SCHOOLS

GAELCHOLÁISTE Chiarraí are celebrating their annual Positive Mental Health Week at the moment and a number of events and activities are taking place at the school. The week is part of an overall health promotion initiative in the school following on from the Mental Health Amber flag that the school was awarded last […]

AN Open Day will be held at Kerry College of Further Education, Tralee this Friday, November 11 from 10am to 3.30pm. The college, which is based in Clash, is now one of the leading colleges of further education in Munster serving the needs of school leavers, the unemployed, those wishing to upskill or […]

THE Monsignor O’Flaherty Memorial Weekend just took place in Killarney and part of the event was a schools’ literary competition. The winners were announced recently and students from Mercy Mounthawk in Tralee and Ardfert NS emerged as winners. In the Primary Schools category, students were invited to write a short […]

YESTERDAY we brought you photos from the IT Tralee graduation ceremony on Friday morning, where students from the School of Business, Computing and Humanities got their just rewards for their hard work. Here’s the final part of our coverage from the two days of conferrings at the Brandon Hotel Conference […]

ON Friday morning, the results of years of study bore fruit for hundreds of students from IT Tralee. The students from courses in the School of Business, Computing and Humanities gathered at the Brandon Hotel for their conferring ceremony and received the congratulations from the IT Tralee President, Oliver Murphy. […]

PUPILS had a great start to the mid-term break when the school dressed up for a Halloween party on Friday. Vampires, zombies, witches and superheroes walked the corridors of the school as each class got a chance to enjoy party games and fun in the school hall. A fun time then […]

HUNDREDS of students gathered in the Brandon Conference Centre on Friday for two IT Tralee conferring ceremonies. In the afternoon it was the turn of students who completed courses in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the School of Health and Social Sciences to step up to […]

AS we reported earlier (click here for previous coverage), Thursday saw students from the School of Health and Social Sciences conferred with degrees at the Brandon Conference Centre. They were some of the close on 1,000 IT Tralee students attending graduation ceremonies on Thursday and Friday. The graduation was a special occasion for the […]

SATURDAY should be a very special day in The Meadowlands Hotel, when ladies who completed their leaving certificate in Presentation Tralee back in 1966 meet again. Anne Kelliher is the main organisers of the event and is looking forward to meeting old friends. Anne lived in nearby Moyderwell/Upper Castle Street and remembered her […]

A report on the Munster Under 15A Semi Final… Tralee CBS 4-13 Rochestown College 5-6 Tralee CBS have qualified for the Munster U15 final following a tremendous 2nd half comeback in which they scored an astonishing seventeen points with no reply. Played in ideal conditions in Millstreet “The Green” started […]

THE inaugural Kerry Science Festival, which is a week-long schedule of science events taking place across the county, takes place between Sunday, November 13 and Sunday, November 20. People of all ages will be invited to enjoy and participate in a programme of free public engagement events, community talks, exhibitions, shows and school workshops. According […]

IT’S going to be a busy couple of days around town as almost 1,000 IT Tralee students will attend their graduation ceremonies. One of the main highlights of the IT Tralee calendar, the students will graduate on Thursday and Friday at the Brandon Conference Centre in Tralee. Each of the 26 counties, in addition […]

BUS EIREANN has officially launched an exciting new competition for Transition Year students, ‘Go Places with Bus Éireann’, which is running for the first time in the current academic year, 2016/2017. Participating students will be in with a chance of winning one of five regional prizes – including the South-West – of €3,000 […]

WHILE most secondary schools in the country will be affected by teachers’ strike action on Thursday, most Kerry ETB schools, including Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Coláiste Gleann Lí will not be affected. Industrial action by members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) now looks likely to go ahead after they failed to […]

MERCY Mounthawk held their annual awards reception on Saturday morning for those who obtained the highest grades in Leaving and Junior Certificate exams in 2016. Twelve students were honoured (although Leaving Cert student, Ciara Holmes, was unable to attend) at the ceremony attended by their families and some teachers. Three Leaving Cert students  Caoimhe […]

