TRALEE’S Meadowlands Hotel will be play host to sports stars including soccer legend Paul McGrath and Cork’s Seán Óg Ó hAilpín to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a business with a weekend festival this weekend and the Kerry Hospice Foundation will benefit too. The festival, which will take place from June 15-17 on the grounds […]

AS the school year winds down, things seem to be getting busier in many primary schools around Tralee and Caherleaheen is no exception. In the past week they are celebrating getting two awards, Science Foundation Ireland award and an Active Schools Flag where it’s clear a lot of effort has […]

FIANNA Fail TD for Kerry, John Brassil has said the expected job losses at the Liebherr Plant in Killarney will cause deep worry and stress for the 800 strong workforce, their families and the greater Killarney region. It was confirmed by management at the Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. plant in Killarney […]

MARTIN Ferris will attend the event in honour of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in Tralee this Friday. The Kerry Sinn Féin TD has said that he has accepted an invitation to attend the event in Siamsa Tíre which is being hosted by Kerry County Council. Accepting […]

GARDAI have announced the parking/pedestrian restrictions and road closures that will be in place in Tralee, Killarney and Derrynane for this Friday when Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall visit the county. In Tralee,  Ivy Terrace will close to traffic from approx. 10am to 2pm. Mary Street […]

TWO Tralee schools have been chosen to take part in a pilot Government scheme which aims to increase and enhance creative activities within the State’s education system. Presentation Primary School, Tralee and Scoil Eoin Balloonagh, Tralee are two of five Kerry schools chosen in the pilot scheme. The others are Faha National […]

JUST two years after being inducted into the Basketball Ireland Coaches Hall Of Fame, a Tralee man is now to receive its highest honour this Saturday night. Jimmy Diggins will receive the Basketball Ireland Presidents Award at a ceremony in The National Basketball Arena in Tallaght and no better man […]

JUST when we thought Met Eireann might be issuing heat warnings, we’re now back on familiar ground. The national service has issued a Status Yellow Wind Warning for Kerry and five other counties — Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Clare — for tonight. On Wednesday evening and night and for a […]

TRALEE Rugby Club will be hosting its first Strictly Come Dancing in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday, June 29 and the 11 couples are more than halfway through their two month training programme. This event, which was officially launched at their base in O’Dowd Park on Saturday night, is […]

Mike O’Halloran previews the four Garvey’s SuperValu Hurling Championship games taking place this weekend in Austin Stack Park… Kilmoyley v Lixnaw — Saturday, 5.30pm Kilmoyley are managed by one of the greatest forwards ever to play the game of hurling Shane Brick. Fergus Fitzmaurice and Mark foley are attempting to […]

OK, so the weather may be changing today, but we’ve had a few great weeks of sunshine and the tourists have started to arrive in earnest. No better time then for a soiree to welcome the summer season. Kirby’s Brogue Inn invited people involved in the tourist industry in Tralee […]

Mary O’Flaherty says returning to education at Tralee VTOS gave her new possibilities for the future… “Almost 10 years ago l found myself unemployed and as l had left school at thirteen l got the opportunity to return to education with Tralee VTOS. This was a fulltime two year course.  […]

IF you’re at a loose end on Friday morning, then this event is worth supporting. The Life Programme of Saint John of God Kerry Services will hold a Jumble and Bake Sale in the centre in Monavalley, Tralee, on Friday from 10am – 1pm. The organisers would love to see […]

THE founding members of a Tralee basketball club which set the foundations for the great success of the sport in the town were celebrated on a night of nostalgia at the Grand Hotel on Friday. Founding members and coaches of Celtic Basketball Club, Tom Falvey and Joe Joe O’Sullivan were […]

A POPULAR local man will be remembered later this summer at a Memorial 10k Run/5k Walk. Robert O’Dowd of Lee Drive and formerly of Marian Park, passed away in late April after battling for some time against cancer. In the past few weeks, his friends decided to get together to […]

