A DELEGATION from Tralee met with Brendan Ryan, Courts Services CEO, in Dublin today in an effort to keep court services in Tralee town centre. Sinn Féin Councillor and local solicitor Pa Daly attended the meeting along with Aidan Kelly from the Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry TDs Martin Ferris […]

THERE is something special happening in the town centre these days as students from Kerry College of Further Education paint a mural in historical laneway. Milk Market Lane has been transformed over the past couple of weeks as Tidy Tralee Together received funding from Tralee Municipal District councillors to give […]

  KERRY people who are blind or vision impaired will be able to use the brand new tactile ballot template in the upcoming referendum this year, meaning they can now cast their votes in secret for the first time. Up to now, people with sight loss had to rely on […]

AFTER a great turnout on Easter Sunday morning last year, a dawn mass will once again be held in Annagh Burial Ground at 6am on April 1. Organised by the Curraheen Liturgy Group, it is the second time a dawn mass will ever have been held in the area. There […]

A FUNDRAISER will be held this Friday to help towards buying two defibrillators after a woman almost died in the town centre earlier this year. Therese O’Brien was in Tralee in early January when she suddenly felt unwell just outside Lloyd’s Pharmacy in Ashe Street. The 48 year old married […]

MEMBERS of the Fire Service in Tralee raised thousands for two organisations just before Christmas. Pieta House Tralee and ADAPT Kerry both received cheques of €3,069 each after the members collected money from the public on the two Sundays before Christmas. “We pick two charities every year and this time […]

WELL-known local musician Noel Hartnett and his wife Sheila are inviting music and dancing fans to come along to The Earl of Desmond Hotel next Tuesday, March 27, for a night of music and dance in aid of the Recovery Haven Cancer Support House. Noel and Sheila have enlisted the […]

EASTER is just around the corner and Manor West Shopping Centre and Retail Park is celebrating with some of Kerry’s finest food producers and craftspeople at its Spring Food and Craft Fair on Saturday, March 31 from 11am to 5pm. The fair tells the story of Kerry’s vibrant food and craft […]

  CATHERINE Young’s new dance piece ‘State of Exception’ comes to Siamsa Tíre, Tralee on this Sunday at 8pm. Catherine has been working in Kerry for many years with dance professionals, community groups, schools and most recently with refugees and asylum seekers. Her dance piece ‘Welcoming the Stranger’ in 2016 […]

GARDAÍ are asking for the public’s help in relation to a number of incidents in Tralee and beyond over the past few weeks. Between 5pm on Tuesday, March 6 and 4pm on Tuesday, March 13, a storage house in Rathass was entered via a rear window. Nothing was taken in […]

THE Tralee Marathon races drew huge support from both locals and runners around the country. Sunday’s event, sponsored by Kerry’s Eye, at Tralee Bay Wetlands was also a massive operation to organise and the work of volunteers was vital in everything going smoothly on the day. Here’s some more images […]

A LOCAL company was the winner of the Kerry Innovation Challenge at IT Tralee last Friday. The college hosted its annual Enterprise Showcase where visitors had a chance to talk to those who took the plunge to set up their own business in Kerry including past and current New Frontier participants. The Kerry […]

THE semi-finals of ‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ on Wednesday night will see a man from Tralee aiming for a final place. Steve Barry has an amazing voice and really impressed the judges in the TV3 show with his audition. Now he’s hoping to go one step further and he’ll be hoping […]

THE Mayor of Kerry/Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Sheahan, has concluded a visit to New York as part of the St Patrick’s Day Parade celebrations. On Saturday, he joined the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, for an early morning reception at his official residence, Gracie Mansion. […]

Mike O’Halloran reports on the County Senior Hurling League Division One match between Causeway and St Brendan’s…  Causeway 0-19 St Brendan’s 3-9 Concession of frees and an inability of St Brendan’s to win any clean possession beyond midfield allowed Causeway to go home with the the points from this lively […]

