EARLIER this week, Tralee received some disheartening news about it’s placing in the latest Irish Business Against Litter league placing, dropping to 33rd place and being deemed ‘moderately littered’, despite the huge efforts of Tidy Towns volunteers. Councillors rightly said people had to step up and take responsibility for their […]

WITH just over a week to go to ladies day at Listowel Races, stylish women might be interested in a new category in the prizes where they can walk off with a much coveted fashion item. The winner of the Most Iconic Lady at the McElligotts Honda Ladies Day at […]

KERRY County Council hosted a major national tourism conference in Listowel today, Wednesday with a focus on growing and enhancing the Wild Atlantic Way. The event at the Listowel Arms Hotel heard from a wide range of tourism experts and aims to strengthen the links and networks which have been […]

A FINAL call has gone out for photos of the Boherbee/Mitchels area, for their 10th anniversary calendar. The people from the Mitchels Regeneration Project are looking for old photographs of the area; its people, work places, buildings and landmarks. They are asking people to root through their collection of photographs and […]

DAYS before Kerry took on Mayo in the All-Ireland semi-final replay, Jill Harrington and John Ryle from Tralee asked the people of the town to give their support to the lads in a video they made. Well as a follow-up, Jill and John took to the streets and Austin Stack […]

THE annual Austin Stacks Lee Strand Invitational tournament takes place this weekend and this year the cup will be dedicated to the memory of a great Stacks man. Denis ‘Dinny’ O’Connor’s died in March of this year and to remember him, a new base has been fitted to the cup […]

TRALEE Credit Union are now inviting second round applications for the Lauri Healy Community Project Fund. At Tralee Credit Union’s AGM in December, the Board of Directors announced the approval of a fund of €260,000 to be shared with the community over the next four years. Mr Tom Lawlor Chairman […]

CBS The Green are looking for past pupils to join them for a their 90th anniversary celebrations at the school this autumn. They are also hoping they will contribute their own memories and stories of their time in the school for the event which takes place on October 6 at 1.30pm. […]

UNLESS you’ve been living in a (bat) cave, you’ll have seen Tadhg Fleming’s video of a bat flying around his kitchen while dad Derry attempts to “catch him”. The video has gone viral in an extraordinary way and Ballymac native Tadhg has found himself fielding interviews with the likes of […]

A TRALEE woman and her fiancé from Sligo will enjoy planning their wedding in a luxury Killarney hotel after receiving a large cheque towards their big day. On Sunday, the Muckross Park Hotel and Spa gave away their biggest prize to date; a €10,000 cheque towards a wedding reception at […]

THERE’S still time to register for a fantastic event this Sunday morning for charity which is sure to brighten up the day. The Crumlin Colour Dash will take place on Sunday, September 10 at 11am in Tralee Bay Wetlands. This is a 5km run, jog or walk that all the […]

PEOPLE dumping fast food packaging and the poor state of derelict sites in town is letting the town down, according to councillors who were reacting to the news that Tralee was placed 33rd in the latest Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) league table on Monday. Their disappointment was expressed at […]

A SINN Fein councillor has reacted with dismay at Kerry County Council’s refusal to erect a sign coming into Kerry promoting the fact that Banna Beach was voted No.1 Beach in Ireland by TripAdvisor for 2017. Cllr Toireasa Ferris described the decision as “an absolute disgrace” at the Tralee Municipal […]

THERE’S just days to go to the 4th annual Ardfert Harvest Cycle and organisers are hoping for another great turnout. Held to raise funds for Ardfert NS, the leisure cycle with 2 routes, 32km and 70km, will provide a challenge for both the novice and experienced cyclist as they negotiate […]

A NUMBER of Tralee and Kerry properties — including a mansion in Sneem with a reserve of around €1.4m and Tralee Food Court at Mile Height, also for over €1.4m — will go to an online auction at the end of the month. The auction is being held by BidX1, […]

IT started off as a request by a girl to write a short story and it ended up as a children’s book. Friends and family of Tralee man, Joe Enright, turned up at Tralee Library on Saturday afternoon for the launch of his second book, ‘Alana Rabbit And Friends’. The […]

NEVER a dull moment in the life of Tadhg Fleming! Yes, the young Ballymac man has made some great comedy sketch videos in the past, but truth is stranger than fiction. Last night a bat flew into the kitchen at his home in Ballymac and everyone went, well, batshit crazy. […]

FORMER three time All Ireland winner, John Crowley from Glenflesk replaces Declan O’Sullivan as a selector in Jack O’Connor’s Under 20 backup team. At tonight’s meeting of the County Committee, Jack O’Connor was appointed Manager of the Kerry Under 20 football team for a two year period. Jack was manager […]

GARDAI are looking for the public’s help with two theft cases in the past week. On Monday, August 28, a man was travelling on the train from Mallow to Tralee, between 6pm and 7.30pm, when he fell asleep. Upon awakening at Tralee station he discovered that he was missing his […]

Coneygree is set to become the first Cheltenham Gold Cup winner since L’Escargot in 1975 to run in the Guinness Kerry National Handicap Chase at Listowel on Wednesday week, September 13. The 2015 Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup winner heads an entry of 41 horses for the €175,000 event and will […]

GARDAI are warning the public after people have fallen for a scam by bogus callers. The callers claim to be from Microsoft and look to get credit card details. While normally with these calls the number tends to be from outside Ireland, the callers have managed to get a  Tralee […]

A DEVELOPMENT of 56 new social housing units is to be built in Lohercannon after the Taoiseach approved funding of €11.6m for the project. Leo Varadkar announced the funding on his visit to Tralee on Friday when he was in town at a Fine Gael party function to honour former […]

FOUR Kerry projects have been shortlisted for the 2017 Excellence in Local Government Awards including a Taste Kerry event and an arts project performed at Banna beach. The annual awards organised by Chambers Ireland in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. The awards acknowledge the significant […]

AFTER raising the roof at Electric Picnic once again this year, 2FM are bringing Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on the road to the INEC Killarney on Friday, December 15. The collaboration has sold out shows all over the country and will perform their last show of 2017 at […]

  TRALEE has slipped to 33rd place out of 40 towns and cities in the latest survey of towns in Ireland by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) and is deemed  ‘moderately littered’. Killarney was placed 8th in the league and is again  “Cleaner than European Norms”. It continued […]

SO they’re all settled in by now. Hundreds of junior infants started school this week and they begin a wonderful journey through primary school. We took photos in schools in town and on the outskirts, visiting Caherleaheen, Listellick, Flemby, Tralee Educate Together and St John’s in Ashe Street, while St […]

TRALEE Art Group is holding an exhibition of new works based on the theme “Art Inspired by Literature” at Kerry County Library, Moyderwell on Tuesday September 12th at 6pm. Works in a wide variety of media will be on display, accompanied by the literature which inspired them. The group has […]

SUMMER’S over, the weather’s getting colder, Kerry are out of the championship, moan, moan and, furthermore, moan.  Enough. There’s a lot more to look forward to than you think as September begins… 1. Listowel Races… In Listowel, Ballybunion and the surrounding villages, the summer isn’t really over until after the races. […]

AN Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was among 300 people in The Rose Hotel last night to celebrate the political life of a man who served Kerry in ministerial offices over the years. Jimmy Deenihan, who retired from political life earlier this year, was feted by the Fine Gael party and the […]

LUCIE Hanrahan and David Leonard are a busy couple these days. As if having their first baby together three weeks ago wasn’t enough, the Tralee couple have just opened a new coffee shop, the curiously titled Ugly Mug, on Edward Street this week. Lucie and David returned to Ireland in […]