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Kerry Camogie Team Beats Clare To Book Place In All-Ireland Final

Kerry Camogie Team Beats Clare To Book Place In All-Ireland Final

August 12, 2019 at 4:01 pm Comments are Disabled

Risteárd Ó Fuaráin on Kerry camogie team’s win over Clare on Saturday… Kerry 1-13 Clare 0-6 Kerry made the journey to Cusack Park in Ennis on Saturday to take on the home team in the semi-final of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Premier Junior Camogie Championship. The Kingdom were hoping to […]

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Event In Town Park To Celebrate 50 Years Of Save The Green Committee

Event In Town Park To Celebrate 50 Years Of Save The Green Committee

August 12, 2019 at 3:37 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Tralee Save the Green Committee will be 50 years together this year and to mark the historic occasion, a very special commemorative event will take place in the Town Park on the Friday, September 6, at 6 pm. The location will be at the ‘Old Oak Tree’ near the […]

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Jennifer Drumm, Bríghid-Íde Walsh and Kate O'Connor outside The Palace Bar on Sunday before the Kerry v Tyrone game. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Kerry Fans Up For The Match In Dublin

August 12, 2019 at 11:10 am Comments are Disabled

ANY spare tickets? We’re all searching for them now as Kerry prepares for the All-Ireland final in three weeks. It’s the first final appearance since we lost to the Dubs in 2015, so the stakes are high with the Kingdom aiming to stop the five in a row. Kerry fans […]

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Action from the game. Photo by Mike O'Halloran

REPORT/PHOTOS: Causeway Look The Real Deal In Win Over Ballyduff

August 11, 2019 at 8:49 am Comments are Disabled

Causeway showed they are real contenders after a convincing victory over Ballyduff in Austin Stack Park yesterday. Mike O’Halloran reports… Causeway 0-19 Ballyduff 0-08 Causeway have qualified for the semi final of the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship against St Brendan’s next weekend, with a complete demolition of Ballyduff. […]

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Action from the game. Photo by Mike O'Halloran

REPORT/PHOTOS: Kilmoyley Have The Stamina To Extinguish Crotta Challenge

August 11, 2019 at 8:35 am Comments are Disabled

Mike O’Halloran saw Kilmoyley advance to the semi-finals of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SHC after a hard fought win over Crotta O’Neills yesterday in Austin Stack Park… Kilmoyley 1-19 Crotta O’Neills 1-11 (after extra time) Kilmoyley overcame Crotta O’Neills in a dour struggle in extra time. It ended 1-10 each […]

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PHOTOS: Tour De Munster Cyclists Arrive In Manor West Retail Park

PHOTOS: Tour De Munster Cyclists Arrive In Manor West Retail Park

August 10, 2019 at 9:01 am Comments are Disabled

THE weather actually stayed dry and the was a good crowd of well-wishers at Manor West Retail Park on Friday evening to welcome cycling legend Seán Kelly and over 100 amateur cyclists to Tralee on the second day of the 600km Tour de Munster charity cycle. This was the third […]

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Kerry Nominations Wanted For ‘Sports Volunteer Of The Year’ Award

Kerry Nominations Wanted For ‘Sports Volunteer Of The Year’ Award

August 10, 2019 at 9:01 am Comments are Disabled

THE Federation of Irish Sport is calling for nominations for Kerry’s ‘Sports Volunteer of the Year’. The 2019 Volunteer in Sport Awards, were officially launched on Thursday by Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin TD, alongside Federation of Irish Sport CEO Mary O’Connor. They are seeking nominations […]

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Kerry Couples Wanted To Take Part In ‘The Irish Wedding’ Documentary

Kerry Couples Wanted To Take Part In ‘The Irish Wedding’ Documentary

August 10, 2019 at 9:00 am Comments are Disabled

A TV production company are making a documentary about weddings and are looking for Kerry couples, who are about to get married, to take part. Atom Films’ new feature documentary: ‘T​he Irish Wedding’​ is based around the unique narrative and structures that Irish wedding speeches take. The film will be […]

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Know Your Rights: Appealing Your Leaving Cert Results

Know Your Rights: Appealing Your Leaving Cert Results

August 10, 2019 at 8:59 am Comments are Disabled

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public…  Question: If I am unhappy with a result in my Leaving Cert, how can I get the grade reviewed? Answer: The Leaving Cert results will be available on 13 August this […]

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Paul Geaney has a shot at goal. Photo by Dermot Crean

The Kerry Team To Face Tyrone Has Been Named

August 9, 2019 at 8:08 pm Comments are Disabled

JUST two more sleeps. Kerry fans will travel in their thousands to Croke Park this Sunday for the All-Ireland semi-final clash against rivals Tyrone (3.30pm). Peter Keane has named his starting 15 for the game which sees David Clifford return to line-up instead of Micheál Burns and Shane Enright comes […]

