You could say that our habit of striking while the iron is hot goes all the way back to the iron age – couldn’t you ? The most modern day application and result was forged by Cllr. Charlie Farrelly at the recent record breaking break-out by the Drive-in-Bingo players from this and neighbouring counties on…
The Kerry Group Ras Mumhan, Four Day International Cycle Race gets under way on the roads of Kerry and Limerick on Good Friday next April 19th and will finish on Easter Monday morning April 22nd. Through Castleisland The race, and all it entails, will pass through Castleisland on Good Friday afternoon at approximately 4pm to…
Clare 4-08 Kerry 1-17 Referee : S Curely, Galway Kerry came away from Doonbeg with a share of the spoils after a hard-fought well-earned point against Clare on Sunday. By Paul Murphy, PRO Kerry started off the better and registered the first three scores of the game. Sarah Houlihan with the first inside the opening…
The long and fruitful association between RTÉ Radio and the musicians and custodians of the culture associated with the Sliabh Luachra area marked and stood another important milestone in Scartaglin on Saturday night. Appreciation from Sliabh Luachra The start of the fifth Handed Down Traditional Music Lecture and Concert series was billed as ‘Peter Browne…
The 2018 and seventh annual Paudie Fitzmaurice Memorial Tractor, Vintage Car and Motorcycle Run was held on Sunday September 9th. It has been six years since Paudie’s untimely passing and the run was founded in his memory in the winter of 2012. Cheque Presentation On Friday night in Tom McCarthy’s Bar many of the participants…
In a speech in Dáil Éireann recently, Deputy Danny Healy Rae requested that Scartaglin, Currow and Beaufort be prioritised for sewerage treatment plants. The reply he got from Minister Eoghan Murphy left him well short of pleased. “I am very disappointed with this reply as it demonstrates how little this Government cares about rural communities.…
The deadlines issued to rural post-masters and post-mistresses should be extended to allow them decide on redundancy packages – according the Kerry Fianna Fáil TD, John Brassil. New contracts issued by An Post will continue to stymy development and viability of local, rural post offices – he said. Local Communities Hit According to Mr. Brasill,…
Over two hundred people from across the county attended the Lee Strand / Kerry Garda Youth Achievement Awards 2016 in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel in Tralee on Friday, January 27th. The celebration commenced with dinner and was followed by a presentation of twenty seven awards, accompanied with an inspiring citation of each winner’s achievements. Twenty…
The 2016 Eamon Kelly bursary recipients were announced at a presentation at Killarney Library on Thursday. The joint winners are Grace Foley, a singer and musician from Killarney and Darragh Guerin, an actor from Beaufort. Grace intends to develop her career as a singer and plans to launch a CD called Home to Kerry, a…
All-Ireland champions Kerry remain on course to make it two-in-a-row following an emphatic 12-points victory over rivals Cork in the first round of the Munster Under 16 A Ladies Championship played in Castleisland today. The final score was 3-10 to 0-7 in Kerry’s favour but, really, it could have been more as this Kerry side…
