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  A PUBLIC meeting, organised by ShannonWatch, will be held in the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, at 2pm this Saturday, March 4. ShannonWatch strongly believe that US military planes should not be allowed to pass through Shannon Airport. The meeting will be chaired by Edward Horgan and features John Lannon and […]

YOU may have noticed it’s been raining for a while now. Well Met Eireann has updated its Yellow Status rainfall warning for Kerry, Clare, Cork, Limerick and Connacht, which was due to end at 6pm today, until tomorrow afternoon. There’ll be further falls of heavy rain today, tonight and into Saturday, […]

‘FREEBIE Friday’, a new initiative from Kerry County Council aimed at bringing a new lease of life to Tralee, has been launched to encourage people to enjoy Tralee town centre on Friday evenings. The Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Terry O’Brien, said that Kerry County Council’s initiative, which had immediate effect […]

IT was a special occasion for over 40 pupils from two schools in town, when they made their confirmations on Thursday. Families of the pupils were safely in from the rain at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church as Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne, confirmed the young boys and girls of sixth […]

A TRALEE councillor is trying to get a rate cut for  any new businesses taking a premises in the town centre. Cllr Pa Daly of Sinn Féin has a motion before the next meeting of the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council, that the authority should introduce a discounted […]

LOOKS like we’ll have to keep our brollies out for another day at least, as Met Eireann issued another weather warning today for Kerry this morning. The Status Yellow rainfall warning will stay in place until 6pm tomorrow evening. The warning means that Kerry, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo and Clare will see […]

A CELEBRATION of young Kerry filmmaking was held in Siamsa Tíre on Thursday morning with the annual FÍS Film Project for Schools screenings. Each year, the Education Centre working in collaboration with the Kerry Film Festival invites schools to present their films at local screenings. This provides students and teachers […]

THAT didn’t take very long. Shoppers and  workers were greeted with a different looking Mall this morning as the 13 trees which adorned the area were cut down. As reported yesterday, the trees were to be removed by the Council in anticipation of works on The Mall later this year. […]

IF your club or organisation wants to take part in this year’s Tralee St Patrick’s Day parade, you better get moving as the deadline for entries is this Friday, March 3. The event is always a great opportunity  to show the amazing community spirit we have in Tralee and with this year’s theme […]

MOTORISTS are urged to be cautious if driving in The Kerries tonight and in the morning after a part of the road collapsed. The hole is located near a bend about halfway between the turn off for Cockleshell Road and the turn to head towards the Spa/Fenit road. A concerned local […]

TODAY marked 45 years since Walsh & O’Brien on Strand Street, began trading at their premises next to the Bon Secours Hospital. Sadly, today it was also their final day in business. Mary Walsh and her cousin Dominic O’Brien, who sadly passed away two years ago, bought the shop from Michael and Maggie Maye 45 years […]

THE 16th annual Lollipop Day, for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund (OCF) will take place this weekend on Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4. The OCF is asking for support this weekend to help raise vital funds for oesophageal cancer. Lollipop Day involves thousands of people selling lollipops (€2) nationwide, in an […]

THE landscape of The Mall will look a whole lot different tomorrow evening. With the work due to commence on a shared space for motorists and pedestrians in May, workers will take the initial step tomorrow of cutting down the trees which have stood in The Mall for 20 years. […]

WELL-DESERVED it is too. The staff at Garvey’s Supervalu in Rock Street are celebrating after they won Best Medium Store in Ireland 2017 at the Supervalu Awards. The team from Garvey’s SuperValu were presented with their award by Martin Kelleher, SuperValu Managing Director and Michael Morgan, SuperValu Sales Director. Winning this title […]

TWO exhibitions have arrived at CBS The Green to be displayed to students and the wider community on Wednesday. One of the exhibitions will be on loan from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences in UCC and is named the ‘Atlas of the Irish Revolution’. It comprises of 12 […]

