Saturday 25 May 2013
The final competition of the Munster Badminton season took place at the Killarney Sports Centre on Sunday last where the singles winners of each county played off in each grade for the honour of being crowned overall Munster champion.
It was a weekend of surprises in the Jimmy Bruen Shield as Killlorglin and Kanturk won through to meet in the West Munster Area final, and as I write this, I ask myself how could I get one section so right and the other so wrong in my predictions?
JUST like he did at the last County Championship held at Deerpark, Tralee's Jonathon Goodall prevented a clean sweep by the Killarney club of the major honours at the County Strokeplay as his total of 14 under par was good enough to win the Gents Senior title by a single shot last Sunday.
ACCORDING to Declan Dowling, the Sales and Operations Manager at Tralee Track, the late Steve Kennedy instigated the setting up of the track Supporters Club and due homage was paid to the man at the Oakview venue last Saturday night.
The Kerry County Juvenile Track and Field Championships were held last Saturday and Sunday in very wet and windy conditions. As usual there were many fine performances from athletes of all ages and despite the poor weather there were 11 championship best performances in field events alone.
KERRY is this week gearing up to host part of two stages in the An Post Rás.
Southern and National champion jockey Jack Kennedy from Dingle made the perfect return to the summer horse and pony racing season with a four-timer on the midlands circuit last Sunday in Loughrea, Co Galway. The mile track is based on the grounds of the Dartfield Horse Museum and Kennedy was in sparkling form on his four winners, three of which were supplied by the Three Counties Syndicate.
Twenty-year old jockey Mark Enright from Castlemahon, Newcastlewest, was crowed Irish Champion Conditional jockey at the final day of the Irish National Hunt Festival at Punchestown Racecourse on Saturday before a near record attendance of almost 25,000 patrons.
KEEL GAA Club and Keel Palliative Care Fundraising Group are organising a fundraising cycle around the Dingle Peninsula on Saturday, May 4.
The final competition of the Munster Badminton season took place at the Killarney Sports Centre on Sunday last where the singles winners of each county played off in each grade for the honour of being crowned overall Munster champion.
THE value of a good benefit meeting was underlined once more at Tralee Track on Saturday night when families came out in real force to support Mercy Mounthawk School.
Tralee's Bryan Cooper added another important win to his fabulous CV - to go alongside recent wins at Cheltenham and Aintree - with a terrific victory on Grey Gold in the 2ml2f novice chase at the final day of the record breaking Irish National Hunt festival at Punchestown on Saturday.
This Saturday night the eyes of the racing world will be focused on the world famous horse race, the Kentucky Derby, where Ireland and Kerry will be represented by Falling Sky, owned by Listowel natives Maurice and Patricia Regan, proprietors of the magnificent Newtown Anner Stud Farm at Clonmel.
WHEN the Christy Ring Cup was introduced to the GAA calendar in 2005, it looked like a competition that was made for Down hurling.
KATIE Taylor's example has obviously had a big impact in Listowel where three young women, members of the Trojan Boxing Club, won Munster titles.
THE outdoor athletics season kicked off in style this weekend with the Leevale 2013 Track & Field Meet. Day 1 last Saturday saw Claire Fitzgerald of Tralee Harriers take gold in both senior ladies shot and discus.
IT was a battle between two of the top three sides in Kerry rugby last weekend as Killarney faced up to Castleisland in the final of the Munster Junior Plate in Tralee.
ONE of the busiest approach roads to Listowel is in a 'dreadful' state, but can expect little funding from on high as the NRA allocation for regional roads is now a fraction of what it once was.
A BUTCHER who defecated in a cell in Listowel Garda Station and contested a charge that he had failed to give his name and address to gardaí lost his case at Listowel District Court on Thursday.
A BALLYHEIGUE couple who suffered the unimaginable heartache of losing their daughter just two weeks before she was due to be born have thanked the people of north Kerry for contributing so generously to the charity that helped them cope with their tragic loss.
A DRUNKEN altercation resulted in a district court fine of €240 for a young Listowel footballer who was seen shouting and roaring at another male by gardai.
A man who arrived at a woman's door, allegedly brandishing a knife, could be facing a jail term as the incident may have occurred while he was subject to a suspended sentence following an earlier conviction.
THE death has occurred of one of Killarney's pioneering industrialists, former Managing Director of Pretty Polly, Ralph de Zaayer.
IT first opened in 1967 in response to the increasing demand for seam-free, hold-up tights and it employed over 800 people in its pomp.
THE irate father of a teenage girl who is lucky to be alive after her car overturned on a notorious bend near Milltown has claimed that Kerry County Council will have "blood on its hands" if it fails to persuade the NRA to make the road safe.
FATALITIES caused by drowning increased by 100pc in Kerry in the five-year period from 2007 to 2011.
WHILE Kerry Mountain Rescue Team may be busier than ever due to a rise in numbers availing of relatively cost free pursuits, the economic downturn has had the opposite for Derrynane Inshore Rescue and the service has reported a fall in maritime incidents.
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