IF you haven’t got your ticket for the  the inaugural John Mitchels GAA Club ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ event this weekend then you’re out of luck. The organisers have announced that the Sunday night event is a sell-out success with 700 tickets sold at €20 a head. The Boherbee faithful really stepped […]

WORK on a new housing development in Tralee is now underway. Work on an access road to a development of 46 detached houses at  at Lisloose, off the Bracker O’Regan road has begun. The houses are being constructed on lands owned by the Lynch Family. Permission was granted for the development by Kerry […]

IT may only be October, but people are already getting ready for the Tralee Marathon Series which will be getting underway on February 12, 2017, with the Valentines 10 miler. This race was sold out last year and an appeal has gone out for participants to register as early as possible. The full […]

THE RSA and An Garda Síochána are teaming up with Applegreen Service Station to help keep drivers alert this weekend. With the clocks going back this weekend, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána today urged road-users to ensure they can be clearly seen when out on the roads as […]

IT WAS a special day in Blennerville National School on Thursday when a pupil got her lovely locks chopped for charity. Third class pupil, Kayla O’Connor, from Curraheen, decided during the summer that she would donate some of her hair to the Little Princess cancer charity and today was the […]

THE 4th annual Connect Ladies Lunch & Fashion Afternoon was officially launched this week at a photo-call in Ballyroe Heights Hotel. In support of Recovery Haven Cancer Support House in Tralee, the Connect Lunch on Sunday, November 27, will begin the Christmas season in style with a champagne reception, 4 course luncheon […]

THE programme and line-up for The Celebration of Christie Hennessy Festival, which is now in it’s sixth year, has been announced. This year’s festival which will be held in The Rose Hotel on November 25-26 and will feature performances from, John Spillane, Mikey Harte and Aonghus McAnally. There will also be […]

A report on the Munster Under 15A Semi Final… Tralee CBS 4-13 Rochestown College 5-6 Tralee CBS have qualified for the Munster U15 final following a tremendous 2nd half comeback in which they scored an astonishing seventeen points with no reply. Played in ideal conditions in Millstreet “The Green” started […]

THE inaugural Kerry Science Festival, which is a week-long schedule of science events taking place across the county, takes place between Sunday, November 13 and Sunday, November 20. People of all ages will be invited to enjoy and participate in a programme of free public engagement events, community talks, exhibitions, shows and school workshops. According […]

IT’S going to be a busy couple of days around town as almost 1,000 IT Tralee students will attend their graduation ceremonies. One of the main highlights of the IT Tralee calendar, the students will graduate on Thursday and Friday at the Brandon Conference Centre in Tralee. Each of the 26 counties, in addition […]

SIX different Tralee schools converged on the gym at Mercy Mounthawk for the school’s first annual Primary Schools Basketball Tournament. The purpose of the day was to promote basketball within local schools and too have some fun as well. Fifth and sixth class boys were chosen to represent their schools in the […]

THE past week has seen a return of ghosts and zombies to Kerry County  Museum as visitors have been thrilled by the Haunted Hall. Scores of pupils from primary schools have braved the experience over the past number of days, but it will be the turn of the general public to […]

TWO men in their 20s are to appear in court today in Tralee after over €26,000 worth of crystal meth was seized by Gardai in Killarney. It was between 2 and 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon when Gardai in Killarney carried out a planned operation yesterday afternoon where two vehicles were stopped separately, in the […]

A MOUNTAIN climb  held by workers at an Abbeydorney-based company raised over €10,000 for Temple Street Children’s Hospital. On Monday, Nicola O’Callaghan of the Business Development Team at TLI Group, handed the cheque for €10,081 to Helena Bibby, Corporate Development Manager, at Temple Street Hospital who thanked the company for their efforts. […]

SO last weekend I was walking to my car after work at about 10.45pm and I encountered two guys who were clearly drunk, so I walked off the path and on to the road as they were blocking my way. As I walked by, they were joined by a third guy […]

