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Portman Clarity Takes On Seven New Trainees At Tralee Office

Portman Clarity Takes On Seven New Trainees At Tralee Office

March 15, 2017 at 10:02 am Comments are Disabled

PORTMAN Clarity has taken on seven new trainees, in partnership with the First Steps youth employment initiative, at its Tralee offices. The travel management company, which has a base in Monavalley, is undergoing a period of transition after Portman Travel and Clarity Travel Management merged in November 2016 to form the seventh largest TMC in […]

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Julie Cahill from CH Chemists applying the Clinique Fresh Pressed Renewing Powder.

BEAUTY: The CH Guide To…Cleansing And Moisturising

March 15, 2017 at 9:56 am Comments are Disabled

Preparing for a night on the town? Lisa O’Mahony of TraleeToday.ie asks the experts at CH Chemists about  how to properly cleanse and moisturise in the days before that special event, to have your skin looking radiant… Step 1: Consultation Beauty consultant at CH Chemists, Julie Cahill, went through a list […]

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Motorsport Fans To Converge On Tralee For Circuit Of Kerry Rally

Motorsport Fans To Converge On Tralee For Circuit Of Kerry Rally

March 15, 2017 at 9:53 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY Motor Club will launch its Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally with a special function at the landmark Tralee establishment on Monday night, March 20. The event attracts thousands of rally fans to town say the organisers and this creates a great tourism boost for the town. A counting round of […]

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Cooper Makes It Two Wins For Kerry Jockeys At Cheltenham Opening Day

Cooper Makes It Two Wins For Kerry Jockeys At Cheltenham Opening Day

March 14, 2017 at 5:46 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE’S Bryan Cooper landed his first win of the Cheltenham festival 2017, when he rode Apples Jade to victory in the Mares’ Hurdle earlier today. It was already a good day for Kerry jockeys as 17 year old Jack Kennedy from Dingle won the festival opener on board 25/1 shot Laibaik, trained by […]

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REPORT: Emotional Day As IT Tralee Wins Fresher’s Football Championship

REPORT: Emotional Day As IT Tralee Wins Fresher’s Football Championship

March 14, 2017 at 2:35 pm Comments are Disabled

A report from IT Tralee on their great win in the Rory O’Connor Fresher Football Championship final in Cork last week… LAST Thursday night saw the IT Tralee Fresher Football team travel to CIT to play Waterford IT in the Rory O’Connor Fresher Football Championship final. Fresh from winning the Division […]

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Range Of Events For Mental Health Week At Presentation

Range Of Events For Mental Health Week At Presentation

March 14, 2017 at 2:10 pm Comments are Disabled

MENTAL Health Week 2017 took place in Presentation Secondary School Tralee last week. An excellent and diverse range of diverse of activities took place for all year groups during the week – all coordinated by the Student Representative Council. School Principal, Mary O’Keeffe and Head girls, Aoife O’Sullivan and Katie […]

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taking part in the St Patrick's Day parade. Photo by Dermot Crean

The St Patrick’s Day Parade Won’t Finish In Denny Street This Year

March 14, 2017 at 12:56 pm Comments are Disabled

THE route for this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade will be slightly different this year. Owing to the road works on Denny Street and The Mall, the route at the end of the Tralee St Patrick’s Day Parade has to change. The parade will start, as always, at John Joe Sheehy Road […]

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Gaelcholáiste To Cheer On Past Pupils In All-Ireland Club Finals

Gaelcholáiste To Cheer On Past Pupils In All-Ireland Club Finals

March 14, 2017 at 12:38 pm 1 comment

THE All Ireland Club Finals will take place in Croke Park this St Patrick’s Day, and although no Tralee Club will take part, two past pupils from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí will take to the hallowed turf  in both games. Darragh Ó’Conaill and Daithí Ó’Cathasaigh were students in the school in the noughties […]

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Murt Murphy’s Tips For Day One Of Cheltenham

Murt Murphy’s Tips For Day One Of Cheltenham

March 14, 2017 at 12:15 pm Comments are Disabled

This week is like Christmas for racing fans, so sports journalist, Murt Murphy, is hoping to give gifts to punters with his top choices for Day One of the Cheltenham Festival… In the 1.30pm opener I’ll go for Willie Mullins’ Melon. Willie reckons he is very good, although he has only run once over […]

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Applegreen Helps With Local Scout Group’s Tree Planting

Applegreen Helps With Local Scout Group’s Tree Planting

March 14, 2017 at 10:50 am Comments are Disabled

THE 1st Kerry Scouts Tralee in association with Applegreen planted a tree for National Tree Day on Saturday at their HQ on Matt Talbot Road. Applegreen has come on board to sponsor the local Scout Group, which is much appreciated by the local scouts “We are very honoured that they […]

