Tralee Toastmasters have announced their new Committee for 2022/23 and the winner of their 2022 Toastmaster of the Year. The incoming Committee are as follows: President: James Finnegan Vice President Education: Anne Lawlor Vice President Membership: Derry Butler Vice President PR: Michael McGeeghan Secretary:Catriona O'Riordan Treasurer: Sonia Elston Immediate Past President: John McGilicuddy 2022 Toastmaster [...]
Teachers and principals in Kerry are invited to sign up for a free place on the popular litter-picking programme for the 2022/2023 school year. Launched in 2019, the Picker Pals programme is now in 33% of the schools in Ireland. That's 30,000 children making the world a better place and having fun doing it. Applications [...]
Catherine Martin, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media has announced a fourth round of the Local Live Performance Programming Scheme (LLPPS). The aim of the scheme is to support employment opportunities for professional performers and technicians across every town, city and county in Ireland and to help underpin the recovery of [...]
with its innovative Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering It has become globally recognised that our universities must adapt to the world they live in. Through the REEdI project, MTU has developed a innovate engineering qualification. This unique qualification sees industry and academia collaborate to deliver the Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in [...]
Ballyduff Vintage Club are calling on tractor enthusiasts from around the county to join them on Sunday, June 26th as they host their eagerly-awaited charity Tractor Run. Three charities are to benefit from this year’s event – Recovery Haven Kerry, Ard Cúram and the Irish Air Ambulance - with the run setting off from Ballyduff [...]
Siamsa Tíre are hosting their annual auditions on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June Have you got a talented performer in the family? A child who loves singing, dancing, and shining in the limelight? If so, they may be interested in auditioning for the National Folk Theatre of Ireland’s three-year training programme at Siamsa [...]
Judge Emily O’Donoghue, @fashionablyfortyish wowed by the colour and sensational style at Listowel Races on Sunday 5th of June A very Carrie Bradshaw inspired soft pink dress with full tulle skirt caught the eye of fashion judge Emily O’Donoghue and won Grace Flynn from Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick, the coveted title of Listowel Races Best Dressed [...]
Crowds came out in the sunshine to see Fenit RNLI’s new inshore lifeboat officially named Lizzie last weekend The new lifeboat is being named after Liz Fraser, a Southwark born actor, well-known for roles on stage and screen over a career spanning decades. The honour of the lifeboat naming was given to Jan Bolt, the [...]
The final countdown is now underway for Together for Hospice, The National Hospice Movement’s, Hospice Sunflower Days on-street collection which is returning to towns and villages all over the country on Friday, 10th and Saturday 11th June 2022. Volunteers nationwide will be selling sunflower merchandise to raise vital funds for local hospice and specialist palliative [...]
THE Connect Kerry Women In Business Awards are back and the nominations in a range of categories have been received ahead of the event in The Rose Hotel, Tralee on Friday 10th June. The event organiser and publisher of Connect Kerry Magazine, Margaret Kissane, said: “Many businesses would not thrive without the dynamic women who [...]