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New Development Planned At John Joe Sheehy Road/Slatts Car Park Area

New Development Planned At John Joe Sheehy Road/Slatts Car Park Area

March 28, 2018 at 11:19 am 1 comment

A PLANNING application has been lodged with Kerry County Council to build a pharmacy, cafe, medical offices and retail units adjacent to Slatts Car Park/John Joe Sheehy Road. The application is to build a three-storey mixed use development (c.2,217m) to consist of a pharmacy, a cafe and three commercial/retail units […]

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Tralee Toastmasters are looking for new members.

Tralee Toastmasters Plan 25th Anniversary Celebration

March 28, 2018 at 10:24 am Comments are Disabled

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the world got a new Toastmasters club, established in Tralee. The club grew, matured  and now it is proud to be a fine member in the family of the Irish Toastmasters’ clubs. To celebrate their  anniversary, the club is holding an open event in Kerins O’Rahilly’s GAA club on Saturday, […]

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Tralee Company Wins Top National Accolade Again

Tralee Company Wins Top National Accolade Again

March 27, 2018 at 4:00 pm Comments are Disabled

FOR the second year in a row, Tralee based financial planning practice, Premier Financial, have won a top national industry accolade. They scooped the prestigious Best Life & Pensions Broker of the Year Award at the fifth annual Life, Pensions and Investment (LPI) Industry Awards in the Mansion House, Dublin, […]

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Tralee Man’s Book On The Bible Launched At St Brendan’s

Tralee Man’s Book On The Bible Launched At St Brendan’s

March 27, 2018 at 3:28 pm Comments are Disabled

REV Fr Padraig Walsh, PP, launched a new book on The Bible by a Tralee man before a well attended and appreciative audience at St Brendan’s Pastoral Centre in Tralee last Saturday. The new publication ‘For It Is Written’, penned by Mike Culloty, explores the connections between the Old and […]

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Make-Up Masterclass Organised By Chernobyl Children’s Fund Tralee

Make-Up Masterclass Organised By Chernobyl Children’s Fund Tralee

March 27, 2018 at 2:24 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Chernobyl Children’s Fund Tralee and District Ltd. is holding a Masterclass with the very talented Make-Up Artist, Leah Clail on Sunday, April 8. This event will be held in The Arms Hotel, Listowel from 4.30pm – 6.30pm. Tickets are only €15 and all proceeds will be donated to this Charity. You […]

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GAA Clubs To Help Out On County Clean-Up Day

GAA Clubs To Help Out On County Clean-Up Day

March 27, 2018 at 12:06 pm Comments are Disabled

KERRY GAA clubs will join the County Clean Up which will take place across the county on Saturday, April 14. With just weeks to go to the biggest annual litter clean-up effort in Kerry, organisers are encouraging individuals and groups to sign up and participate on the day. They say […]

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Mid-Kerry Has New Tourism Ambassadors

Mid-Kerry Has New Tourism Ambassadors

March 27, 2018 at 11:48 am 1 comment

THE Killorglin and mid-Kerry area has eleven new Tourism Ambassadors following the completion of a ‘Tourism Ambassador Programme’ for the area. The participants were welcomed on the first night of the course recently by Brendan Griffin, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport with special responsibility […]

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Easter Commemoration At Pearse Park This Sunday

Easter Commemoration At Pearse Park This Sunday

March 27, 2018 at 9:49 am Comments are Disabled

THE annual ceremony to commemorate the Easter Rising will take place at Páirc An Phiarsaigh, Denny Street, Tralee on Easter Sunday. At 12 noon there will be a formal raising of the National Flag by Mayor Norma Foley and a reading of the 1916 Proclamation by Aoife Dillane & Áine […]

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Presentation Students Hear About Careers From Past Pupils

Presentation Students Hear About Careers From Past Pupils

March 27, 2018 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

LEAVING Certificate Presentation Tralee students were given a one of a kind opportunity on Friday last from an enthusiastic cohort of the school’s past pupils on the career paths they have chosen. Using the format of a parent/teacher meeting, students were enabled to work in small groups with our past pupils. This […]

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Riverdance Returns To The INEC This Autumn

Riverdance Returns To The INEC This Autumn

March 27, 2018 at 9:39 am Comments are Disabled

RIVERDANCE returns to the INEC Killarney for a limited run this September 12th – 16th. For over two decades, nothing has carried the energy, the sensuality and the spectacle of Riverdance, the international Irish Dancing phenomenon. First performed as the interval act of 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, this electrifying and innovative dance piece […]

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Gardaí Investigate Criminal Damage And Theft Incidents In Tralee

