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The Kerry Cancer Support Group – Kerry Cork Health Link Bus received a very welcome donation of over €10,000 on Monday last from proprietors of Siopa Ceoil an Daingin, Michael and Dara Herlihy and Caitriona Nolan who had organised a fundraiser in August at the shop to benefit the charity. […]

WE’VE been contacted by a German lady to see if we can find her a man. Not just any man though! Gloria Meier from Berlin was in Tralee last week and met a guy in The Abbey Inn. He made a big impression on her and she wants to make […]

WE’VE been bringing you the photos from the IT Tralee graduation ceremonies which took place over Thursday and Friday. If you missed our previous coverage, you can click here, here and here. Meanwhile here’s the last of   our photos of the hard-working students who received their qualifications. Scroll down […]

FRIDAY was a fun day at Blennerville NS with pupils (and many teachers) really getting into the spirit of Halloween. Fancy dress was the order of the day, as pupils donned all sort of costumes and enjoyed traditional Halloween games like apple-bobbing, before breaking up for the mid-term break. Everyone had great […]

A KERRY company has reached the national final of the prestigious 2015 Sustainable Energy Awards. Killorglin-based company Astellas Ireland has been selected as a finalist of the awards, now in its 12th year. The Awards encourage and reward excellence in energy management and are organised by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland […]

FOR the past couple of days, we’ve been bringing you photos from the ITT graduation days at the Brandon Hotel (click here and here for previous coverage). Over 950 students from all over Ireland and beyond received their qualifications on Thursday and Friday, before heading off to celebrate with family […]

  Roger Harty responds to Gareth O’Callaghan’s controversial view on suicide expressed in a Facebook post last week (click here to read O’Callaghan’s post)… Dear Gareth, I call you Gareth as I feel as if I know you, even though I have never met you. Ten years ago I was […]

A WOMAN aged in her 8os has died in a fire at her home in west Kerry. The alarm was raised around 9pm last night when a fire was reported at a house near Ballyferriter. Two units of the Dingle Fire Brigade arrived at the scene and two units of the Tralee […]

WELL Tomás Ó Sé is having a busy weekend. The five-time All-Ireland medal winner was over in the Kerry GAA store in Killarney at 11am on Saturday morning, where he signed hundreds of copies of his autobiography, ‘The White Heat’. Fans queued patiently for the former Gaeltacht player, whose book has been […]

SHANAKILL Resource Centre was draped in pink last Tuesday for a coffee morning to highlight awareness of breast cancer. ‘Paint it Pink’ is the Irish Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Campaign encouraging people across Ireland to hold their own pink fundraiser in their community or at work to do something pink to […]

IT was a busy two days down at the Brandon Hotel as hundreds of IT Tralee students got their reward for years of hard work. Hailing from all over the county, country and beyond, 950 men and women received their qualifications in the presence of family at the annual graduation […]

THERE was a great atmosphere in Tralee schools on Friday as pupils (and teachers no doubt!) looked forward to a well-earned mid term break. Of course, with it being Halloween next Saturday, children in the primary schools donned all sorts of costumes creating an army of witches and zombies across town. CBS […]

  TWO new counselling rooms in memory of the anti-suicide campaigner, Donal Walsh, were opened at the Console building at Balloonagh on Friday. Minister Jimmy Deenihan watched Donal’s mother, Elma, cut the ribbon on the rooms which will be aimed at counselling young people. The Donal Walsh Rooms in the national suicide […]

A PRESENTATION Secondary School Tralee teacher is the latest person to drive off with a brand new car courtesy of the Tralee Credit Union members car draw. There were plenty of smiles outside Tralee Credit Union, as draw winner, Kay Kirby from Ardfert, was joined by family members and ex-pupils […]

A TRALEE service station property was sold at a Dublin auction on Thursday for €490,000, making €90,000 over the reserve. The Monavalley property is at present let to Doon (Mayfly) Limited, and had a reserve of between €350,000 to €400,000 at the Allsop Auction where it was sold at the RDS on […]

