Sport

KERRY Motor Club will launch its Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally with a special function at the landmark Tralee establishment on Monday night, March 20. The event attracts thousands of rally fans to town say the organisers and this creates a great tourism boost for the town. A counting round of […]

Tralee Boxing Club, will have six boxers going forward to Munsters Finals on April 1st & 2nd. The Boy 1.2.3. Munster Championships will take place in South-Side Boxing Club Limerick. Tony Murray, Mike McCarthy, Mike Murry, Mike Burke, Chris Mongans, Shane Coffey will be hard at training for the next […]

UPCOMING FIXTURES 16/3/17 Ladies Div3 Imperials v Tralee Tigers Mounthawk 18-30 20/3/17 Boys U14 Div2 Imperials v St. Paul’s Mounthawk 18-10 21/3/17 Academy Boys Pool 2 Imperials V St. Paul’s Cumman Iosaef 17-00 22/3/17 Boys U14 Div2 Gneeveguilla v Imperials Rathmore 19-00 RECENT RESULTS 5/3 Boys U16 Div1 St. Brendan’s […]

Sunday 12th March (Spring league matchplay) Maurice Laide beat Conor Stack Pat O’Meara beat Brenda Fitzgerald Danny Leen beat Dave Tarrant Brian Hennebery beat Kevin McCarthy Matt Corridan beat Alan Kelly Martin Mitchell beat John Paul Enright Kieran O’Callaghan beat Jim O’Donovan Fixtures: Fri 17th March: Open Singles Sat 18th […]

RESULTS Leestrand Boys U12 Div 2 St. Brendan’s 45 Tralee Imperials 15 St. Brendan’s U12s put their recent plate final defeat behind them to run out convincing winners against Imperials last Saturday. They started strongly and some good combined play from all players in the first quarter put them 14pts […]

TRALEE’S Bryan Cooper landed his first win of the Cheltenham festival 2017, when he rode Apples Jade to victory in the Mares’ Hurdle earlier today. It was already a good day for Kerry jockeys as 17 year old Jack Kennedy from Dingle won the festival opener on board 25/1 shot Laibaik, trained by […]

A report from IT Tralee on their great win in the Rory O’Connor Fresher Football Championship final in Cork last week… LAST Thursday night saw the IT Tralee Fresher Football team travel to CIT to play Waterford IT in the Rory O’Connor Fresher Football Championship final. Fresh from winning the Division […]

THE All Ireland Club Finals will take place in Croke Park this St Patrick’s Day, and although no Tralee Club will take part, two past pupils from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí will take to the hallowed turf  in both games. Darragh Ó’Conaill and Daithí Ó’Cathasaigh were students in the school in the noughties […]

This week is like Christmas for racing fans, so sports journalist, Murt Murphy, is hoping to give gifts to punters with his top choices for Day One of the Cheltenham Festival… In the 1.30pm opener I’ll go for Willie Mullins’ Melon. Willie reckons he is very good, although he has only run once over […]

JACK O’Connor has decided to stick with the same 15 who started against Clare for their U21  Munster Championship Semi Final this week. The Kerry Under 21s play Waterford at Fraher Field Dungarvan on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm. The team, captained by Brian Sugrue of Renard is as follows:       1. Shane […]

GARVEY’S Tralee Warriors were on fire last month and this has been recognised with both the Men’s Super League Player of the Month and the Men’s Super League Coach of the Month titles for the month of February. Head Coach Mark Bernsen won Coach of the Month for February after Tralee continued an unbeaten run […]

FORMER Irish rugby international Keith Wood and Kerry senior football team boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice are among the high-profile figures from the world of local, national and international sport who will attend a series of panel discussions on recreation and sport at the launch of the new five-year strategy of the Kerry […]

  IT may have been a 13 point defeat (0-12 to 1-22) but there was certainly no shame in Kerry’s loss to Galway on Sunday in the home side’s penultimate Allianz Hurling League Division 1B game of the season. Kerry will now prepare for a showdown with Offaly on March […]

IT was close…very close. However, Garvey’s Tralee Warriors winning run came to end last night up in Dublin when they were beaten by newly crowned champions, Templeogue. The Dublin side won the Men’s Super League crown after a 96-93 win over Tralee Warriors at Oblate Hall. Tralee will finish third if they […]

  SHANE Nolan comes back into the Kerry side to face Galway on Sundayin Round 4 of the Allianz Hurling League on Sunday next in Austin Stack Park. That’s the only change from the side defeated by Wexford in Round 3 last weekend. Shane Nolan comes back into the side in […]

