Sport

  Munster Junior Cup Final, Mounthawk Park Tralee Dynamos 0 Carrick United (Waterford) 3 TRALEE Dynamos fell at the final hurdle to an excellent Carrick United team well worth their victory. Dynamos, who were playing in their first final in this competition and were became the second Kerry team ever to get […]

Castleisland Mart Senior Club Championship Semi Final Dingle 3-10 Austin Stacks 0-11 AUSTIN STACKS crashed out of the club championship for the second year in a row at the hands of Dingle. A goal from Paul Geaney with the last kick of the first half set the men from the […]

TRALEE Pitch & Putt Club celebrates its 40th year anniversary this year and has just launched its 2015 Youth Academy. Since its inception  in 1975, Tralee Pitch & Putt club has provided the ideal sanctuary for countless youths of the town. The club was founded at the old Champhers (John […]

Mike McCarthy reports on a big night in The Huddle Bar for darts followers… ALL roads led to the Huddle Bar in Tralee on Friday night for the final of the Specsavers-sponsored Tralee and District League semi finals and finals Section B and C. In the B section, the home side […]

TRALEE Chess Club have been collecting silverware in the past week in the form of the Munster League Division 2 Trophy. A team from Tralee, were crowned champions last Saturday evening in Ennis, where they beat St Michael’s from Limerick 4-1. The victory means that Tralee Chess Club will play […]

Gavin O’Connor looks ahead to the Austin Stacks v Dingle Senior Football Club Championship, semi-final in Austin Stack Park this Sunday… THE year 2014 will live long in the memory in Connolly Park. County and Munster titles and a county league which was only added last week, made it truly a vintage […]

  Gavin O’Connor meets former League of Ireland player, Derek O’Brien, who came home to give something back to his boyhood club, Tralee Dynamos, as they bid to make history this Sunday… BACK in November, Kerry soccer pioneer Derek O’Brien, returned home to Tralee Dynamos with the expressed goal of […]

A DOCUMENTARY about the life of the late Páidí Ó Sé which recently won an award at the Celtic Media Festival 2015 in Inverness, Scotland, is to be shown again this Friday at 7.30pm on TG4. It coincides with the unveiling of his statue outside his pub in Ventry this Saturday. ‘Páidí […]

Kerry 0-16 Cork 1-12 THE KERRY minors will get a chance to defend their Munster crown after they beat the old enemy in a tight and intense battle in Austin Stack Park. In the ninth minute of extra time, Spa’s Micheal Foley became the hero when he edged Kerry a […]

  OLYMPIC Gold medallist Katie Taylor will be hoping to take another step towards qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio when she fights in Listowel Community Centre this Saturday May 16. The people of Kerry are being encouraged to come and show their support for Katie as she goes toe to […]

Tralee Dynamos v Carrick United Munster Junior Cup Final, Mounthawk Park, Sunday 2pm TRALEE Dynamos are on the verge of making history this Sunday when they play their first ever Munster Junior Cup final against Waterford side Carrick United. Only once before has a Kerry team made the final of […]

KIERAN Donaghy has left his job to concentrate on other opportunities. The Kerry captain is set to leave his job in Ulster Bank on Ashe Street at the end of the week. He has agreed a severance package with the company after a long association. In was reported in the Irish […]

  St BRENDANS PARK FC KERRY CUP; St Brendans Park Fc will host the Kerry Cup for U12’s on Friday 24th July and Saturday 25th July 2015. Register now to avoid disappointment . Places Limited to 16 teams . Full details on the clubs website or email info@stbrendansparkfc.com . FAI […]

Tucker Kelly U16 Shield – Fenit Samphires 6 Park FC 0 A great finish to the season for the 16s team and well deserved in the end. The Tucker Kelly Shield was coming to Fenit after a 6 nil defeat of Park A in Listowel. We dominated from the start […]

ANOTHER accolade was awarded to the Rock club on Monday when Austin Stacks were honoured with a Tralee Municipal District reception at Kerry County Council buildings. The Austin Stacks club received the accolade because of the achievements on the sporting field over the past year, where they have scooped county and provincial honours. The […]

