WITH his tenure as Kerry captain now over, Kieran Donaghy is facing into a winter away from Kerry football and going back to the sport closest to his heart. Along with hosting a juvenile basketball camp (see details below), the former football player of the year will be returning to […]

OVER 500 First Year students from seven Kerry ETB schools and two Voluntary schools took part in the annual orienteering interschool event in Ballyseedy Woods on Tuesday this week. Students from Colaiste Gleann Lí Tralee, Presentation Convent Tralee and Causeway Comprehensive School took with schools from further afield, Colaiste na Sceilge […]

TWO teams from Mercy Mounthawk received Merit awards in the John Hooper Maths Poster Competition in Dublin last Thursday. This is a very prestigious competition is organised between the Central Statistics Office and the Project Maths Development team and aims to develop an interest in Maths and statistics in particular. While 10 schools […]

TRALEE Garda Station has been included in a national €60 million Garda building and refurbishment programme to build new and to improve and refurbish, existing Garda stations. The improvements will be in a number of areas including custody management, enhanced facilities for engaging with the public and improvements in welfare facilities […]

  KERRY GAA received a cheque for around €330,000 at a function in London at the weekend, according to the London-based newspaper, Irish World. The paper reports that a £243,000 cheque was given to Kerry GAA at the Kerry Association of London annual dinner dance in Cricklewood. With the exchange rate, that […]

  STAFF and pupils of CBS Primary, Clounalour, have been presented with their 2015 Tidy Towns award. Mayor of Tralee, Tom McEllistrim, visited the school Monday morning to present them with their award. The school was chosen as “Business Premises Award” for 2015. The award was accepted by School Principal, Denis Coleman, […]

  EVERYONE is talented. Whether your talent is being a pro footballer, or if you can make a mean batch of buns; we all possess some sort of talent, that much is true. In the working world, a place that I am slowly crawling towards, it seems to me that everyone’s […]

MATHS week took place at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí last week  and there were many displays around the school organised by the transition year students. Marking its first decade, Maths Week is the largest festival of maths in the world with over one million people attending events over the first 10 years. Story continued below… […]

THIS Friday CBS The Green Transition Year students will climb Killarney’s Four Peaks. The challenge has been organised as a ‘Donal Walsh memorial walk’ with the theme of the challenge being Donal’s own message of Live Life. Donal, a student of CBS The Green, accepted his illness with incredible dignity […]

MERCY Mounthawk held their annual awards reception for those who obtain the highest grades in Leaving and Junior Certificate exams in 2015 on Saturday. Eight students were honoured for their grades in the State exams with Principal John O’Roarke, in his speech, pointing out that only 0.6% nationally received 10A’s or more and they had 2.5% […]

  THE Institute of Technology Tralee has released a statement about an incident involving a female student near the Fairies Cross area on Monday afternoon. Reports of an incident spread quickly on Facebook on Monday evening, stating a woman – walking from Applegreen at Fairies Cross in the direction of town – had been the […]

A TRALEE councillor has played down threats to his safety and wants to focus on getting a Ballymullen monument to Tralee’s World War 1 dead  completed by the end of the year. Cllr Sam Locke brought a motion to Kerry County Council on Monday to erect two glass panels at the Royal Munster […]

IN the latest nugget to come out of Tomás Ó Sé’s new autobiography, ‘The White Heat’, the former Gaeltacht clubman tells of the time Kerry and Cork players came to blows in a rebel held pub. The story gets all the more interesting when you add in Mick Galwey and […]

THERE were almost 300 cases of homeless people using emergency accommodation in Kerry in 2014, while this year to date there have been 183 cases. The figures were revealed in a report on Homeless Services in Kerry presented by J0hn Breen, Director of Services in Kerry County Council at the monthly meeting […]

  OVER the last few days you may have spotted the highly unusual sight of thousands of tiny fish visible in the canal and Tralee Bay. We got the low down on this natural phenomenon from Dingle marine biologist, Kevin Flannery. “A number of weeks ago the little fish, called Sprat, were chased […]

