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CHURCHILL Forge & Museum has won a national competition thanks to the votes from the local community and beyond. Spa Fenit Community Council recently entered their Churchill Forge Project in the National Rural Leader Impact Campaign. They were invited to submit a video outlining details of the project and Leaders […]

MINISTER for Education and Kerry TD Norma Foley has announced over €1.6 million in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Grants for Kerry primary and post-primary schools. The funding can be used to purchase equipment such as projectors and tablets or to support the use of online learning platforms. These grants […]

BE careful if you’re out and about tonight and in the early morning because it’s set to get foggy. Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow Fog warning for Munster, Connacht and Leinster. Fog will thicken this evening, with some dense areas of fog this evening and tonight. The warning is […]

GARDAI conducted a search of a suspected Shebeen premises operating in Causeway, Co. Kerry, yesterday evening. Shortly after 8pm on Saturday, Gardaí conducted a search under warrant of the suspected Shebeen premises and located a fully operational bar. The bar featured a number of beer taps, along with a fully operational cooler […]

KERRY Macra Na Feirme are hosting a virtual talk live on Facebook at 8pm on Friday, December 4, which will focus on the importance of Mental Health. The night is aptly named ‘Mind Matters’ and will feature Kerry Radio’s Aisling O’Brien as host, interviewing three well known speakers. With the […]

A BUSINESS teacher at Presentation Secondary School, Castleisland will be a special guest on the Student Enterprise Programme, National Live Webinar on this Monday evening. Mr. Dargan is one of just three teachers in the country, that have been selected to take part in this National Webinar series. He will […]

A TRALEE man has died and five others have been injured at a building on Ashe Street this morning. The men were doing construction work on the building when part of the chimney collapsed at around 8am this morning. It’s believed 68-year-old Tom Ross, a building contractor, was on the […]

IRISH Water and Kerry County Council plan to commence work next week on the replacement of one kilometre of defective 100MM watermain in Kilfenora, Fenit. The pipe will be laid from the junction near the old railway bridge westwards along the R558 main road. Traffic lights will be in operation during […]

EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a workplace accident on Ashe Street this morning. They were called to the building at around 8am after it’s believed part of a chimney collapsed and a number of men, who were carrying out construction work there,  were injured. Four men were taken […]

A TRALEE girl was an early star of ‘The Late Late Toy Show’ tonight. Eight year old Saoirse Moynihan, a pupil in Caherleaheen NS, was a guest on the show and received a special message from none other than David Williams. First though, Saoirse spoke to host Ryan Tubridy about […]

AFTER the switching on of the Christmas lights in town last week, festive spirits were lifted once again this evening as the Christmas tree in Ballygarry was lit up. Every year Ballygarry House Hotel invites locals and guests to attend a “turning on the lights ceremony” where guests come out […]

TRALEE Rugby Club has launched a ‘Lucky Minute’ fundraiser this weekend to help with their juveniles section. They are inviting all club members, supporters and their families, and indeed people in the wider community to support the fundraiser, as it is this year’s only source of funding for the juveniles […]

THE Cara Credit Union Art Competition 2020 results were announced recently with students in Tralee schools featuring among the prizes. This year’s theme was ‘Imagine More’, influenced by the creative role art plays in Irish society and it encouraged participants to unlock their imagination and look at how art inspires us and our […]

CBS The Green unveiled their newly elected Students Council on Thursday. The potential leaders of the future held their training day last week with their liaison teacher Karen Tobin.  “It was a packed day of teambuilding activities ensured that they are ready for the task ahead. The students council has representatives from […]

GARDAI in the Killarney District seized over €4,000 of suspected drugs yesterday. As part of Operation Thor, a day of action was conducted in the Caherciveen, Waterville, Caherdaniel and Valentia areas over a 24 hour period between Wednesday 25th and Thursday, 26th November. The operation commenced on Wednesday evening with two […]

Purchase.ie the online store based in the Spa, Tralee is calling on people to think not about what they can do for themselves this Black Friday but what they can do for others. According to Managing Director Colm Griffin, 2020 has been a difficult year for the mental health of […]

KERRY County Council and Kerry Chambers have joined forces to appeal to everyone in Kerry to support local shops and businesses this Christmas. They also want to encourage people to use a new online directory of Kerry businesses and services which they can support at this challenging time. Shopkerry.ie is […]

IF, as expected, retail outlets will open up fully next week, the message is Manor West Retail Park is ready. Like so many retail businesses in Kerry, it’s been extremely challenging for the over 650 people working in Manor West Retail Park, and a major focus for Centre Manager Derek […]

THE Christmas lights in Tralee have done much to lift the spirits in these dark times, even though there aren’t many shoppers to enjoy them. The hospitality sector has been hit worst of all, so it was heartening to see that Kevin and Fiona at Kirby’s Brogue Inn went above […]

IT’S become a tradition at the Wetlands over the last number of years, but sadly the annual Tralee Santa 5k Fun Run will not be going ahead this December. The organisers made the decision following due to COVID-19 restrictions on mass gatherings, as the run attracted many hundreds of people […]

2020 has been a year for forget for most people. It has brought hardship, poverty, isolation and loneliness, but it has also shown the power of community and nowhere has this been more evident than at St Vincent de Paul. With just a month to go to Christmas, Manager at the […]

By Con Dennehy Top Kerry photographer John Cleary has a keen eye for catching day to day life in Kerry and has now produced some of his stunning images in his fifth book which is set to take Kerry by storm. Every Picture Tells A Story, is the latest gem […]

IN this most surreal of years, some things remain the same…well, sort of! The annual Mercy Mounthawk Fashion Show will return once again but, of course, it’s going to take place online due to COVID restrictions. “The theme of this year’s show is ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’. Reflective of the times we […]

MERCY Mounthawk Parents’ Council is running a Christmas Technology Raffle with some fantastic prizes to be won by parents of students in the school. Tralee-based Aspen Grove Solutions has donated a generous amount of money to the parents’ council to help them raise funds for technology within the school. This […]

DETAILS of a series of performances funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media set to take place in The Gleneagle INEC Arena this December were announced today. Under the Live Performance Support Scheme, the Gleneagle INEC Arena has been granted €400,000 to use in the […]

THREE Mercy Mounthawk students were celebrating this week after winning two prestigious awards at Scifest 2020, which was held over the past weekend. Dara Newsome, David Hughes and Conor Bradshaw’s ‘Specs’ project — an adapted spectacle system for Dementia patients — won both the Intel Technology Award and the Boston Scientific […]

THE Green Party Tralee representative has called for safe cycling routes on roundabouts after a young girl was knocked off her bike in a hit and run incident last week. Anne-Marie Fuller was speaking after the incident last Thursday evening where the girl received minor injuries after she was hit […]

HAPPEN, a network of co-working spaces in the Midwest region, was launched last week with HQ Tralee and Listowel affiliated to the newly formed group. The network, facilitated by Innovate Limerick and the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) in Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary, comprises both public and private co-working spaces across […]

BUILDING on the success of and feedback from the week-long Kerry Mental Health and Wellbeing Fest held in October, the interagency committee have organised a series of free online mindfulness and chair yoga sessions to take place for 15 minutes each weekday from Monday, November 30 to Friday, December 18. […]

TRALEE Toastmasters Club has been awarded the Presidents Distinguished Club designation for the 2019-20 program year. In the official notification received from Toastmasters International Board of Directors, they state that: “Distinguished Clubs provide a supportive and positive learning environment that guides members to success.  This superior member experience, in turn, helps […]