FORMER Tralee Dynamos and current Cork City star, Billy Dennehy, last night netted a second half hat-trick which took him 36 minutes to complete in a 4-1 victory over Drogheda United. (Video Below) Dennehy was the leesiders saviour in Turners Cross on the night where they trailed at half-time 1-0 […]

THE good people at ‘Sideline Eye’ were at the County League final at Connolly Park on Saturday with their cameras. Austin Stacks beat Dr Crokes by 2-9 to 0-13, in an exciting encounter filmed by John C O’Shea’s media company. Earlier today they uploaded a video featuring Kieran Donaghy’s goal, ‘Star’ […]

FRESH from Austin Stacks victory over Dr Crokes less than 24 hours before, the clubhouse in Connolly Park played host to the launch of RTE’s 2015 All Ireland championship coverage. Sports presenter Marty Morrissey was at the helm, ably supported by legend of Kerry football, Tomás Ó Sé, along with ex Galway […]

AUSTIN STACKS captain and former Kerry player, Daniel Bohane, will miss at least 12 weeks of football after breaking his collarbone. The injury occurred  in The Rock’s two point victory over Dr Crokes in the 2014 deferred county league final played on Saturday evening in Connolly Park. Continued below… It happened 10 […]

AROUND 85 participants set of on their bikes on Saturday morning to raise funds for a great cause. The Fenit Lifeboat Cycle was another success and after last year’s awful weather conditions, the gods smiled down on the cyclists this time as they set off in the sun from O’Donnell’s […]

Credit Union Senior County League 2014 Final, Connolly Park Austin Stacks 2-9 Dr Crokes 0-13 AUSTIN STACKS have added a county league title to their 2014 haul by beating Dr Crokes in the deciding match of last year’s campaign. Extra time was needed for the Rock to get one over […]

  Mike O’Halloran reports from Austin Stack Park as the Kerry hurlers got past a tough Meath challenge… Kerry 1-23 Meath 2-18 In round two of the Christy Ring Cup, Colm Harty had the ball in the Meath net after forty seconds, but that was as good as it got for […]

THERE was a large gathering at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night for the annual Kerry Badminton Association Social. Around 150 members from the nine clubs around Kerry were there to mark another successful year for the association and enjoy a night out, with a four course meal and entertainment. Continued below… Junior […]

  Credit Union Senior Football Division One Final Austin Stacks v Dr Crokes Connolly Park, 7pm DUE to Austin Stacks incredible run through the Munster club championship in 2014, last year’s scheduled league final against Dr Crokes had to be postponed. It was decided at the start of the year […]

REMEMBER the guy who upstaged Anna Wintour at the Met Gala earlier this week in his Kerry jersey? He was later revealed to be Clayton James, a regular visitor to Dingle over the past 25 years, who bought the shirt last year in Garvey’s. Well Brian O’Connell has posted a […]

IT Tralee and the Cycle Against Suicide are among Kerry nominees in the upcoming Shannon Group European Sport Tourism Awards which takes place next week. The shortlist was announced during the week for the Awards which attracted over 200 nominations from across Europe and Ireland. The Institute of Technology, Tralee is up […]

A FORMER Tralee Dynamos goalkeeper has extended his professional contract with Forest Green Rovers in England. Paul White, who has represented Ireland at under 18 level, has extended his contract at the Gloucestershire club for a third season after a promising campaign that saw him benefit from a spell spent out on […]

TRALEE Bay Swimming Club are set to take the plunge this weekend as they get ready to take part in what will be Kerry’s first ever ‘Darkness Into Light Swim’ with funds from this going towards Pieta House. Tralee is amongst the few locations in Kerry that will not be […]

  THE Listowel Races are back this June and ladies are set to turn on the style with a €5,000 prize fund up for grabs. Details were announced this week of the forthcoming annual two day Listowel Races June Bank Holiday Meeting which will be held at the scenic race […]

TRALEE has a new All-Ireland winning team after Mercy Mounthawk won a final yesterday in Dublin. The first year team clinched the All-Ireland Schools First Year B Final title at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, beating Presentation Kilkenny 40-14. “It was a massive achievement,” said Head Coach, Tomás O’Hanlon, when we […]