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STUDENTS from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí enjoyed their annual sports day at Na Gaeil GAA pitch last Friday and a local organisation benefitted from the day. Organised by teacher Dónal Ó Ruanaidh, with help from the other teachers, some 360 students took part in a range of events including cartwheel racing, a skipping competition, sack race, […]

THE annual student awards ceremony for Causeway Comprehensive School was held on Tuesday in the school, a night which is always the culmination of the hard work and dedication of the students. The awards were presented by the school Principal Cathal Fitzgerald, previous principals of the school, as well as special invitees. […]

  Gardaí at Killarney are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision on the Killarney bypass this evening, Wednesday May 10th 2017. At approximately 7pm a female cyclist in her 40s was in collision with a tractor which was towing agricultural equipment on the Killarney bypass which is the […]

TWO projects from Presentation Secondary School Tralee and one from Mercy Mounthawk have made the national ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards Final and now need the public’s support to claim the People’s Choice Award The awards ceremony takes place in the Mansion House, Dublin, on May 23 and there are four education centres from Kerry […]

A NEW suite of Performing Arts courses in Music and Dance has been launched at Kerry College of Further Education in Tralee. From September, interested students can obtain a QQI Level 5 Certificate in Music or Dance with a number of focus areas including performance, theatre and music technology. The new […]

FORMER members of Tralee Swimming Club joined friends and family of Billy Ryle at the launch of his new book at the Grand Hotel on Monday evening. Deputy Martin Ferris T.D. did the honours to launch ‘From Fenit Bathing Slip To The High Court’, a book telling the story of how the […]

THE resurfacing of the canal walkway was completed this week with the section from the lock gates to the bridge at Blennerville opened on Wednesday. That part of the walkway was closed to allow the tarmacadaming of the pathway, but Kerry County Council workers did the job in two days. The path […]

TRALEE school students were among the prizewinners in the SciFest@IT Tralee 2017 event in the college yesterday. Around 200 post-primary school students from schools all over Kerry were taking science to the next level with over 90 projects at the exhibition with the top prize on the day going to Jack Nagle from […]

THE Enable Ireland charity shop on Abbeycourt is to close next week with the loss of four jobs. The shop, which has operated there for nine years, is closing because of the expiry of the lease and challenging trading circumstances. The shop will close on Friday May 19. People can continue to […]

THE results of a study of Tralee town centre will be presented in June to provide the framework for further renewal of the town. Back in October, Tralee was chosen as one of ten ‘pilot’ towns in the National Town Centre Health Check (TCHC) Training Programme. ‘Town Centre Health Check’ surveys of […]

STUNNING weather helped attract thousands of people to Ballybeggan on Sunday for the annual Kingdom County Fair. Conditions couldn’t have been better for everything on the day with a host of family entertainment as well as the usual competitions around the venue. While businesses and competitors were there from early […]

THE Mayor of Tralee has called on the people of Tralee to show pride in their town and report people who are seen dumping rubbish illegally in town. Cllr Terry O’Brien was speaking at the meeting of Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council on Monday after the council received a […]

A NEW Fáilte Ireland TV advertisement will begin airing tonight as part of the latest home holiday campaign for the Wild Atlantic Way and Kerry will feature prominently. The TV ad, which is a key feature in a wider, ‘Embrace the Wild Atlantic Way of Life’ campaign, emphasises the opportunity for […]

KERRY Airport is reporting an operating profit after taxation for the period of €287,613 – an increase on operating profit of €30,980 on the previous year — in their Annual Report & Accounts for the 12 month period ended 31st December 2016. Passenger numbers through the Airport up +6% on previous comparative period […]

MERCY Mounthawk’s 1st year boys team created history becoming the 1st boys team from the school to capture an All-Ireland A schools title on Sunday at University of Limerick. They defeated a St Pats of Castleisland side on a scoreline of 29 to 26 in a nail biting contest, capping off a magical […]

