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TRALEE shoppers are looking for cleanliness/adhering to Covid Restrictions, good customer service and quality/range of products as the most important factors influencing where they spend their money as the shops reopen. In time for the reopening of retail stores this coming Monday, Tralee Chamber Alliance have issued the second set […]

THE Government has accelerated the roadmap for the reopening of the country as they confirmed Phase 2 begins on Monday. There will now be four Phases rather than five, with Phase 3 on June 29 and Phase 4 on July 20. From Monday, people can travel freely within their own […]

FORMER Kerry minor and Under 20 star, Stefan Okunbor, has been telling of his experience of racism on and off the pitch while growing up in Kerry. The Na Gaeil clubman is currently with AFL side, Geelong Cats, where he is recovering from a serious achilles injury sustained back in […]

THE Government is set to announce that people will allowed travel anywhere inside their own county, rather than just be limited to 20 kilometres from their home, from this Monday. In a change to the original plan, RTE are reporting that the Government will ease more restrictions than the measures which had […]

PUBLIC toilets in Tralee will reopen from next Monday, June 8 while lifeguards are set to return to local beaches in Banna and Fenit in the coming weeks. Kerry County Council will begin phased reopening of public conveniences, commencing initially in the towns of Tralee; Killarney, Listowel, Castleisland, Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney, […]

KERRY County Council has published on its website the ‘Safe Streets’ Programme for towns and villages in Kerry as shops, businesses and services in town centres begin to reopen in the coming weeks. This plan is due to be implemented in consultation with businesses after observations can be made to Ms. […]

OXFAM Tralee is asking people to take part in a fun challenge to declutter and save their donations for when their local Oxfam shop reopens on June 8th. The #JoeyChallenge4Oxfam encourages people to showcase their unwanted items by re-creating the infamous scene from popular television when Joey Tribbiani puts on […]

Kerry County Council has advised that from next Monday, June 8th, all Civic Amenity sites around the county will fully reopen for business. The Civic Amenity sites in Kerry had reopened on a phased basis since Monday, May 18th, but were only accepting domestic black bag waste and recycling at […]

WHILE local sports junkies have been getting their fix by gorging on past events on YouTube, sports channels and social media over the past few months, here’s something that might have eluded them in their research. A reader got in touch to tell us that around this time 110 years […]

KERRY Fianna Fáil TD, Norma Foley, says no measure should be off the table when it comes to grant aid to restart our economy. She was responding to queries from bus and coach companies concerned about their futures following the impact of COVID-19 on their business. Deputy Foley explained; “In recent […]

THOUSANDS of euro have been raised from a fundraiser which took place this weekend to help out the Kerry Hospice Foundation Palliative Care Unit. Michelle Greaney, AAI run coach, along with Andrea O’Donoghue of Kerry Hospice organised the Kerry Hospice Sunflower Day Virtual Run/Walk with people taking on a 5k/10k run […]

KERRY County Council has commenced the local rollout of the new ‘In This Together’ initiative which is a national campaign aimed at promoting activity, mental wellbeing and staying connected during the COVID-19 emergency. The #In this Together Campaign Kerry is building on the concept of doing something that makes people […]

A MERCY Mounthawk student has received an award in the Stagewise inaugural School Musical Awards competition. The school received six nominations for their musical ‘Hairspray’ which ran in January, in Siamsa Tíre, and Promise Ekwuhama won the award for Best Female Singer. This year the school entered a new School […]

MANAGEMENT at South / South West Hospital Group, which includes University Hospital Kerry, are appealing to members of the public to continue to follow the Government’s Covid-19 guidelines relating to social distancing and hand hygiene, to ensure that they do not contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. The S/SWHG […]

A FILM by two Kerry-based filmmakers will be released online this coming Tuesday and features a well-known comedian from the county. Ben Kavanagh from Tralee and Luke Murphy from Killarney created ​’Meat Is Murder​’, which is an independent short action-comedy written, directed and produced by the duo. The film was shot […]

