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GARDAI are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman in Lixnaw. The woman’s body was discovered in a house in the Slí Na Faiche housing estate this morning. A post-mortem will take place this afternoon and this will determine the course of the garda investigation. A Garda forensics […]

TEMPERATURES are set to soar to the mid 20s this weekend so expect our beaches to be packed. With this in mind, Tralee Gardaí are asking beachgoers to be responsible when parking their vehicles. Gardai say illegal parking at beaches causes obstruction and prevents emergency services getting access to the […]

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a fatal traffic collision in Kerry on Tuesday evening . At approximately 8pm Gardaí and Emergency Services attended at the scene of a collision involving a car and motorcycle at Listry Bridge, on the R563 between Killarney and Milltown. The motorcyclist, a man in […]

GARDAI are advising the public to lock their vehicles at all times after a spate of thefts from cars in town over the past week. Gardaí say there were five incidents in the past week, which they believe are connected. On Wednesday night/Thursday morning a car was broken into in the […]

GARDAI in Tralee are appealing for information after a theft from outside a house. On Sunday, June 20 at 6am, a person was preparing to go to work from a house in Clahane, Ballyard. They left a rucksack by their car and went back into the house for something but […]

GARDAI in Tralee are appealing to the public for assistance after a car was stolen from a Tralee estate in the early hours of this morning. Between 3am and 6am at Castle Lawn Drive, Manor, a green Volkswagen Golf car was stolen from outside a house. The car was later […]

GARDAI say there has been an increase in the amount of thefts from vehicles in the Tralee area over the past few of weeks. They are urging people to be vigilant and to ensure the vehicle is locked when unattended. The appeal comes as clothing items were taken from the […]

GARDAI are appealing for information after a parking meter was damaged at a car park last week. On Wednesday last, between 6.30am and 7am, a parking meter in the Garvey’s Supervalu car park was knocked over by a vehicle which failed to remain at the scene. Damage caused to the […]

GARDAI were called to Ashe Street just before 1pm this afternoon after reports of a man brandishing a knife. A garda negotiator attended the scene at upper Ashe  Street at about 1pm and the situation was soon resolved. No one was hurt in the incident. A 25 year old man […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating two separate thefts from a vehicle incidents which occurred in the past week. On Tuesday, June 1, a car was parked up on Rae Street at 5pm. At about 7.30am the following day, the owner discovered the door of the car was not closed properly […]

Gardaí have arrested a man and seized €140,000 of suspected cannabis herb in Co. Kerry on Sunday. As part of an ongoing investigation into the sale and supply of drugs in the Killarney area, Gardaí from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit carried out a search of a wooded area in […]

GARDAI are appealing to the public for any information regarding burglaries committed in the Ballyard area. At around 2am this morning, two houses on the same property were broken into. Gardaí are asking that if anyone saw anything suspicious in the Wetlands/Ballyard area on Sunday evening or night to contact […]

GARDAI are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault which took place in Banna last week. On Friday, May 28, between 7.30pm and 8pm, an altercation took place between a number of males in the vicinity of Car Park 3 and the Roger Casement Memorial at Banna. One of the […]

GARDAI have seized almost €20,000 of suspected cannabis herb in Killarney, on Wednesday. At around 6pm Gardaí from Killarney carried out a search of a property in the Park Road area of the town. During the course of the search Gardaí seized almost €20,000 of suspected cannabis herb that had […]

Gardaí have arrested and charged a man in relation to the seizure of €23,000 of suspected cannabis herb in Kerry on Sunday. Arising from investigations in the use of controlled drugs in the county, Gardaí from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit executed a search warrant at an apartment in Killarney […]

Gardaí have seized €2,600 of suspected cannabis jellies and cannabis herb in Tralee on Thursday . Arising from investigations in the use of controlled drugs in the Kerry division, Gardaí from the Kerry Divisional Drugs Unit executed a search warrant at a house in Deerpark Manor, Tralee, shortly after 6.30pm. […]

GARDAI in Tralee are looking to reunite a woman with a piece of jewellery she lost on Friday last. A woman was walking into the rear entrance to Garvey’s Supervalu on Friday morning at 10am when she dropped something from her pocket. A woman nearby spotted what happened, but by […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating a break-in to a house in Tralee last week. On Thursday, May 13, between 12.30pm and 1.30pm a house was broken into in the Caherslee area of town. The owners returned home to find the front door forced open. A number of rooms had been […]

THERE were 58 bicycles reported stolen in the Kerry last year, with 14 taken in the first four months of  2021. Gardaí have released the figures to remind the public to take extra precautions in keeping their bicycles safe by locking them in the most secure way possible. Since January 2020 up […]

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision that occurred 3km outside Abbeydorney,  on Monday evening at approximately 7.30p.m. A cyclist and a van were involved in the collision. The cyclist, an 11 year old girl,  was seriously injured during the collision. She was taken to Tralee University Hospital where […]

THERE were 20 COVID-related fines issued to people by gardaí in the Kerry Division between April 30 and May 6, with 449 fines issued overall by the Division since the start of the pandemic. Gardaí in the Southern Region (Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Waterford) issued more fines than any other […]

GARDAI issued a number of fines to motorist in Molls Gap, Killarney, on Saturday night. Following reports from local residents of cars gathering late at night, Gardaí from Killarney Roads Policing Unit, assisted by uniform Gardaí and a trained Garda Public Vehicle Inspector, set up an operation targeting drivers who […]

GARDAI are investigating a number of separate criminal damage and burglary incidents in the Tralee area over the past week. On Monday, April 26, between 11pm and the following morning, a car window was damaged when a rock was thrown at through it in the Doon North area of Tralee. […]

KERRY County Council issued 335 fines to motorists for parking on footpaths in 2020. The figure was revealed at the Kerry Joint Policing Committee online meeting on Friday. Kerry Green Party Chairman, Anluan Dunne, had issued a question asking what measures gardaí and Kerry County Council are taking in Kerry […]

CONCERNS were expressed about crime and policing in Tralee Town Park at the online meeting of the Kerry Joint Policing Committee meeting on Friday afternoon. A question was submitted by Chris O’Shea from Tralee asking what were the gardai doing about “open drug dealing and drinking sessions in our Town […]

A SPECIFIED District Policing Plan to be put in place during the summer months in the Tralee District it was revealed at the online meeting of the Joint Policing Committee on Friday. Tralee MD Cllr Mikey Sheehy asked would additional Garda resources be made available in the district in the […]

THE latest data on crime in the county was revealed at the Joint Policing Committee meeting held online on Friday afternoon. Kerry Division Chief Supt Eileen Foster gave a rundown on the crime statistics for the first quarter of 2021, based on data available on the Garda PULSE system as […]

GARDAI have arrested and charged a man in relation to an attempted burglary in Tralee on Wednesday. Shortly before 5am Gardaí received a 999 call from a member of the public that a suspicious man was walking around the Shanakill area. The information was relayed to Gardaí from Tralee, who […]

GARDAI are investigating a case of illegal dumping near a Tralee estate. Last Tuesday, April 20, Tralee gardaí received an anonymous report of illegal dumping at the rear of the Shanakill Family Resource Centre. Gardaí are appealing to anyone who witnessed the dumping to contact them at Tralee Garda Station […]

GARDAI have seized €40,000 of suspected drugs on April 23, 2021 in Co. Kerry. As part of an ongoing operation, Gardaí carried out a search of a business premises in Killarney town at around 1 pm. During the course of the search Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit seized €26,000 […]