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SPONSORED: What A Week Of Fun, Fashion And Great Racing At Listowel Races!

SPONSORED: What A Week Of Fun, Fashion And Great Racing At Listowel Races!

September 11, 2018 at 11:40 am Comments are Disabled

THE race is on  to Munster’s biggest and best racing festival – the 7 day Listowel Harvest Racing Festival, from Sunday, September 9th until Saturday, September 15. This year Listowel Race Company is celebrating 160 years of racing at the scenic course, making it one of the longest established race […]

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Kieran Donaghy, turns his back on his job to concentrate on football. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

Kieran’s Poem As He Departs The Kerry Football Team

September 11, 2018 at 11:38 am Comments are Disabled

KIERAN Donaghy signed off this morning from the Kerry senior football team and with it revealed an unknown talent…poetry! The ‘Star’ took to Twitter and uploaded a poem, ‘Kerry, I Thank You’ which is pretty emotional I’m sure you’ll agree. He speaks of playing on the edge (for which he […]

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WATCH: Some Classic Moments From Kieran Donaghy

WATCH: Some Classic Moments From Kieran Donaghy

September 11, 2018 at 11:25 am 1 comment

KIERAN Donaghy has served his county with distinction over the past 14 years and deserves all the tributes he gets after announcing his retirement this morning. Just in case you’ve forgotten how pivotal he has been to Kerry, this video on YouTube uploaded last year shows his top scores and […]

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Kieran Donaghy comes away with the ball against Donegal in round 4 of the Allianz National Football League Division 1. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

A True Legend Retires From The Kerry Football Team

September 11, 2018 at 11:10 am Comments are Disabled

WHAT a player! Kieran Donaghy has retired from the Kerry senior football team. The Stacks man has been a colossus for the Kingdom over the past 14 years giving joy to Kerry fans with his skill, commitment, endeavour but most of all, his enormous heart. He made the following statement […]

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Tralee Venues To Host Part Of Architecture Kerry Festival This Month

Tralee Venues To Host Part Of Architecture Kerry Festival This Month

September 11, 2018 at 10:22 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY’S architectural heritage will be the focus of the inaugural Architecture Kerry festival which takes place later this month. The event, which will showcase and celebrate the best of the county’s architectural heritage, will take place from September 28 to 30 and will feature talks, free guided tours, exhibitions, workshops […]

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Taking off in the Ardfert Harvest Cycle on Saturday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

Families Look Forward To The Ardfert Kids Cycle This Weekend

September 11, 2018 at 9:44 am Comments are Disabled

WITH children well back into the swing of things in school, the Ardfert kids cycle couldn’t be better timed to encourage them to get out and be active at the weekends. The cycle is taking place on this Sunday, September 16 at 12pm and children have the option of a […]

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Peter Mark Tralee To Raise Funds For Irish Cancer Society

Peter Mark Tralee To Raise Funds For Irish Cancer Society

September 11, 2018 at 9:40 am Comments are Disabled

THE ‘Petermarkathon’ is coming back to the Tralee salon. The annual fundraiser by Ireland’s largest hairdressing group takes place from October 26 – 28  in salons across the country including the one in Abbeycourt. This year the Peter Mark team will be raising vital funds for the Irish Cancer Society […]

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Appeal For Information After Incident On Tralee-Castlemaine Road

Appeal For Information After Incident On Tralee-Castlemaine Road

September 10, 2018 at 5:41 pm Comments are Disabled

GARDAI are appealing for information after a vehicle carrying a trailer jack-knifed and caused thousands of euro worth of damage on the Tralee-Castlemaine Road. A black Toyota Land Cruiser with a trailer attached was transporting a red quad bike on the road to Castlemaine at about 6pm on Thursday, August […]

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Gardaí Warn Of Counterfeit €50 Notes At Listowel Races

Gardaí Warn Of Counterfeit €50 Notes At Listowel Races

September 10, 2018 at 3:32 pm Comments are Disabled

GARDAI are warning people heading to Listowel Races to be vigilant when it comes to accepting €50 notes. They have reliable information suggesting a large quantity of good quality counterfeit €50 notes could be in circulation at the racecourse. Gardaí say that with the racecourse so busy and money changing […]

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Public Invited To Give Views On How Pedestrianisation Of The Mall Is Working

Public Invited To Give Views On How Pedestrianisation Of The Mall Is Working

September 10, 2018 at 11:58 am 3 comments

IT’S been in place since last November and now the public is being invited to share their opinions on how it’s working. The Tralee Municipal District is inviting submissions from members of the public as part of a review of the part-pedestrianisation of The Mall in Tralee. Since December 2017, […]

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Launching the Tralee Food Festival at Bank of Ireland on Friday were, in front; John Harty of Taste Kerry, Radio Kerry's Elaine Kinsella and Paul Cotter of Croí Restaurant. Back from left; David 'Aidan O'Mahony' Scott, Head of Bank of Ireland in Kerry Deirdre Twomey, Bank of Ireland Tralee Manager Gerry Enright, Ken Tobin of Tralee Chamber Alliance and Paul 'Michael Healy Rae' Ruane. Photo by Dermot Crean

