at Rathass in Tralee raised the  much needed funds for Recovery Haven and Comfort for Chemo Kerry who collected their cheques […]

KERRY County Council issued 335 fines to motorists for parking on footpaths in 2020. The figure was revealed at the Kerry Joint Policing Committee online meeting on Friday. Kerry Green Party Chairman, Anluan Dunne, had issued a question asking what measures gardaí and Kerry County Council are taking in Kerry […]

CONCERNS were expressed about crime and policing in Tralee Town Park at the online meeting of the Kerry Joint Policing Committee meeting on Friday afternoon. A question was submitted by Chris O’Shea from Tralee asking what were the gardai doing about “open drug dealing and drinking sessions in our Town […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I’m doing my Leaving Certificate this year and plan to go to college in the autumn. How do I apply for a student grant?  Answer: Student Universal Support […]