Gardaí Investigate Criminal Damage And Theft Incidents In Tralee

March 26, 2018 at 3:24 pm Comments are Disabled

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating criminal damage and theft incidents which took place in Tralee in the past few days. On Friday night/Saturday morning, a shopfront in the Square was damaged. The gardaí are asking if anyone saw any suspicious behaviour in The Square around this time to contact them […]

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REPORT: Kerry Camogie Team Secures Victory Over Tyrone

REPORT: Kerry Camogie Team Secures Victory Over Tyrone

March 26, 2018 at 2:04 pm Comments are Disabled

Kerry 4-14 Tyrone 2-6 THE Kerry Camogie Team travelled to Healy Park in Omagh on Sunday hoping to extend their unbeaten record in Division 3 of the Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie League. This game served as a curtain raiser to the Senior Football game between the same counties and it […]

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Launching the Storyboxes project were in front Sr Laurence O'Brien, Sr Colette Stafford and Tom O'Connor. Back: Ina Mulhall, Karen Walsh, Evelyn Dore, Charlotte O'Halloran, Mary O'Brien and Maurice O'Keeffe. Photo by Dermot Crean

Storyboxes To Bring Back Memories For Senior Citizens

March 26, 2018 at 11:33 am Comments are Disabled

A WONDERFUL new initiative has been launched by two teachers who wanted to bring joy to older people in nursing homes. Evelyn Dore of Moyderwell Primary and Karen Walsh of CBS created ‘Storyboxes’,  a box with books, CDs and photos of times past which they hope will jog the memories […]

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Stephanie Coffey, Ciara Cronin, Marie Dineen and Shannon O'Brien at the 'Faces By Grace' masterclass at CH Chemists on Saturday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: ‘Faces By Grace’ Is A Sellout Success In CH

March 26, 2018 at 11:26 am Comments are Disabled

THERE was a huge turnout for a top beauty and lifestyle blogger who visited CH Chemists in Tralee on Saturday for a make-up masterclass. Around 120 ladies bought tickets to see Grace Mongey, a 29 year old mum of one from Tallaght who has become enormously popular through her ‘Faces […]

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Amazing Amount Of Entries For Circuit Of Kerry Rally

Amazing Amount Of Entries For Circuit Of Kerry Rally

March 26, 2018 at 11:25 am Comments are Disabled

THIS year’s Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally is shaping up to be one of the most-keenly contested and best supported in years. Kerry Motor Club launched the April 8 event with a photo-shoot at the Top Part Motor Factors headquarters and a press conference at the Rose Hotel on […]

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People Urged To Take Part In Dingle’s ‘Darkness Into Light’ Event

People Urged To Take Part In Dingle’s ‘Darkness Into Light’ Event

March 26, 2018 at 11:18 am Comments are Disabled

IF you’re in the west of the county, then you may want to take part in a great event coming up this May. Darkness Into Light – Pieta House’s flagship fundraising awareness event – celebrates its tenth year this May 12 in over 150 venues in Ireland and across the […]

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Tralee Man Who Died In Road Crash Named

Tralee Man Who Died In Road Crash Named

March 25, 2018 at 7:02 pm Comments are Disabled

THE young man who died in a crash on the Tralee to Fenit road in the early hours of Saturday morning has been named. Luke Gleasure (23) from The Kerries West, Tralee, died in the single-vehicle crash at around 3.20am on Saturday morning. A second man was removed by ambulance […]

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REPORT/PHOTOS: Warriors Make It Back-To-Back Champions Trophy Titles

REPORT/PHOTOS: Warriors Make It Back-To-Back Champions Trophy Titles

March 25, 2018 at 2:39 pm Comments are Disabled

Alan Cantwell reports on Garvey’s Tralee Warriors fantastic win last night to retain the Champions Trophy… For the second year running Garvey’s Tralee Warriors lifted the Basketball Ireland Champions Trophy after a stunning 73-61 win over Black Amber Templeogue at a packed WIT Arena in Waterford on Saturday night. Twelve […]

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Ballygarry’s Seafood Speciality Night Returns On Good Friday

Ballygarry’s Seafood Speciality Night Returns On Good Friday

March 25, 2018 at 2:16 pm Comments are Disabled

GOOD Friday is unofficially ‘national fish day’ and to mark this, Ballygarry House Hotel is putting on its famous Seafood Speciality Night returns in Restaurant 58. After the huge success of last year’s event, Head Chef John O’Sullivan and his team of chefs will be presenting an exquisite seafood menu […]

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Ballymac Man Alan Wins €24,000 For His Mom On Winning Streak

Ballymac Man Alan Wins €24,000 For His Mom On Winning Streak

March 25, 2018 at 1:48 pm Comments are Disabled

A GOOD night’s work. A Ballymac man appeared on Winning Streak last night and won €24,000 for his mother. Mary Bonn’s name was called out two weeks ago on the show and got her 28 year old son Alan to represent her. Ballymac GAA player Alan was paired up with […]