A Mouthwatering Line-Up Of Events For Tralee Food Festival

September 10, 2018 at 10:35 am Comments are Disabled

THE season of food festivals has arrived in Kerry and where better to set the table to treat the palette than Kerry’s Capital, home to Tralee Food Festival from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd September. The 4th Annual Tralee Food Festival in association with Tralee Chamber Alliance and Taste Kerry […]

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Councillors Approve Plans For Greenway In North Kerry

Councillors Approve Plans For Greenway In North Kerry

September 10, 2018 at 10:27 am Comments are Disabled

COUNCILLORS in the Listowel Municipal District have approved plans for the development of a 10.5km greenway from Listowel to the Limerick County Bounds. The North Kerry Greenway will be developed along a disused railway line which is in the ownership of Kerry County Council and will link up with the […]

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The Brogue Wins Munster Carvery Pub Of The Year Again

The Brogue Wins Munster Carvery Pub Of The Year Again

September 10, 2018 at 10:21 am Comments are Disabled

KIRBY’S Brogue Inn has once again won the annual Knorr Great Carvery Pub of the Year competition for the Munster region. The Rock Street hostelry was one of three pubs shortlisted for the Munster final of the competition and will now go forward to Great Carvery Pub of the Year […]

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Some of the members of Tralee Tennis Club who took part in the Charity Tennis Marathon on Saturday. Photo by Dermot Crean

Tralee Tennis Club Holds ‘Marathon Charity Day’

September 10, 2018 at 10:12 am Comments are Disabled

IT was a showery day but it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of members of Tralee Tennis Club who came out for a charity ‘Tennis Marathon’ on Saturday. The idea was to keep the courts full from 10am to 6pm and rain certainly didn’t stop play at their Dan Spring Road […]

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Ciara Rogers, Holly O'Brien, Gemma O'Connell and Carol Hickson at the Tony O'Donoghue Memorial Walk on Saturday from Blennerville Windmill. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Community Braves The Rain For Tony O’Donoghue Memorial Walk

September 9, 2018 at 2:20 pm Comments are Disabled

THE weather didn’t play ball for the walkers in Blennerville  taking part in the annual Tony O’Donoghue Memorial Walk on Saturday evening, but their efforts raised €1,900 for a great cause. Around 100 walkers set off from the Windmill but were soaked thanks to ‘horizontal’ rain showers while they made their […]

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PHOTOS: Brave Souls Take Part In 200k Kerry Way Ultra Marathon

PHOTOS: Brave Souls Take Part In 200k Kerry Way Ultra Marathon

September 9, 2018 at 12:23 pm Comments are Disabled

THIS year’s annual 200KM  non stop endurance race, The Kerry Way Ultra Marathon, saw over 70 athletes depart  Killarney,from 14 Countries, enduring heavy downpours during nightfall, and glorious evening rainbows along the daunting 40 hour, non stop Ultra Marathon. The Race traverses the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks and Iveragh Peninsula, stretching along […]

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Roger Harty: A Farmer Back In Ballyferriter…

Roger Harty: A Farmer Back In Ballyferriter…

September 9, 2018 at 12:20 pm 3 comments

THE essence of the article I am writing here is to demonstrate how life has changed immensely in this world (especially in the world of communication) over a relatively short period of time. Let’s give the farmer a name – say Padraig and his wife Peig. They have three young […]

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North Kerry Bridge Congress Brings People From All Over Ireland To Tralee

North Kerry Bridge Congress Brings People From All Over Ireland To Tralee

September 8, 2018 at 9:47 am Comments are Disabled

BRIDGE players from all over the country are in town this weekend for the North Kerry Bridge Congress 2018 at The Rose Hotel. The popular event has seen almost 50 rooms booked at the hotel for the event and one of the organisers, Tom Hardiman, told TraleeToday.ie that numbers are […]

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Mayor of Tralee Cllr Graham Spring with Cara Keane and Shane O'Connor of GLAN Tralee  launching the new 'Butt Ballot Bin' initiative on The Mall on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

WATCH: Smokers Urged To Part In The ‘Butt Ballot Bin’ Poll On The Mall

September 8, 2018 at 9:46 am Comments are Disabled

CIGARETTE butts account for nearly 50% of all litter on the streets of towns and cities across Ireland but a new project aimed at encouraging smokers to put their butts in a bin has been launched in Tralee. Tralee Chamber Alliance’s Environmental Task Force through the Glan Initiative and in […]

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Gardaí Give Advice On Parking At The Listowel Races

Gardaí Give Advice On Parking At The Listowel Races

September 8, 2018 at 9:46 am Comments are Disabled

WITH the Listowel Races under starter’s orders, the Gardaí have released their Traffic Management Plan for the week. Patrons attending the Listowel 7 Day Harvest Festival beginning tomorrow (Sunday) are strongly advised to park in car parks available at the following Racecourse locations: Greenville (entrance off Grenville Road), Greenville (entrance […]

