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SIAMSA Tire was buzzing with activity on Friday night as crowds enjoyed a host of events for all ages during Culture Night. It was just one of many venues hosting get togethers for the artistic community in town for an annual event which continues to grow. The highlight in Siamsa […]

A CAHERSIVEEN-BASED couple came second at the inaugural ILDN Local Development Enterprise Awards this week in Dublin. Katie and Tomasz Gwis of K & T Bakery and Restaurant won second prize for winning growth strategy which has seen their business create 15 jobs, through their bakery, café and restaurant in Cahersiveen. Derek Walker […]

LAST year Mercy Mounthawk were big winners and now the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards looking for Tralee and Kerry entrants in the prestigious competition. The organisers are calling all aspiring actors, playwrights, singers and costume designers in the county to enter in the fourth year of the highly successful awards set up […]

HOUSE Tralee and various other houses in the Kingdom and beyond the realm, descended on IT Tralee over the past two days to do battle for the King of The North…Campus. A replica of ‘The Iron Throne’ from the colossally popular HBO fantasy drama, ‘Game of Thrones’ was in situ at the […]

CBS PRIMARY SCHOOL junior infants and their sixth class ‘buddies’ got to know each other a bit better over some healthy food at a ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ in the school hall. At CBS, a newly arrived infant class pupil is ‘buddied’ up with a sixth class boy or girl to […]

COLÁISTE Gleann Lí is standing up to bullying by launching the ISPCC bangle in Tralee on Friday morning. The ISPCC has launched its 2016 Shield Campaign, raising awareness of the need to Stand Up Against Bullying, and asking the public to support the campaign by buying a bangle in Penneys’ stores nationwide. […]

TO celebrate the 2016 European Week of Sport, the CARA Centre based at the South Campus of IT Tralee organised an event themed ‘Bring Back The Mile’ this week. The 2016 European Week of Sport and Physical Activity is being celebrated across Ireland from 10-18 September. The week is for […]

IT’S back again for another year and Kerry kids are being encouraged to take part in a programme which has proved a great success over the years. Some of Ireland’s most successful entrepreneurs are calling on primary schools nationwide to participate in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. The free nationwide programme […]

THE average rent for all dwellings in the private rented sector in Kerry  in Quarter 2, 2016, registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), was €576. This was up €4 when compared to the average rent in Q1, 2016, when the amount was €572, and was up €29 when compared to […]

WHILE he won’t exactly be a singing priest, Fr Padraig Walsh of St Brendan’s Parish will be among the 13 contestants strutting their stuff on stage in a few weeks at the Enable Ireland  Kerry Services first ever ‘Lip Sing’ event. Taking place on Saturday, October 1 at The Earl of Desmond Hotel, […]

FORMER Tralee publican, Steve Smith, has raised over €3,000 for Recovery Haven through a darts tournament held at his current venture, The Ploughman’s Bar in Abbeyfeale. Steve Smith spent around 20 years in Tralee running the Pig N Whistle on Rock Street and The Strand Bar on Strand Street, now The Huddle […]

A WEIGHT was lifted for hundreds of students around Tralee this morning when they found out their Junior Cert results. Over 1,800 students in the county received their grades early this morning and students from the town’s schools looked pleased when we met a few of them. Laura Harty in Mercy Mounthawk opened her […]

With the release of Junior Certificate results today, Billy Ryle says students should reflect and choose wisely for the senior cycle… THERE were 60,247 candidates nationwide – 29672 female/30575 male – who received their Junior Cert exam results today. The results nationwide are excellent and well deserved after three years of […]

IT’S time for the lads to get in touch with their feminine side and to take part in a women’s running event next month in aid of a great cause. The Dawn Killarney Women’s Mini Marathon takes place on Saturday, October 8 at 11am and there’s a 5k and 10k run included in the event. Mental […]

A LEGENDARY Tralee footballer’s medals will go to auction in Kilkenny later this month. Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers will conduct an auction specialising in GAA memorabilia, which comprises of over 800 lots, at The Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Ormonde Street, on Wednesday, September 28 at 10.30am. Among the lots is Kerry and Austin Stacks […]