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Caroline Donnelly, Jade Stone, Claudia Ward and Zach Brosnan at the Presentation Students' Debs Ball at Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: More Glamour From The Presentation Students Debs At Ballyroe (Part 2)

August 9, 2019 at 2:24 pm Comments are Disabled

THEY had a fantastic time at Ballyroe Heights Hotel last night. The occasion was the Presentation Students’ Debs Ball and there was some serious style among those present as the ladies met up for the last time before the results next week. Earlier we brought you some of the glamour […]

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Moriarty Calls For Action To Address Threatened Cuts To South Doc Service

Moriarty Calls For Action To Address Threatened Cuts To South Doc Service

August 9, 2019 at 2:20 pm Comments are Disabled

A FIANNA Fáil General Election candidate for Kerry Cllr. Norma Moriarty is calling for urgent action to address the threatened cuts to the South Doc service. Reports earlier this week claim treatment centres across Kerry and Cork may be cut because of a shortage of doctors and funding issues. Cllr. […]

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Tickets Selling Fast For 80s Night In The Dome

Tickets Selling Fast For 80s Night In The Dome

August 9, 2019 at 10:48 am Comments are Disabled

ABBAESQUE, Ireland’s top tribute act to the legendary Abba, and Kerry’s favourite DJ Botty, will bring you a night of fun and nostalgia in the Festival Dome for a special 80s night on Saturday, August 24. And while tickets are selling fast, organisers are enticing people to go out en […]

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Abbie McGill, Tia Moriarty Kelly, Claudia O'Rahilly, Dion Bauschlicher and Jasmina George at the Presentation Students' Debs Ball at Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: All The Style From The Presentation Debs Ball (Part 1)

August 9, 2019 at 10:28 am Comments are Disabled

THE rain lashed and the wind howled outside, but the Presentation students who graduated in May were in party mood inside the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday night. They were enjoying their Debs Ball and thoughts of the Leaving Cert results coming out next week were put on hold for the […]

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PREVIEW: Who Will Advance In The Kerry SHC This Saturday?

PREVIEW: Who Will Advance In The Kerry SHC This Saturday?

August 9, 2019 at 10:22 am Comments are Disabled

Mike O’Halloran looks at the two knock-out games in the Garvey’s SuperValu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship this Saturday evening in Austin Stack Park… There are two games down for decision on Saturday evening, Ballyduff take on Causeway at 5pm with Kilmoyley pitting their wits against Crotta O’Neills at 7pm. The […]

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Man Dies After House Fire In Mid-Kerry

Man Dies After House Fire In Mid-Kerry

August 9, 2019 at 9:10 am Comments are Disabled

A MAN has died after a house fire in the Killorglin area early this morning. Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene of the fire that occurred at a house in the Glencuttane Lower area, a few miles south of Killorglin, at around 5am. A man aged in […]

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Aware To Host New Mental Health Programme In Tralee

Aware To Host New Mental Health Programme In Tralee

August 8, 2019 at 4:40 pm Comments are Disabled

AWARE, Ireland’s national charity supporting people affected by depression, bipolar disorder and mood-related conditions, is to host a new positive mental health programme, free of charge, in Tralee starting next month. Aware’s Life Skills Programme gets underway at the Rose Hotel, Tralee, on Monday September 9 at 7.30pm. The programme […]

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PHOTOS: Foodie Destination Judges Sample Cuisine From Tralee Businesses

PHOTOS: Foodie Destination Judges Sample Cuisine From Tralee Businesses

August 8, 2019 at 4:24 pm Comments are Disabled

TWO judges from the Foodie Destinations 2019 Awards were in Tralee this morning for a tour of food businesses and to sample some wonderful cuisine. Tralee is one of the nine finalists vying for the title this year and part of deciding the winner is a public vote and people […]

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Night Of Style At Carraig Donn For Comfort For Chemo Kerry

Night Of Style At Carraig Donn For Comfort For Chemo Kerry

August 8, 2019 at 3:14 pm Comments are Disabled

  A LOCAL charity will benefit from an event at a Tralee store next week. Carraig Donn on Bridge Street will host a customer evening on Friday, August 16, from 6pm to 9pm with Comfort For Chemo Kerry receiving proceeds from a raffle, while there will also be donation buckets […]

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WATCH: Tommy Walsh Talks To Tommy Bowe About His Career And Kerry Football

WATCH: Tommy Walsh Talks To Tommy Bowe About His Career And Kerry Football

August 8, 2019 at 2:34 pm Comments are Disabled

WITH the All-Ireland semi-final against Tyrone just days away, Kerry star Tommy Walsh features in a new video talking to Tommy Bowe about his career, the tradition of Kerry football and the new generation on the rise. It’s part of the #thatoneday series produced by Eir. Have a look at […]

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Hundreds Of Motor Journalists Fly Into Kerry To Test Drive New Car

