A 66-year-old former garda has pleaded not guilty to possession of child pornography.

International technology company JRI America has formally begun the planned expansion of its operations in Tralee with the announ cement of 21 new jobs at its base at the Kerry Technology Park adjacent to the Institute of Technology Tralee.

Tralee is considering creating an urban bike park, similar to facilities in Lisbon and Glasgow, a council meeting has heard.

You would, or even wood, have to admit it's uncanny.

Trish Dromey enjoys the fresh new look brought to an exquisitely upgraded home in Tralee.

Two men were arrested this afternoon after gardai seized approximately €10,000 worth of heroin following a surveillance operation in Tralee.

UCC Demons inflicted more misery on Garvey’s Tralee Warriors in the Men’s Super League when defeating them 75-70 at a packed Tralee Sports Complex.

An upset looked very much on the cards when IT Tralee held a three points over Ulster University early in the second half of this Sigerson Cup Rd; 1 game played at the John Mitchels grounds Tralee, when the visitors outstanding centre back Gareth McKinless was shown a second yellow.

Garvey’s Tralee Warriors captain Kieran Donaghy inspired his team to a magnificent win over Keane’s Supervalu Killorglin in the Men’s Super League at a packed Killorglin Sports Complex.

One lucky person woke up this morning a million euro richer as it was revealed the winning Daily Millions player bought their ticket at Applegreen in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Central Pharma has announced plans to create 100 jobs in County Kerry over the next five years.

A 27-year-old man who was a carer for his grandfather was so badly beaten around the head and face his mother did not recognise him, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee heard yesterday.

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For next year’s 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Tralee, in Co Kerry, has erected a plaque to commemorate the visit to the town of the late US astronaut, Neil Armstrong. He was the first man to step on the moon in 1969.

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A new western park in Kerry’s county town will be “a quality site” and will not be rushed.

A young man driving an ice cream van was arrested and is in custody.

Gardaí are appealing for help in locating a 59-year-old man who is missing from Tralee in Co Kerry.

A 20-year-old man remains in Garda custody this morning after being arrested over a fatal stabbing in Co Kerry.

Up to 400 people, most of them women, turned out in the Square in Tralee yesterday evening in a show of support for Emma Mhic Mhathúna, the 37-year-old mother of five whose smear test failed to detect cancer warning signs and who now has terminal cancer.

A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.

Two men have been arrested after cannabis worth €60,000 was seized in Tralee, County Kerry today.

Garvey’s Tralee Warriors suffered a heartbreaking 97-88 defeat to Templeogue last night.

A Cork woman had told how her pen pal friendship, which has lasted almost half a century, has changed with time from old-fashioned letters to instant social media posts.

In Tralee last Saturday night, all of the clichés that make up much of basketball’s great lure and lore applied. They were hanging from the rafters. The players could smell the popcorn. The place was hoppin’.

A decision is due shortly on a likely controversial relocation of the court services in Tralee to a largely-disused army barracks.

Latest: Five stowaways who were found on a ship at a County Kerry harbour today are to seek asylum in this country.

A man seriously assaulted in Castleisland, Co Kerry last weekend is in a critical condition, and is unlikely to make a full, if any, recovery.

Tralee has been named as one of more than 20 towns and cities that can apply for recognition as a Gaeltacht service town, under the Gaeltacht Act, 2012.

A woman who gave a detailed account of a rape in what later transpired to be consensual sex, after becoming separated from friends on the night of the 2014 All-Ireland Football final, will be sentenced in January, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

Kerry Group shares rose nearly 3% despite management cutting the upper limit of its full-year earnings expectations.

Kerry Group shares rose nearly 3% despite management cutting the upper limit of its full-year earnings expectations, writes Geoff Pervical.

Garvey’s Tralee Warriors suffered their biggest defeat since returning to the Men’s Super League when they lost 92-63 to UCD Marian at the Tralee Sports complex.

A jury was yesterday told to bring in a verdict of not guilty, in the case of a woman accused of careless driving causing the death of an oncoming motorcyclist.

A smart revamp of Tralee town centre, nearing completion, has left the town’s taxi operators feeling pushed aside by a pedestrian-focused project.

The man, who is in his 60s, was injured in an altercation on a street in Moyderwell outside the Kerry Library, close to the town centre, at around 2pm.

It has long been an aspiration of the Rose of Tralee International Festival but having a permanent dome could be in reach with work commencing in the next two years.

It’s a feat that came in very useful to east Berliners defecting to the West — being concealed in suitcases — and Limerick Rose Kayleigh Maher has discovered she, too, can fit into her enormous suitcase in the unlikely event of her requiring an escape route from Tralee, Co Kerry.