Category Archives: Ballyheigue

Honda Run Turns its Attention to Castleisland Day Care Centre

Honda Run Turns its Attention to Castleisland Day Care Centre

The counting of registration fees, donations and subscriptions is still ongoing in the wake of Sunday’s eighth annual Honda Bike Run and a cheque presentation night will be arranged as soon as that’s all in. On a showery Sunday morning just after 11am up to 80 bikes of all makes, shapes and sizes and up… Read more…

Seán O’Sullivan Sweeps to Victory as An Ríocht 5K Reaches Finale

Seán O’Sullivan Sweeps to Victory as An Ríocht 5K Reaches Finale

The third in the series of three 5K road races / fun runs organised by An Riocht AC was held on Wednesday evening from 7pm. A busy registration room at headquarters signaled that the numbers facing the starter would be well past the 100 mark as the others had done on the previous two Wednesday… Read more…

O’Brien V O’Sullivan Showdown Likely in An Ríocht 5K Decider

O’Brien V O’Sullivan Showdown Likely in An Ríocht 5K Decider

It was another evening on which the weather held fine enough to see the athletes and fun runners through and home from the second of the trinity of 5K road races hosted by An Ríocht AC. on Wednesday night. Intriguingly, the first five home on Wednesday night’s installment matched that of the first leg on… Read more…

An Riocht AC / Lee Strand 10 Miler and 5k Road Run

An Riocht AC / Lee Strand 10 Miler and 5k Road Run

The streets and roads of Castleisland will be the focus for athletes on this Sunday morning as the fifth annual An Ríocht AC / Lee-Strand sponsored ‘Kingdom Come 10 Mile and 5k Road Race’ will be held here at 11am. Registration will open at An Riocht AC Clubhouse from 9pm. The event is set to… Read more…

Healy Rae Chairs Meeting as Government Effort Continues

Healy Rae Chairs Meeting as Government Effort Continues

A message from Kerry Deputy Michael Healy Rae this evening points out the fact that he’s glad to have organised and chaired a meeting that was held in Dublin earlier today. The meeting, of all the Independent TDs in Agriculture House, agreed a policy position on today’s proceedings in Dail Eireann. Deputy Healy Rae said… Read more…

Kerry Motor Insurance Costs Up By 40% – Ferris.

Kerry Motor Insurance Costs Up By 40% – Ferris.

Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has strongly criticised both the insurance industry and the last Government following reports from Kerry motorists that insurance premiums have risen by as much as 40 per cent in twelve months. Recent figures released from the CSO’s Consumer Price Index for the past twelve months show a 30.5% increase in the average cost of car insurance in 2015… Read more…

New Book Charts Castleisland’s and Kerry’s Pivotal Roles in the 1916 Rising

New Book Charts Castleisland’s and Kerry’s Pivotal Roles in the 1916 Rising

Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising – A Centenary Record. Edited by Bridget McAuliffe, Dr Mary McAuliffe, Owen O’Shea. ‘Absorbing … important … significant’ (Professor Joe Lee) How key incidents in Kerry impacted on events in Dublin and beyond. Stories of almost 150 Kerry men and women arrested for their involvement. New… Read more…

Do You Have a Telifís Feirme Certificate from 1965 / 67

Do You Have a Telifís Feirme Certificate from 1965 / 67

The always excellent, Saturday morning RTÉ Radio One, CountryWide put out a request, this morning, for memorabilia from a groundbreaking agri/educational programme which was presented by the late Justin Keating. Telifís Feirme was the title of the programme and on this morning’s CountryWide, presenter Damien O’Reilly asked people who followed the series if they had… Read more…

New Business Flowing Through Irish Host Family Initiative

New Business Flowing Through Irish Host Family Initiative

Few natives ever give Castleisland and its environs the kind of credit it gets from the director of a rapidly growing and innovative business which she founded and based here. Antoinette Butler is a native of the deeply historic county of Waterford and she’s the director of Irish Host Family.ie. This is a fast-growing Castleisland-based… Read more…

The late Mossie Reidy, Cordal West, Castleisland

The late Mossie Reidy, Cordal West, Castleisland

Maurice (Mossie) Reidy, (65) Cordal West, Castleisland Co Kerry, April 6th 2016 at University Hospital Kerry. Beloved brother of Joan, Mary, Sonny, Norrie, Neily, Tess, Timmy, Eileen, John and the late Kitty. Sadly missed by his loving family, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends. Moss worked in the building trade locally for most of… Read more…

