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Every week we compile photos of Tralee and beyond posted on Twitter and Instagram. If you’d like a photo to feature, just tag #Tralee or #TraleeToday and we’ll see it… Well done Lucy… Yesterday our 5th year student Lucy O Connor received her International Cap at the @BballIrl Cap ceremony at […]

TRALEE won its 10th Tidy Towns Gold Medal in a row yesterday and in doing so upped their points tally on last year. They were awarded 347 points, up nine on 2021’s total of 338 with an increase in almost every category (see table below). Meanwhile, The Spa, Tralee received an […]

OVER €4 million in funding has been announced for Kerry walking and cycling projects. €4,130,293 in funding will be allocated to Kerry County Council for the provision of walking and cycling (active travel) infrastructure in the county. In Tralee, €200,000 will be given for an interconnected network of cycleways at […]

OUTGOING Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Terry O’Brien launched plans to host an open-air Irish Dancing Feis in Pearse Park in the town from August 19th to 21st. Attending the launch was Orfhlaith Ní Bhrian, the Vice Chair of Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha along with Munster Council Members Jimmy Smith and […]

A TRALEE entry has been shortlisted in the inaugural .IE Digital Town Awards 2021. The Tralee Chamber entry — the Digital Tralee app and website project — is shortlisted alongside Drogheda and two Sligo projects in the Large Town (10,000+) category, with the winner receiving €9,000 and the runner-up €5,000. Dingle Peninsula […]

TRALEE will receive €500,000 as part of the ‘Destination Towns’ initiative launched earlier this year by the National Tourism Development Authority. The funding has been allocated through the Local Authorities as part of the €15.5million ‘Destination Towns’ initiative launched earlier this year by the National Tourism Development Authority. Every county […]

A FULL and frank discussion about Tralee, the problems it faces and how the community can solve them, took place at the KDYS hall in Denny Street on Monday evening. Organised by Bairbre de Bairead with the help of a small committee, the aim of the meeting was to bring […]

THAT’S right. Two people. That’s how much Tralee’s population fell by between 2011 and 2016 according to the latest stats released from Census 2016 by the Central Statistic Office (CSO). Tralee currently has a population of 23,691, two less than the 23,693 people living in the urban area back in 2011. The […]

Our parenting columnist, Jennifer Kissane, remembers what it was like just before baby came…and what you need in the hospital…  I RECENTLY met a lady who recognised me as “the lady with the baby, from the paper”, who is keeping an eye on my articles for her pregnant daughter! This got […]

THERE has been a fall in the numbers signing on the live register in Tralee in October. The number of people unemployed in Tralee now stands at 4,445, down 76 on September’s figure according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. However, the jobless figure rose in the county […]

THE weather has been sensational over the last couple of days around the Tralee area we hope you’ve had time enjoy it.  If not here’s a little taste of what you’ve been missing with people posting images on social media… Continued below…. Joanne Allman took these superb shots in Fenit […]

A TRALEE student recently took part in the final 16 of KNORR Student Chef of the Year 2016, which was held at Athlone Institute of Technology. Though he did not emerge victorious, Paudie Ryan of the Institute of Technology, Tralee, gave a good account of himself by displaying his culinary […]

TRALEE has recently finished in the top three litter free towns in Ireland in a survey carried out by the Irish Business Against Litter Group (IBAL). It is news that is sure to bring a huge sense of pride to the large number of volunteers, who have been working around the […]

THE work on a proposed walk and cycle way between Tralee and Fenit has stopped because of lack of funding say Kerry County Council. Answering a question from Cllr Pa Daly, Council management outlined the reason why work had stopped on the walkway. “It is unlikely that there will be much […]

MEMBERS of the Tralee District of the Chernobyl Children’s Fund (CCF) were on hand to welcome 14 children to town yesterday. The children from the village of Kozhan in the contaminated area of Southern Belarus arrived on Sunday for a four week way stay in Kerry, which is designed to boost […]

