Walsh family offer heartfelt thanks for incredible support
SIR, Further to the recent funeral of our son and brother, Donal, and the many letters of condolence we have since received, we would like to express heartfelt thanks from our family.
SIR, Further to the recent funeral of our son and brother, Donal, and the many letters of condolence we have since received, we would like to express heartfelt thanks from our family.
Donal Nolan
IN the history of the Great Blasket 2013 is a significant year as 60 years ago the island was evacuated and 20 years ago the OPW Blasket Island Centre was established. In recognising these milestones a book of rare photographs celebrating the lives of a people, whose numbers are slowly dwindling, will be launched in Ionad an Bhlascaoid on this Friday June 14 at 7.30pm.
Simon Brouder
Dónal Nolan
Kevin Hughes
Simon Brouder
THE grief-stricken family of Natasha Donovan, a young mother of two who died under tragic circumstances at her home in Tralee on Thursday, have issued an urgent warning to young people about the dangers of heroin abuse.
Denny St, Tralee, Co Kerry
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ads@kerryman.ie
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dmalone@kerryman.ie
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Dónal Nolan
Simon Brouder
Simon Brouder
SIR, Further to the recent funeral of our son and brother, Donal, and the many letters of condolence we have since received, we would like to express heartfelt thanks from our family.
Dónal Nolan
Kevin Hughes
THE general consensus of supporters leaving the Fitzgerald Stadium last Saturday night was that the county championship has suffered dramatically as a result of the allowing the intermediate winners enter the competition. Now I'm not going to be repetitive on this subject only to say that Kerry football will suffer in the long run if something is not done about the standard of the county senior championship.
STANDING at 6' 6 and weighing in at eighteen stone, it seems that Ireland Under 20 player Sean McCarthy has boots big enough to fill the likes of Moss Keane, Mick Galwey, Tom and Mick Doyle, Siobhán Fleming and JJ Hanrahan in the line of Munster and Ireland rugby players hailing from the parish of Currow.
St MICHAELS/Foilmore advanced to the third round of the County Championship when they simply outgunned debutants Finuge in a feisty affair played in brilliant sunshine on the South Kerry coastline.
TARBERT is calling home its children ahead of a massive weekend in August when the town will celebrate its very own Gathering event - the Tarbert Family Gathering Festival.
THEY'RE all wondering who the man over the half door could be as an impressive project by a tidy towns group brightens up a famous north Kerry crossroads.
TALES of empire, nationhood, maritime adventures, myth and the long story of Christianity in Kerry are included in a remarkable new history of a proud coastal community in north Kerry.
The late Sr Aloysius McElligott
Niamh Ryan
CANCER support service Recovery Haven have launched their 2013 Celebration of Light which will take place in villages, towns and beaches across Kerry in July and will see many hundreds of people, whose lives have been touched by the disease, gather and simultaneously light candles in a ceremony of hope and solidarity.
Marisa Reidy
CYCLISTS from across Ireland will gather at the Tralee Bay Wetland's Centre on June 16 before setting off on an 80 kilometre leisure cycle through west Kerry.
THE pupils, parents and staff of St Brendan's National School in Blennerville must have been thanking their lucky stars over the weekend as the school's annual sports day and its fundraising walk and barbecue happened to fall over the finest few days of the year so far.
Marisa Reidy
Simon Brouder
ORGANISERS of the annual Ballinruane charity barndance are calling all cowboys and girls in the Kilmeedy area to show their support for the event in aid of Pieta House.
PARENTS and pupils turned out in strength to support a fund-raiser for the local Holy Family School at Tralee Track last Saturday night and the featured buster race was won in pretty impressive fashion by Oak Chard (Burnpark Champ - Baltovin Maggie), owned by Peter Regan, of Baltovin, Ardfert.
The Basketball Northern Ireland Girls Basketball Academy hosted its inaugural Invitational SheHoops Tournament at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. The tournament, sponsored by Wingfoot, saw eight visiting teams and 150 players representing Kerry, Dublin, Mayo, the Midlands and Dundalk travel north for the first time to take on the best Basketball Northern Ireland has to offer.
Simon Brouder