THE students and staff at St Ita’s and St Joseph’s School in Balloonagh were delighted this week when a local family made a kind-hearted donation to the facility. Martin Moore and his wife Deirdre from Caherslee, presented the money at the school – which caters for young people with special needs – on Friday […]

PUPILS at Caherleaheen got to grips with maths in a fun way this week. The school is taking part in Maths Week and everyone was really enjoying themselves when we visited the school hall, which was awash with colourful outfits with pupils taking part in maths-related activities. It’s been a big effort […]

NEARLY 200 students received qualifications at the Kerry Education and Training Board Presentation of Certificates ceremony at the Rose Hotel on Wednesday. Awards were presented for 30 different courses in 10 categories, completed both as full-time day courses and part-time evening course delivery with special guest, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh delivering […]

A NUMBER of students celebrated their graduation in Cork yesterday. Among the many graduating with a degree in Business Information Systems at University College Cork, were Kerry students. One of whom, Aisling Mooney from Tralee, won a Most Innovative Project Award. Well done to all. Conferrings are taking place at the college […]

FILMMAKERS of all ages are invited to ‘Make Every Second Count’ when they enter the fourth annual Live Life National Film Competition. It is over three years now since young teenager Donal Walsh sadly lost his battle to cancer.  The impact of his powerful positive message however continues to be spread […]

LAST week Mercy Mounthawk transition year students took on their teachers in an annual wheelchair basketball match that raised €165 for local club the Kingdom Wheelblasters. No mercy was shown by teachers who continued their winning streak over students in front of a big crowd in the school gymnasium. It […]

STUDENTS at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí have certainly been getting out and about this month climbing a mountain and visiting Paris. Forty TY students climbed Mount Brandon on Friday, October 7, and had a great day. “We were extremely lucky with the weather, very cold at the top. “It was a great bonding experience for the […]

THE official launch of the Lee Strand/Kerry Garda Youth Achievement Awards 2016 was held this week at Lee Strand, to look for young people whose achievements deserve to be acknowledged. Since 1998 the awards have rewarded the achievements of young people from Kerry between the ages of 14 years and 19 years. […]

THE open day at Coláiste Gleann Lí in Clash was a huge success on Saturday with the biggest numbers yet coming through the doors between 9.30am and 1pm. The school, which now has 150 students, is going from strength to strength and the staff had a chance to show parents and […]

TWO Presentation Tralee students have been selected to participate in the International  Junior Science Olympiad qualifiers. Michelle Doody, Ballybeggan, Tralee  and Ciara Boyd, The Spa, Tralee  of Transition year have been selected based on their excellent Junior Cert results in Science and Maths. Continued below… The International Junior Science Olympiad is a […]

A TRALEE student was among 60 students who received €1,500 as part of NUI Galway annual Excellence Scholarships. Former Mercy Mounthawk student, Donagh Ó Buachalla from Clahane, was among a select group of first-year students were feted at a special ceremony last night, in recognition of the high points they achieved in the recent […]

A TRALEE teenager will receive an award later this month for getting the highest marks in Ireland in art. There were great celebrations in Presentation Secondary School when the news arrived that Alice Jaeger from Ballyard, of the Leaving Cert group 2016 had achieved the highest marks of any student in the country in […]

GAELSCOIL Mhic Easmainn 4th, 5th and 6th class pupils gave the musical performance for a TG4 camera crew on Wednesday. TV show ‘Cleas Act’ visited the school to film the kids performing with the band Seo Linn and it doesn’t end there. Singers from Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn will travel to RTE […]

THE Summer Stars reading programme ran in public libraries throughout the country, including in Tralee this summer and 180 children received certificates in Tralee Library on Saturday. Each child who registered for the programme at their local library in Kerry received their own Summer Stars Reading Card to record their progress and the Summer Stars Reward Stamp was added to their […]

ALL next week, health will be at forefront of activities at Mercy Mounthawk for the school’s annual Health Promotion Week. A wheelchair basketball tournament that pits transition year students against teachers is the main event of the week, with proceeds from the games going to charity. The week is steered […]