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THE €1.4 million Baile Mhuire Day Care Centre for the elderly has been officially opened in Balloonagh, Tralee by the Director General of the Health Service Executive, Tony O’Brien. Employing 16 people, the facility opened its doors last April and it now provides a full range of care to the elderly four days a week.…

THE Rose of Tralee, Maria Walsh, has welcomed the positive feedback and commentary in the media following the publication of the story in the Sun on Sunday in which she said that she’s been openly gay for the past two years. She particularly welcomed the remark on the Marian Finucane Show on RTE Radio 1…

THE 2014 Rose of Tralee is Maria Walsh, representing Philadelphia, after RTÉ’s Dáithí Ó Sé announced the outcome in front of nearly one million television viewers and an audience of 2000 people in the Festival Dome last night. Maria Walsh (27) is the first Philadelphia Rose to take the title and she was presented with…

A qualified aircraft maintenance technician who works as an electrician/linesman is the 2014 Newbridge Silverware Escort of the Year at the Rose of Tralee International Festival. Top gun Conor Walsh, a farmer’s son from Cappamore, Limerick and Escort to the North Carolina Rose, Nancy Boyce, was the main man according to a vote taken by…