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A BALLYHEIGUE woman is being celebrated this week after being named runner-up in Ireland’s Best Baker with Gala Retail. Vivienne Dineen’s chocolate fudge brownies with butterscotch sauce secured her place among the competition’s top bakers, earning her the runner-up title and a €500 prize. Organised by convenience retailer Gala Retail […]
BALLYHEIGUE and Sneem playgrounds will get funding support for upgrades under a Government initiative. Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., announced the Summer of Play initiative where, in total, €6million in Government grants have been made available to encourage children and their families to get […]
A GROUP has been formed in Ballyheigue to give voice to people’s concerns regarding anti-social behaviour. ‘Ballyheigue Community Alert’ was created following a number of incidents including a fire on ‘Dolly’s Green’ on Friday night. The community group has a WhatsApp group that enables the sharing of information that is […]
THE Memory Balloon Walk for Palliative Care was a hugely successful event on Bank Holiday Monday with people attending adhering to socially distancing guidelines. Funds raised on the day were €2,053.85 which will be presented to the Palliative Care Unit. Event organiser Natasha McCrohan along with her committee members Ann […]
A PUPIL from a school in Ballyheigue has won an award for acting at a film festival in Georgia. Andrea Lynch won the Best Female Actress in the Tbilisi International Children and Youth Film Festival “Oqros Pepela” (“Golden Butterfly”) in Georgia for her role the short film ‘A Little Help’ made by her schoolmates in St. Joseph’s N.S. Bouleenshere. […]
FIRST the Summer Festival, then the ‘Sandstorm’ event last weekend and now two very popular music acts are coming — it’s all happening in Ballyheigue this summer. The town is preparing to welcome two very different artists in the last weekend of July as The Riptide Movement and Tommy Fleming […]
AS part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Gala Retail, visited Scoil Naomh Iosef in Ballyheigue on Friday last to donate a huge €5,000 to the school as part of its Gala Gifts for Schools competition. Scoil Naomh Iosef was named as a ‘runner-up’ in the Gala Gifts for Schools competition, […]
THE Sandstorm endurance race is back in Ballyheigue this weekend and hundreds are expected to take to the beach. The race, which takes place on Saturday morning, challenges participants both physically and mentally with a course consisting of multiple obstacles and challenges along the beach. It’s the third year it has […]
Mike O’Halloran watched Abbeydorney beat Ballyheigue in the Round 2A Garveys Supervalu Kerry SHC clash in Austin Stack Park yesterday… Ballyheigue 0-13 Abbeydorney 2-13 At halftime, nobody gave Ballyheigue a chance in this game as they trailed on a scoreline of 0-4 to 2-8, but they started a revival that […]
CLUB Óg Ógras Baile Uí Thuaidhg from Kerry has been awarded the prize for best Community Campaign at the Irish Cancer Society X-HALE Youth Awards 2017. The group scooped the award for the campaign around its short film “Ná Bac le Tobac” which was showcased at the recent event in […]
