A GREAT new video has been uploaded to YouTube showing how much Tralee can offer school tours. The clip, uploaded by Tralee School Tours, is a great advert for the town’s attractions and shows the County Museum, Crag Cave, the AquaDome, Blennerville Windmill, The Playdium and Tralee Bay Wetlands in […]

THE three Kerry entries in the IPB Pride of Place awards will be judged today and tomorrow. IPB Pride of Place is an all-island competition, which is directed towards recognising improvements by local communities to create civic pride in their area. The competition focus is on people coming together to shape, […]

KERRY face Tipperary in the Munster SFC final in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney on July 3 and terrace tickets are already on sale. The match has a 2pm throw-in and will be preceded by Kerry V Cork in the minor final at 12 noon. Adult and Juvenile terrace tickets are now available to purchase from the […]

GARDAÍ are appealing for information after a mobile home was damaged recently. The incident took place between June 11-12 at Parkboy in Ballyroe when a woman parked her mobile home at a construction site. There was criminal damage done to the mobile home but nothing was taken. Gardaí are asking that if […]

A GROUP of youngsters from the Middle East is coming to Ireland in July and a table quiz will be held this Thursday to help with the costs. An under 14 soccer team from Gaza will be visiting next month and in order to cover accommodation, travel and meal costs – which is in the region […]

TRALEE Municipal District councillors received a combined total of over €250,000 in payments in 2015 according to figures from Kerry County Council. In figures supplied by the Council to Radio Kerry, it showed Cllr Pat McCarthy received the largest amount of €43,404.13, while Independent Cllr Sam Locke received the smallest amount of €21,888.14. Cllr […]

KERRY star Aidan O’Mahony was on hand on Monday morning to help Presentation Primary celebrate achieving two flags at the school. The school achieved its sixth Green Flag from An Taisce for their work on the theme of ‘Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste’. The Green Flag project involves the […]

THERE was a feast for the senses all day at the Town Park on Saturday, but it was true in a literal sense on Saturday night for ‘Ye Olde BBQ Banquet’. Guests paid €10 for the sold-out event in the park to enjoy an informal feast of fun from 7pm to […]

TRALEE Musical Society was celebrating last night as they won two awards at the Association of Irish Musical Society Awards (AIMS) in the Gleneagle Hotel. They received five nominations in all for their production of ‘The Beautiful Game’ which wowed audiences in Siamsa Tire back in March. The nominations were for Oliver Hurley […]

THE rains came earlier than expected and spoiled the Tralee 800 celebrations somewhat, but there was still big crowds in the Town Park on Saturday. The big match screening in the Square was the big casualty of the afternoon, with only about 5o people braving the spitting rain to stand […]

  MODERN technology has had a ying/yang effect on our world. On the one hand it has brought great advances to our lives. For instance you can settle down with a hot cup of tea in less than three minutes, whereas on the other hand, with all the latest gadgets for […]

THERE was some great football played at Na Gaeil GAA Grounds on Friday morning for the inaugural Community Policing Garda Blitz in association with Cumann na mBunscoil. Eleven primary schools from the Tralee area took to the field for a fantastic few hours of games organised in the main by Gardaí Aidan O’Mahony […]

THANKFULLY the weather stayed dry last night as rock took centre stage in the Square for the Tralee 800 festival’s free entertainment. Local band Chapter 2 were first up, followed by Dublin indie contenders The Raglans. While the crowds weren’t as good as hoped for, there was a few hundred […]

MOYDERWELL and Presentation pupils really got into the spirit of the Tralee 800 celebrations and were rewarded by winning a schools competition. Schools around Tralee were asked to take part in exploring the town’s history and the medieval aspect to the anniversary. The Kerry County Council-sponsored competition was run alongside this year’s festival and […]

DRAGONS, dancers and a battle for Tralee raged in the Square last night as part of the Tralee 800 celebrations. Members of the Déise Medieval group were joined by local performers for a short pageant about a family fighting against the Anglo-Normans. The performers staged a short fight followed by a […]

