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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 […]

PEOPLE of all ages involved with Tralee Imperials gathered at O’Donnell’s in Mounthawk for the club’s annual awards evening on Friday. The club has about 500 members and is making huge strides over the past few years. “It was a celebration of the year for the club, the successful teams […]

A MERCY Mounthawk student has designs on making it big in the NBA after winning a scholarship to a prestigious US prep school. Standing at seven feet tall, Cian Sullivan already looks the part. Now, by winning a scholarship at a $50,000 a year St Andrews prep school in Rhode Island USA, […]

  MOUNTHAWK second years boys basketball team were victorious in the Southwest Regional Finals last week as they put their perfect winning record this season on the line against St Pat’s of Castleisland. The tournament was held in the Castleisland Community Centre with Mounthawk having qualified for the final by beating […]

  THE John Mitchels GAA sports hall was home to a chosen few on Friday for the inaugural CBS Primary Hoops Tournament. Twelve teams from the North Kerry area took part in a basketball tournament which aims to fill a gap in the sporting calendar for primary school boys basketball […]

  Women’s National League Division 1, Mounthawk Gym, Saturday  Garvey’s Imperials 63  Portlaoise 74 In the Women’s National League Division table-topping clash, Garvey’s succumbed to the potent outside shooting of the Laois outfit before a large crowd at Mounthawk Gym on Saturday last. Portlaoise , with the highly impressive US […]

ON Monday, Mercy Mounthawk u19 A Basketball team captured their second  south-west under 19 A boys title in three years. They edged out local rivals CBS tralee on a score of 54 to 48. The game was played at a very high pace and standard and was close all the way […]

REMEMBER Jordan Lee? The Killarney teenager who made the Irish U15 basketball squad this week, despite having been born with just one arm. Fourteen year old Jordan’s story has been featured in just about every national newspaper in the country over the past week, with Jordan even appearing on ‘The […]

INTERNATIONAL competition beckons for former Tralee Imperials Basketball coach, Liam Culloty,  who has just been appointed assistant coach of the U18 Ireland Ladies basketball team. “I was delighted to get selected first of all. The international standard is a huge step up, but it should be a great challenge,” said […]

KIERAN Donaghy was keeping himself on his toes ahead of Sunday’s County Final this week, as he trained young basketballers in the John Mitchels GAA Complex. Over 150 teenagers from all over town and beyond attended his ‘Be A Star Dominos Basketball Camp’, as Kieran explained to TraleeToday.ie when we […]

TRALEE Imperials will have three separate teams competing in the National Cup campaign this season. It is the first time in the history of Tralee basketball that a club has had both male and female teams competing at National Cup Level. On Friday night last, in the Mercy Mounthawk school […]

MERCY Mounthawk’s U19 Basketball team won their first ever invitational tournament at home after six years of hosting the event. At the weekend, Mounthawk beat St Malachy’s from Belfast in the final by a score of 37-32. “I am thrilled for the boys. Seven games in two days is hard enough […]