The great Arnold Palmer once remarked, “I have never come across a piece of land so ideally suited for the building of a golf course.” He was speaking of what would become Tralee Golf Club—his only ...

The late Seán Mac Mathúna (89) lived out his life in Dun Laoghaire in County Dublin but a part of his creative consciousness is forever associated with his native Tralee where he was born in 1936.

High-pitched squeals and nervous laughter echo along the corridors of the Brandon Hotel in Tralee. Peeping surreptitiously into open bedrooms, I see gaggles of giggling girls. "Does my make-up look ...