Cruinniú na nÓg is Ireland’s national day of free creativity for children and young people but of course this year things are different and events are taking place online. One of the projects happening in the county is Present Day Poetry – Kerry. This will be a digital e-book, containing […]

DON’T forget that a vital fundraiser is taking place this weekend to help out the Kerry Hospice Foundation Palliative Care Unit, especially since Sunflower Day has been cancelled. The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting fundraising campaigns for the Kerry Hospice so a local woman decided to help organise an event for […]

ALDI has planted 15,000 trees on a site in Muingaphuca in the heart of mid-Kerry. The initiative is the latest step in Aldi’s Carbon Reduction Pledge, which saw Aldi achieve Carbon Neutral status at the beginning of 2019. The new plantation of native Irish woodland will help to encourage local […]

A TRALEE councillor is calling for Kerry County Council to help retailers, bars and restaurants wherever possible over the coming weeks and months. Fianna Fáil councillor Mikey Sheehy says the Council could introduce additional measures which would put these businesses on a more steady footing and assist them through the […]

An Garda Síochána and The Road Safety Authority (RSA) have renewed their appeal for road users to take extra care when using the roads, as provisional collision figures for 2020 show that there has been a 17% increase in the number of fatal crashes and a 9% increase in road […]

SIOBHAN O’Sullivan, Kerry Film Development Officer with Kerry ETB in association with Kerry County Council, is delighted to announce a new website has been launched to enable Film and TV professionals to connect directly with the film services, locations and expertise available in Kerry. www.screenkerry.ie is a one stop shop for […]

THE results of a recent survey undertaken by Tralee Chamber Alliance, in association with TraleeToday.ie, has shown approval for pedestrianisation in town, a preference for ‘first hour’ free parking and shows a generational difference in the times people like to come to town. The results from the detailed ‘Let’s Talk About […]

THE Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) and  Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will  join to become the Munster Technological University on January 1, 2021. An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD and Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor made the announcement […]

WELL-KNOWN Tralee woman Mairead Fernane decided to shave off her hair in aid of the Kerry Hospice Foundation and in memory of her niece who passed away last September. The former Fine Gael town councillor and staunch Austin Stacks clubwoman has been volunteering with Kerry Hospice for years but decided […]

STUDENTS from Tralee schools were among the winners of a national journalism and writing competition. The result of ‘Press Pass’ run by NewsBrands Ireland were announced yesterday and Caylin Murray, Mercy Secondary School was deemed winner of the ‘Opinion’ category, while Cian Ó Grifín of Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí was second in the ‘Photojournalism’ […]

DR Brendan O’Donnell has been appointed as Interim President of the Institute of Technology Tralee. Dr O’Donnell stated that he was “honoured to be appointed and looking forward to working with the Governing Body, staff and students and all our stakeholders to ensure that the Institute continues to grow and […]

GARDAI in Tralee are looking for the public’s help in relation to theft and criminal damage incident over the past week. On Tuesday, May 19, between 12 noon and 2pm, the rear of a vehicle was damaged at Manor West car park. The rear registration plate was taken off the car […]

THE Institute of Technology Tralee has today announced details of a number of free online workshops commencing on Tuesday 2nd of June and running over three weeks to Thursday 18th of June. The workshops will cover topics such as Sustainable Food Production, Food Allergens & Food Related Diseases, Culinary Operations […]

KERRY Fianna Fáil TD Norma Foley says patients in Kerry are being forgotten as waiting lists at University Hospital Kerry have increased significantly since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Tralee woman is calling for the cancellation of the HSE contract with private hospitals, and for the money to […]

  ST. John’s Church in Castle Street has re-opened for silent prayer from 10am (12 noon Sunday) to 6pm each day and is attracting a steady stream of worshippers. Measures to combat COVID-19 have been introduced, with a one-way route in operation through the church and hand sanitiser provided on […]