Former Kerry Fianna Fáil TD Tom McEllistrim last night took a key step towards relaunching his political career by winning a nomination to contest the forthcoming local elections for the party.

A group attempting to stop the building of a road through a section of Tralee Town Park claims to have collected around 10,000 signatures to a petition it has organised.

A 50m stretch of a town park, dedicated to the astronaut Neil Armstrong, will be “an essential part” of a €5.6m traffic plan in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Fans of the first man on the moon will be able to walk The Neil Armstrong Way — in Kerry.

The Rose of Tralee International Festival will get underway in the Kingdom of Kerry today when the 32 Roses arrive in Tralee following a week-long tour of Ireland.

Four mayors yesterday protested at what they described as “exhorbitant” parking charges at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee.

A WAR of words over the location of a museum charting the history and successes of the GAA in Kerry looks to have been settled.

TRALEE, famous for its roses, will be all in bloom next week, as a major drive gets under way to win a Tidy Towns award.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed for calm among hostile rival elements of the Travelling community, in Kerry, to allow the investigation into the murder of Michael Faulkner, aged 43, in Tralee to continue.

COUNCILLORS in Tralee have called on Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin to resign from his position.

KEEN competition from private bin collectors could force Tralee Town Council out of business.

KERRY County Council could be forced to sell some of its assets to offset the running costs of some of the town’s leading tourist attractions.

TRALEE will lose out in future development if is it not one of the new cities in the National Spatial Strategy, its mayor warned yesterday.