TOTAL Cleaning Kerry in Tralee are currently looking to hire retail assistants for their busy retail stores in Tralee.
As a long established supplier to hospitality, education, medical & manufacturing sectors — in addition to the general public — they look forward to growing their sales and delivery service throughout Kerry and Limerick in the coming months.
To meet this demand we are currently looking to recruit part time Retails Assistants for both stores in Clash Industrial Estate and The Horan Centre Tralee.
Experience necessary. Please email your CV to sales@totalcleaningkerry.ie or drop into either store.
.Guests at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó Ceallaigh
BALLYSEEDY Home & Garden hosted a great charity Cookery Demo event in aid of ‘Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind (IGDB) Tralee Branch’ last Saturday.
Guests were welcomed to with delicious canapes created by Ballyseedy’s head chef, Damian Fitzpatrick, which included smoked salmon roulade with lemon dill infused cream cheese, served on pickled cucumber and serrano ham with whipped Irish goats cheese, mini spinach falafels served with a sweet chilli dipping sauce and much more.
‘Nightlife’ provided music throughout the day, while Bernie Falvey, CEO of Ballyseedy Home and Garden gave an autumn planting class, followed by the talented Ciara Morgan who cooked up a feast of vegan savoury and sweet veggie delights.
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Fundraising events such as this play a hugely important role in the ongoing efforts of IGDB to help change the lives of those who are vision impaired and the families of children with autism.
The fundraising event raised over €2,000 for the charity. It is reported that to breed, train and care for a guide dog during its training and working will cost an estimated €53,000.
For more information and if you would like to donate please visit ‘Irish Guide Dogs’ for the blind; https://www.guidedogs.ie . Scroll down for photos…
Anna Lynch and Anne O’Riordan at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó Ceallaigh.Bernie Flavey, CEO of Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre at the event on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó CeallaighCiara Morgan giving a vegan cookery demo at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane O’Ceallaigh.Elizabeth Fearns and Rebecca Poultney with Fionn and Frieda at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane O’CeallaighEvelyn Fox at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó Ceallaigh.Mary McCaffrey meeting a four legged friend at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó CeallaighNightlife providing the music at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó Ceallaigh.Siobhan and Lisa Cronin at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó CeallaighTreasa Joy and Clancy Treacy at the event in Ballyseedy Home and Garden Centre on Saturday. Photo by Shane Ó Ceallaigh.
THE highest daily rain-fall total in the country for October was recorded at Valentia Observatory, on Friday, October 8. The station recorded 64.7mm of rainfall.
According to the latest Monthly Climate Report issued by Met Éireann. The Kerry station also recorded its wettest October since 2000, with 264.9mm, 150% of its Long Term Average (LTA).
However, it was a warmer than average October, with all mean air temperatures across the country above their LTA for the month.
Deviations from mean air temperature ranged from 0.8 °C at both Sherkin Island, Co Cork (12.8 °C , the month’s highest mean temperature) and Valentia Observatory, (12.4 °C mean temperature) to 2.1 °C (12.3 °C mean temperature) at Phoenix Park, Co Dublin (its warmest October since 2011).
TRALEE Chamber has appointed a new Chief Executive.
Colette O’Connor has been appointed to the role, replacing Ken Tobin whose term finished at the end of September.
“Colette has extensive knowledge of business in Tralee, having previously held managerial roles in both ‘The Abbeygate Hotel’ and with ‘Fels Point Hotel’,” said Kevin McCarthy, President of Tralee Chamber Alliance.
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“She set up her own Management Consultancy business in 2017, specialising in the Events and Hospitality sector. She is currently a director of The Kerry Tourism Industry Forum and has a great passion for promoting North Kerry Tourism, we are delighted to welcome Colette into Tralee Chamber Alliance and believe she will be a huge asset, her skills and experience will help the Chamber work with the local business community to maximise the potential of the area.”
A business management consultant, Colette has a wide range of experience working with community groups and businesses both locally and internationally, specializing in the Events and hospitality sector.
Her background lies in hospitality where she worked in managerial roles in a number of hotels across Kerry and Limerick.
In her native Listowel she was a founding member of the Listowel Business and Community Alliance and played a pivotal role in the advancement of the organisation over the past four years while also playing an active role in the Kerry Chambers Network.
Commenting on her appointment Ms O’Connor said; “I am honoured to be taking up the CEO position within the Tralee Chamber Alliance. The organisation is firmly established and has a long and proud history of promoting the Tralee area as a prime business destination and supporting local enterprises. The Chamber played a hugely important role in helping businesses stay informed during the COVID 19 pandemic and worked with members ensuring they got the required support from government. Tralee I feel is a town that has it all and is already a great town to live in, work in or visit.”
Ms. O’Connor said that she is looking forward to getting to fully know the team at Tralee Chamber Alliance while also paying tribute to the work of her predecessor.
“It’s early days but I am excited to get stuck in and work on how as an organisation we can enhance our offering to members and best support their needs. Ken is an extremely hard act to follow and I will be doing my best to continue keeping Tralee at the forefront when it comes to lobbying for key infrastructure, further developing the already incredible offering we have here.”
.Launching this year’s Mercy Mounthawk TY Fashion Show were, in front; Sarah Maunsell and Molly Sheehy. Back from left; Oisín Gallagher, Kim McTigue, Robert Emerson and James Dowling. Photo by Dermot Crean
MERCY Mounthawk’s annual fashion show will go ahead as a ‘hybrid’ event this year with a green theme to the event.
Staged annually by the Transition Year students at the school, the TY year will attend, but everyone else will tune in from home.
