{"id":289526,"date":"2026-02-09T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289526\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:43:11","slug":"ms-finally-gets-a-foothold-in-kerry-capital-20-years-after-controversy-rocked-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289526\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S finally gets a foothold in Kerry capital, 20 years after controversy rocked the town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As Marks and Spencer products are soon to be sold in Tralee, we take a look back almost two decades ago and a controversy that divided a town\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Works are currently taking place in Applegreen in Manor West where M&amp;S are to be located. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/36b633cd-6fc2-4d9a-9aec-30353538b5e2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Works are currently taking place in Applegreen in Manor West where M&amp;S are to be located. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The UK retailer Marks and Spencer (M&amp;S) is coming to Tralee, with plans to open a small food store next to Manor West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Works are currently taking place at the Applegreen Tralee Manor Service Station to accommodate the new shop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Marks and Spencer products are soon to be sold in Tralee, we take a look back almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4256],"class_list":["post-289526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kelleher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}