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PRESENTATION Secondary School students received certs today to mark their involvement with a children’s liturgy programme. The Transition Year students were involved as part of the school’s Faith In Action programme co-ordinated through the Religious Education department. “We had 35 students who participated in the children’s liturgy programme at Our Lady […]

A WELL-KNOWN local mental health campaigner is organising an event in Ballyseedy Woods next Sunday to in support of the Green Ribbon campaign. Organised by Colin ‘Poshey’ Aherne, ‘Let’s Talk And Walk’ will take place at 3pm from the entrance to the woods (not far from Ballygarry House Hotel) and it’s an […]

  By Cliona Lawton ITT Creative Writing for Digital Media Student LAST Thursday the Institute of Technology, Tralee’s Creative Media Department Horizon Exhibit took place in association with The Education Centre. Final year students from the Honours Degree Programmes in Creative Writing for Digital Media, TV, Radio and New Media […]

A CAMP woman received a nice boost recently when she won nearly €5,000 in a GAA lotto draw. Bridget Moynihan works in Seamus O’Sullivan’s Master Butcher’s over in Manor and was delighted to receive her St Pat’s GAA Club lotto winnings of €4,900 on Tuesday afternoon at the shop where […]

  KERRY County Council has issued a call for properties which have been vacant for more than one year for possible use for social housing purposes. The newly launched Repair and Leasing Scheme targets vacant properties as a possible source of social housing and provides property owners with an income stream […]

KERINS O’Rahillys held a very successful Strictly Come Dancing fundraiser in late March and the club recently held a get together and charity night at their club bar. The 24 participants were treated to dinner and drinks by the club and had great fun watching the DVD and performing again the […]

SO, as most of you are aware, Denny Street in Tralee will fully re-open to traffic on Monday next, May 22 and a new two-way traffic system will come into effect. The change is part of the Tralee Active Travel Town project and a €1.7m investment in Tralee town centre and represents […]

THE Austin Stacks GAA clubhouse at Connolly Park was packed on Monday night for two special events. First of all, a special edition of Radio Kerry’s ‘Terrace Talk’ was broadcast from the club. Tim Moynihan interviewed club stalwarts, GAA legends and past and present players as part of the club’s centenary celebrations. Afterwards, everybody […]

A SPA restaurant was a winner at the inaugural Irish Hospitality Awards 2017 held on Sunday night in Dublin. Spa Seafoods was a winner in the Best Restaurant in Southwest category at the awards at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin Airport. A number of other Tralee businesses were nominated in various categories, […]

TRANSITION Year and 5th year students at Pres Tralee sold ice-cream at the  School Sports Day  which took place this week  in glorious sunshine. The girls raised over €300 for ICAN  -the Irish Children’s Arthritis Network  with a long queue for most of the afternoon. As usual , the PE department and […]

GARDAI in Tralee have been alerted to a fraud that targets elderly people whereby they receive a phone call from someone purporting to be from the fraud section of their bank. They are informed that their credit or debit card has been illegally accessed and money is missing from it.  […]

A KILLORGLIN woman will represent London in the Rose of Tralee contest later this year. Caoimhe Gallagher, a physiotherapist at St George’s Hospital and Wimbledon RFC has been selected as the 2017 London Rose. Caoimhe, whose father hails from Donegal and mother from Kerry, represented Irish Construction Company Danny Sullivan […]

JUDGING by recent weather warnings by Met Eireann for this part of the country, you might want to take this with pinch of salt, but… There’s a Status Orange Rainfall Warning issued for Cork and Kerry from midnight tonight until 1am on Tuesday morning. It’s expected that 50 to 70mm of rain will […]

THE Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne, has announced that there will be no more funerals on Sundays from September 1 this year. The announcement was made at Masses this weekend. No funerals will take place on Sundays in all parishes in the diocese of Kerry i.e. Mass Funeral Service or […]