SUNDAY was cold but dry as the big day arrived for hundreds taking part in the Tralee Marathon events from the Tralee Bay Wetlands. Sponsored by Kerry’s Eye and hosted by Tralee Harriers, there were almost 800 entries for the marathon, half-marathon, 10k and 5k races. There was a great […]

Alan Cantwell reports on Garvey’s Tralee Warriors quarter-final victory over Swords Thunder yesterday in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght… Garvey’s Tralee Warriors kept their hopes of retaining their Champions Trophy title alive with a 78-71 win over Griffith College Swords Thunder at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght on […]

IT’S been quite a week for a young Tralee athlete with success running for her school and in a 5k event on Sunday. Niamh O’Mahony of Presentation Secondary School Tralee came in second place in the All-Ireland schools cross country championships at W.I.T. sports arena on Saturday, March 10. Niamh, […]

FRESH from their victory in the Town Board final against Austin Stacks at the weekend, John Mitchels GAA Club will be hoping for another great showing at a Table Quiz next Friday, March 23, at 8.30pm in Gallys Bar & Restaurant. Entry fee is €40 per table with teams of […]

CYCLISTS are getting ready for the sixth annual Fenit Coastal Cycle which takes place on Saturday, March 24. The cycling event is a fundraiser for St. Brendan’s National School, Fenit and they have two charities who will receive a monetary donation from the event — Diabetes Ireland & Kerry Cork Link […]

TRALEE photographer, John Cleary, has given us a few more images from his book ‘T’was Only Like Yesterday’ to show you. The book of photographs concentrates on the 1980s with images from sporting, religious, social and political life from Tralee and Kerry all contained therein. It’s a wonderful record of photos that […]

IT was quite a week for Mercy Mounthawk basketball teams as they created history winning both the 1st and 2nd year boys southwest “A” basketball titles for the first time in the school’s history. On Tuesday the 1st year boys faced up vs local rivals CBS Tralee in the semi-final […]

THE Eileen Rice ‘Country Against Cancer’ Memorial Music Weekend’ which took place in the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney last October raised €20,000 and two charities benefitted from the event. Jerry Moriarty presented €10,000 to Noreen Smiddy, of Marymount Hospice in Cork and country singer Trudi Lawlor presented €10,000 to Breda Dyland […]

Mike O’Halloran watched Crotta beat Ballyheigue in the County Hurling League tie… Crotta O’Neills 2-17 Ballyheigue 0-13 Brendan O’Mahony brought his Ballyheigue team to his old stomping ground in Dromakee, but it was a Crotta team that contained his son that came away with the two points. The game was […]

WITH an increase in planned building projects, national and regional infrastructure – demand for construction industry workers is on the rise. This year, the Irish construction industry is projected to grow by 14 per cent to €19.5 billion in value terms – following an increase of almost 20 per cent […]

IT was a memorable night for Kerins O’Rahillys as they held their second ‘Strictly Club Dancing’ event on Friday in The Brandon Hotel. Around 1,000 tickets were sold and unsurprisingly, many if them came dressed to impress on the night. Here’s some of the style from the night and more […]

FAMILIES gathered at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday morning as children from two Tralee schools received their Confirmation. There were 49 children from Listellick NS and Holy Family who were Confirmed by Bishop of Kerry Ray Browne as their families looked on. A number of other clergy […]

TraleeToday.ie’s coverage of the Tralee St Patricks’ Day Parade is brought to you by AIB Tralee… THE St Patrick’s Day parade is all about showing what a wonderful community we have here  in Tralee. Well there were enough clubs and organisations who put their names forward to take part yesterday. […]

Mike O’Halloran on the Kerry County Senior Hurling League round one game between Abbeydorney and Ballyduff played in Abbeydorney on Friday… Abbeydorney 3-12 Ballyduff 2-8 The county champions went down to Abbeydorney in a keenly contested game. Both teams were short a few regulars but perhaps Ballyduff more so than Abbeydorney. […]

IF you were to look up the meaning of the word precious in the dictionary you would find the following…‘of great value; not to be wasted or treated carelessly’. Another bit of trivia is that the word precious originates from the Latin word pretiōsus costly, valuable, equivalent to preti(um) price. […]