TRALEE has a new All-Ireland winning team after Mercy Mounthawk won a final yesterday in Dublin. The first year team clinched the All-Ireland Schools First Year B Final title at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, beating Presentation Kilkenny 40-14. “It was a massive achievement,” said Head Coach, Tomás O’Hanlon, when we […]

  TRALEE musician, Gary Keane, has produced a cover version of Hozier’s, ‘Take me to Church’ as part of the cork based neo-soul duo White Boys and it’s getting a lot of attention (see video below). Gary and his partner in funk, Eoin Walsh, who is from Cork, have knocked […]

  PLAYERS from clubs around the county joined representatives from Garvey’s Supervalu Group, county board officials and Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice for the launch of the senior football championship on Friday night. Taking place in the Tralee Supervalu store, Radio Kerry commentator and Garvey’s employee, Tim Moynihan, spoke to some of […]

  I KNOW that I am only half way through my schooling years, but I would like to believe that I have learned a lot. When I say this, I am not referring to all the maths equations that I have learned to solve (or not learned to solve as the […]

AROUND 700 hundred cyclists made Mercy Mounthawk their destination on Sunday as the secondary school hosted the Cycle Against Suicide participants. This is the third year of Cycle Against Suicide, which is an event that intends raise awareness of the mental health issues in each town it travels through with […]

Tralee and District Darts League Update Semi-finals and final will take place on May 15. Structure is as follows; first in group one play second in group two and vice versa (first in group two will play second in group one). Third in group 1 play fourth in group 2 […]

  A 12 unit social housing development at Killeen was part of a number of projects given the green light today with the allocation by the Government of €6.3m for Kerry. Overall, it will deliver 28 houses in areas such as Tralee, Killarney and Lixnaw and permit the building of 12 additional […]

JUST over 100 participants hit the streets on May bank holiday Monday to take part in the Rotary Club’s, 10k ‘Run Kingdom Run’ event. All proceeds from the event went to the Live Life Foundation. This is the second year the Rotary Club has organised this event. Donal Walsh’s mother, Elma, […]

GARDAI made 21 arrests for public order offences in Killarney over the May Bank Holiday weekend which was down on other years. All in all, the Rally of the Lakes was a great success for businesses with little trouble for the Gardaí with around 20,000 people in town for the event. There […]

STUDENTS from Presentation Secondary School  went above and beyond themselves as they raised over €750 to help out one young boy in his battle against a debilitating disease. Daniel Collins is four years old and suffers from severe medical difficulties such as Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalous which have a massive impact on […]

FENIT LIFEBOAT STATION is appealing for people to take part in their annual charity cycle this Saturday to help keep this vital life-saving resource in action. Last year, Fenit Lifeboat had 35 call outs, that’s 35 occasions where people’s lives were in danger. In total there are 25 unpaid volunteer […]

A NEW fashion trend is no doubt all set to sweep towards world domination after it made its debut in the 2015 MET Gala in New York last night. With stars such as George Clooney, Beyonce, Rihanna and Cara Delevingne all present at the awards, an annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan […]

  THE Destination Kerry Tourism Forum, the umbrella body for tourism in the county, established by Kerry County Council, is organising a series of public meetings in relation to the new Kerry Tourism Strategy, 2016-2020. Meetings will take place at seven venues throughout the county over the next two weeks, […]

IN the early hours of Sunday morning last, millions of people paid money to watch a boxing match between two guys in Las Vegas. The two, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao could not be more different. Pacquiao a charitable man who donates a lot of money to his impoverished country […]

MY first week away from TV land and I was glad I was heading to London for Eucerin. It was a big change not putting my slot together and the nerves of appearing on live TV and when it all stopped it was a mixture of relief and missing it […]

AUSTIN Stacks GAA Club, Tralee will be rolling out the red carpet and welcoming Marty Morrissey and the RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday Sports team  to the ‘Street of Champions’ this Sunday, May 10. RTE Sports have chosen the home of the Munster and  Kerry Champions as the football club from which to launch the station’s Sunday Game coverage for 2015. The programme will […]

NON-LOCAL participants in the Tralee Marathon generated almost €100,000 during the event according to a survey by the event organisers. ‘Run The Kingdom’, the management company behind the event, recently published their economic report on the this years Tralee International Marathon. In it, they go into detail about the average age […]

A TRALEE student has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Hot Press ‘Write Here, Write Now’  competition. Kerry is represented in the third-level category by David O’Donoghue for Tralee. The prize for the overall winners includes an internship at Hot Press.   “There was a huge level of interest in the […]

TRALEE’S newest nightclub opened its doors on Saturday night and the place was packed. We were in Quarters to capture the atmosphere as people flocked to the venue in Godfrey Place for a look. Scroll down for photos…

A CAPACITY crowd rocked the opening night of Quarters Nightclub at Godfrey Place on Saturday. After much anticipation over the past few weeks, the doors opened at 9pm where Q14 played a gig in Quarters Live. At 11pm the large queue of people lining up were allowed in to get […]

IT was a gruelling but satisfying morning/afternoon for about 250 brave souls who took a unique challenge on Saturday morning. The ‘B-Wildered – The John Lenihan Wilderness Challenge’, sponsored by Lee Strand, with proceeds going to Ballymacelligott GAA Club, took place from 11am at Glanageenty, and it was deemed a very […]

  SO you think Paul Galvin grew that beard because he’s a slave to hipster fashion, eh? And his decision to write a book was an off-the-cuff desire to tell the real story behind the enigmatic Lixnaw character? Well thanks to a photo posted on Facebook by a friend of TraleeToday.ie, […]

  THERE’LL be a fantastic family fun day held in Shanakill later this month to raise vital funds for the local resource centre. The Shanakill Family Resource Centre will be buzzing with activity on May 15 to celebrate the ‘Day of Families’ kicking off at 2pm with a BBQ, bouncy […]

  It almost goes without saying to talk about the benefits that changes in technology have brought to our lives. I suppose we could go back in history and firstly look at the invention of the wheel, then perhaps the industrial revolution and then the introduction of ‘mass production’ by […]

  Our hurling writer, Mike O’Halloran, was in Austin Stack Park this afternoon for Kerry’s Christy Ring Cup clash with Down… Kerry 2-17 Down 2-10 ‘Job done’ the Kerry management will say. The Christy Ring Cup is the terminus for the 2015 journey of this team and they have taken […]

A MAJOR fundraiser for a local GAA club will see people take off from town to enjoy the beauty of the west Kerry peninsula all in one day. The St Pats GAA Club 2015 Dingle Way Challenge will take place on Sunday, May 31 and promises to be an exceptional day […]

A GOOD idea and a lot of neck has thrusted a man from the Kerries into the world of the rich and famous. Armed with two helmets, Tralee’s Eugene McGrath and his friend James O’Malley have stepped into the spotlight vacated by reclusive electronic music giants Daft Punk and reaped the benefits […]

CBS Primary School is getting ready to hold its very own fashion show with local celebrities and sports stars all set to take part. The school are organising the event which will take place in Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday, May 14 at 7pm. There will be a star-studded line up on […]

  THE ‘Kerry Festival of Pride’ will be taking place in town later this month with a whole host of events and activities lined up over the 5 day period. The festival is an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Kerry region. It is now […]

CH TRALEE has announced that their Teen Summer Beauty Camp are back! Now an annual event, the CH Teen Summer Beauty Camp is tailored towards teenagers aged between 13 and 17 years of age who would love to know more about beauty. They can learn everything they ever wanted to know […]