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AN Ardfert woman will feature on a BBC show this Wednesday evening where she will compete for a dream interior design job against two other contestants. Ailbhe Courtney, who is currently living and working in London, will appear on BBC Three’s ‘Hire Me’ show which airs at 8pm. The former […]

DESPITE dealing with its share of cynicism from the national media, the Rose of Tralee is still huge hit with Irish viewers. Some 1.7 million people tuned in to watch the Rose of Tralee on RTE over two nights which was around the same figure as last year. 743,800 viewers watched on […]

A FORMER Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí student is the director of a new comedy series which is featuring on RTE 2 on Monday nights. Shaun O’Connor is the director of Sketch! – a (you guessed it) comedy sketch show filmed in Cork city. The latest episode screened on Monday night featured RTE personality, John Creedon, […]

  A REALITY TV show which followed the life of a Tralee woman over the course of a year, won an Irish Film and Television Award last night at a ceremony in Dublin. Alanna Diggin, originally from Alderwood Road and now living in town, featured in the RTE2 reality show ‘Connected’, which […]

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 […]

  TWO Kerry games feature in the top ten most watched sporting events of 2014 on RTE with one more just outside according to figures released this week by the national broadcaster. Kerry’s All-Ireland final win was the third most watched game in the country last year, behind Ireland’s Six Nations […]

  SHE was on our TV screens for the past two months, sharing her life with the great Irish public as part of the RTE2 reality show ‘Connected’. But as the series, which followed the lives of six women from around Ireland over the course of nearly a year, ended […]

A MAN who once locked horns with, Father Damo, in an episode of Father Ted, as well as appearing in some iconic TV shows, met students of the Institute of Technology Tralee on Monday, to give a lecture on ‘the art of writing’. Rio Fanning, played the character, Father Frost (Frosty), […]

  Click on above ad for more WHILE most sports fans are salivating at the prospect of a month of football on the box, the explosion of TV sales never materialised this year according to local and national retailers. The World Cup normally signals a rush to get the biggest, flattest and […]