A STAR-STUDDED line-up of racing experts were in Skelper Quane’s on Thursday night for a look forward to Cheltenham. In what’s become an annual fundraiser, jockeys Bryan Cooper and Philip Enright were joined by photographer Pat Healy of Listowel Races, bookmaker Berkie Browne and Conor O’Neill of Punchestown Racecourse on the panel. […]

  Patsy shows young guns, 60 yr olds can break national records too Patsy O’Connor represented Tralee Harriers at The Irish Life Health Master National Indoor Championships on Sunday 5th of March in Athlone. This is a very competitive event and provided another enjoyable spectacle and age defying performances at […]

ST. BRENDAN’S BASKETBALL CLUB NOTES RESULTS Ladies Div 2 St Brendan’s 53 Kenmare Kestrels 44 Both sides started off very tight with basket for basket with the home side coming out on top leading the end of the first quater 12-8pts. Second quarter Kenmare Kestrels picked up the pace with […]

Tralee Imperials u12 div 3 girls were in plate final Sunday, March 5, out in Duagh v TK Cougars. They played TK Cobras in the first round of the plate and won 28/12,then they went on to play St Bridget, Currow and won that game 29/19 which was a trilling semi […]

The of Division 2, and Division 4 Ladies and Mens Double Badminton Championships held in Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre Friday, March 3. • Div 2 ladies doubles winners Helen Browne and Saorcha Fitzgerald Moyvane defeated Maeve Twomey Killarney and Brid Murphy Kingdom. 13-21 21-14 23-21 • Div 2 Men’s Doubles […]

KILLARNEY Credit Union played host to the official launch of the 2017 Kerry Senior Football and Hurling County Leagues sponsored by Chapter 23 Kerry & West Limerick Credit Unions on Monday, March at its head office in Beech Road. The County Leagues commenced back in 1971 when eight teams took […]

THE success of Garvey’s Tralee Warriors has not gone unnoticed this season, with two of their players making the Irish basketball squad. Kieran Donaghy and Ryan Leonard are among the 20 players named in head coach Pete Strickland’s squad. There are eight of the 12 Men’s Super League teams  represented on the squad which also […]

THAT was fast.   The additional tickets for the Kerry V Dublin Allianz Football League match on Saturday March 18 at Austin Stack Park sold out very quickly this morning. A limited number of additional tickets had been issued by Croke Park and the public was notified via the Kerry […]

THE Kerry Under 21 Football Team to play Clare in the Munster Championship Quarter Final at Austin Stack Park Tralee on Wednesday evening next contains six of the side defeated by Cork in the Munster Final last year. They are Tom O’Sullivan, Jason Foley, Tom Leo O’Sullivan, Barry O’Sullivan, Brian […]

Mike O’Halloran was in Wexford to see Kerry suffer a big defeat to the model county in their Allianz National League Division 1B match on Sunday… Wexford 3-18 Kerry 0-12  Some 2,600 people turned up to see Kerry pit their wits against against the might of Wexford, about ten of them […]

IT’S been a vintage year for Na Gaeil GAA. The Oakpark club had a lot to celebrate at their annual social at the Meadowlands Hotel on Saturday night, with over 130 people attending. Among the highlights of the past 12 months? The senior side has been promoted from Division 4 as champions, they contested the […]

NOW it’s getting really interesting. Griffith Swords Thunder came to the Tralee Sports Complex last night lying six points above Garvey’s Tralee Warriors in the Men’s Superleague table. Well, they left town just three in front, as the home crowd spurred Warriors to a 68-61 victory with Trae Pemberton in top form with […]

HISTORY was made on Saturday morning at The Kingdom Greyhound Stadium, Tralee with the first ever morning SIS broadcast from an Irish track to betting shops across the UK and Ireland. This development follows on from the existing evening broadcasts from The Kingdom Greyhound Stadium, Mullingar Greyhound Stadium & Youghal Greyhound […]

The Kerry hurling team to play Wexford in Round 3 of the Allianz Hurling League on Sunday next in Wexford Park  at 2 pm shows four changes in personnel from the side defeated by Limerick in Round 2. Martin Stackpoole comes into goal in place of Aidan McCabe; James O’Connor […]

BARRY John Keane returns to the starting line-up for the Kerry team to play Roscommon in Round 4 of the Allianz Football League in Hyde Park Roscommon on Sunday at 2pm. In changes from the Monaghan game, Killian Young takes over at full back in place of Mark Griffin while Paul […]