THE man who was found dead this morning in the Pembroke Court area has been named locally as Eric Leahy. Mr Leahy (35) was found at Pembroke Court, just off Pembroke Street, shortly after 3am. Emergency services attended the scene but efforts to resuscitate Mr Leahy were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at […]

KERRY County Council have developed a new website and video to keep the public up to date with the progress of the Smarter Travel initiative. The Smarter Travel Initiative  aims to to transform the town of Tralee into a Smarter and Active Travel Area, incorporating cycling, walking and public transport […]

SEAFOOD lovers in Tralee may be interested in a new mini-festival over the road in Ballybunion in June with an appearance by celebrity chef Clodagh McKenna. The Ballybunion Community Forum-Tourism and Marketing Team is planning the Wild Atlantic Seaweed Weekend June 5-7. The weekend will celebrate everything good about seaweed…from […]

THE Kerry Fire and Rescue Service have said family homes were at risk after another night tackling wild-land fires. From 2:45pm yesterday until 4am this morning units responded to 23 calls to 17 incidents in 14 separate locations in County Kerry. Of these incidents, 14 were wild-land fires. The resources of Kerry Fire […]

  GARDAI are investigating the sudden death of a male found off Pembroke Street this morning. (click here for update) The man is said to be aged in his mid-thirties. Emergency services were called to the Pembroke Court area just after 3am. Attempts to resuscitate the man were unsuccessful and he […]

NEARLY 60 ladies from all over the world will descend on County Laois for the 2015 Rose of Tralee Regional Festival from  May 28-31. Rose of Tralee, Maria Walsh, launched the event today in the Portlaoise Heritage Hotel. Twenty-three places in the Festival Dome Tralee next August are on the line for […]

TWO former league title winners with Manchester United are coming to the Stretford End Bar, Causeway this Saturday. An evening with David May and Lee Sharpe promises to be great night for any United fan old or young. Lee Sharpe was part of the first great Alex Ferguson side that […]

THOUSANDS of Kerry children under the age of six are set to get free GP care  after an agreement was reached between the Department of Health, the HSE and the IMO. It has been confirmed today that 6,785 children aged five and under in Kerry will be entitled to access free GP care from […]

  ONLINE registration for the Ring of Kerry Cycle will reopen once again this Saturday. Registration for the cycle opened on Tuesday afternoon, but due to unprecedented traffic on the website, it was forced to temporarily close only a few hours later. A statement for the Ring of Kerry Cycle said: […]

HAVE you noticed that there have been a lot of smiley people walking around Tralee lately? Considering that this can sometimes be a rare occurrence, you may have thought that you have been seeing things. Maybe it is what the sun is doing to your eyes? Somehow Ireland has managed to […]

  THE Vincent Browne ‘People’s Debate’ which was set to take place in the Gleneagle Killarney on Monday next has been cancelled. Last week it was been announced that the popular Vincent Browne debates where members of the public get a chance to grill Ministers and TDs would be coming to the […]

THE inaugural Connect Kerry Lee Strand Women in Business Awards will take place in June and the organisers are looking for entries and nominations. A Black Tie Gala Ceremony will be held on Friday,June 5 in Ballyroe Heights Hotel where winners will be announced. Organised by Margaret Brick, Editor of Connect […]

  THE Kerry Fire and Rescue Service are appealing to land and commonage owners not engage in burning gorse after what they described as the busiest 24 hour period in recent years. Units of Kerry Fire and Rescue Service responded to 26 calls to wild-land fires (including gorse, bog, grass, […]

TRALEE’S newest hotel opened its doors to the public today. The Ashe Hotel on Maine Street let us in for a look this morning and it’s mightily impressive. Formerly The Abbey Gate Hotel, the new business is creating up to 50 jobs in the town. On entering the doors, visitors are […]

TRALEE Musical Society are in the middle of a run of dates performing a musical based on the much-loved 90s film ‘Sister Act’. The opening night was on Tuesday with performances set to continue all the way to Sunday. So far the Tralee Musical Society’s musical adaptation of Sister Act has been wowing […]