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Kerry Rape And Sexual Abuse Centre Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Kerry Rape And Sexual Abuse Centre Celebrates 25th Anniversary

March 14, 2017 at 10:24 am Comments are Disabled

THIS year, Kerry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre (KRSAC) will be celebrating 25 years in existence. To celebrate this milestone, several events have been planned for 2017. The first of these celebratory events took place on Saturday, March 11 at the School House at Muckross House & Gardens. Soprano and Harpist, […]

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Kildare To Play Host To Roses For Two Days This Year

Kildare To Play Host To Roses For Two Days This Year

March 14, 2017 at 10:18 am Comments are Disabled

LAST year’s day-long Rose experience in Kildare was so successful, the county will double the hospitality in 2017 and welcome the International Roses for two-days next August, before the Rose of Tralee International Festival. The Rose of Tralee, Maggie McEldowney flew in from Chicago today to join the Mayor of […]

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Daffodil Day Launched At The Brogue Inn

Daffodil Day Launched At The Brogue Inn

March 14, 2017 at 10:06 am Comments are Disabled

DAFFODIL Day was launched on Monday at The Brogue Inn. It will take place on Friday, March 24, and will help raise vital funds for The Irish Cancer Society. There will be 13 stations located around Tralee on the day, giving people plenty of opportunity to donate to the cause. […]

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Jack O'Connor on the sideline. Photo by Dermot Crean

Kerry U21 Team To Face Waterford Named

March 13, 2017 at 8:23 pm Comments are Disabled

JACK O’Connor has decided to stick with the same 15 who started against Clare for their U21  Munster Championship Semi Final this week. The Kerry Under 21s play Waterford at Fraher Field Dungarvan on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm. The team, captained by Brian Sugrue of Renard is as follows:       1. Shane […]

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Action from the Irish TV Tralee Warriors Match against Swords Thunder in The Complex. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

Warriors Win On The Double In Monthly Awards

March 13, 2017 at 4:35 pm Comments are Disabled

GARVEY’S Tralee Warriors were on fire last month and this has been recognised with both the Men’s Super League Player of the Month and the Men’s Super League Coach of the Month titles for the month of February. Head Coach Mark Bernsen won Coach of the Month for February after Tralee continued an unbeaten run […]

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Zoe O'Carroll, Sarah Thornton, Maureen McCarthy and Kayleigh Murphy of Brush N Blush, at the Connect Kerry Hair and Beauty Awards at The Rose Hotel on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: More Style From The Connect Hair And Beauty Awards

March 13, 2017 at 3:37 pm Comments are Disabled

EARLIER we brought you the winners of the Connect Kerry Hair and Beauty Awards in the Rose Hotel (click here for previous story and images). It was glamorous occasion with no shortage of style and amazing hair and make-up as you’d expect from guests who are experts in their field. […]

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Gardaí Investigate Assault On Man At Killerisk/Manor West

Gardaí Investigate Assault On Man At Killerisk/Manor West

March 13, 2017 at 3:09 pm Comments are Disabled

GARDAI are asking for the public’s assistance in relation to an assault which occurred last week. A man had just left a taxi outside the Kingscourt Apartment Complex in Manor West on Thursday night/Friday morning, when he was assaulted at 3.30am. He suffered injuries and was moved to Cork University Hospital. Gardaí are […]

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International Sports Stars For Event At Siamsa Tíre This Month

International Sports Stars For Event At Siamsa Tíre This Month

March 13, 2017 at 2:17 pm Comments are Disabled

FORMER Irish rugby international Keith Wood and Kerry senior football team boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice are among the high-profile figures from the world of local, national and international sport who will attend a series of panel discussions on recreation and sport at the launch of the new five-year strategy of the Kerry […]

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Participants at the start of the Half Marathon on Saturday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

Volunteers Still Needed To Be Stewards At The Marathon This Weekend

March 13, 2017 at 12:57 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE Marathon organisers are looking for stewards and volunteers to help run the event on Saturday March 18. The organisers require people to volunteer a few hours to help cover some key spots along the route, with time slots of 9.30 am-12.30 pm and 12.00 pm- 3.00 pm. The marathon is taking […]

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Katie Slattery, Indre Bunikyte, Emer Kemple, Jamie Louise Bowler, Claire O'Sullivan and Sandra Coffey of Sean Taaffe, Tralee, at the Connect Kerry Hair and Beauty Awards at The Rose Hotel on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: An Afternoon Of Glamour At Connect Hair And Beauty Awards (Part 1)

March 13, 2017 at 12:48 pm Comments are Disabled

OVER 250 people from the hair and beauty industry in Kerry gathered at The Rose Hotel on Sunday afternoon for an afternoon of fun, style and awards. The inaugural Connect Kerry Hair and Beauty Awards garnered huge interest over the past couple of months with thousands of votes cast for […]

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PHOTO GALLERY: Kerry v Galway At Austin Stack Park

