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ICELAND set to open second its second Kerry store next week creating 20 new jobs. The food retailer will open its newest store in Units 1 and 2 Old Mill Lane, Listowel on Tuesday, May 22. They have operated in Tralee since 2015. The new Listowel store spans 8,200 square […]

TRALEE-woman Mandy Mc Kenzie Vass has been appointed as Admission and Discharge Manager at the Mater Private Hospital, Cork. Mandy trained as a Registered Nurse in St Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park, Dublin and during her career she worked in Cardiology, Medical, Orthopaedics, General Surgery and Palliative Care Settings. Mandy is […]

BORG WARNER  has announced an €11.5m investment in its Tralee factory in Monavalley which is expected to lead to 50 new jobs. This is further good news for Tralee, after HQ Tralee announced this morning that it is to support 50 more jobs in building nearby in the next phase of their plans (see story […]

THE first ever ‘recruitment festival’, RecFest, was  held in Tralee yesterday on Abbey Street. Stalls were taken by businesses from all around Kerry lining the pedestrianised way – between Yummy Cafe and the Abbey Inn – including PhoneWatch, The Rose Hotel, Fexco, Oakview Village Childcare and more. Sponsored  by AIB, the event allowed graduates […]

PORTMAN Clarity has taken on seven new trainees, in partnership with the First Steps youth employment initiative, at its Tralee offices. The travel management company, which has a base in Monavalley, is undergoing a period of transition after Portman Travel and Clarity Travel Management merged in November 2016 to form the seventh largest TMC in […]

ACORN Life is embarking on a nationwide recruitment campaign with five new roles available in the Kerry region. The Life Assurance Company, which has an office in Ashe Street, Tralee, recently won the Deloitte Best Managed Companies (BMC) Award, and say they have over 100 roles to fill nationwide. They are […]

EIGHT jobs will be lost when a town centre shoe shop closes in November. Shoe Zone, at the Tralee Shopping Centre, is being closed as part of a rationalisation plan by its UK parent company. The shop is in a prime location on Bridge Street, so hopefully will not be vacant […]

TEN new jobs will be created in a Tralee branch of home security company. Based in Denny Street, PhoneWatch is looking for people to fill roles as direct sales representatives. At least 10 new sales executives will be recruited in the Tralee office over the coming weeks. “We continue to grow […]

A NEW restaurant will create up to 10 full-time and part-time jobs when it opens in town this Friday. Le Rustique is to serve French cuisine and is located at a premises on Princes Street, where a number of restaurants have operated in the past. The premises has been vacant for […]

TRALEE is set to benefit after an announcement of 150 new jobs in a recruitment company. Sigmar Recruitment are hiring 150 new people in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Tralee where they have set up an office at Liber House in Monavalley. The jobs are in recruitment, sales and digital marketing at both experienced and graduate […]

UP to 20 jobs are to be created when a new restaurant opens in Tralee town centre early next month. Lana Asian Street Food, which has a restaurant in Galway and two in Limerick, is opening at a premises in Ashe Street which was previously The Dragon Inn and later the Royal Palace Chinese restaurants. Area manager, […]

THE company which will be creating 30 jobs in Killarney, moved from its Tralee offices because they said the new location offered the required infrastructure and ability to attract and retain talent. Tralee Chamber Alliance CEO, Kieran Ruttledge, expressed his disappointment at the decision by VT iDirect and said Tralee offers the best […]

AN American satellite-based technology company will create more than 30 specialised  jobs over the course of five years in a new premises in Killarney, where it has moved to from its Tralee office. VT iDirect’s new offices are located at The Reeks Gateway building in Killarney. In 2014, the US based company bought […]

PHONEWATCH has opened its first office in Tralee, and will be creating up to 12 new jobs initially, with additional jobs being created as the company grows its business in Kerry. The offices at Denny Street were officially opened by Kerry GAA Star Marc Ó Sé today.  PhoneWatch is actively recruiting […]

TRAVEL Management Company Portman Travel, welcomed eight new full-time employees this week and there’s more jobs on the way for the town to bring a total of 24 new positions in two years by early 2017. The new employees graduated from their in-house Academy training programme at their European Centre of Excellence in Monavalley, Tralee, where […]