Hundreds Of Motor Journalists Fly Into Kerry To Test Drive New Car

August 8, 2019 at 9:28 am Comments are Disabled

AUDI chose Kerry as its base to showcase the new Q7 to motor journalists from around the world. Over a two-week period from the July 16th to 27th, journalists came to the county from as far away as the Middle East, Canada, China, Japan and Europe to test drive the […]

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Shannon ABC Secures Over €1m In Funding

Shannon ABC Secures Over €1m In Funding

August 7, 2019 at 3:11 pm Comments are Disabled

SHANNON Applied Biotechnology Centre (ABC), an Enterprise Ireland funded Technology Gateway, has been awarded in excess of €1 million for new equipment to help support Irish companies. Shannon ABC is a collaboration between Institute of Technology Tralee and Limerick Institute of Technology, and works with companies in the Life Sciences, […]

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Launching Sunflower Day were Palliative Day Unit were, in front; Joe Hennebery, Deirdre Walsh and Breda Moynihan. At back; Andrea O'Donoghue, Ruth Bowler, Maura Sullivan, Pat Doolan Margaret O'Shea and Patricia Heffernan. Photo by Dermot Crean

Over €43,000 Raised For Kerry Hospice From Sunflower Days In Kerry

August 7, 2019 at 2:56 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Kerry Hospice Foundation has thanked their volunteers and the generosity of the public across the region as it’s been revealed €43,665 has been raised during the two-day fundraising event. This year marked the 29th year of the fundraising campaign and €739,411 was raised nationally on June 7/8. “Hospice Sunflowers […]

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Hundreds Of Elderly Patients Waited Over 24 Hours In UHK’s Emergency Dept In First Half Of 2019

Hundreds Of Elderly Patients Waited Over 24 Hours In UHK’s Emergency Dept In First Half Of 2019

August 7, 2019 at 2:35 pm Comments are Disabled

KERRY Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has said the health of older patients is being put at further risk as figures released by the HSE showed 385 Kerry patients had to wait over 24 hours for care in University Hospital Kerry’s Emergency Department in the first six months of the […]

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Status Yellow Rainfall Warning For Thursday Night

Status Yellow Rainfall Warning For Thursday Night

August 7, 2019 at 2:14 pm Comments are Disabled

IT won’t be so bad though in Kerry. Met Éireann have issued a Status Yellow Rainfall warning for Munster and Leinster for Thursday night and Friday morning. While Thursday itself will be a bright, warm and dry day, with temperatures reaching 21º, they say heavy rain will spread from the south […]

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Contestants Lauren Murphy, Katie Nagle, Tara Dore and Ciara Kelly. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Meet The Stacks ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ 2019 Contestants

August 7, 2019 at 10:32 am Comments are Disabled

THE Austin Stacks GAA club unveiled their Strictly dancing team for 2019 on Tuesday night at their Club in Connolly Park. Fourteen couples will take to the dancefloor at the Dome on Saturday, August 31 and perform in front of a live audience and a team of judges. In 2011 the […]

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Gardaí Investigate Thefts And Burglaries In Tralee Area

Gardaí Investigate Thefts And Burglaries In Tralee Area

August 7, 2019 at 10:03 am Comments are Disabled

GARDAI in Tralee are seeking any public assistance with their investigations into thefts and burglaries in the Tralee area. On Wednesday, July 31, between 11.45am and 1.30pm, a house in Oakpark was entered via a rear window. The house was ransacked and although no damage was caused, a substantial quantity […]

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Kerry TD Says Something Must Be Done To Allay ‘Back To School’ Costs

Kerry TD Says Something Must Be Done To Allay ‘Back To School’ Costs

August 7, 2019 at 9:47 am Comments are Disabled

FIANNA Fáil TD for Kerry, John Brassil, has called on the Government to tackle the soaring costs associated with sending children to primary and secondary schools. Deputy Brassil said the Government must listen to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills which has outlined a number of measures to […]

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Information Day At Kerry ETB Training Centre For Those Interested In A Career In Accountancy

Information Day At Kerry ETB Training Centre For Those Interested In A Career In Accountancy

August 7, 2019 at 9:13 am Comments are Disabled

ANYONE interested in a career in accountancy is advised to head along to the Kerry ETB Training Centre at Monavalley this afternoon (Wednesday). An information day will take place from 12noon and 4.30pm where those visiting will learn about an Accounting Technicians Ireland Certificate for Accounting Technicians course which begins […]

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Man Injured In Fight At Walkway In Tralee

Man Injured In Fight At Walkway In Tralee

August 6, 2019 at 4:23 pm 1 comment

GARDAI are appealing for witnesses after a man was taken to hospital with a suspected broken nose after a brawl at a walkway in Tralee last week. On Wednesday, July 31, at approximately 7.30pm, a fight took place at the Lee Walkway behind the Aqua Dome. A large group of […]

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