What happened in Kerry this week
Almost 100 Kerry shareholders have received shares in Kerry Group worth over €1 million as part of the latest deal with Kerry Co-op.
Pupils in Gaelscoil Lios Tuathail are to be totally smartphone-free - at home and at school - throughout their primary school careers, after parents voted to Keep Childhood Smartphone Free.
The lights at ‘Bridie’s Better Buy’ went out on Sunday but the childhood memories made by local schoolchildren will last a lifetime – of their favourite shop and the woman who ran it.
Last Saturday night, Clanmaurice Camogie Club gathered for a victory social at the Meadowlands Hotel in Tralee to celebrate the remarkable achievement of winning their second consecutive All-Ireland title.
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Hugs, kisses and help with school run!
The nicest thing about her nana is that she gives the best hugs, said Senior Infants pupil Cooper Lynch, one of hundreds of children around the county who welcomed their grandparents into their classrooms on Friday.
Cooper, along with her four cousins, welcomed their nana Noreen Leahy to Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn last Friday, as schools around the county marked Grandparents Day.
A special day, as part of Catholic Week held in schools annually, Grandparents Day is always an exciting time for the young pupils who get to show off one of their favourite people to their classmates.
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‘No need for speed’
GARDAÍ in Kerry have vowed to clamp down on speeding on local rural roads and have welcomed new reduced speed limits on the country roads.
From this Friday, February 7, speed limits on rural roads are changing from 80kmph to 60kmph with drastic cuts also planned for urban centres and national secondary roads over the coming months.
Garda Inspector Gary Carroll of the Roads Policing Unit in Kerry says the new lowered speed limits will help save lives on roads.
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No phones until end of primary
Pupils in Gaelscoil Lios Tuathail are to be totally smartphone-free - at home and at school - throughout their primary school careers, after parents voted to Keep Childhood Smartphone Free.
The school management, staff and Parents Association are bringing in the all-out ban in time for Safer Internet Day, taking place next Tuesday, February 11.
The majority of parents of the 140 pupils have voted in favour of implementing the voluntary agreement in line with the Department of Education's recommendations on best practices for Internet safety.
The Gaelscoil community came together to agree that children will not have smartphones until the end of Sixth Class –an initiative that is based on education, open dialogue, and focused on the overall wellbeing of the children.
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Billy targets hat-trick at Chelsea
A SOUTH Kerry horticulturist is going for gold and hopes to score a hat-trick when he brings his rare collection of ferns to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in May for the third time.
Billy Alexander of Kells Bay Gardens said the work on his 2025 exhibition at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show began on the day he walked away with his second gold medal in 2023, when his ferns also won the coveted ‘Best Exhibit in the Great Pavilion’ award.
And although he cannot win a higher accolade than that, Billy revealed it would be disappointing to leave with anything less than gold.
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Emergency supplies sold out for Storm Éowyn
PATIO GAS cylinders, gas heaters, camping stoves, generators, flash lights, batteries and even hot water bottles were flying out the doors of hardware shops all over Kerry once the Red Alert weather warning was issued ahead of Storm Éowyn.
And even as power was being restored to homes and businesses impacted by the storm, demand for these items has remained high, as homeowners remain determined they won’t be caught out again.
However, one retailer has warned about the dangers associated with using equipment that was made for the outdoors indoors.
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Renowned Welsh choir to perform in Tralee
The renowned Welsh choir, Cor Meibion Colwyn, will be visiting Tralee this March to perform with the Kerry Choral Union for a special fundraising concert in St Brendan's Church.
The concert came about when members of the Welsh choir –which hails from the village of Old Colwyn in the county of Conwy on the beautiful North Wales Coast –asked Tralee Rotary Club about the possibility of organising a special charity concert.
In the discussions about the fundraising concert, Cor Meibion Colwyn also expressed an interest in being joined in their performance by a local choir from Kerry.
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