IT was quite a day for hundreds of IT Tralee students on Thursday afternoon as the first of this year’s graduates received their qualification at the Brandon Conference Centre. Students from the School of Business Computing and Humanities were graduating on Thursday and we were there to capture the day in […]

A BALLYROE man has raised €11,216 for Enable Ireland after completing two mammoth cycles during  the summer. Last May, Tommy Sheehy cycled from San Sebastian to Barcelona in aid of Enable Ireland. The challenge covered 600km over the rugged landscape of the Pyrenees taking five days to complete. The following month […]

ONE of the main highlights of the IT Tralee calendar takes place today and tomorrow with over 950 students due to graduate. Each of the 26 counties, in addition to a number of graduates from Northern Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe will be represented at the conferring ceremonies, the first […]

  TRANSITION Kerry is holding an exhibition on renewable energy from October 27 to 31 at the Kerry County Library. This is combined with the launch of a new Kerry Sustainable Energy Co-operative to be launched at the library at noon on Saturday October 31. The exhibition will include: public […]

OVER 500 First Year students from seven Kerry ETB schools and two Voluntary schools took part in the annual orienteering interschool event in Ballyseedy Woods on Tuesday this week. Students from Colaiste Gleann Lí Tralee, Presentation Convent Tralee and Causeway Comprehensive School took with schools from further afield, Colaiste na Sceilge […]

TWO teams from Mercy Mounthawk received Merit awards in the John Hooper Maths Poster Competition in Dublin last Thursday. This is a very prestigious competition is organised between the Central Statistics Office and the Project Maths Development team and aims to develop an interest in Maths and statistics in particular. While 10 schools […]

TRALEE Garda Station has been included in a national €60 million Garda building and refurbishment programme to build new and to improve and refurbish, existing Garda stations. The improvements will be in a number of areas including custody management, enhanced facilities for engaging with the public and improvements in welfare facilities […]

  STAFF and pupils of CBS Primary, Clounalour, have been presented with their 2015 Tidy Towns award. Mayor of Tralee, Tom McEllistrim, visited the school Monday morning to present them with their award. The school was chosen as “Business Premises Award” for 2015. The award was accepted by School Principal, Denis Coleman, […]

MATHS week took place at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí last week  and there were many displays around the school organised by the transition year students. Marking its first decade, Maths Week is the largest festival of maths in the world with over one million people attending events over the first 10 years. Story continued below… […]

THIS Friday CBS The Green Transition Year students will climb Killarney’s Four Peaks. The challenge has been organised as a ‘Donal Walsh memorial walk’ with the theme of the challenge being Donal’s own message of Live Life. Donal, a student of CBS The Green, accepted his illness with incredible dignity […]

MERCY Mounthawk held their annual awards reception for those who obtain the highest grades in Leaving and Junior Certificate exams in 2015 on Saturday. Eight students were honoured for their grades in the State exams with Principal John O’Roarke, in his speech, pointing out that only 0.6% nationally received 10A’s or more and they had 2.5% […]

  THE Institute of Technology Tralee has released a statement about an incident involving a female student near the Fairies Cross area on Monday afternoon. Reports of an incident spread quickly on Facebook on Monday evening, stating a woman – walking from Applegreen at Fairies Cross in the direction of town – had been the […]

A TRALEE councillor has played down threats to his safety and wants to focus on getting a Ballymullen monument to Tralee’s World War 1 dead  completed by the end of the year. Cllr Sam Locke brought a motion to Kerry County Council on Monday to erect two glass panels at the Royal Munster […]

THERE were almost 300 cases of homeless people using emergency accommodation in Kerry in 2014, while this year to date there have been 183 cases. The figures were revealed in a report on Homeless Services in Kerry presented by J0hn Breen, Director of Services in Kerry County Council at the monthly meeting […]

  OVER the last few days you may have spotted the highly unusual sight of thousands of tiny fish visible in the canal and Tralee Bay. We got the low down on this natural phenomenon from Dingle marine biologist, Kevin Flannery. “A number of weeks ago the little fish, called Sprat, were chased […]