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THE Public Participation Sessions in the Tralee Community Garden Project begin again this season, on March 26, with the An Taisce Spring Clean and volunteers welcome at the project location in the Tralee Town Park from 10.30am onwards. The project, which encompasses the Tralee Community Orchard, is the only public participation […]

IT should be some craic in Blennerville tomorrow evening, when a local hero comes home with a very special trophy. The whole of Tralee – along with the village west of the bridge – erupted last Friday when jockey Bryan Cooper rode Don Cossack to Gold Cup glory in the […]

THE St Patrick’s Day Parade Prize winners received their awards at a ceremony at the Abbey Inn on Tuesday afternoon. The committee of Frank Hartnett, Michael Gaffney, Danny Leane, Sean Lyons and Johnnie Wall had a tough task in selecting from the dozens of entries this year. Committee Chairman said this […]

THE ‘Coiste Comóradh 1916 Trá Lí’ committee are hosting a fundraising quiz in Na Gaeil Clubhouse on Thursday, March 24, at 9pm. It’s to raise funds as plans are now at an advanced stage for the Easter Commemoration events, due to take place in Tralee from April 22 – 24. There […]

THE staff at Scamps & Scholars Childcare in Killorglin showed they’re not playing around as they made a €4,000 donation to The Kerry Cancer Support Group. It came from a  ‘Second Time Round’ clothes drive, which organisers Ann Doherty and Breda Stringer ran from February 19-21, was a huge success. […]

THE Kerry Museum has purchased at auction a map drawn by Sir Roger Casement showing where he reputedly buried gold and silver coins and other items near Banna Strand before he was arrested on Good Friday in 1916. A successful bid of £7,000 (stg) – supported by the Department of […]

IT’S been months coming, but the revamp of the old Fels Point Hotel is nearing completion and it looks great. The hotel will be officially rebranded The Rose Hotel and launched on April 8, but the new bar and restaurant opened on Saturday and there’s another exciting new gourmet dining experience coming in the hotel […]

NEW St Vincent de Paul Store store on Castle Street is aiming to be more visible to the public. The new store on Upper Castle Street (located opposite the entrance to Presentation Primary School) has been open for two weeks, but on Monday night was launched in earnest with an in-store […]

THE current spate of gorse fires is putting a strain on Kerry Fire Services resources. Fires are being lit in the illegal period of burning which runs from March 1 to August 31. One of the reasons fires are started is to burn off dead or older, less productive vegetation from […]

TRALEE Library is currently hosting a 1916 Commemorative exhibition titled, ‘Kerry 1916 from the Archives’, which was officially opened by Cllr. Jim Finucane, Leas Cathaoirleach, Kerry County Council, on Tuesday, March 22, and will run until Saturday, April 30. The exhibition comprises extracts from the Kerry Library newspaper collection including […]

PHONEWATCH has opened its first office in Tralee, and will be creating up to 12 new jobs initially, with additional jobs being created as the company grows its business in Kerry. The offices at Denny Street were officially opened by Kerry GAA Star Marc Ó Sé today.  PhoneWatch is actively recruiting […]

THE new Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí secondary school to be located between Hawley Park and University Hospital Kerry took a step closer yesterday. The site was transferred from Kerry County Council to Kerry Enterprise and Training Board ownership on Monday. It is hoped that building will commence towards the end of 2017 with […]

IRELAND South MEP Sean Kelly has been describing the situation in Brussels this morning in the wake of two bombings in the city. The Kilcummin man was speaking on Radio Kerry’s ‘Kerry Today’ programme as he was looking out from the window of the EU Parliament building, next to Maalbeek […]

KERRY County Council has announced the opening of applications for the annual Community Support Fund which is offering a total of €750,000 in funding to community and voluntary groups around the county. The fund, which is now in its second year, aims to recognise the valuable contribution which such groups and […]

A TRALEE Imperials player was one of a number of players with Kerry clubs who received honours at the Basketball Ireland 2016 All-Stars. Five players from each of the four divisions in the National League received All-Star awards with honourable mentions for the second and third picks at the weekend. Rheanne […]