UNIVERSITY of Limerick has appointed former editor of The Kerryman and Managing Director of The Irish Daily Star, Ger Colleran, as Adjunct Professor of Journalism. Mr Colleran lived in Ballymac when he was editor of The Kerryman newspaper from 1994 to 1999. He then moved to Dublin to become editor of The Star and later […]

IT was a memorable Monday for Kerry man, Ljatif Saiti who won the top prize of €200,000 on his All Cash Spectacular scratch card which he purchased in Healy’s Newsagent in his hometown of Killarney. Ljatif, who is originally from Kosovo, was joined by his family as he collected his whopping […]

CAPITALISING on tourism potential, attracting investment and generating more positive PR about Tralee were some of the issues discussed at the 2016 Tralee Chamber Alliance Think In held at Ballygarry House Hotel and Spa last week. Five key action areas were identified by the 38 positive-minded representatives of all professional sectors […]

DINERS are invited to take part in a fun night whilst dining blindfolded in order to raise much-needed funds for the National Council for The Blind Ireland (NCBI) Cassidy’s Restaurant on Abbey Street is taking part in ‘Dine In The Dark’ for NCBI this November and it’s being promoted by one of Ireland’s top […]

BUS EIREANN has officially launched an exciting new competition for Transition Year students, ‘Go Places with Bus Éireann’, which is running for the first time in the current academic year, 2016/2017. Participating students will be in with a chance of winning one of five regional prizes – including the South-West – of €3,000 […]

THERE will be a talk all about the importance of bees at Siamsa Tire on this Wednesday, October 26 at 7pm. Ecologist, Dr Una Fitzpatrick of Biodiversity Ireland will tell us what makes bees so special and what we can do to increase their numbers. Bees are Ireland’s most important pollinators […]

WHILE most secondary schools in the country will be affected by teachers’ strike action on Thursday, most Kerry ETB schools, including Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Coláiste Gleann Lí will not be affected. Industrial action by members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) now looks likely to go ahead after they failed to […]

THE Skellig Ring has been named one of the world’s top ten regions to travel to by Lonely Planet in 2017. The South Kerry beauty spot creeps in to the top ten list no doubt propelled by the worldwide exposure it received from appearing as Luke Skywalker’s home in ‘Star […]

A QUEENS Speech by Mike O’Halloran is coming to a north Kerry venue next month. After its huge success in Siamsa Tire last November, St Johns Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel will host the production for three nights Friday, November 4th, Saturday, November 5th, and Sunday November 6th, at 8.00 pm. In […]

A LOCAL group has received €2,000 from the Bons Secours Tralee Community Initiative Programme which aims to support local groups that are making a difference. One of these groups is Inspired who have been actively enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities in town for the last three years and are based in […]

GARDAI are again warning homeowners about bogus callers who have robbed people’s homes in Tralee and Killarney. On Friday, October 21 a man posing as a plumber gained access to a woman’s home in the St Anne’s Road area of Killarney on the premise of checking taps. The woman left the […]

PRESENTATION Secondary has announced their major fundraiser for this year which is a night at the dogs on November 25 in Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. Funds raised will go towards improve facilities for students. They hope to erect a commercial-sized poly tunnel, which will be used to grow vegetables at the […]

A TRALEE toastmaster will compete in the UK and Ireland Humorous Speech contest final in Dublin in three weeks time. Children’s book author and PR expert, Anthony Garvey, won the division toastmasters contest in Limerick at the weekend with a speech “Act Your Age”. Anthony had to win  Club (Tralee), Area (West Limerick, […]

FIONNBAR Walsh joined students from CBS The Green and Presentation Secondary School to launch their Mental Health Awarness week which began today. This year, for the first time, the Student Representative Councils from both schools are working together to organise  the events  in their respective schools. The aim is to promote positive […]

KIERAN Donaghy wasn’t the only local man having book launches and signings this week. John Cleary held the launch on Monday for his book of photographs, ‘Through The Lens’, which features images of Tralee and Kerry from the 1970s. Then on Saturday afternoon he was in O’Mahony’s Book Shop on […]