IT’S one of the county’s – if not the country’s – most beautiful hotels and it could be getting bigger soon. The renowned Ballyseede Castle Hotel is seeking permission to enlarge its premises by constructing a 16 bedroom extension. An application has been made to Kerry County Council by Ballyline Castle Limited for the development […]

THE sun was out this afternoon as the Tralee 800 celebrations got underway in earnest with a great performance of music in the Square on Friday afternoon. The Mayor of Kerry was on hand to welcome the Mid West Youth Orchestra from Chicago, who were a late addition to the […]

“TAKE time to reflect on the path that best suits you”. This is the message from Mary Murphy, PRO for Kerry College of Further Education, Tralee to those who have just completed their state examinations. “No doubt a weight has been lifted off the shoulders and now that the Leaving […]

Dermot Crean sees why Vilamoura is so popular with Kerry people heading to the Algarve this summer…  “EH, what the hell am I doing up here?” It’s a pertinent question I’m asking myself, having spent the previous few minutes climbing 20 flights of steps, to get 32 metres on high overlooking the biggest, most spectacular waterpark on […]

THERE’S good news and bad news on the weekend weather front here in Kerry. If you want to get out and about, then today and tomorrow are the best days to enjoy the sunshine and dry weather as there’s rain on the way for Sunday. We checked out Met Eireann and […]

  Know Your Rights has been compiled by Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question I do night work regularly but I am expecting a baby in six months. Can I stop working at night while I am pregnant? Answer  Under the Safety, […]

AN urgent call has been made for Kerry’s British-born community to make their vote count in the   upcoming UK referendum on EU membership. European Movement Ireland has launched the ‘Post Your Vote’ Appeal. There are 10,362 British-born citizens in Kerry and they are asked to post their vote this weekend to […]

IT’S that time of the year when the Tidy Towns judges make their way around the towns and villages of the country. Tralee is looking good, but more needs to be done if it is to retain the Gold Medal this year according to the local Tidy Towns committee. More […]

  KERRY County Council has issued a warm welcome to the estimated 70,000 people who will visit Kerry and neighbouring counties over the course of the annual Féile Peile na nÓg which takes place next weekend from June 24-26. Clubs in and around Tralee will be hosting games during the event. The […]

THE Institute of Technology, Tralee, has announced it will be running six new courses under the Government’s Springboard+ initiative. The courses, which will run from September 2016 are in the areas of Environmental Science, Culinary Skills, Biopharmaceutical Processes and Industrial Instrumentation. In addition, the Institute will also offer the Higher […]

THE life of Tom Crean is about to be celebrated in a fresh light in The Tom Crean Festival this weekend. The centrepiece of the festival, which takes place annually in the West Kerry village of Annascaul, will be a choreographed version of the local hero’s life on Saturday night. Tom Crean’s Journey: An Irish […]

THE Kerry Travellers Health & Community Development Project are gearing up for a busy event next month. They will unveil their “Tall, We Stand” Project at the Community Room at Áras An Phobail, Tralee on Friday, July 8. “The “Tall, We Stand” project is a county wide project for Traveller Pride week 2016. In the course […]

KERRY Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has called on his constituency colleagues to support his party’s Rent Certainty Bill which will be voted on in the Dáil tomorrow. Fianna Fáil has signalled that it will vote with Fine Gael and government Independents to reject rent certainty which, he says, will […]

AN evening of beautiful, stirring music is in prospect this Sunday evening when an ensemble of local classical musicians get together for a special concert. The Scotia Ensemble, with the aid of the Arts Act Grant from Kerry County Council, will perform “An Evening of Irish Songs and Music” with guest […]

PRESENTATION NS, Tralee has won €500 in the Lee Strand Cash 4 Schools May Draw. Mighty Mikey Milk created lots of excitement when he visited Presentation NS in Tralee this week to present a cheque of €500. Speaking at the presentation, Principal Patrick Sayers said; “The news that we had won the […]