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Kerry Camogie Team Bids For Glory On Sunday

Kerry Camogie Team Bids For Glory On Sunday

September 8, 2018 at 9:44 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY are in another All-Ireland final on Sunday. This time it’s the camogie team in action and the Dublin ladies stand in the way of winning a Premier Junior title. The good news is if you can’t be in Croke Park you can watch the game on the RTE Player […]

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Know Your Rights: Tax Relief On Tuition Fees

Know Your Rights: Tax Relief On Tuition Fees

September 8, 2018 at 9:41 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: My daughter is repeating a year at college and both the Student Contribution and tuition fees are due this year. Can I claim any tax relief for her third-level […]

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McCann At The Movies: ‘Black 47’ — A Famine Thriller Worthy Of Attention

McCann At The Movies: ‘Black 47’ — A Famine Thriller Worthy Of Attention

September 8, 2018 at 9:40 am Comments are Disabled

John McCann says ‘Black 47’ delivers as a historical piece and on an entertainment level… A constant presence on the film festival circuit throughout the country this year, including a gala screening at the Dingle International Film Festival last March, Black 47 finally gets its long-awaited nationwide release this week. Incredibly, the […]

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At the raising of the Purple Flag at Tralee Municipal District Offices on Thursday morning were Mayor of Tralee Norma Foley,  Co-ordinator of Purple Flag campaign for TCA David Scott, Ken Tobin of HQ Tralee and Tralee Chamber Alliance, Sergeant Tim O'Keeffe and #LoveTralee mascot. Photo by Dermot Crean

Tralee Retains Its Purple Flag Status For Coming Year

September 7, 2018 at 4:29 pm Comments are Disabled

HAVING been awarded the Purple Flag in September 2017, Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry County Council were informed this afternoon by the UK-based assessors that the town has retained the flag for the coming year. The Purple Flag confirms the commitment to ensuring that Kerry’s capital town has a safe, […]

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Launch Of International Soccer Tournament To Be Held In Tralee

Launch Of International Soccer Tournament To Be Held In Tralee

September 7, 2018 at 4:01 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE is set for an economic and sporting boost this winter when the 2018 Victory Shield will be held in the town. The tournament was officially launched at The Rose Hotel on Thursday afternoon with games played at three venues between November 12-16. Republic of Ireland Under-16 Head Coach Paul […]

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Kerry County Council buildings in Rathass.

Five Council Housing Developments At Planning/Design Stage In Tralee Municipal District

September 7, 2018 at 3:12 pm Comments are Disabled

FIVE local authority housing developments are at the planning/design stage in Tralee Municipal District at the moment with completion dates scheduled by the end of 2020. The update on the housing list was given at the latest Tralee Municipal District meeting of councillors on Monday. There are 37 units under […]

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John Fitzgerald and Zoe O'Mahony of Wild Cafe with Tim O'Connor of Tralee Chamber Alliance taking part in the GLAN two-minute clean-up on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

Businesses Take Part In A Two-Minute Clean-Up

September 7, 2018 at 1:50 pm Comments are Disabled

A NUMBER of businesses in town took part in a new initiative from GLAN Tralee this afternoon. The ‘Two-Minute Street Clean’ saw them come out and tidy up the area around their premises. Members of the Glan Tralee team were there with the gloves and bags. GLAN Tralee was set up in April […]

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Free Third Level Courses At IT Tralee To Tackle Skills Shortage In Hospitality Sector

Free Third Level Courses At IT Tralee To Tackle Skills Shortage In Hospitality Sector

September 7, 2018 at 9:54 am Comments are Disabled

IF you are currently working or considering a career in the hospitality sector, there’s never been a better time to train and upskill. Through the Springboard+ programme, IT Tralee are offering a number of FREE and 90% funded programmes in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector. Skills shortages in this sector […]

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Final Chance To Register For Cullotys Of Currovough Gathering

Final Chance To Register For Cullotys Of Currovough Gathering

September 7, 2018 at 9:54 am Comments are Disabled

THE organiser of a family gathering later this month is encouraging people with a connection to the Cullotys of Currovough to register to attend the event before this Sunday. Mike Culloty has had a great response to his appeal to find relations to come to the event and one of […]

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Principal of St Ita's and St Joseph's School Grace Sheahan, accepts a cheque from the Born To Run Club on Friday morning. Also included are pupils of the school and  Majella Milward of The Ashe Hotel, Maria Moynihan, teacher Aoife O'Connor, Marilyn O'Shea and Tom Foley of Born To Run. Photo by Dermot Crean

Born To Run Club’s Marathon Effort To Help Local School

September 7, 2018 at 9:54 am Comments are Disabled

IT was “back to school” for members of Born To Run Tralee Marathon Club on Friday as they presented a cheque for over €2,000 to students and staff at St Ita’s and St Joseph’s primary and post primary special school. The popular running club raised €2,058 from their sell-out 40 […]

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