The Tralee Blog

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…

It’s the quiet time of the year, so there is not so much to write about Tralee right now. But the town is not sleeping, a lot of work is currently been done to prepare all for the next tourist season. Some pictures:

People visiting The Square in the redeveloped town centre of Tralee have always been delighted with the great lighting installation, which (up to last week) consisted of blue airport-like “taxiway” lights embedded in the ground and standard street lights which were fixed to the walls of the adjacent buildings. While the former stays unchanged, the standard light bulbs for the street lighting had to go and where replaced with newly developed, low energy LED-lights.  [»]