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Category Archives: Ballyheigue

Honda Run Turns its Attention to Castleisland Day Care Centre

Honda Run Turns its Attention to Castleisland Day Care Centre

The counting of registration fees, donations and subscriptions is still ongoing in the wake of Sunday’s eighth annual Honda Bike Run and a cheque presentation night will be arranged as soon as that’s all in. On a showery Sunday morning just after 11am up to 80 bikes of all makes, shapes and sizes and up… Read more…

Seán O’Sullivan Sweeps to Victory as An Ríocht 5K Reaches Finale

Seán O’Sullivan Sweeps to Victory as An Ríocht 5K Reaches Finale

The third in the series of three 5K road races / fun runs organised by An Riocht AC was held on Wednesday evening from 7pm. A busy registration room at headquarters signaled that the numbers facing the starter would be well past the 100 mark as the others had done on the previous two Wednesday… Read more…

O’Brien V O’Sullivan Showdown Likely in An Ríocht 5K Decider

O’Brien V O’Sullivan Showdown Likely in An Ríocht 5K Decider

It was another evening on which the weather held fine enough to see the athletes and fun runners through and home from the second of the trinity of 5K road races hosted by An Ríocht AC. on Wednesday night. Intriguingly, the first five home on Wednesday night’s installment matched that of the first leg on… Read more…

An Riocht AC / Lee Strand 10 Miler and 5k Road Run

An Riocht AC / Lee Strand 10 Miler and 5k Road Run

The streets and roads of Castleisland will be the focus for athletes on this Sunday morning as the fifth annual An Ríocht AC / Lee-Strand sponsored ‘Kingdom Come 10 Mile and 5k Road Race’ will be held here at 11am. Registration will open at An Riocht AC Clubhouse from 9pm. The event is set to… Read more…

Healy Rae Chairs Meeting as Government Effort Continues

Healy Rae Chairs Meeting as Government Effort Continues

A message from Kerry Deputy Michael Healy Rae this evening points out the fact that he’s glad to have organised and chaired a meeting that was held in Dublin earlier today. The meeting, of all the Independent TDs in Agriculture House, agreed a policy position on today’s proceedings in Dail Eireann. Deputy Healy Rae said… Read more…

Kerry Motor Insurance Costs Up By 40% – Ferris.

Kerry Motor Insurance Costs Up By 40% – Ferris.

Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has strongly criticised both the insurance industry and the last Government following reports from Kerry motorists that insurance premiums have risen by as much as 40 per cent in twelve months. Recent figures released from the CSO’s Consumer Price Index for the past twelve months show a 30.5% increase in the average cost of car insurance in 2015… Read more…

New Book Charts Castleisland’s and Kerry’s Pivotal Roles in the 1916 Rising

New Book Charts Castleisland’s and Kerry’s Pivotal Roles in the 1916 Rising

Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising – A Centenary Record. Edited by Bridget McAuliffe, Dr Mary McAuliffe, Owen O’Shea. ‘Absorbing … important … significant’ (Professor Joe Lee) How key incidents in Kerry impacted on events in Dublin and beyond. Stories of almost 150 Kerry men and women arrested for their involvement. New… Read more…

Do You Have a Telifís Feirme Certificate from 1965 / 67

Do You Have a Telifís Feirme Certificate from 1965 / 67

The always excellent, Saturday morning RTÉ Radio One, CountryWide put out a request, this morning, for memorabilia from a groundbreaking agri/educational programme which was presented by the late Justin Keating. Telifís Feirme was the title of the programme and on this morning’s CountryWide, presenter Damien O’Reilly asked people who followed the series if they had… Read more…

New Business Flowing Through Irish Host Family Initiative

New Business Flowing Through Irish Host Family Initiative

Few natives ever give Castleisland and its environs the kind of credit it gets from the director of a rapidly growing and innovative business which she founded and based here. Antoinette Butler is a native of the deeply historic county of Waterford and she’s the director of Irish Host Family.ie. This is a fast-growing Castleisland-based… Read more…

The late Mossie Reidy, Cordal West, Castleisland

The late Mossie Reidy, Cordal West, Castleisland

Maurice (Mossie) Reidy, (65) Cordal West, Castleisland Co Kerry, April 6th 2016 at University Hospital Kerry. Beloved brother of Joan, Mary, Sonny, Norrie, Neily, Tess, Timmy, Eileen, John and the late Kitty. Sadly missed by his loving family, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends. Moss worked in the building trade locally for most of… Read more…

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