IT’S a given really that you shouldn’t be jumping out of cars at any point, but try telling this budding stuntman in the video below. Popular website, Joe.ie, put up a story yesterday (here) telling of Tralee lads, Nicholas O’Halloran and Ryan Lynch recreating a move that all Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game players […]

  WHILE it might be sometimes easy to forget that we live in a beautiful part of the world, it only takes a simple video like the one below to make you stop and take note. Alanna Diggin, a local filmmaker and internet blogger, spent a few days filming in […]

LAST week we used the wonder of ‘Google Street View’ (here) to bring you a series of images using the that showed the many changes that have occurred in the town over the last number five years. No we’ve had a look around town to find more changes made. They show just […]

TRALEE has been named as an emerging ‘boomtown’ in an article published yesterday on the  ‘Irish Independent’ website. The town is described as thriving and one that has battled back from its low-points suffered during the recession, in a feature on booming towns in Ireland which also includes features on Clifden, Carlingford […]

YOU know that undercurrent of rivalry that Killarney and Tralee has for each other? Well, a fight in a county final between a selection of both town’s best footballers back 100 years ago this weekend, could be the source of some of that animosity that bubbles under the surface. On April 12, […]

  GARDAI are renewing their appeal for witnesses to a fatal road traffic collision involving a motorbike and a truck  on the Tralee to Abbeydorney road. The crash, in which Micheal O’Sullivan from Ballyduff lost his life, happened on the Tralee side of Abbeydorney at approximately 10am on Thursday morning, February […]

GAELSCOIL Mhic Easmainn opened its doors on Tuesday morning to welcome the ‘older’ generation as they celebrated ‘Grandparents Day’ in the school hall. The day is an initiative being run by the school in which grandparents are invited in for the morning. A religious ceremony, presided by Father Francis Nolan, is held in […]

THE Santa 5k Fun Run which was in Tralee in December helped to raise an amazing €8,600 for the Ronald McDonald House Charities Ireland. Close to 1,000 runners, many dressed as Santas and their elves, braved the elements on December 14 in aid of the charity. (See video and photos here) The run was […]

A LOCAL primary school has helped to ‘Power Kindness’ by collecting winter clothing for those in need at the Tralee soup kitchen. Michelle Culloty, a teacher from CBS Primary School, along with her very helpful pupils, staff members and generous parents, recently set out to help the Tralee Soup Kitchen by […]

  AERIAL archive images of Tralee have recently been made available to view on the website, ‘Britain From Above’. The photos below, which were taken in 1933, give a fascinating insight into what Tralee looked like 81 years ago. As you can imagine quite a lot has changed since. These six images […]

Our academy for ages 5 to 10 years continues every Saturday . All our coaches are fully qualified so your child is guaranteed the very best of Coaching .Proof of this is that our academy has been running since 2006 and over 100 kids attend every Saturday. The following are the times for […]

THERE was great news this afternoon as Tralee has retained its Gold Medal status in the Tidy Towns competition. Tralee got 303 marks, an increase of five from their 2013 mark of 298. It caps off a great few months where Tralee was deemed Cleaner Than European Norms in the IBAL […]

Click on above ad for more WITH the arrival of the Entente Florale judges just one week away, Tralee Tidy Towns are appealing to the public to go that little bit further to have our town looking well. They’re also appealing to smokers to dispose of their cigarette butts properly […]

Click on above for above WITH the sale of  the Green Cottage next to the KDYS on Denny Street last month, we decided to take a look at other historical properties that are currently up for sale around the town.  Main Road, Oakpark Cottage Many of you may have wondered as you […]

Click on above ad for more ONE of Rock Street’s most famous landmarks, Kirby’s Brogue Inn, is putting the finishing touches on its much anticipated reopening since it closed its doors in April 2013. On Thursday they were doing work on the slates that overhang  the front entrance of the bar. […]