It’s the weekend and there’s a pile of great stuff to get up to over the next two days. From rock concerts to reunions, barbecues to a local GAA derby… Some enchanted evening… All roads lead to Kilflynn on Saturday as an open air concert will be held in aid of […]

TEN new jobs will be created in a Tralee branch of home security company. Based in Denny Street, PhoneWatch is looking for people to fill roles as direct sales representatives. At least 10 new sales executives will be recruited in the Tralee office over the coming weeks. “We continue to grow […]

MANY in the national media have been banging on about how we’re going to get a scorcher of a weekend. Well, it’s looking alright for Kerry, but Met Eireann is warning of cloudy conditions in the south-west tomorrow. Met Eireann says humid but cloudy weather will be the main picture on Saturday, while Sunday could see some […]

“EVERYBODY cut Footloose!” Fans of 80s teen cinema will be heading to Fenit later this month for a classic. The Summer Open Air Cinema will be at the Tralee Sailing Club on Wednesday, August 17 with a special screening of Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer. The 1984 American musical drama film tells the story of Ren […]

TODAY the GAA announced an exciting proposal to restructure the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (see below). The proposal is looking to get rid of the quarter-finals and replace them with two round robin groups of four. Every team will play each other once and the top two […]

AN incident of extreme cruelty to two kittens was witnessed on the main road between Ballyduff and Tralee last week. Shocked motorist, Polly Hartney and her husband Tony were witness to two kittens thrown out of a car, as it travelled along a straight stretch of road near Ballincrossig going towards […]

YouCan Ireland,  the national support network for people who have had a cancer diagnosis in their 20s, 30s and 40s, are coming to the Recovery Haven in Tralee for an open day on Saturday, August 13. YouCan Ireland was founded in February 2015 by a group of volunteers who themselves […]

OVER the past few years we have seen minimal improvements in the economy. I know this because everyone is pretty focused on this fact. We are all waiting for things to get better so that we can start enjoying life again. I know that money doesn’t bring you happiness, but […]

AN East London based civil engineering contractor with Kenmare roots has been awarded one of the most prestigious Irish community awards in the UK. Brendan Riney MBE, who left his native Kenmare almost 70 years ago, has been named as the winner of the respected Kerry Association London Person of […]

JUST over 180 Causeway Comprehensive students made their way to the Earl of Desmond Hotel on Wednesday evening for the students’ annual debs ball. Out went the uniforms and on came the stylish dresses and suits for students capping of their years in the north Kerry school. They enjoyed a meal, followed […]

DENNY Street will be two-way traffic by Christmas and works on the shared space in The Mall/Bridge Street/Russell Street will begin in January 2017 it was revealed last night. Kerry County Council Senior Executive Engineer, Eamon Scanlon, briefed local businesspeople  on the upcoming works at a meeting in the Imperial Hotel last […]

THE weather was not kind for a special event at Banna Beach last night as a tribute to those who have been affected by cancer. The ‘Celebration of Light’ at the beach is a precursor to a bigger event to be held on Thursday August 18 at the Tralee Wetlands in aid […]

THE Kerry Junior team to face Mayo in the All-Ireland Final on Saturday in Croke Park (2pm) has been named. There are three changes in personnel from the side that defeated Lancashire in the semi-final. Patrick Clifford, who was introduced in the semi final, comes into the half back line in place […]

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with the Waterville Post Office raid this morning but a third man, remains at large, believed to be in Ardraw, Beaufort. At approx. 11.15am a report was received of an armed robbery having taken place at Waterville Post Office. A quantity of cash was […]

THE Rose of Tralee Festival is less than two weeks away now and the 64 Roses who will be joining our own Kerry Rose, Danielle O’Sullivan in Kerry, must be getting excited. For some of them though, it will be a sort of homecoming, as a number have close links to […]