THE official itinerary for Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been released by Clarence House and, as widely reported, they will be visiting Siamsa Tíre on Friday. After spending the previous days in Northern Ireland and Cork, the couple will travel to Kerry on Friday to visit Derrynane […]

THE Board of Management of Inspired, based in Friary Lane in Tralee, have announced that they have been successful in their application for  Pobal funding under the ‘Ability’ program and will receive substantial support over the coming years. Inspired is one of 27 projects nationwide — and the only Kerry […]

By Club PRO, Hannah O’Leary Tralee Tennis Club hosted their annual Ladies’ Day last Saturday which was very generously sponsored by John Ross Jewellers. It was a fantastic day from start to finish, with the club decorated in style for this very elegant event. Banners, beautiful bunting and flower baskets […]

BANNA saw a fantastic turnout on Sunday for this year’s Clean Coasts Week. Forty enthusiastic volunteers, gave just one hour of their time to help clean up Kerry’s beautiful coastline. Approximately 30 bags of litter were collected, along with a tyre, two bags of bottles and some old wire fencing. […]

THE Special Olympics Ireland Torch Run swept into Tralee at around 5pm on Monday evening with Aidan O’Mahony and Kerry participants in the games carrying it to the Mall. An Garda Siochana in association with Special Olympics Ireland are holding the Law Enforcement Torch Run between Monday and Thursday this […]

THE generous folk at Kirby’s Brogue Inn are hoping that their fellow partners in tourism join them tonight (Tuesday) for  a celebration to mark the arrival of the summer season. Kevin and Fiona Cotter are inviting the owners/managers of bars, hotels, B&B owners, restaurants and caravan parks to join them […]

GARDAI are appealing to the public for any assistance with solving two crimes over the past week. Between Tuesday, June 5  at 5pm to Wednesday, June 6 at 8.30am, there was a container and portakabin broken into and items taken on a building site on the Killeen Road, Tralee. If […]

NOW in its 11th year, the Austin Stacks ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ fundraiser will return later this summer for what is sure to be another fantastic night in the Dome. It’s just 10 weeks away and the organisers are still looking for dancers to take part in the event which has […]

THIS year’s Roscommon Rose, Eimear Reynolds, will be visiting Kerry a little earlier than her fellow Roses this year as she heads up the 75-member Roscommon Solstice  Choir at a fundraising concert at Killarney Cathedral on Sunday, June 17. Eimear – the choir’s musical director and soloist – will lead […]

THE participants at Inspired at Friary Lane were delighted to hand over proceeds of a recent fundraiser to the Rosemary Day Centre. The members of the group held a tea morning last month and raised a total of €410 as Maree O’Connor, a co-ordinator with the group, explained. “One of […]

CLUBS, projects and individuals in Kerry who have benefitted from National Lottery Good Cause funding have been invited to enter an exciting new national competition with the chance of winning a total of €35,000. The new National Lottery Good Causes Awards, launched this week, are aimed at honouring the inspiring […]

FORGET Chelsea Flower Show, because the visit of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall coincides with the magnificent Féile na mBláth at The Park Festival from this Friday June 15 to Sunday, June 17 in Tralee Town Park. Organisers promise the crowds will be treated like kings, queens, princes […]

THE Kerry stars were out on Friday night for a big fundraiser at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. The Kerry GAA ‘Night of Champions’ saw people from clubs all over the county converge on the track for music, family fun, great prizes and racing in the company of Kerry senior and minor […]

I SIMPLY love the old sayings. It’s not just a simple love it’s often that they encapsulate within them an enormous amount of wisdom that can bring – if applied – great benefit to our lives. Very often all we need to do is to take the time to give […]

IT was a lovely evening made for cycling on Friday night and where better to start from than Tralee Bay Wetlands. Kerry Recreation & Sports Partnership, in collaboration with the Chain Gang and Kingdom Cycling Clubs, held the annual ‘Pedal in The Park’ as part of National Bike Week. It […]