A UK CLOTHING chain is to open a new store on Abbeycourt this Friday. A number of new jobs will be created at Mountain Warehouse – the UK-based discount outdoor clothing seller which has branches in Dublin, Wexford, Banbridge and Antrim – when opens next to Holland & Barrett on Friday afternoon. […]

IF you’re thinking of a career in An Garda Síochána, then now is a good time to apply. They have just announced a recruitment campaign for 600 new members in 2016. “We’ve always attracted way more applicants than available positions,” Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said today. “We want to build on that, attracting people from […]

BALLYGARRY House Hotel are currently in the midst of redeveloping their bar and casual dining facilities which will create new jobs upon its completion. The hotel is undertaking a new development broken into two phases. The first will involve removing the former N21 road, building a new gated entrance, 70 additional car […]

BRITISH supermarket giant Iceland is to open their Tralee store by early December creating around 25 jobs. The store is to be located at the Horan Centre at the former Kiely’s Electrical shop near Argos on 665 sq metre premises. Auctioneer, Ger Carmody, who handled the lease on behalf of the landlord, said work […]

ELEVEN new jobs will be coming to Kerry as part of multi million investment deal with Killarney based company Mobacar and global car rental brokerage Auto Europe and venture capital firm Delta Partners. The company currantly employs 30 people at their Killarney offices where the company is working on the world’s first […]

A COMPANY is looking for Kerry people to appear in a TV commercial, earning up to €4,000 for a day’s work…no acting experience necessary. Ali Coffey Casting will be in Scott’s Hotel in Killarney this Sunday casting for the TV ad which will be partly shot in the county later […]

THE Government has launched a ‘South West Action Plan for Jobs’ as part of its €250m regional jobs strategy with the aim of creating 40,000 jobs over the next five years. The South West Plan will cover the Kerry/Cork Region and will target sectors of the economy such as agri-food, tourism, life […]

A NEW bar and bistro in The Square is to create up to 15 new jobs when it opens in the next few weeks. The business, formerly known as Nightjar, is being extensively renovated at the moment and is set to focus more on food. Continued below… It is hoped the […]

TV3 Travel Show presenters, Jon Slattery and Ciara Whelan will be the special guests at a major Tourism Information Conference being organised by Tralee Chamber Alliance at Ballygarry House Hotel, Tralee next month. The ‘Learn from the Best in Tourism’ Conference, sponsored by Bank of Ireland, will feature tourism experts from three […]

  HAIRDRESSSER and entrepreneur Cathriona Rohan will open a new business in Tralee this week which is to create five full-time jobs and three part-time positions. The new salon, located on Mary Street, will open at 9.30am on Tuesday morning and will be open Tuesday through to Saturday every week. Cathriona, who has over […]

FORTY new jobs, to be situated at a Killarney company, have been announced this morning worth an extra €2.4m to local economy. In all, 100 new jobs are to be created by Killarney based manufacturing and engineering group, Tricel, with 40 of these to be situated in the company’s headquarters in Killarney. The […]

  POSITIVE news has emerged on the jobs front with the annoucement that JRI America are looking to entice 40 high skilled workers to fill jobs at its Software Development Centre in Tralee. JRI America are located in the Kerry Technology Park, but also have offices in London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore and New York. […]

  THE Chief Executive of Tralee Chamber Alliance has expressed his delight at the news that Tralee is to get an estimated €20m investment for a new facility to attract a major industry, but says he would now like to see things progress quickly. Earlier today, the Government announced their […]

TRALEE is to get a major boost with an estimated €20m investment in a new advanced manufacturing facility at the Kerry Technology Park. The plans were announced at a press conference in Dublin of the Government’s €250m Regional Action Plan For Jobs. A new 25,000 sq ft property will be built […]

TEN new jobs will be created in the coming days with the opening of a new cafe where Charlie Nelligan’s Coffee Shop used to be located. Mr Nelligan retired from the coffee shop on Christmas Eve and sold the business to Jaroslaw Lukasiewicz, a Polish man, who has been living […]