SCHOOLS all over town were tucking into treats today as Shrove Tuesday arrived. The children were gobbling up their pancakes when TraleeToday called to Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn  ahead of the fasting period of Lent. Making pancakes for the day has become a tradition at the school. Every year, the teachers prepare the pancake […]

THE first ever ‘recruitment festival’, RecFest, will be held in Tralee next month. RecFest will take place on Thursday, March 23 between 4pm and 7pm on Abbey Street (between Yummy Cafe and The Abbey Inn), with stalls taken by businesses from all around Kerry lining the pedestrianised way. RecFest Tralee, sponsored  by AIB, […]

AROUND 800 people registered for the fourth Tralee 5km Santa Fun Run in December and the cheque for the amount raised from the event was presented recently in Barretstown. The race is run annually in memory of Fiona Moore who died at the age of 16 in May 2013 from Pulmonary […]

THE screening of an acclaimed movie from a Tralee director will take place next week in Killarney. ‘Dead Along The Way’, written and directed by Maurice O’Carroll will be put on at Cinema Killarney on Tuesday, March 7 at 8.30pm. This will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, and […]

THE number of drink driving detections may have decreased in 2016, but there has been a surge of people arrested for the offence in the first two months of this year. Garda Chief Superintendent for the Kerry Division, Tom Myers, revealed that there have been 58 detections in January and February – nine […]

BURGLARIES saw a big decrease in 2016 according to the latest figures released by gardaí, but the welcome news came with a note of caution as there has been a spate of crimes so far this year. Chief Supt Tom Myers gave the crime statistics for 2016 at the meeting of […]

GoKerry has announced the appointment of Grace O’Donnell as the new Manager of the organisation. GoKerry is an all Kerry tourism organisation giving a voice to businesses, individuals and communities promoting Kerry as Ireland’s most vibrant tourism destination. “Grace brings with her into the roll a vast amount of experience in […]

IT was a sleety, blustery morning at Listellick National School as they launched their ‘Walk a Marathon’ challenge and the students were happy to get out of the classroom to begin the first day of it on Monday. The school plans to become more active by walking a kilometre a […]

KERRY County Council has signed a contract for the construction of four new houses at Baile an Gharraí, Lixnaw which are to be constructed under the national Rebuilding Ireland programme at a cost of just over €500,000. Kerry County Council has appointed Tim Scanlan Construction Ltd to construct the new units; the houses are two-storey, two-bedroom units […]

“THIS cup is a cornerstone of what we are.” The words of Frank O’Connor describing the Houlihan Cup at the Kerins O’Rahillys Clubhouse on Saturday night, an occasion to remember and honour a competition and a family which has given so much to the Strand Road club. A large crowd was present […]

GOOD on you whoever you are. Somebody in Tralee/Blennerville is €154,280 richer as of Friday night, as they won a big prize in the Euromillions draw. They bought their ticket in O’Shea’s Gala store in Blennerville and can look forward to a nice windfall. Continued below… They were the only Irish […]

IF you’re heading to the match in Killarney tomorrow take care. Kerry  County Council is advising motorists and members of the public to take care and precautions tomorrow, Sunday, from 6am to 3pm in particular, following the issuing of a Code Orange warning for wind for Kerry, Cork, Wexford and Waterford […]

THE Rockies sure know how to throw a good party! Around 430 people gathered in Ballygarry House Hotel on Friday afternoon for the Austin Stacks GAA Corporate Lunch as part of the club’s centenary celebrations. It was an afternoon of superb entertainment with more GAA legends present than you could shake a stick at, […]

ROBBIE Kelleher will refer to it on his tombstone, it made Mikey Sheehy famous and Paddy Cullen rich. It was described by the late, great commentator Micheál Ó Hehir as the ‘greatest freak of all time’ and it’s still a focus of fascination nearly 40 years on. When Mikey Sheehy cheekily […]

PACO at The Mall, Tralee, held a coffee morning and fashion show on Friday morning, in aid of the family of a local woman who passed away earlier this year. Patricia Flavin (nee Guerin) was a young woman from Ballyheigue who died suddenly, leaving behind a husband and five children. The coffee […]