  BANK of Ireland in Tralee will host a business event during their National Enterprise Week later this month. ‘Digi Tralee’, a business event for SMEs and startups takes place on Monday, May 15 from 8.15am to 9.15am in the Castle Street branch. Guest speakers include local media business owner Ken Tobin, co-founder of HQ […]

TRALEE’S jobless figures is down over 600 on the same month in 2016 according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. There was a drop of 118 people signing on the live register from March to April in Tralee. The number now stands at 4,301, a fall of around 12% from […]

  TO mark the centenary year of the death of the Lispole native and Kerry 1916 leader, the Ashe Memorial Hall on Denny Street, Tralee is to be rededicated to Thomas Ashe at a ceremony hosted by Kerry County Council on Monday, May 22 at 11am. The building, which was […]

A LARGE crowd gathered at The Ashe Hotel on Friday night to launch Fleadh Cheoil Chiarraí. The event takes place in Tralee between May 17 to May 21 and it promises to be a nice tourism and economic boost to the town, as it was last year. Friday was a lovely night of entertainment […]

  A NUMBER of Tralee businesses are among the contenders in various categories for The Irish Hospitality Awards 2017. Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre, Bella Bia, Bailys Corner, Kirby’s Brogue Inn, Spa Seafoods, Denton B&B, Rosemont B&B and Castlemorris House are all shortlisted in categories in the first Irish Hospitality Awards, taking place on Sunday, […]

A LISTOWEL woman enjoyed her trip to Dublin at the weekend and came home considerably richer. Mary McDaid appeared on The National Lottery’s Winning Streak gameshow on RTE where she won €21,000. Mary, who will be celebrating a big birthday this July, is a Special Needs Assistant at the Nano Nagle […]

TRALEE businesses and sports clubs were to the fore over two days at the Bank of Ireland Enterprise Towns event at Tralee Sports and Leisure Centre over the weekend. There were over 100 stalls set up in the gym to showcase businesses on Friday evening at the beginning of the event […]

KIND-HEARTED employees from the revenue office at Spa Road decided to raise funds for the new palliative care unit at University Hospital Kerry recently. Two weeks ago the workers decided to hold a cake sale where the staff brought in home baking and the staff donated into jars, raising around €600. […]

IT was a special morning as thousands made their way to CBS The Green for the second annual ‘Darkness Into Light’ Tralee walk held in aid of Pieta House. Numbers were difficult to quantify, but one of the organisers we spoke to this morning thought it may have even surpassed the 4,000+ who […]

THE man who won €500,000 in the Euromillions Plus on Tuesday in Tralee collected his winnings today at National Lottery Headquarters. The hardworking dad, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought his winning ticket at the Clifford & Sons Gala store in Mounthawk in Tralee and now plans on buying a […]

IT might have been colder than recent days, but students from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí weren’t long getting warmed up at Na Gaeil GAA pitch on Friday. The school held a sports day with donations made on the day to Jigsaw Kerry, the organisation which helps young people with mental health issues. […]

  KERRY County Council has appointed Parkway Contracts Ltd to construct four new housing units in Tralee. The houses are being provided under the government’s Rebuilding Ireland programme at a cost of just over €700,000. The units, which will be constructed at Bill Kinnerk Road, Oakpark, will include two three-bedroom semi-detached […]

KERRY students scooped three awards in the National Final of the Local Enterprise Student Enterprise Awards was held on the 3rd May 2017 in Croke Park. The Intermediate Category entry Dylan Mangan from Killorglin Community College secured the “Most Creative Use of  Social Media” Award for his company “grandparentsmemories.com’. This includes grandparent’s […]

TRANSITION Year students from both CBS The Green and Presentation Secondary were entertaining audiences this week with a production of a play at CBS. Anne Fine’s ‘Flour Babies’ was staged on Wednesday and Thursday and was well-attended on both nights. The play, organised by The Green’s TY students, follows a class of […]

THERE was some stunning work on display from art students of night classes held at Colaiste Gleann Lí, at the school on Thursday night. The 42 artists, ranging in age from 18 to 86 years of age, have been attending classes in eight week courses from October to March under the […]