THE organisers of  ‘Darkness Into Light’ Tralee are inviting people to come along to a special launch next week to encourage as many people as possible to take part in the May event. The launch will take place at Pieta House in 28 Moyderwell (near the entrance to Presentation Secondary […]

GARDAI are asking people to immediately report any suspicious vehicles going up and down bóthríns or in other remote areas, rather than waiting until later to contact them. At the weekend there was a report of suspicious vehicles in the Chute Hall area outside Tralee, but they were reported an hour […]

TWO teams from Tralee Tennis Club have been crowned Munster Champions after a long Winter League campaign ended in victory at the finals, which took place in Sundays Well Tennis Club, Cork, on Sunday, March 20. The Grade 5 Men’s team consisted of Ray Moroney, Stephen Roche, John Finnegan and […]

TRALEE Triathlon Club has joined forces with the RNLI to raise funds and bring a major sporting event to Fenit this summer with hundreds of athletes taking part. This life-saving RNLI service is dependent on funds to continue to ensure the safety of people on the water this summer and […]

THIS year’s Good Friday Ceremony and Pageant of The Passion of Christ will take place at 3pm in the Church of St John the Baptist, Castle Street, and later at 8pm in the Church of St Stephen and St John, Castleisland. This Fr Pat Ahern production of ‘The Passion’, with a […]

By Denis Griffin MAYOR Pat McCarthy concluded his official visit to the United States on Friday evening as guest of honour at the Kerrymen’s Patriotic and Benevolent Association of New York’s Dinner in Westchester in Yonkers. President Loretta King warmly welcomed the Mayor and Kerry Tourism Officer John Griffin. The […]

KIDS will take any excuse to dress up for the day, but last Wednesday in CBS Primary School they did it for a great cause. Joan Hill is the school secretary and is doing the Camino de Santiago Walk in Spain this September for The Irish Guide Dogs Association. To help […]

A FANTASTIC event for a great cause was held on Friday at a pub on Pembroke Street. Numerous musicians from all over town and beyond, held a music marathon at Joe’s Place all in aid of Pieta House. “We decided on a music marathon rather than a 5k walk or […]

IT was quite a day on Thursday as hundreds of people participated in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Tralee. The event really highlighted the community spirit in the town and clubs and societies were out in force to proudly display their colours. In the last of our photo coverage, […]

AND so it ends. After 195 entries, 28 races, €19,500 in prize money, the winner of The Castle Bar rollover was announced on Friday evening…but what a dramatic way to win the cash! The ‘Speed And Degrees’ duo of Tom Clifford and Danny Diggins were languishing behind in the field with […]

A DOCUMENTARY, two years in the making, is set to be screened for one night only at Siamsa Tire, on Easter Saturday, March 26, and it will feature an exclusive interview with the men involved with the Marita Ann and what happened on the ship. It is the sequel to the […]

BRYAN Cooper will probably get free flights for life as the Tralee man won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Don Cossack just after 3.30pm. It’s the young jockey’s first Gold Cup win and joy was etched on his face as they past the finishing post to win for trainer Gordon Elliott and owner […]

THE Mayor of Kerry continued his US trip this week with a visit to New York for the St Patrick’s Day parade. Cllr Pat McCarthy was joined by Kerry Tourism Officer, John Griffin, in promoting the county by meeting with business people while in the States and they met many Kerry […]

THERE is no mountain high enough for a thrill-seeking woman from Tralee, who plans on climbing an impressive eight mountains this year including Kilimanjaro in Africa. Sarah Guerin is taking part in Concern Worldwide’s annual mountain challenge, ‘Climb4Concern’, which sees adventurers climb some of the highest mountains in Ireland and […]

WHILE the St Patrick’s Day parade was a colourful and well attended affair and gardaí reported no public order arrests yesterday, there was still one element to the day which spoiled things a bit. The Square was left heavily littered by the late afternoon, which prompted the Tralee Chamber Alliance facebook page […]