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GARDAI are appealing to the public for information after a public house was broken into last week. In the early hours of last Friday morning, between 1am and 4am, O’Riada’s Bar/Restaurant in Ballymacelligott was broken into and an amount of cash was taken. Gardaí are asking if anyone saw anything […]

  TWO of Ireland’s best known public figures from the last 40 years will be among the list of high-profile speakers at the 2018 PROBUS All Ireland Rally from May 15-17 in Tralee. Dick Spring and Mary O’Rourke, who have both served as Tánaiste over the course of their careers, […]

THE annual Children’s Easter Tea Party held on Easter Sunday at The Ashe Hotel raised €820 for Cashel Children’s Ward at University Hospital Kerry. The sell-out event organised by Tralee Chamber Alliance and The Ashe Hotel welcomed over 100 children and their parents to the hotel for an afternoon of […]

THE Kerry Garda Division held a Black Tie Gala Ball in the Killarney Oaks Hotel on Friday night last. The last similar function was 26 years ago in Kerry and Gardai, business community and members of the public across the county gathered for a great night of entertainment. Scroll down […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Sheahan, has thanked the almost 6,000 volunteers who took part in the County Clean-Up across Kerry on Saturday. Thousands of bags of litter were collected from the roadsides and towns and villages during the seventh annual clean-up which was organised by KWD […]

THE rain stayed away around Tralee as volunteers took to the roads to take part in the annual County Clean-Up day on Saturday. Almost 6,000 volunteers took part around the county with many schools also joining in on Friday. The initiative of KWD Recycling and Kerry County Council is now […]

THE Dingle Way Challenge, an annual fundraiser by St Pat’s GAA Club, is set to be bigger and better this year and the club is looking for participants. The date has been set for Sunday, June 3 and Chairman of St Pats, Jimmy Mulligan, is promising a fantastic day out. […]

A TRALEE woman won €18,000 on Winning Streak last night, but she wasn’t the only Kerry person in the money. Catriona Dunne from Caherslee was joined by Margaret Flaherty from Milltown and Brosna native Pat Joe Walsh and between them they won €79,000. Catriona (37), a retail assistant in Penney’s Tralee, […]

NOW that was a good morning’s work! The junction at the bottom of Rock Street looks a whole lot brighter thanks to the trainees at Kerry ETB. The Traditional Stonewall Construction trainees, along with instructor Donal Corcoran, installed a drystone flowerbed structure in front of the Brogue Inn on Saturday […]

SOME fantastic art was on display at The Ashe Hotel on Friday evening as students from Kerry College of Further Education held an exhibition and CD launch. ‘The Pursuit Of Artyness’ saw the QQI Level 6 Art, Craft and Design Post Leaving Certificate students put on a wonderful art and craft […]

A DETACHED five-bedroomed house in Ballyheigue and eight houses near Banna were among four Kerry lots which sold for a total of €594,000 at an online auction on Friday. Bidx1 (formerly Allsop) held the online auction where a detached five bedroom house at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, with a reserve not to exceed €120,000 eventually sold […]

HAVE you had your say yet? Time is running out to complete the ThisIsTralee.ie Survey aimed at helping build a strong brand for Tralee. Close to 1,000 people have completed the survey since it began last week. Tralee Chamber Alliance is developing a strong brand for Kerry’s capital town and the opinion […]

  Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I have a valid passport, but it will expire two weeks before I go on holiday. Will two weeks give me enough time to get a new one?  […]

ASPEN Grove Solutions has issued a statement in response to media reports on its current restructuring process. The statement by the company, which has its offices at a premises on the Castlemaine Road, says that eight jobs out a total workforce of 145 “may be at risk”. The statement reads […]

BALLYSEEDY Garden Centre is the place to be on Saturday, April 21, as the Kerry Branch of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) are set to host the inaugural Unsung Hero charity cycle. The cycle will pay homage to renowned explorer Tom Crean and will also remember DSI Kerry member Emily Keohane […]