HAVE you ever wondered about how important friends are in your life? I have just spent an amazing weekend with great friends and it was exactly what the doctor ordered. Sometimes during our lifetime we all need our friends more than ever and true friendship will always help us get through […]

A JUVENILE tournament was held in Connolly Park on Sunday in memory of a great Rockie. A mini-blitz for the Austin Stack Club U12 boys remembered the late Charlie Healy, a great Rock mentor and follower who died in August. His wife, Ena Healy, presented Jordan Kissane with the winners trophy at the […]

ONCE again this year, Scoil Eoin Balloonagh students took part in the Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal in association with Samaratin’s Purse. Samaratin’s Purse is an international Christian relief and development organisation, meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, famine and disease. Putting together the shoeboxes enables them to send […]

Mike O’Halloran on Lixnaw’s minors, the new Kerry coach, a great read and Stacks’ county final win… IT was a busy week for hurling this weekend. I was in Kilmoyley on Saturday to see Lixnaw complete a double in county minor hurling championship with a very impressive win over St […]

TRALEE Bay Wetlands Centre has won further recognition for their efforts to promote green tourism and environmental responsibility at the Green Hospitality Awards in Dublin last Thursday, collecting the 2015 award for Responsible Activity Provider. The Green Hospitality Programme recognises the efforts of hoteliers, tourism destinations and activity providers in reducing their […]

THE Kerry U14 Kennedy Cup winning team received the highest honour the Kerry County Council can bestow,  when they received a civic reception in the Council buildings in Rathass. Last June, Kerry sent waves through Irish football when they pulled off a shock by beating the Dublin Schooboys League 1-0  in the […]

  ARTHUR J Spring TD was selected on Monday evening at the Kerry Labour Party Convention in Tralee, as the candidate to represent the party in the next general election. Deputy Arthur Spring was  the sole candidate going forward for nomination at the convention which was chaired by Cork-based Senator John Gilroy. […]

KERRY County Council aim to purchase over 30 properties for social housing by the end of the year. In total, it is expected that over 400 housing units in all will be delivered by the end of 2015. In a report by John Breen, Director of Services at the Council […]

GARDAÍ are investigating after a number of cars were damaged in Ballyheigue village recently. The incidents happened in the early hours of Sunday October 11, where there were five thefts from vehicles. Documentation and paperwork were removed from some of the vehicles and burnt nearby. In four of the cases there was […]

  DAIRYMASTER has been shortlisted for the ‘Tech Innovation Award’ category, sponsored by NSAI, of the National Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards 2015. The Causeway company’s revolutionary Dairymaster Swiftflo Goat Rotary system allows one person to milk 1,300 goats per hour, meaning farmers can hugely increase both output and productivity. The Kerry […]

  FORMER Limerick hurling player, Ciaran Carey is set to be ratified as the new Kerry Senior Hurling Manager at the next meeting of the County Committee on November 2. The Patrickswell clubman had a distinguished 15 year playing career with Limerick. He was a key member of the Treaty county’s team […]

CHRISTY Dignam and fellow Aslan band member, Joe Jewell will perform at this year’s 5th Annual Celebration of Christie Hennessy at Fels Point Hotel on Friday/Saturday October 30/31. The CEO of Tralee Chamber Alliance, Kieran Ruttledge, said: “The Christie Hennessy Celebration is a great weekend of top class music from some of […]

OVER 130 people set off from the Oyster Tavern on Sunday morning in ideal conditions for a 10k run. It was all in aid of Churchill GAA club who decided to hold the event as part of their centenary celebrations this year. All proceeds from the event are going towards the development of […]

IT was a great Saturday night in Causeway as some fleet-footed Kerry hurlers strutted their stuff on the dance floor with their partners. It was all part of the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ fundraiser – in a specially constructed marquee at McHales Stretford End – to help send the Kerry hurling team off […]

  Mike O’Halloran on the Keane’s SuperValu Killorglin County Minor Hurling Championship Final on Saturday… THERE was a comprehensive win for Lixnaw over St Brendan’s Ardfert in the minor county hurling final in Kilmoyley on Saturday on a scoreline of 3-19 points to 1-10. Lixnaw led at halftime by seven points […]