As the first St. Mary’s Basketball Club Blitz was held in the Astor Ballroom / Cinema in 1970, for this year’s ‘Blitz Programme’ Colm Kirwan thought it appropriate to look at the business life of Castleisland in the course of that year. Colm looked at how the town and surrounding areas and parishes were serviced… Read more…
In the course of my fairly frequent forays into the archives I find pictures that I’d forgotten I’d taken and I save them out of their folders for use at some time or other. This is one of them. It’s from the Castleisland Desmonds Family Fun Day from the summer of 2005. and the boys… Read more…
The Kerry Diocesan Youth Service (KDYS) in partnership with the Castleisland Garda Siochana ran their annual soccer tournament at Castleisland Soccer Field, Limerick Road on Wednesday 6th. and Thursday 7th. of July. The event was a great success, with 10 teams and around 80 players taking part. This year there were three boys’ categories: Primary… Read more…
Castleisland AFC has enjoyed some great days at the home of Kerry soccer in Mounthawk Park in recent years. Yesterday wasn’t one of them. The replay of the Greyhound Bar KO Cup Final between the Islanders B side and Killarney Celtic kicked off at 3-30pm. In conditions completely opposite to those which the drawn encounter… Read more…
As the KDYS / Garda Soccer Town League is about to kick-off at Limerick Road this Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm, comes the great news that a former league winning captain and player has just signed a professional contract with a cross-channel club. Ipswich Town FC signed six of their most promising young players… Read more…
The final of the 2016 Greyhound Bar KO Cup between Castleisland AFC B and Killarney Celtic was held on the magnificent, all weather surface at KDL headquarters at Mounthawk Park last evening. The kick-off was at 7-15pm and the duration of the game enjoyed the kind of sunshine we should have a right to expect… Read more…
Castleisland AFC B team will play Killarney Celtic in the final of Kerry’s biggest cup competition this Saturday evening at the KDL grounds at Mounthawk, Tralee at 7.15pm. “This is a massive achievement for the boys to make the final as a ‘B team. Their path to the final is strewn with some of the… Read more…
As the first St. Mary’s Basketball Club Blitz was held in the Astor Ballroom / Cinema in 1970, for this year’s ‘Blitz Programme’ Colm Kirwan thought it appropriate to look at the business life of Castleisland in the course of that year. Colm looked at how the town and surrounding areas and parishes were serviced… Read more…
In the course of my fairly frequent forays into the archives I find pictures that I’d forgotten I’d taken and I save them out of their folders for use at some time or other. This is one of them. It’s from the Castleisland Desmonds Family Fun Day from the summer of 2005. and the boys… Read more…
The Kerry Diocesan Youth Service (KDYS) in partnership with the Castleisland Garda Siochana ran their annual soccer tournament at Castleisland Soccer Field, Limerick Road on Wednesday 6th. and Thursday 7th. of July. The event was a great success, with 10 teams and around 80 players taking part. This year there were three boys’ categories: Primary… Read more…
Castleisland AFC has enjoyed some great days at the home of Kerry soccer in Mounthawk Park in recent years. Yesterday wasn’t one of them. The replay of the Greyhound Bar KO Cup Final between the Islanders B side and Killarney Celtic kicked off at 3-30pm. In conditions completely opposite to those which the drawn encounter… Read more…
As the KDYS / Garda Soccer Town League is about to kick-off at Limerick Road this Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm, comes the great news that a former league winning captain and player has just signed a professional contract with a cross-channel club. Ipswich Town FC signed six of their most promising young players… Read more…
The final of the 2016 Greyhound Bar KO Cup between Castleisland AFC B and Killarney Celtic was held on the magnificent, all weather surface at KDL headquarters at Mounthawk Park last evening. The kick-off was at 7-15pm and the duration of the game enjoyed the kind of sunshine we should have a right to expect… Read more…
Castleisland AFC B team will play Killarney Celtic in the final of Kerry’s biggest cup competition this Saturday evening at the KDL grounds at Mounthawk, Tralee at 7.15pm. “This is a massive achievement for the boys to make the final as a ‘B team. Their path to the final is strewn with some of the… Read more…