AROUND 30 or so people crammed themselves into a room at the Tralee International Resource Centre (TIRC) on Monday evening looking to help Syrian and Iraqi refugees who have recently come to Tralee. There are 81 refugees from Syria and Iraq in Kerry. Twelve families are located in Tralee, four […]

  A WEST Limerick man who bought his winning Lotto ticket in Listowel, collected a cool €131,795 in Dublin today. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, won the prize when he matched five numbers and the bonus in the Lotto draw on Saturday, July 30 2016. Speaking today, he said; “I’d three tickets […]

GARDAÍ at Killarney will today commence searching and excavating a site at Derrennageeha, Ballaghisheen Pass, Waterville, as part of their ongoing investigation into the abduction and disappearance of Charles Brooke Pickard from White Strand at Castlecove, on  April 26, 1991. The site is located in a Coillte forest off the Waterville/Ballaghisheen road, […]

  KERRY County Council is to host workshops next week for a variety of interest groups and business and community representatives to discuss the future use of the Denny factory site which has been earmarked for redevelopment. It comes following the close of receipt of submissions from members of the public […]

TRALEE Credit Union have €10,500 to giveaway in their annual Education and Dan Kellegher Memorial Awards.   The Education Awards are open to undergraduates in a full time course of at least 2 years’ duration and Dan Kellegher Memorial Awards are open to post-graduates in a full or part-time course of […]

HURLING fans will be hoping for more of the same in less than two weeks time when Kilmoyley and Ballyduff go at it again. It’ll be a late afternoon throw-in on for the replay of the Garvey’s SuperValu County Senior Hurling Championship Final which will take place on Saturday, September 24 in Austin […]

OVER 30 people slept out overnight in Pearse Park at the weekend to raise awareness of the homeless situation in the country. Organised by Marion Coffey, Charlene Tydings, Julie Fitzpatrick, Marilyn O’Shea and Tina Lonergan, ‘Under The Elements’ took place between 6pm and 6am on Saturday/Sunday. Then on Sunday afternoon there […]

AFTER the dreadful weather on Friday, the weather cleared up well for the 188 participants in the Ardfert Harvest Cycle on Saturday morning. The yard at Ardfert National School was buzzing with people as Big Jim got them warmed up belting out tunes from his soundsystem. There was coffee, tea […]

A DERRYLEA man is after winning a €500 Manor West Retail Park voucher courtesy of the Tralee International Children’s Games. Seamie O’Neil will be able to spend that money in any of the retail stores in Manor West including the Manor West Hotel. Other prizes were a weekend away in […]

KERRY County Council has made two new appointments in both writing and filmmaking. Ciara Hyland from Cork is the new Filmmaker in Residence while Máire Holmes, who lives in Galway, is the new Writer in Residence. Ciara Hyland is a documentary director behind the documentary ‘Diarmuid Lynch – The Forgotten Volunteer’ about […]

A LECTURE on a Tralee man who died during World War 1 will take place in Tralee Library during Culture Night next Friday. One hundred years ago this September, 22-year-old Denis Baily from Tralee won the Military Cross for his bravery during the Battle of the Somme. He was among […]

HERE’s a great and fun opportunity for kids to get their creative juices flowing and be in with a chance of winning a national art award. Every year Sightsavers celebrate the creative imaginations of Ireland’s children through its Junior Painter Awards competition. The competition is open to primary school students […]

IT’S about to get windy out. We’ve had extremely humid and ‘dead’ weather over the last few days, but that’s about to change tomorrow. Met Eireann has issued a Status Yellow Wind Warning for the western seaboard to include Kerry, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo and Clare. Southerly winds later veering southwesterly, […]

STUDENTS from Tralee and around the country are being invited to register to take part in the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2017. Tralee students have a good record in the competition. Just last year, Presentation Tralee Transition Year Science students won three prizes including the Senior Waste category and Overall Senior Prize […]

THREE GAA clubs have decided to support a local post office by encouraging members to use the facility. Post Offices are coming under increasing pressure to remain open and Austin Stacks, Kerins O’Rahillys and St Pats GAA clubs are playing their part in ensuring the survival of this vital community service. Martin and Marie […]