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PHOTOS: Presentation Wins In KSTA Junior Cert Science Quiz

PHOTOS: Presentation Wins In KSTA Junior Cert Science Quiz

March 25, 2018 at 1:09 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Kerry Science Teachers Association (KSTA) hosted their annual Junior Cert Science Quiz on Thursday at the South Campus of the ITT and it was a Tralee team that came out on top. The competition is open to all junior cert students in the county and around 20 teams took […]

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Roger Harty: What We Can Learn From Animals

Roger Harty: What We Can Learn From Animals

March 25, 2018 at 1:09 pm Comments are Disabled

THE answer to this can be summed in two words – it’s Limitless. It all really depends on the amount of attention we give them. The more we study them the more they will fascinate us and very often they will give us lessons as to how we can best live […]

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Orla Diffily, Eileen Whelan, Therese O'Brien and Audrey Moran at the fundraiser in Paco on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Paco’s Fundraiser Raises Thousands To Buy Three Debrillators

March 24, 2018 at 10:50 am Comments are Disabled

THEY did it…and then some! Two ladies, Audrey Moran and Eileen Whelan, set out on a mission to raise enough money to buy two defibrillators and by Friday afternoon they had raised enough for three. “We’re overwhelmed by the response from the public over the past week,” said Eileen Whelan […]

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Derryquay NS pupil Thomas Sheehy, with Marie Nolan, Caoimhe Nolan, Vicky Sheehy, Yvonne Doherty, Ashley Campbell, Tom Sheehy, Pauline Doherty and John Doherty at his Confirmation in St John's Church on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: St John’s Church Hosts Two Days Of Confirmations

March 24, 2018 at 10:42 am Comments are Disabled

IT was a very busy two day period at St John’s Church as pupils from seven schools made their Confirmation. On a rainy Thursday, the church was packed as Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn, Presentation, Caherleaheen, Blennerville and Derryquay school pupils received the sacrament from Bishop of Kerry Ray Browne. On Friday […]

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Celine and Paudie O'Sullivan and Dorothy Parker at the Kerry Foxhounds Club annual social at The Rose Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Kerry Foxhounds Enjoy Annual Social In The Rose Hotel

March 24, 2018 at 10:41 am Comments are Disabled

STYLE and glamour abounded in The Rose Hotel as around 160 members of the Kerry Foxhounds Hunt Club gathered on Friday night for their annual social. The club, which was formed in 2010, draws its members — numbering around 70 — from Kerry and Cork and they enjoyed a wonderful […]

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McCann At The Movies: Tomb Raider Has Moments Of Style But Little Substance

McCann At The Movies: Tomb Raider Has Moments Of Style But Little Substance

March 24, 2018 at 10:41 am Comments are Disabled

‘Tomb Raider’ will not live long in the memory says our movie guy, John McCann… Historically, the area of video game adaptation to big screen blockbuster has been one of scant success, with the transition from console to cinema one that has not always run smoothly. One of the few […]

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Know Your Rights: Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan

Know Your Rights: Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan

March 24, 2018 at 10:40 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 partner and I have been unable to get a mortgage to buy our own home. Will we be eligible for the new Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan? Answer: The new […]

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The Kerry Camogie Panel Travelling For Tyrone Clash

The Kerry Camogie Panel Travelling For Tyrone Clash

March 24, 2018 at 10:40 am Comments are Disabled

THE Kerry Camogie Panel who will travel to Healy Park, Omagh to face Tyrone on Sunday at 1.15pm has been announced. The game will serve as a curtain raiser to the Tyrone v Kerry senior football game. The panel is as follows; 1. Alannah Maunsell 2. Liz Houlihan 3. Niamh Leen […]

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Man Dies In Road Collision On Tralee-Fenit Road

Man Dies In Road Collision On Tralee-Fenit Road

March 24, 2018 at 9:27 am Comments are Disabled

GARDAÍ in Tralee are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in the early hours of this morning. At approximately 3.20 am Gardaí and emergency services were called to the scene of a single car collision on the Tralee to Fenit road. Two men traveling in the car at the […]

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David Moran, runs passed Tyrone's Peter Harte, in the All-Ireland SFC smi-final last month. Photo by Dermot Crean.

Here’s The Kerry Team To Face Tyrone

March 23, 2018 at 9:09 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Kerry team to face Tyrone on Sunday in Omagh features wholesale changes from the team named to face Kildare in Tralee last weekend. Brian Kelly is back in goals in place of Shane Murphy while Tom O’Sullivan is in for Ronan Shanahan in corner back. In the half-back line, […]

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