The Tralee Blog

Yes, it’s that time of the year again - after last year’s huge success of the first annual Kerry Bicycle Festival the second edition is to take place over the coming days. I will be there and you should be, too. All the useful information is to be found here. See you next weekend!

Just about one year after my first report on the  state of the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway I decided that it’s time to update the pictures, so all the photographs below have been taken today. [»]

The newly formed All Ireland Air Ambulance - a charity planning to provide dedicated air rescue services - held a first publicity demonstration on the helipad of Tralee General Hospital today. While the helicopter they showed is not at all a new machine (see below for details) the efforts of the people involved in the action are most welcome and everybody living in the often rugged southwest of Ireland will be glad about any new means for providing medical aid quickly whenever needed. [»]

I want to take the opportunity to thank all the readers of tralee.org and of this blog for their interest and contributions in the pages and to wish them and everybody a happy new year 2009! It is almost certainly going to be a challenging year for quite a lot of people around the world, but hopefully it will be a good and healthy year for many. [»]

After a severe weather warning issued by Met Éireann for today the weather turned out to be very windy indeed. The picture shows the damaged disused fuel filling station at fairies cross in Tralee. Thankfully nobody got injured and the friendly Gardaí took care of the traffic and the people passing by while the loose ceiling was getting fixed. The picture was taken less than fifteen minutes before writing this post and the storm is still roaring outside…