IT must be pretty handy for Kerry footballers when preparing for a big match in Croke Park to know a legend with sage advice is only a phone-call away. Darragh Ó Sé gives an account of one such phone-call he had with Maurice Fitzgerald days before he entered the fray at […]

LADIES got to see all that a hair and beauty salon in Caheranne Village has to offer at a night of style, fashion and make-up tips on Tuesday night for a ‘Girls Pampering Evening’. The open evening was hosted by Brush ‘N’ Blush salon and showcased all the hair and beauty salon […]

SO I met an acquaintance over the weekend and I asked her how did her friend’s recent wedding go?  (I know the bride and she is one of the most beautiful girls in Kerry) “Alright, I expected more from her to be honest Orlagh.” “In what way?” I quizzed “Her […]

Castlegregory Golf Club News (by Mike Mercer) THE RECENTLY held John Browne Memorial Scratch Cups at Castlegregory Golf Club had a treble of winners for the host club. The Ladies Club kicked off the weekend on Friday with the Mike Deane Coach Hire sponsored competition. Alana Rowan (12) took home […]

A NEW restaurant will create up to 10 full-time and part-time jobs when it opens in town this Friday. Le Rustique is to serve French cuisine and is located at a premises on Princes Street, where a number of restaurants have operated in the past. The premises has been vacant for […]

MOTORISTS will be happy to find out Tralee has seen its most dramatic fall in fuel prices since the beginning of the year. Last month, the most expensive price in town for petrol was €1.34.9. This week the cheapest is as low as the €1.24.8 at the Applegreen station in Faries Cross. Over the […]

GARDAI are looking  for help in relation to a burglary at a house in Ardfert at the weekend and finding the owners of a lost handbag and diamond rings found on a beach. On Sunday, July 31, between 12.30am and 10am, a house in the Hazel Grove estate.  A number […]

IN fairness, Darran O’Sullivan is up against it. The Kerry forward scored a cracking goal and was in fine form again for Kerry on Sunday, bagging 1-2 from play in Kerry’s 2-16 to 0-10 victory over Clare in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final. His performance has earned him a nomination for a […]

THE Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation is appealing to Tralee people for Lego donations to build a bank of home nursing hours for sick children locally, with drop off points nationwide including the DPD Ireland depot in Monavalley Business Park, Tralee. The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation is asking people to […]

WITH the Rose of Tralee International Festival just two weeks away, the town can expect a massive influx of friends and families of the Roses into town for the week. Of course, as is tradition, each Rose is assigned pub as part of the Rose twinning process and this year many […]

CHAMPIONS Kilmoyley will do battle with parish neighbours St Brendans in a repeat of last year’s county final on Sunday week. The draw for the semi-finals of the Garveys Supervalu Senior Hurling Championship was made on Radio Kerry today and resulted in the pairing as well as Abbeydorney taking on Ballyduff […]

THE Kerry juniors will play on the biggest stage of all next Saturday in their All Ireland Junior Final. The game has been fixed as the curtain-raiser to the All-Ireland Senior Quarter-Finals at Croke Park on Saturday with a 2pm throw-in time. Stephen Wallace’s charges will be hoping to get […]

TEAMS from supermarkets, companies, hospitals and the Garda took to the astroturf yesterday  for the inaugural Turner’s Bar Invitational Cup. Twelve teams took part in the tournament at the ITT North Campus sports grounds in aid of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland. The tournament  was organised by Brian McCarthy from Kielduff, whose brother works […]

THE Spin South West Sandstorm is coming back this autumn. The event will take place in Ballyheigue Beach again for the second year on Saturday, October 1. Sandstorm is a 5k endurance race that challenges participants both physically and mentally with a course consisting of multiple obstacles and challenges along the beach. Continued below… Last […]

A NEW tourist attraction has started in Tralee and it’s proving popular with more locals and groups than visitors to our town to date. Craft Makers, the new Craft Centre on Ashe Street is running walking tours every Saturday about Tralee where participants take an absorbing step back into the social history […]