Post Tagged with: "Review 2016"

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in November… • STEPHEN Stack has announced he is stepping down as Austin Stacks boss. The Listowel native was in charge of the Rockies senior team for four years and brought them their first county championship in […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in November… • THERE was sad news in early November when the body of 70-year-old Jim Keane from Lixnaw was recovered from the River Feale during the search for . Mr Keane, a local farmer, had been missing for […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in October… • Tralee teams were dumped out at the quarter final stage of the county championship. Dr Crokes beat a battling Kerins O’Rahillys in Tralee by 1-16 to 0-14. Meanwhile Austin Stacks couldn’t handle the challenge of Kenmare in […]

We’ve brought you many news stories this year on TraleeToday.ie but these 10 have gained the most page views… 10. Whale Of A Time.. The rare sighting of one of the ocean’s most interesting mammals off the Kerry Coast back in June gained a lot of interest. Whale-watchers out at sea sighted a killer […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in September… • A LEGENDARY Tralee footballer’s medal collection was sold for €40,000 at auction. Kerry and Austin Stacks footballer, Joe Barrett’s GAA medal collection went under the hammer at an auction in the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel with a guide […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in August… • IT was announced that a new restaurant would create up to 10 full-time and part-time jobs when it opens in town. Le Rustique serves French cuisine and is located at a premises on Princes Street, where a […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in July… • Drink-driving figures revealed at a meeting of the Joint Policing Committee on July 1, showed an increase in intoxicated while driving incidents from 134 in the first half of 2015 to 151 in the first six […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in June… •  A BALLYROE man has raised €10,870 for Enable Ireland after completing a cycling tour of Provence in the South of France. Tommy Sheehy, who is originally from Castleisland, climbed Mount Ventoux in aid of Enable Ireland. The […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in May… • LARGE crowds turned out for the official opening of the Tralee Rowing Club Boathouse in early May. The boathouse is dedicated to the memory of the club’s good friend John O’Shea, where they unveiled a plaque in his honour. […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in April… • ACTOR Dominic West was in Ballybunion in April for a special 1916 commemoration event. The star of The Wire and The Affair was there to read the 1916 Proclamation at the event in Scoil Iosagain […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in March… • THERE was sadness in town at the start of the month at the news of the death of Margaret Dwyer, one of the first members of the Rose of Tralee International Festival in 1959, at the […]

Continuing our Review of 2016, here’s some of the stories we brought you in February… •  A UK clothing chain opened a new store on Abbeycourt. A number of new jobs were created at Mountain Warehouse – the UK-based discount outdoor clothing seller which has branches in Dublin, Wexford, Banbridge and Antrim – when it […]

We begin our review of the news we brought you on TraleeToday.ie this year at, well, the obvious starting point…January… • TWO Tralee teenagers blagged their way into a $1,000 New Year’s Eve party in Sydney and uploaded a video to YouTube. Jack Stuart and Rory Doyle spent $65 on […]