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ALMOST €25 million in commercial rates have been collected by Kerry County Council rate collectors so far this year. €24,856,809 was collected in total since rate demands were issued in March to end of August. The figures were published at the local authority meeting this week. The figure represents half of […]

THERE was never going to be an official homecoming for the Kerry minor team after their heroics in Dublin and the team was told of this three weeks ago. Speaking to Radio Kerry’s Fiona Stack, Chairman of the Kerry County Board, Pat O’Sullivan, said the policy of the county board is to only […]

TWO local charities will this year benefit from the annual Tralee Golf Club Captains Charity Day. It takes place on Friday, October 14 at Tralee Golf Club and all funds from the day will go towards charities, Kerry Hospice and Family Carers Ireland, Kerry Branch. All funds raised will stay […]

THE Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, and staff from his Office will be visiting Tralee on Thursday to take complaints from the public about public services. It is part of the Ombudsman’s ‘Outreach’ programme, and staff from his office will be in the Rose Hotel, Tralee from 10am to 7pm on this […]

ANAM Cara, the organisation that supports bereaved parents, is hosting a Bereavement Information Evening on Tuesday, October 4 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm in the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee. The event gives parents an opportunity to hear a professional, experienced in bereavement support, talk about the many challenges families have to face into […]

  REPRESENTATIVES from Kerry businesses, enterprise support agencies, Kerry County Council and IT Tralee gathered at the Ballygarry House Hotel to launch the Interreg Entrepreneurial European Region (iEER) Project “Boosting Innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Europe”. The aim of this project is to create an opportunity for entrepreneurs, aged between 25 and […]

FINAL preparations are being made at CBS, The Green as it looks forward to hosting its second 5k and 3k fun runs this Sunday at 1pm. The fun run, which saw over 500 runners take part last year is a fund raiser for the school’s all-weather pitch which is currently under construction. […]

GARDAI are urging people to be on the lookout for two women claiming to be collecting for charity and calling to the homes of elderly people in Tralee. Gardaí first received a report on August 11 that two women, pretending to be Spanish students were calling to elderly people in […]

IT’S getting close now to a weekend of culinary delights around the town for the Tralee Food Festival. The event, which returns after last year’s successful debut, will feature longer Taste and Craft Beer Trails, an Artisan Food Market, Cookery Demonstrations and a variety of menus at some of Tralee’s top […]

A CAR Free Day will take place across Kerry this Thursday as part of European Mobility Week, an annual campaign on sustainable urban mobility which runs from September 16-22. The aim of the campaign is to encourage and promote sustainable transport measures and to invite people to try out alternatives to […]

THE doctor who has been accused of raping a woman at the Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee, has left the country, according to a report in the Irish Independent. Gardaí in Tralee are investigating the allegation that a 61 year old woman was raped earlier this month and are appealing to anyone who has any information […]

TWO Tralee students will head to Dublin next week to take part in the Miss Ireland pageant. Bláthín Griffin and Shannon Lonergan both took part in the Miss Kerry pageant back in March and finished first and second runner up respectively to the winner, Niamh Enright from Listowel. Now all three are […]

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, […]