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BALLYHEIGUE and Sneem playgrounds will get funding support for upgrades under a Government initiative. Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., announced the Summer of Play initiative where, in total, €6million in Government grants have been made available to encourage children and their families to get […]

A GROUP has been formed in Ballyheigue to give voice to people’s concerns regarding anti-social behaviour. ‘Ballyheigue Community Alert’ was created following a number of incidents including a fire on ‘Dolly’s Green’ on Friday night. The community group has a WhatsApp group that enables the sharing of information that is […]

THE Memory Balloon Walk for Palliative Care was a hugely successful event on Bank Holiday Monday with people attending adhering to socially distancing guidelines. Funds raised on the day were €2,053.85 which will be presented to the Palliative Care Unit. Event organiser Natasha McCrohan along with her committee members Ann […]

A PUPIL from a school in Ballyheigue has won an award for acting at a film festival in Georgia. Andrea Lynch won the Best Female Actress in the Tbilisi International Children and Youth Film Festival “Oqros Pepela” (“Golden Butterfly”) in Georgia for her role the short film ‘A Little Help’ made by her schoolmates in St. Joseph’s N.S. Bouleenshere. […]

FIRST the Summer Festival, then the ‘Sandstorm’ event last weekend and now two very popular music acts are coming — it’s all happening in Ballyheigue this summer. The town is preparing to welcome two very different artists in the last weekend of July as The Riptide Movement and Tommy Fleming […]

AS part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Gala Retail,  visited Scoil Naomh Iosef in Ballyheigue on Friday last to donate a huge €5,000 to the school as part of its Gala Gifts for Schools competition. Scoil Naomh Iosef was named as a ‘runner-up’ in the Gala Gifts for Schools competition, […]

THE Sandstorm endurance race is back in Ballyheigue this weekend and hundreds are expected to take to the beach. The race, which takes place on Saturday morning, challenges participants both physically and mentally with a course consisting of multiple obstacles and challenges along the beach. It’s the third year it has […]

Mike O’Halloran watched Abbeydorney beat Ballyheigue in the Round 2A Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC clash in Austin Stack Park yesterday… Ballyheigue 0-13 Abbeydorney 2-13 At halftime, nobody gave Ballyheigue a chance in this game as they trailed on a scoreline of 0-4 to 2-8, but they started a revival that […]

CLUB Óg Ógras Baile Uí Thuaidhg from Kerry has been awarded the prize for best Community Campaign at the Irish Cancer Society X-HALE Youth Awards 2017. The group scooped the award for the campaign around its short film “Ná Bac le Tobac” which was showcased at the recent event in […]

YOUNG people from Neighbourhood Youth Project, Killorglin and Club Óg-Ógras, Ballyheigue are calling on their local communities to help them win a national award as part of the Irish Cancer Society’s X-HALE Youth Awards. The groups have submitted films that encourage young people to be “smoke free” into the 2017 X-HALE Short Film […]

A TEAM from a school in Ballyheigue recently won gold in draughts in the All Ireland Community Games which took place in the National Sports Campus Dublin. The St Joseph’s NS Under 14 team was welcomed home on Sunday, May 7 as the people of Ballyheigue lined the street. The team was welcomed by […]

A GROUP of family and friends have come together to organise a benefit dance in support of the husband and children of the late Patricia (Trish) Flavin nee Guerin. Trish was aged just 38 when she passed away unexpectedly on January 7 in University Hospital, Tralee having been admitted to hospital earlier that day. […]

THE Spin South West Sandstorm is coming back this autumn. The event will take place in Ballyheigue Beach again for the second year on Saturday, October 1. Sandstorm is a 5k endurance race that challenges participants both physically and mentally with a course consisting of multiple obstacles and challenges along the beach. Continued below… Last […]

