The Tralee Blog

After almost ten years of intensive planning the proposed ”Lee Valley Park“ between Tralee and Blennerville can finally take shape. Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, yesterday announced - somewhat unexpectedly by most in the current economic climate - that a quite generous grant of almost 3 million Euro has now been allocated to the project. I think this is great news for Tralee, especially because the park will be the only new tourism project of that scale in Ireland to go ahead this year. [»]

 It’s that time of the year again with the sun shining and the birds singing, and one more thing to note: the Kerry Bicycle Festival will be back! Starting Thursday, 13th of May, we will see more bike related events than ever. After the huge successes of the festivals in 2008 and 2009 I certainly won’t miss this years event! If you want to know please visit http://kerrybicyclefestival.org. See you there!

After several months without any major news from Tralee I today decided to call the blog back into action, for the tourist season is about to kick in here in Kerry and some things of interest may indeed happen here over the summer months. I think I will start with some updates on the ongoing efforts to make the town more attractive both to guests as well as citizens.  [»]

After having heard about the exciting project first at last year’s Kerry Bicycle Festival it seems that the new walk- and cycleway between Tralee and Fenit is now in the final stages of planning and may even be finished very soon. Although I understand that some discussions are still going on with owners of properties adjacent to the track I no longer doubt that the ambitious new way can and will finally become a reality. [»]