Post Tagged with: "St Patrick’s Day"

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr. John Francis Flynn is continuing his public engagements in New York. On Thursday he is due to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. He will pay his respects at the memorial commemorating the 2,996 people who died in the attack and meet relatives […]

THE Minister for Education and Kerry T.D Norma Foley has visited Philadelphia and New York as part of the Government’s St Patrick’s Day programme of events. During a week of events and speaking engagements in the United States, Minister Foley took the opportunity also to visit local education facilities and […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Francis Flynn, will travel to the United States this week for a number of engagements to mark St. Patrick’s Day. Cllr Flynn will meet with representatives of the American Ireland Chamber on Tuesday evening and will meet with Tourism Ireland North America […]

The Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Jimmy Moloney, is continuing his visit to New York following a warm welcome from New York Governor Kathy Hochul in the State Capitol in Albany. The Governor, whose grandparents on both sides (Courtney and Brown) hailed from The Maharees, is immensely proud of […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Jimmy Moloney, will travel to the United States next week for a number of engagements during the St. Patrick’s Day period. He begins his official visit at the weekend by travelling to Listowel’s Sister City of Shawnee in Kansas where he will dedicate […]

HAPPY St Patrick’s Day! Like last year, we can’t celebrate it properly due to COVID restrictions, but Kerry County Council has come up with something special for all to enjoy, whether you’re at home or abroad. In a video just uploaded to the Council’s social media channels, you can join […]

THE Council has been asked to liaise with business owners and the people of  Tralee to go green this St Patrick’s Day in the absence of the traditional parade which can’t go ahead for the second year in a row due to COVID restrictions. Cllr Johnnie Wall had a motion […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council has begun a visit to the United States as part of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Cllr Niall Kelleher will promote the county and meet with US agencies, politicians and officials during a number of meetings and events in Chicago and New York. Cllr […]

WITH less than two weeks until the St Patrick’s Day Parade many are looking forward to a noisy and colourful extravaganza of entertainment. However, for people with autism, the parade can be distressing. Because of this, there will be a sensory path for children/families with autism and additional needs this […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr John Sheahan will attend a number of events in New York this weekend to mark the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Cllr Sheahan will take part in the St Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on Saturday and will attend a breakfast hosted […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Michael O’Shea will attend a number of engagements in New York and Boston next week as part of a St Patrick’s Day visit to the United States. Cllr O’Shea will attend a breakfast hosted by the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio […]

TRALEE basketball legend, Rick Leonard has been unveiled as the Grand Marshal for the 2017 St Patrick’s Day Parade in Tralee, with the theme: A Celebration of Tralee Sport. Local community groups and organisations, as well as clubs, schools and businesses are invited to take part in what is always […]

IT was quite a day on Thursday as hundreds of people participated in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Tralee. The event really highlighted the community spirit in the town and clubs and societies were out in force to proudly display their colours. In the last of our photo coverage, […]

WITH St. Patrick’s Day and the 1916 centenary on everyone’s mind of late, the girls over at ‘Social Box TV’ tested the people of Tralee on their basic Irish skills. They put forward words like ‘airgead’, ‘arán’, ‘amadán’ to people on the streets during Seachtain Na Gaeilge to see if they […]

THE weather was kind again this year as thousands came out in the sunshine for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade in Tralee. Centred around the theme of Tralee’s 800th anniversary, the parade saw hundreds of people from clubs, community groups and businesses take part as it got underway at […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Pat McCarthy is in the United States promoting Kerry during the course of the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. On Sunday he attended Mass in St. Patrick’s Church and then joined Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney in the Philadelphia Parade which was watched by in excess […]

THE Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council, Cllr Pat McCarthy will travel to the United States next week for a number of events to coincide with St Patrick’s Day. Cllr Pat McCarthy will visit Philadelphia, Washington DC and New York. He will be accompanied by Tourism Officer with Kerry County Council, […]

THE 2016 Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in Tralee will be the most celebrated in the town’s history as the theme will be based around Tralee 800 – a celebration of the birthday of Kerry’s county capital. The Grand Marshall this year will be Special Olympics Gold Medal Winner, Brendan O’Connell, from Tralee. “We’re […]

THREE Tralee groups have been given  awards for their colourful exploits at this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade. The local associations that scooped an award each were, The Redeemed Church of Christ, Tralee Musical Society and the Tralee Filipino Community. All the awards were sponsored by Tralee Credit Union and […]

Johnnie Wall, who helped organise the parade on Tuesday, reflects on a wonderful St Patrick’s Day in Tralee… Tralee was buzzing on March 17, the centrepiece of our celebrations was the St Patrick’s Day Parade and the surprisingly good weather (the luck of the Irish no doubt) added to the […]

THE good people over at ‘Social Box TV’ have uploaded another video to their YouTube channel, this time asking the people of Tralee the question ‘Why Are You Proud To Be Irish?’ While the rest of us were either watching the parade with the little ones, marching with our groups/organisations […]

THOUSANDS lined the streets to watch the parade yesterday where the theme was ‘Active Tralee’. Sports and fitness clubs were out in force for the event along with many other community groups. It was a fantastic day for it and we were there to capture the atmosphere (click here for […]

WELL it couldn’t have been a better day now, could it? Thousands of people turned out in the glorious sunshine in Tralee to watch the annual St Patrick’s Day parade in what many described as one of the biggest crowds ever for the March event. Starting just after noon, there […]

ST Patrick’s Day came early for pupils and parents at Scoil Eoin, Ballonagh on Friday with the hosting of their annual pre-St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Held as part of Seachtain Na Gaeilge, the pupils, many wearing oversided leprechaun hats and holding inflatable hammers, danced and sang songs as gaeilge for parents and teachers alike. One […]

WHILE the preparations are in full swing for Tuesday’s St Patrick’s Day parade, we discovered this letter (below) from patriot, Austin Stack, sent 99 years ago today, organising a march of Irish Volunteers on the national holiday. The letter, sent to F.H. O’Donnell, Honorary Secretary of the Irish National Volunteers, invites the […]

TUESDAY’S parade is about to get a whole lot louder! After a year of incredible marches, the Rockies fans will again take to the streets of Tralee for the St Patrick’s day parade. Though the Rock faithful would prefer to be making their way down Jones’s Road before the All-Ireland club […]

  IF you start to see a different colour to the town over the next few days, never fear as it is all part of an initiative between Tralee Chamber Alliance and Kerry County Council. The two groups have teamed up together to help  celebrate St. Patricks Day next Tuesday with […]

  OVER the last few years, Tralee has been gripped by running mania so it’s fitting that the St Patrick’s day parade in town will represent that. The theme of the St Patrick’s Day parade this year is  being active and the parade committee would like if community groups taking part […]

Johnnie Wall is looking forward to St Patrick’s Day, the bastion of relief in the middle of Lent… St Patrick’s Day. A day of celebration, an oasis in the desert that is Lent, the one day when it is officially OK to let loose on that repressed desire and longing, […]