THE glorious sunshine has made a very welcome return over the past week and many people have been out and about making the most of it. With temperatures wandering into the high teens we have been hit with an unseasonable mini-heatwave, but unfortunately dark clouds are predicted to come on the […]

PORTMAN Travel have created eight permanent new jobs at their European Centre of Excellence and have announced that another eight are planned to come on stream before the end of the year. The Travel Management Company that has been operating in Tralee from Monavalley Business Park since 1999 and employs over 50 staff. […]

BRITISH frozen food giants Iceland could be close to opening up a new store in Tralee…but where? Speculation has been triggered after the job of Iceland Tralee Store Manager was advertised online recently, although at this point there has been no official confirmation from Iceland, who over the past six […]

CROILAR na Mhistealach Residents Committee held a Flower Planting Workshop for the estate’s children on Saturday. Last year, the committee bought 10 hanging flower baskets to display between houses and this spring they decided to reuse them and involve children in planting the flowers. “It was an educational and hands-on […]

A GREAT new video featuring people from all over Kerry dancing in various locations has been uploaded to YouTube by the girls at Social Box TV. Politician Michael Healy Rae and Kerry footballer Aidan O’Mahony are just two well known faces in the video which raises awareness of an upcoming disco […]

TRALEETODAY.IE reached a new milestone on Tuesday when we reached 700,000 page views in a 31 day period, for the first time. More importantly, this number was achieved by over 88,000 unique users of the website. The figures are verified by Google Analytics (see graphic below) which tracks activity on the […]

A KERRY based dance group has came back with top awards from an international dance competition. The Academy of Dance under the directorship of Clarissa Michaux were selected to represent Ireland and competed in the International Dance Competitions in Barcelona over the Easter weekend. They were placed first overall for Artistic and Creative […]

A TRALEE photographer  has a new book that will show the beauty of our county in a whole new light. Michael Diggin, who has his gallery/shop in 5 Lower Castle Street, has a new book out called ‘This Is Kerry’ which features a whole host of images capturing the beauty of the county. “This […]

THANKFULLY the sun was beaming down for the Kerins O’Rahilly’s Ladies 5k Fun Run on Easter Monday. About 100 or so people of all ages made their way to the Strand Road clubhouse on Monday afternoon for what was a great opportunity to run off all the chocolate scoffed over […]

WE brought you all the glamour from the Miss Kerry pageant on Saturday night and now you can watch the moment Mairead Breathnach was announced as the winner. The event drew a large crowd to the Killarney Plaza Hotel and videographer Lucas Machowski has uploaded a video showing the contestants on the catwalk and […]

  Town League Final, Austin Stack Park Austin Stacks 0-12 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-6  AUSTIN STACKS claimed another title as they beat Kerins O’Rahillys in the Town League final in Austin Stack Park on Saturday evening. There were glorious conditions for football as these two sides matched up again. Back in January, The […]

THERE were three break-ins to vehicles in Tralee on Easter Sunday, two of which occurred very close to the Garda Station. On Easter Sunday between 1pm and 2pm a silver Toyota Hilux was broken into on High Street. The car was parked in front of Tru-Care Dry Cleaners, just yards from the […]

  AUSTIN Stacks held their annual social in Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Sunday night and it was a resounding success. Yesterday we brought you photos from the event (click here) which was attended by over 350 of the Rockie faithful and we now have many more photos below. After  the […]

NOT long after announcing himself back on the inter-county scene, Paul Galvin, has reportedly bagged himself a new job designing an exclusive range of clothing for Dunnes Stores. Following in the footsteps of golfer, Padraig Harrington, Paul Galvin has designed a new line of clobber for Dunnes which is expected […]

  KERRY Autism Action will host a One Day Autism Conference on Saturday, April 25 in the Solas Building, Institute of Technology Tralee, North Campus, Tralee. Registration will be from 9.30am with the conference beginning at 10am and finishing at 4pm. Guest speakers include: • Adam Harris from AsIam.ie (most recently […]