IT was a misty and murky Saturday morning at O’Donnell’s in Mounthawk, as participants made their way off on the annual cycle in aid of Fenit RNLI. There were 62 cyclists taking part this year in the 15th annual fun cycle and they set off on the 50 kilometre cycle taking them out of […]

OVER 120 people from the county’s eight badminton clubs gathered in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday night for the Kerry Badminton Association annual social. As always it was a great occasion to reflect on the past year and to officially hand out awards for competitions won around Kerry during the […]

IT wasn’t a morning for photos outside as the misty rain swept over Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Saturday. Inside there was standing room only as nearly 80 pupils from Scoil Eoin received their First Holy Communion, watched by their families and class teachers. After the lovely ceremony, […]

ANOTHER change on Denny Street came into being this morning, as parallel parking was introduced. There was still one lane closed as work is still going on, but the street has been fully resurfaced and it looks very smart with the tarmacadam laid and the new cycle lane in place. The […]

COLÁISTE Gleann Lí hosted their annual awards ceremony on Friday afternoon. The accolades celebrated the varied achievements of the school’s second level students over the past academic year with students and families gathered in the school hall for the event. The awards reflected school policy which strives for the holistic development of each […]

ANOTHER great year in Tralee Imperials Basketball Club was celebrated with their annual awards night in The Rose Hotel on Friday. The club is making huge progress as Chairman John Dowling explained: “We’ve had a very successful year. Our club is involved in setting up the Warriors with St Brendan’s […]

THERE was a huge crowd at The Rose Hotel on Friday night as a well-known and respected businesswoman held the launch of her autobiography. ‘Survive and Thrive: The Journey of a Lifetime’ by Breeda Hurley, the owner of ABC Cleaning Services, the successful contract cleaning company, tells how she learned to face the […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: I left work early because my grandmother fell ill suddenly. Can I take a half-day as force majeure leave? Answer: If you are absent for only part of a day […]

  THE IT Tralee has signed a  Memorandum of Understanding with a US university which will provide great opportunities for both institutions. Sacred Heart University, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, is in the final stages of purchasing the Christian Brothers School in Dingle to establish an expanded campus. Rupendra Paliwal, Vice President for […]

THERE are two Kerry houses to be auctioned in the latest Allsop online auction to take place next Wednesday, May 17. Lot 57 is No.8 Sand Dune Cottages, Banna, has a reserve range of between €35,000 – €45,000. It’s a three bedroom detached house, extending to approximately 92 sq. m (990 sq. ft). […]

PUPILS and staff at Caherleaheen are getting excited as their first fashion show fundraiser looms next week. Taking place at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday, May 18 at 7.30pm, the school is promising a fantastic night of fashion and entertainment. There will be 17 local shops showcasing their clothes […]

Biodiversity Week is just around the corner and offers a range of family friendly, fun events in Tralee and around Kerry that celebrate Kerry’s wildlife. From May 20th until May 28th, Kerry County Council, in association with several local groups, is running a number of short workshops, days out, walks and talks […]

THE price of petrol and diesel has come down by two cent in many stations in town over the past six weeks. In our regular check on the prices of fuel, it shows a number of garages reduced their prices recently, with €1.31.8 (€1.21.8 for diesel) the cheapest price shared by six stations. […]

CBS Primary School hosted an Erasmus+ multilateral meetings in school at Clounalour all this week. Erasmus+ is a European Union initiative which makes it possible for schools from different European countries to work together, to develop, share and transfer best practices and innovative approaches in the fields of education, training and […]

AHEAD of the introduction of a new two-way traffic flow on Denny Street, Tralee, later this month, parallel parking will come into effect on the street this weekend. The street will be lined for parallel parking over the coming days, replacing the existing perpendicular parking arrangements. Cars will park parallel to […]

THAT’S right. Two people. That’s how much Tralee’s population fell by between 2011 and 2016 according to the latest stats released from Census 2016 by the Central Statistic Office (CSO). Tralee currently has a population of 23,691, two less than the 23,693 people living in the urban area back in 2011. The […]