The theme of this year’s show is “Green is the new Black” which highlights the importance of sustainability in our fashion choices.
The beneficiary charity is the Kerry Cancer Support Group the link will be available on the night for people to click and donate to the charity.
The TYs along with their teachers Ms Stacey O’Leary and Ms Mari Kearney (fashion show coordinators), Ms Charlotte Tansley, Ms Molly Giltentane and Ms Rachel O’Neill (music and dance teachers) Mr Will Nolan, Mr Ronan Redican Ms Maire NIDheargain and Mr Shane Scanlon (I.T TEACHERS) have been working very hard over the last number of weeks to put the show together.
The show will be slightly different this year as they have themed categories and students upcycled outfits they have at home.
They will also be showcasing some new designs from That’s Perfect Tralee, Sean Husseys, Ryle Menswear and many more more. They have also organised some celebrity guest appearances throughout the show.
KERRY’S Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly has expressed his alarm at the situations people in need of dental care are facing and has called on the government to provide an urgent response.
Deputy Daly said more than 50% of dentists in Kerry have left the medical card dental scheme in the last five years and there has been a 48% decrease in spending for Kerry over the past three years.
“The collapse in dental services is a crisis that must be dealt with as a matter of urgency by the government,” said.
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“All of this has placed undue pressure on the HSE oral health with dental and orthodontic waiting lists spiralling out of control. The number of patients seen by HSE Oral Health in Kerry collapsed last year by 63%.
“Many primary children will be heading into third year in secondary school before they can have their 6th class dental exam. While Covid-19 is clearly to blame for some of this delay, it is inexcusable that so many children will now face painful and difficult orthodontic care after waiting too long for standard examinations.
“I am also hearing from too many people who cannot access public dental care in Kerry, and are being sent to Limerick for treatment. Preventive care is non-existent for public patients. The Irish Dental Association highlighted their concerns recently in the Health Committee, stating that difficulty in accessing dental treatment contributes to poor oral health and greater healthcare costs overall.
“The burden of this disproportionately falls on lower income groups, especially those who rely on medical cards. Dentists have expressed ethical as well as practical concerns about unilateral cuts to the dental scheme imposed during austerity. This devastated dentists’ ability to deliver quality care to medical card patients,” said Deputy Daly.
A TRALEE councillor says serious consideration needs to be given to the timing of road works in the town after a ‘perfect storm’ of traffic delays over the past couple of months.
Labour Cllr Terry O’Brien had a motion before the Tralee Municipal District meeting on Monday that Kerry County Council review their traffic management policies going forward to ensure that a town of Tralee’s size does not go into gridlock with too many road works at the same time in the same areas.
The past months have seen works carried out on a number of streets and access roads into the town including Strand Street, the Oakpark Road and the ongoing works at Bridge Street/Russell Street/Rock Street.
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Cllr O’Brien said Tralee has been ‘absolutely hammered’ traffic-wise. He said the Council should look at what they’re doing, where they’re doing it and when they carry out the works. He said the works carried out last month created a ‘perfect storm’ of traffic delays.
Cllr O’Brien said he understood road works and Irish Water upgrades had to be completed, but they shouldn’t be carried out all at the same time.
In reply, Council Management said the impact of the Covid 19 Level 5 Public Health restrictions in early 2021 delayed the smooth delivery of approved projects resulting in their annual roads programme being concentrated in the second half of the year.
Consequently, projects that were scheduled to be completed in series had to be rescheduled to be delivered in tandem to facilitate their completion by year end. This resulted in more significant traffic delays.
They said they will endeavour to minimise delays associated with the delivery of its Municipal District Works Plan into the future.
THE Tralee Flood Relief scheme is to take nine years to complete, councillors were told at the meeting of Tralee Municipal District Council on Monday.
In a presentation by RPS Consultants, appointed by Kerry County Council in August 2021, councillors were given the projected timeline for the multi-million euro project.
Tralee has suffered severe flooding in certain areas of the town in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2015.
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Public consultation on the scheme is to begin this month. A number of reports, studies and consultation processes will take place over the next few years, with the project expected to go to the planning stage in 2025.
This will be followed by detailed design and the project going to tender in 2026. Construction is expected to be completed in 2029 with the handover of works in 2030.
The public consultation this month will seek the initial view from the public and other interested parties in relation the options to manage the flood risk in the area, to highlight points of local importance that might constrain the design and/or viability of any potential flood alleviation measures, and to collate information on any flood events that have occurred since the CFRAM Study was undertaken in 2018 to identify flood risks within Tralee.
To minimise COVID-19 risk the initial Public Consultation will take place online. An online platform, hosted on the project website (https://www.floodinfo.ie) will be developed in which the public and other interested stakeholders can access proposals, interact with visualisations, share feedback and connect with the Project Team.
THERE were 174 children reported lost to lifeguards working on Kerry beaches during the summer.
At the meeting of Tralee Municipal District councillors on Monday, details of the work carried out to lifeguards were revealed.
Between June and September, lifeguards administered first aid to 1,174 people, there were 26 rescues, rescue craft was used 37 times and 174 children were reported lost (105 in July alone).
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Accidents were prevented on 3,127 occasions and advice was given by lifeguards 9,584 times.
Based on data collected to date by Kerry County Council, Beach Wheelchairs during the Blue Flag season were used on Inch 17 times, Ballybunion 23, Castlegregory 22 and Ballinskelligs 20 times. Their data for Banna is estimated at 20, but the records were destroyed due to a fire.
THE highest daily rain-fall total in the country for October was recorded at Valentia Observatory, on Friday, October 8. The station recorded 64.7mm of rainfall.
TRALEE Chamber has appointed a new Chief Executive.
