INDEPENDENT candidate, Tommy Collins was eliminated on the fifth count in the Tralee Electoral Area elections. He received just six votes from Norma Foley’s surplus which brought him to 731, not enough to keep him in the race. The sixth count, dealing with the distribution of Collins’ votes, is due […]

Laune Rangers 1-15 St Brendan’s 0-12 ST BRENDAN’S were knocked out of the opening game in the County Championship yesterday in what was a miserable blustery evening in Killorglin. Preparations hadn’t been ideal for St Brendan’s who draw their players from John Mitchels, Na Gaeil, Ardfert, St Pat’s and Churchill clubs, […]

LABOUR Party candidate Gillian Wharton Slattery was eliminated from the Tralee Electoral Area contest on the third count earlier today. She received 29 extra votes from Pa Daly of Sinn Fein’s surplus bringing her total vote to 479. It still left her as the candidate with the lowest amount of votes and […]

NORMA Foley of Fianna Fail has been elected to the County Council for the Tralee Electoral Area in the past hour. There were jubilant scenes when the result was announced around 10.40am, following the distribution of Toireasa Ferris’ surplus, where she got an extra 139 votes to bring her to 1,680. It […]

A DAMP and miserable Tralee town centre was certainly livened up on Saturday when the Kerry Pride Festival staged their parade on Saturday. About 50 people took part in the event from the Brandon car park down Princes Street, around by The Brogue, into The Mall and up Denny Street. […]

IT was a day of celebration for the children of two schools on Saturday when pupils of CBS Primary School and Derryquay NS celebrated their First Holy Communion. St John’s Church was a hive of activity as the CBS youngsters received the sacrament with proud parents and family members looking […]

JUST two of the 14 candidates have been elected to the Tralee Electoral Area of Kerry County Council so far. Toireasa Ferris and Pa Daly of Sinn Fein were elected on the first count on Saturday night before Michael McMahon adjourned the count until Sunday morning at 9am. The first […]

FIRST-TIME candidate Pa Daly was overwhelmed with the vote he received in the Tralee Electoral Area elections to Kerry County Council. He was elected on the first count last night along with his Sinn Fein party colleague, Toireasa Ferris, who topped the poll. The Tralee solicitor garnered 2,122 first preference […]

SINN Fein’s Toireasa Ferris topped the poll in the Tralee Electoral Area and said the party is now the main opposition party to the Government. She also said she felt sorry for the ordinary Labour supporters because, as she put it, “the Labour leadership had prostituted themselves for power and abandoned […]

By Dermot Crean at John Mitchels GAA Complex A FIRST count for the Tralee Electoral Area is likely to be announced later tonight with Sinn Fein sitting pretty on top of the poll according to tallies. From the 51 boxes opened in Killarney earlier, tallies suggest that Toireasa Ferris and Pa […]

OUR Lady and St Brendan’s Church was packed on Friday afternoon as sixth year students from Mercy Mounthawk got together with their families for a special graduation ceremony. The young men and women, who started at the school back in 2008, are busy studying for the Leaving Cert, but this was a last […]

THE voting is over, now the counting begins. The Tralee Electoral Area candidates are facing into a nervous weekend as the ballot boxes were opened this morning over in the Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre. The ballot boxes from the 143 polling centres throughout the county will have to be sorted, separating […]

WE’RE marking one month up and running here at TraleeToday.ie and we’ve got something to celebrate…thanks to you! In the period from April 24 to May 23 (31 days), the site has surpassed the 100,000 views mark with over 17,000 unique users. People have been logging on to the site in 83 […]

By Dermot Crean RATHMORE has its first ever Kerry Rose as Mary Hickey was picked out of the bunch of 27 contestants on Friday night at Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The 26 year old primary school teacher, representing the O’Donoghue Ring Hotel Group, was shocked and delighted when Daithi O Se […]

THE Kerry Rose selection over now, but earlier on Friday we were there to capture the glamour of the contestants before they took to the stage at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The 27 ladies were looking amazing and posed for photos with family and friends before facing their interviews with host […]

