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A LIMERICK Lady in Red won the top prize of €3,000 for Best Dressed Lady at the McElligotts Honda Ladies Day at Listowel Races today. Judged by model Alison Canavan and former TV apprentice, Brian Purcell, there was a total cash prize fund of €5,750. Best Dressed Lady Bríd Hayes from […]

  IT looks like the craic has begun in earnest in north Kerry as racing and football fever has combined to create an electric atmosphere. These were the scenes captured by photographer Don MacMonagle in The Ocean Bar in Ballybunion on Wednesday as Paddy the Horse paid a visit to […]

  WITH Monday and Tuesday’s races in Listowel called off due to the weather conditions and its effect on the course, Horse Racing Ireland have announced a replacement meeting for this Sunday. With seven races on the card, it will get underway at the early time of 12.15pm, so no doubt many […]

THE Fashion Soirée at the Manor West Hotel was a  great success on Friday night (see here for previous story). Ladies enjoyed fashion tips for Listowel ladies day as well as exclusive looks at the autumn/winter collections from top Kerry designers. The Best Dressed Lady prize was won by Jennifer […]

IT was a night of style, fun and great fashion tips as ladies from all over the county came to the Manor West Hotel for a ‘Fashion Soirée’ ahead of the Listowel Races Ladies Day. MC’ed by TraleeToday.ie columnist and fashion expert, Orlagh Winters, the night featured the latest style in Ladies […]

THE biggest race meeting in Kerry is set to take place next month as the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival was officially launched at the course yesterday. The seven days of racing starts on Sunday, September 13 and continues until Saturday, September 19 and includes the €175,000 Guinness Kerry National Handicap Steeplechase (Grade […]

A FASHION Soirée will take place in early September to showcase the latest fashions ahead of ladies day at Listowel Races. The inaugural ‘Fashion Soirée at Manor West Hotel’, in aid of Kerry Cancer Support Group, which will take place in the  Tralee venue  on Friday, September 4. Featuring the latest style […]

THERE’S a new sponsor and judges this year for Ladies Day at the Listowel Harvest Racing Festival with over €5,000 in prizes on offer. The day is the most stylish in Kerry’s social calendar with upwards of 30,000 people descending on the Island for the event which takes place on […]

THE weather did not make for a good day at the races in Listowel yesterday. Lucky then that Ladies Day was held on Sunday in the sunshine – all be it a bit windy – at the Island. Yesterday we brought you the news that Tralee native Caroline O’Sullivan won […]

A TRALEE native was the winner of the Best Dressed Lady on Sunday on the opening day of the Listowel Races Whit Weekend Meeting. Caroline O’Sullivan (nee Foran), originally from Tralee but now living in Lisselton, won the prize in the face of stiff competition from a plethora of stylish ladies at […]

  THE Listowel Races are back this June and ladies are set to turn on the style with a €5,000 prize fund up for grabs. Details were announced this week of the forthcoming annual two day Listowel Races June Bank Holiday Meeting which will be held at the scenic race […]

HERE’S the final instalment of our coverage of the glamour and style on Listowel Races Ladies Day which took place on Friday. Orlagh Winters interviews stylish ladies in the video below, while further down are more great photos from the day. If you missed our previous coverage click here, here […]

WE’VE got more stylish glamour from the Listowel Races Ladies Day on Friday. (If you missed our previous coverage click here and here) In the video, our fashion columnist, Orlagh Winters, talks fashion with elegant women enjoying the day, while below are even more great photos from the ‘Island’. More great photos […]

WHILE about 30,000 women will invade Listowel’s ‘Island’ track on Friday, September 19, the lads also have an incentive to spruce themselves up for the Races. A day dedicated to fashion conscious men will take on Thursday, September 18, sponsored again by Lyons of East River, with a prize fund of €1,300. […]

PIPPA Ormond O’Connor has been announced as a judge for Chic Boutique Ladies Day in Listowel on Friday, September 19. The most glamorous ladies day of the fall season has a prize fund of €9,000 and the model will join RTE’s Daithi O Se as judge. Sponsored for 25 years by Patricia and Mary […]

MID-SEPTEMBER can only mean one thing in Kerry: Listowel Race Week. Thousands of racing and fashion fans from Tralee and all over the county will converge on ‘the Island’ for what is essentially the end of the summer in north Kerry. And the highlight for most will be the Chic Boutique […]