THE transition year European Studies class in Mercy Mounthawk  hosted a mock European Youth Parliament for all second year students on Friday. Kerry Independent Deputy, Michael Healy Rae, was the special guest speaker on the day and he spoke on a wide range of topics for the students. The TD […]

A CAHERSIVEEN man’s photo has come second in the World Press Photo awards last night. Stephen McCarthy’s image was taken during a British and Irish Lions game last summer and it took the runner-up gong at in the sports category of the awards in Amsterdam. Working for Sportsfile, Stephen took the […]

A TRALEE man is part of a new food venture in Dublin which it is hoped will see around 30 outlets opened around the country in the next number of years. Declan Breen, originally from Cloonanorig, has just opened NKD Pizza in Rathgar with two friends John Nolan from Wicklow […]

A LOCAL school received a cheque for €3,000 on Friday thanks to a fashion show back in October. Fiona Hyde, whose son Dylan attends St Ita’s and St Joseph’s School in Caherslee for the past five years, helped organise the annual fundraiser in Sol y Sombra and around €9,500 was […]

JUST under 30 filmmakers gathered at County Buildings on Thursday to discuss the current call for applications to the county’s first Film Bursary. With the recent announcement of a new short film bursary funded by Kerry County Council and The Arts Council, film making in Kerry is set to get even […]

A TRALEE-BASED company is in the middle of a restructuring process. Aspen Grove Solutions has offices on the Castlemaine Road where around 100 people are employed. There is comment from the company on whether this will mean any job losses, according to a report by Radio Kerry news. The restructuring process […]

THERE was great fun at the Kerry College of Further Education (KCFE) on Thursday for their ‘Lip Sync Battle’ in aid of a great organisation. Organised by Tourism with Business Students in conjunction with their programme co-ordinator Margaret Burns as a fundraiser for Jigsaw Kerry, a number of students and staff […]

‘CON’, a feature film produced by a Tralee native, is now available internationally on Vimeo On Demand while its creator is off to Cannes in May where distributors are currently previewing the movie. Bertie Brosnan will attend the festival with the purpose of selling Con and also gather contacts and […]

    APPRENTICES from Kerry ETB Training Centre in Monavalley have delivered their ‘Generation Apprenticeship’ competition entry to the National College of Ireland, Dublin ahead of judging next month. In an open competition, sponsored by ESB and the Construction Industry Federation, teams of apprentices were invited to use their skills […]

THE Restore Fenit Diving Boards Campaign (RFDBC) committee believes it is very likely that the decision on the restoration of the diving boards at the bathing slip in Fenit will be announced at a meeting between a delegation from RFDBC and officials from Kerry County Council (KCC) on Monday, April 23. […]

EirGrid, the operator of the national electricity grid launched a major new fund for community groups in North Kerry yesterday. The €70,500 Knockanure Duagh Community Fund has been established by EirGrid to benefit communities close to new infrastructure that it has developed in the area. The company recently completed a […]

THE Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society remembered and honoured all of those who had died in Tralee and North Kerry during famine times in a lecture, which was delivered by Ballyheigue native Bryan McMahon on Tuesday evening. Bryan’s book, ‘The Great Famine in Tralee and North Kerry’, was published in […]

FASHION Designer to the stars Don O’Neill, will return to his culinary past for one night only this July for what promises to be an unforgettable fundraising event in memory of his beloved mother, Mim O’Neill. Don, who trained as a chef before embarking on a stellar fashion career, has […]

MINISTER of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin T.D., today welcomed 35 of the world’s top international golf tour operators to Killarney for Fáilte Ireland’s 2018 Golf Ireland Convention, a showcase of the country’s top-class golfing experiences. During their stay in the south-west, the visitors will attend The Rose […]

THE IT Tralee has opened applications for the 1916 Bursary Funding for students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The purpose of this Bursary Funding is to encourage participation and success by students from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education due to socio-economic disadvantage. The South Cluster of Higher Education Institutions […]