By Dermot Crean THE outgoing Kerry Rose said that whoever is chosen as the new Rose,  they should savour the occasion and give it their all for the year. Gemma Kavanagh from Killarney was speaking at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel before the Kerry Rose Selection took place on Friday night. Mary Hickey from Rathmore was […]

VOTING for the local and European elections around town was running at an average of around 22% by 3.30pm on Friday with some polling stations differing greatly in their numbers around that time. TraleeToday.ie visited polling stations around the town in the afternoon to gauge the interest in the election. In Scoil […]

Mozarts, Ashe Street WHAT is it about Ashe Street and naming cafes after classic artists? For years, Reuben’s culinary artists served up decent food at the top of the street until it closed a few years ago, while Chopin has been conducting its mellifluous melodies of  lunches and dinners to hungry […]

THIS weekend sees the start of this year’s senior county football championship. Kicking it all off will be Laune Rangers v St Brendan’s in Killorglin 6:30pm this Saturday evening. St Brendan’s, as with any divisional side have found their preparations difficult, but this year it was made even more so […]

By Dermot Crean IT really was a memorable night with a party atmosphere when around 700 people attended a fashion show with a difference. Around 70 models with Down Syndrome and learning disabilities, from all over Kerry, strutted their stuff on the catwalk to rapturous applause in Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Thursday […]

Worry is a waste of time says Roger Harty I WAS talking to a family member a few years ago and during the conversation he informed me that it was impossible to have two thoughts in your mind at exactly the same time. There might be a minute fraction of […]

THIS week saw the start of the annual Kerry Pride Festival for the LGBTQ community in the county and there’s plenty of events coming up over the weekend in the town. “It’s going really well, we have received fantastic support from the businesses in the town,” said Margaret O’Donoghue of Kerry Pride.  […]

ONE of Tralee’s most famous hostelries will be back in business this July…and members of the Kirby family will be back with it. Cotter Food & Catering Limited is delighted to announce that the company has purchased Kirby’s Brogue Inn, Rock Street. The Brogue Inn, a “landmark at the bottom of […]

ARE you still wondering what to do as the weekend approaches? Well the Austin Stacks GAA club night at the dogs is on Friday, May 23 at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. The club, in association with our main evening’s sponsor Quinlan’s Fish Shops & Sea Food Bars, are inviting everyone to share in […]

THE Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has signed a ten-year sound broadcasting contract with Radio Kerry, to continue to provide a local, broad-format radio service for listeners in County Kerry. “The BAI is very pleased to sign this contract with Radio Kerry. said the Chairperson of the BAI, Bob Collins. “The service has […]

IT’S set to be a night of laughter and reminiscing for ex-pupils of Balloonagh Secondary School when they get together next week. The Class of 1994 will reconvene in Stoker’s Lodge on Saturday, May 31 and organisers are hoping for great turnout. One of the organisers, Maureen Quirke, said the reunion is […]

GREEN Teens from Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk scooped the Senior Water Prize at ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards. The awards ceremony was held in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin on Tuesday, May 20. In attendance were over 600 young people, Mr. Han Qunli, Director of the Division of Ecological and Earth […]

THE Brookfield College Leaving Cert class celebrated their graduation last night in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The school, which opened its doors in 1988, has a long history of providing education to senior level students in Tralee. They are 26th alumni to finish the school, based in Oakpark. “They’re a […]

ASPEN Grove Solutions, the Irish technology company with global operations in Kerry, UK and the US, has just opened new offices in Castlemaine Rd, Tralee, to support ongoing development. The company is going from strength to strength and plans to accelerate growth over the next 12-36 months. Aspen Grove Solutions is […]

WHILE exclamations like ‘Yerra’ and ‘hAnam an Diabhail!’ might be heard anywhere in the county, we wondered if there are phrases which may be unique to the Tralee area. Here are some of the colloquialisms we here in the office have only heard around town over the years… Warning: Some – well […]