Tralee thread

Milltown & Cahirsiveen are two I know of where you only pay for rubbish. All other recycling is free. You have to buy the bags for paper recycling though.

Edit: just see on kerry coco website they are referred to as transfer stations. Google will take you there.

Adiboo wrote: »

Where is the recycling centre? The KerryCoCo website doesn't seem to have an address for it.

http://atomik.kerrycoco.ie/map_pages/map_transfer_stationsv3.htm

It's in Milltown.

Is there anywhere in Tralee to get rid of electronic waste? Rather than going to Milltown or Killarney?

Hi all. Just moved to Tralee with my wife and our 7.5 month old son this week. We found a great place to live right in the centre of town. I am a professional musician in the midst of a career change and my wife is a school teacher. She is Canadian (I have CAN/UK citizenship), so she can't work until I am exersising my EU treaty rights, namely by working at least part time.

So far Tralee has been great to us. We like it a lot. It has been fairly easy to get things done. We got our flat, applied for and are awaiting our PPS numbers, bank account details, we got a family doctor, library cards, etc all within a matter of days.

Although we haven't ruled out wanting to stay in Tralee for the long term, we're mainly here in Ireland trying to fulfill a sort of convoluted UK immigration process. Since there is a lot of teaching work in the UK, we've been thinking about moving to Scotland. However, since we have a dependent, we do not meet the criteria for obtaining Canadian visas to the UK. So we are trying to apply for a family permit. In their moves to crack down on net migration, the U.K. has made it very difficult for the non EEA spouses of UK citizens to obtain treaty rights. Much more difficult than most other EU countries. So we are doing what is known as the Surinder Singh route, which entails moving your centre of life to somewhere within the EU (but outside of the U.K.) for at least three months. Once we can prove that we've integrated and I've exercised my treaty rights, we can apply for the family permit that will grant my wife similar rights to a UK citizen. Crazy, isn't it?!

Anyway that's what we're doing here, apart from the fact that we love Irish people, we play trad music and Tralee was the easiest and most affordable area to find a place to live in all of Ireland.

Now I need to find at least 12hrs of work a week. I am going to teach as well, and have one student interested already, but it's been a little slow on that front. Despite that though, being self employed might make the most sense this time of year here.

In any case, just thought I'd introduce myself. Today we find ourselves looking for entertainment out of the house for our little fella. Any ideas are welcome! I know while we were in Ennis there was an indoor play place that was good fun. Anything like that here?

Cheers.

Which bus is it that stops at Manor West?

Pink Fairy wrote: »

Depends on what you need really.
There is an outdoor play area in the town park, but out of the question these days weatherwise.
You have bowling buddies and Playdium over in the manor area, with the latter being more suited to younger children.
If you need to eat Yummy cafe in the town centre are child friendly

Thanks very much. We found Yummy by mistake the first time we came to Tralee and it probably even influenced our decision to move here haha. Google says it would take 35 minutes to walk to Playdium. I haven't seen a bus here yet. Are there buses in Tralee?

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

There is a Tralee Town bus, which does go up as far as Manor shopping centre, which is very close to the Playdium. I don't know what their hours are or if they run on Sundays. It stops outside Heaton's in the Mall and also in the carpark outside Tesco's in the town centre. Not sure of what the other stops are. They don't seem to have a Facebook page or website, which would be handy!

Welcome to Tralee by the way! Have you taken the family to the Aqua Dome? There's also a lovely cafe in Ballyseedy garden centre, which has an little indoor play area for very small kids and an outdoor one too.

Thanks again! Pretty haply about our move already. We're from the east coast of Canada, so geographically speaking, we are closer to "home" now than we would be if we were on the other side of Canada. Cape Breton (where we're from) is the only Gaeltacht in North America, so there's been a sort of sense of belonging even since before I first came here. It's pretty evident that the people here and at home are cut from the same cloth.

We plan on going to the aqua dome for sure yeah. We don't have wheels just yet though, so I don't know if we'd be able to make it to Ballyseedy until a bit later on. We'll see if all this CV dropping will result in a job for me, then we can think about cars!

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

I've a lot of family spread out around Canada! I've been there twice, love it there! I was mainly only in the Onatario area though.

Best of luck with the job search. What sort of work are you looking for?

That's awesome! Yeah, Canada is easy to love!

I'm looking for almost any kind of work. Preferably part-time so I can teach and still spend a lot of time with my son. Even a couple hours a day somewhere. I dropped CVs off at a few stores, book shop, men's clothing places etc but I've done just about everything in the book from landscaping to driving limo to research projects haha

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

Anyone having speed issues with kerry broadband. Getting ping of 300ms and a download speed of 0.02mbs

Just did a test,normal enough for night time

Ping: 63ms

Download: 5mbps

Upload: 4mbps

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

No idea so. Plugged out everything for 10 mins and still getting insane speeds.

The wind might have affected your Broadband dish,could have being thrown off line a bit

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

I was thinking that alright. I'll give them a ring tomorrow and see. That is if they answer 😯

I usually contact them with the customer portal on the website,I found its the best way to contact them.

Include your customer ID and they should reply to you fairly sharpish