PHOTO GALLERY: Kerry v Galway At Austin Stack Park

March 13, 2017 at 11:03 am Comments are Disabled

  IT may have been a 13 point defeat (0-12 to 1-22) but there was certainly no shame in Kerry’s loss to Galway on Sunday in the home side’s penultimate Allianz Hurling League Division 1B game of the season. Kerry will now prepare for a showdown with Offaly on March […]

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New Tourism Ambassadors For North Kerry

New Tourism Ambassadors For North Kerry

March 13, 2017 at 10:24 am Comments are Disabled

THIRTEEN new Tourism Ambassadors for north Kerry have been presented with certificates by the Listowel Municipal District Leas-Cathaoirleach, Cllr Mike Kennelly, upon their completion of the very first Tourism Ambassador Programme in Kerry. The initiative was developed by Kerry County Council’s Tourism Unit in association with the Institute of Technology in […]

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Catherine Summers, Sarah Doherty, Paula McSweeney and Aisling Crowley at the 'Rags to the Runway' event at Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday night. Photo by Lisa O'Mahony.

PHOTOS: Stylists Do Battle In Ballyroe At ‘Rags To The Runway’

March 12, 2017 at 12:22 pm Comments are Disabled

THERE was a great turnout at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday as  stylists from around the county battled it out at a fantastic charity event. ‘Rags To The Runway’,was a fashion event for anyone with an interest in thrift shopping, vintage clothes and fashion in general. Stylists had the challenge of […]

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Sarah Donnellan, Erin Donnellan, Kevin Donnellan, Maureen O'Shea and Rachel Fortune at Spa National School's 'Night at the Dogs' on Saturday night. Photo by Lisa O'Mahony.

PHOTOS: A Fun Night At The Dogs For Spa NS

March 12, 2017 at 11:50 am Comments are Disabled

THE Spa/Churchill community and beyond were out in force last night for its ‘Night at the Dogs’ fundraiser. It was a great night of racing with a wide variety of different novelty activities from bouncy castles to face painting for the younger visitors, to a ‘Battle of the Legends’ with former Kerry […]

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Warriors Winning Run Comes To An End Against Templeogue

Warriors Winning Run Comes To An End Against Templeogue

March 12, 2017 at 11:23 am Comments are Disabled

IT was close…very close. However, Garvey’s Tralee Warriors winning run came to end last night up in Dublin when they were beaten by newly crowned champions, Templeogue. The Dublin side won the Men’s Super League crown after a 96-93 win over Tralee Warriors at Oblate Hall. Tralee will finish third if they […]

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Roger Harty: Charity

Roger Harty: Charity

March 12, 2017 at 11:23 am Comments are Disabled

I SUPPOSE a good place to begin with anything is at the start and a good place to start here is in the dictionary. Charity is described as ‘Charitable giving is the act of giving money, goods or time to the unfortunate, either directly or by means of a charitable […]

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PHOTOS: Coffee Morning In The Brogue For Irish Cancer Society

PHOTOS: Coffee Morning In The Brogue For Irish Cancer Society

March 11, 2017 at 12:23 pm Comments are Disabled

KIRBY’S Brogue Inn was even busier than usual on Friday morning as the local branch of the Irish Cancer Society held a fundraising coffee morning. “We always have it before Daffodil Day and there’s a great crowd here today. All the money goes to research and training ‘daffodil’ nurses,” said […]

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Kerry ETB Fair Is A Must For Jobseekers And Those Looking To Upskill

Kerry ETB Fair Is A Must For Jobseekers And Those Looking To Upskill

March 11, 2017 at 9:54 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY ETB will hold its annual Further Education and Training Fair, on Wednesday, March, 22 from 10am to 6pm at the Brandon Hotel. The public are invited to this free event with a variety of interactive skill demonstrations ranging from stonecutting, to 3D printing that can make prototypes, culinary arts, tour guiding, hairdressing, […]

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Presentation Girls In Final 50 Of National Competition

Presentation Girls In Final 50 Of National Competition

March 11, 2017 at 9:23 am Comments are Disabled

A PRESENTATION Tralee TY group have reached the last 50 teams in the SEAI ‘One Good Idea’ competition. Ciara Boyd, Blaithnaid Cotter, Rebecca Duggan and Eimear Allard were extremely busy running their activity week recently and put the finishing touches to the final project submission this week. Continued below… Their project, ‘Locally Grown Is […]

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A Spirited Attempt To Break World Record At Mounthawk

A Spirited Attempt To Break World Record At Mounthawk

March 11, 2017 at 9:20 am Comments are Disabled

  THERE’S more than a ghost of a chance that an attempt to break a Guinness Book of Records will succeed later this month in Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School. The school hopes to break the record of having the most number of ‘ghosts’ in one location and raise funds for the Kerry Branch of Arthritis […]

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