Our hurling writer, Mike O’Halloran, thinks St Brendan’s will have the better of their neighbours this Sunday in the Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC first round match…  BALLYHEIGUE and St Brendan’s is the second-match at Abbeydorney on Sunday coming at 4.30pm,  after the Kilmoyley V Ballyduff opener earlier that afternoon. St Brendan’s return […]

PUPILS from St Joseph’s National School Ballyheigue showed their movie-making skills by being named the overall prize winners in Trend Micro’s  “What’s Your Story?” competition. The 2016 Online Digital Safety Competition aims to promote and encourage conversations about being online amongst young people. The young pupils /filmakers were presented with a cheque […]

ARDFERT will be going back to the 80s this Saturday night, all in aid of the ‘Johnny Roche Road To Recovery Fund’. Back in August, Ballyheigue man Johnny Roche was working in Chicago and had a serious accident which left him in a hospital for a number of weeks. Story […]

St Brendans 0-10 Ballyheigue 0-9 AS has happened so often in the past, John Egan, was the hero for St Brendan’s as they just about got over Ballyheigue in a gruelling encounter in  Causeway on Sunday afternoon. With his team trailing by a point and playing against a stiff breeze, […]

Mike O’Halloran on the opening fixture of the Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry Senior Hurling Championship between Lixnaw and Ballyheigue in Abbeydorney on Friday night… Lixnaw 0-17 Ballyheigue 0-15 Surely, Abbeydorney must be the sporting and cultural capital of Kerry. The village has a long tradition in the organisation of drama, music […]

Our hurling writer, Mike O’Halloran, previews the opening match in the Garveys Supervalu Senior Hurling Championship, which gets underway this weekend… Friday Lixnaw v Ballyheigue, Tom Healy Park, Abbeydorney, 7pm Abbeydorney is one of the five North Kerry venues to be selected to host the hurling championship games during the […]

SCOIL Naomh Erc, Glenderry, held an action day on Thursday last to support the Greenschools, Active Schools and Health Promoting Schools Programmes. Pupils from Green-Schools all over Ireland come together during National Walk to School Week to show their support for a greener, healthier environment by encouraging pupils, parents and teachers to walk to […]

A FASHION fundraiser will be held next month to help a family who lost their home in a fire near Ballyheigue in November. The Duggans from Kerry Head were out when a fire engulfed their home on November 28 leaving them with nothing. Now, a fundraising campaign is under way to get them back on […]

FOR those of you not in the know, the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) were held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, and again there was a Kerry connection thanks to Ballyheigue’s Don O’Neill. While we may not have had any winners in the acting categories, we still had someone to […]

A BALLYHEIGUE man out sea fishing in Australia got a whole lot more than he bargained for when he caught a great white Shark last Saturday. Ciaran Casey, who has been living down under with his family since 2013, was fishing on Golden Beach in Victoria when hooked the endangered […]

ONE Tralee resident has decided to give up her comfortable Christmas at home to go to Africa in order to bring vital supplies to a school in northern Kenya. Joan O’Regan, originally from Ballyheigue, now living in Castlemorris, is raising funds for her solo run to St Philip’s Secondary School in Kitale, Kenya by organising […]

A BALLYHEIGUE woman scooped €68,000 in prizes on the Winning Streak RTE gameshow on Saturday night. Julie (40), a team supervisor for a company calling Cullen Cleaning, was supported in Dublin by her son Alex (21) and daughter and Leanne (13) among other friends and family. She has six siblings – brothers John, […]

  Click on above ad to enlarge OVER 400 style-conscious ladies and gents showed up at the Ballyheigue Community Centre on Wednesday night for the Festival Fashion Show and they even got to see the new Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council strutting his stuff on the catwalk. “We had a fantastic night,” said Laura Dineen, Secretary […]

A FANTASTIC family fun festival will take place in Ballyheigue next month with loads of free entertainment and a fashion show extravaganza. The 12th annual Ballyheigue Summer Festival takes place from Sunday, July 6 to Sunday, July 13. This year’s programme is packed with lots of fun for everyone of […]