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Four Things To Do Around Tralee This Weekend

April 24, 2015 Fergus Dennehy

Never fear! It’s almost at the end of the week and the bodies and bones are aching to relax. Here’s a few things to get up to…

FRIDAY

1. For those out there who may like to ‘bust a move’ on a night out, we might have the perfect day and evening in store for you!

Friday promises to be a very exciting time in Siamsa Tire as the The ‘Tocht Festival Of Dance’ is set to touch down for the weekend. ‘Tocht’ will be two days of dance watching, learning, joining in and experiencing something new.

The day will start off with a ‘Contemporary Dance Workshop’ for both professional and semi-professional dancers starting from 9.30am until 11.30am. This will then be followed by another workshop with Michael Keegan-Dolan at 12pm until 5pm that evening accompanied by live music.

Jean Butler of ‘Riverdance’ fame will also be here on the night as she performs in her show ‘duet one’ which will be taking place at 7pm.

All ticket information can be found on the event page here.

SATURDAY

Rowing Club 4 — The ‘Rowathon’ will be held this Saturday.

2. TRALEE Rowing Club (TRC) will be hosting their rescheduled 24-hour charity rowing event this weekend, as they look to raise much-needed funds for the completion of their new clubhouse that is being built.

Members of the public are being encouraged to come down and show their support to the 48 different crews that will be participating over the over the weekend. In what promises to be an excellent event, it is being scheduled to go ahead this Saturday April 25 at 2pm at the canal and will continue on through the night until 2pm the next day Sunday April 26.

So come on down, if only for a few minutes to give the tired athletes a much needed cheer to get them over the finish line!

3. If the weather stays as good as it has been, then the ‘Walk 4 Life’ event happening should prove to be a massive success and one that you should definitely think about attending, even as a supporter.

The 5km walk is being held to raise awareness about mental health and suicide awareness/prevention and will be taking place at 8pm leaving from Tralee Bay Wetlands.

Tea and coffee refreshments will also be on hand afterwards also coupled with the lighting of tee lights.

All proceeds from the event will be going to the chosen charities such as ‘Jigsaw Kerry’, ‘Pieta House’, ‘Be Aware Prevent Suicide’ and ‘The Kerry Peer Support Network’.

Registration packs for the event will cost €10 and will consist of a tee light, ‘Walk 4 Life’ wristbands, green ribbon, high visibility jacket and a flyer that has the information the help available to people in Kerry.

stacks_team_1 — Austin Stacks face Ardfert away this Sunday in the All-Ireland Club Championship.

4. It will be a clash of the All-Ireland Club Junior Champs v the Munster Senior Club champs when Austin Stacks travel the short distance out the road to face off against the hardy men from Ardfert.

They will be facing off in Stacks first game of the Club Championship. Throw in will be at 6.30pm on Saturday evening and it’s sure to be a thrilling match for GAA lovers.

Meanwhile on Sunday, John Mitchels face An Ghaeltacht at 2pm in Ballyseedy.

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New ‘Walk 4 Life’ Details Promise A Great Night Out For All

April 3, 2015 Fergus Dennehy

APRIL 25 is a date that should be firmly marked on your calendars for the ‘Walk 4 Life’ event that will be taking place at 8pm leaving from Tralee Bay Wetlands.

The 5km walk is being held to raise awareness about mental health and suicide awareness/prevention (click here to read our previous story on the event).

New details about the day have come to light about the event that promises to be a very special occasion for all involved.

There will be a registration night for those who have not yet done so on the night of April 24 (the night before the walk) from 6-9pm.

People who have registered will be able to come down on that night as well to collect their registration packs.

All of this will take place from 6-9pm in the signposted ‘Aras An Phobail’ building on Dean’s Lane building near the library here in town.

On the night of the walk (April 25) the sound of African drums will be there to greet you at the start of the walk as everyone gets ready to set off.

Afterwards you can expect to hear the both dulcet tones of the local KDYS rap group as they perform their songs for the ‘Walk 4 Life’ campaign, and those present will hear from a guest speaker who will be giving a short talk on mental health and suicide awareness.

Official Walk 4 Life Poster — Official ‘Walk 4 Life’ poster.

Tea and coffee refreshments will also be on hand afterwards also coupled with the lighting of tee lights.

All proceeds from the event will be going to the chosen charities such as ‘Jigsaw Kerry’, ‘Pieta House’, ‘Be Aware Prevent Suicide’ and ‘The Kerry Peer Support Network’.

Any queries can be directed toward the email at: walk4life2015@gmail.com.

If you feel like you need to talk to anyone, then you can get in contact with the relevant services through the numbers below.

JIGSAW KERRY: Tel: 066 718 6785, E-mail: kerry@jigsaw.ie

PIETA HOUSE: Tel: 066-7163660.

KERRY PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: E-mail: info@kerrypeersupportnetwork.com

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‘Walk 4 Life Kerry’ Gathering Pace In Suicide Awareness Campaign

February 15, 2015 Fergus Dennehy

MARK your calendars for April 25, as a new event dedicated to raising awareness to mental health and suicide awareness/prevention is currently being organised and it promises to be a very special occasion.

‘Walk 4 Life Kerry’ will be a 5km walk that will be held around Tralee with the aim of raising awareness of suicide along with mental health issues.

The event will be helping to raise funds for organisations throughout Kerry that help to promote positive mental health and the message of suicide awareness and prevention.

Continued below…

The idea behind the walk came from Colin ‘Poshey’ Aherne who is working alongside Lorraine Bowler of the North & East Kerry Development (NEKD) to help get the event up and running.

TraleeToday.ie spoke to Poshey, firstly to see how the idea for the walk came about.

“The reason behind it is that I’ve personally lost a few friends to suicide. What really put it into my head was that I had a good friend [who died from suicide], and I was talking to his mother recently. She was saying about how it could have been helped. And that he never knew that there could have been help out there.”

“This kind of triggered it in my head. There’s not much in Tralee really. I want to get this out there, I want to get the word out there.”

The sentiment is a strong one, and his passion and motivation for the project is clear as we speak. I asked him next about what message or sentiment he was hoping to achieve by having this event held here in town.

“I just want to get the awareness and the word out there again about the available organisations out there for suicide awareness and mental health issues as well.

“Organisations such as Jigsaw Kerry, Console and Pieta House really. It’s a broad spectrum between mental health and suicide awareness, they’re both linked, but it’s a broad umbrella they’re under,” said Colin.

So, what can we expect to from the day itself?

“It will be a 5k walk. I’m looking to have a guest speaker at the end of the 5k. I have one or two in mind that we’re working with at the moment. They’d just have a few words, an inspirational/feel good kind of thing.”

Poshey is hard at work sorting out the final details on the venue and behind the scene details and once that is in the bag, the route will also be quick to fall into place.

Keep up to date on details as they are announced on the event through the Facebook page found here and via the Twitter page which can be found here.

‘Walk 4 Life Picture 🙂 pic.twitter.com/ydXXwFqAeA

— Walk 4 Life (@Walk4Lifekerry) February 11, 2015

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