Category Archives: Gneeveguilla

A Collection of Newsy Bits from Around The Maine Valley

A Collection of Newsy Bits from Around The Maine Valley

St. Bridget’s U-12s  are County League Champions St. Bridget’s U-12 Basketball team from Currow, winners of the Kerry Division 3 County League title. They were presented with their medals at the Kerry Basketball Board Awards night at the Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. Front from left: Julia Curtin, Clodagh Coffey, Ciara Casey, Cara Fleming, Mia Key and… Read more…

Rural Post Offices Under New Threat Following ‘Social Protection Letter’ – Healy Rae

Rural Post Offices Under New Threat Following ‘Social Protection Letter’ – Healy Rae

A new attack on the future of the community Post Office in rural areas may be the catalyst in Deputy Michael Healy Rae’s decision to support any new government formation. Deputy Healy-Rae, while issuing a statement on his own behalf,  may withhold support for any new government unless Electronic Fund Transfer letter is withdrawn. We… Read more…

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros Invite Votes for Local Sports Stars

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros Invite Votes for Local Sports Stars

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros have just issued invitations to listeners to vote for their Kerry Sports Star of the Month. Radio Kerry launched the Kerry Sports Awards in 2014 with the support of sponsor Randles Bros, main Nissan dealers for Kerry located at Manor West, Tralee and Muckross Road, Killarney. A New Departure Up… Read more…

Kerry Joint Policing Committee agrees Six-Year-Strategy

Kerry Joint Policing Committee agrees Six-Year-Strategy

The Kerry Joint Policing Committee met this week to agree its Annual Plan for 2016 as well as a Six Year Strategy for the committee for the years ahead. The JPC is a forum for consultations, recommendations and discussions on matters affecting policing of the Kerry Division of An Garda Síochána. The meeting this week… Read more…

The Longest Day is on Saturday June 18th

The Longest Day is on Saturday June 18th

Great local events which are having a ripple effect on the wider charity communities don’t just happen. They are planned meticulously and for months in advance. The Longest Day Committee has been doing just that since the last one finished in June 2015. On Monday evening they launched their fully hatched plans with the date… Read more…

The Ivy Leaf Bell is Returned in Five Pieces – More Still Missing

The Ivy Leaf Bell is Returned in Five Pieces – More Still Missing

The Ivy Leaf Bell in five pieces. That might sound like the title of a musical composition. It is, in fact, the brutal reality and remainder of the bell stolen at the end of July 2012 from the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland. The remains of the bell, which dates back to the… Read more…

John’s Characters of Castleisland from the Early 1980s

John’s Characters of Castleisland from the Early 1980s

I have been asked, enough times to make me curious, about photographs of people in various situations around the town from the early 1980s. I explained to people that I didn’t start taking photographs like that until well into 1982. Then it was explained to me that people were hearing that there were photographs of… Read more…

Local GAA Clubs Preparing for June and Féile Peile na nÓg

Local GAA Clubs Preparing for June and Féile Peile na nÓg

Féile na nÓg is a GAA club festival for Gaelic football and Ladies Gaelic football at Under 14 level and it involves teams from across the world-wide reach of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The Féile na nGael National tournaments will be held in Kerry, West Limerick and West Cork on the weekend of 24th –… Read more…

Kerry U-16A Ladies Cruise Past Cork with Polished Display

Kerry U-16A Ladies Cruise Past Cork with Polished Display

All-Ireland champions Kerry remain on course to make it two-in-a-row following an emphatic 12-points victory over rivals Cork in the first round of the Munster Under 16 A Ladies Championship played in Castleisland today. The final score was 3-10 to 0-7 in Kerry’s favour but, really, it could have been more as this Kerry side… Read more…

Milltown Castlemaine GAA Club News

Milltown Castlemaine GAA Club News

Compiled by Deirdre O’Sullivan U-16 : Our U16 team went down to Churchill by a single point, in Churchill, on Thursday evening last- on a score line of 2-10 to 2-11. It was a difficult loss to take, as a last minute goal by the opposition was the difference in the end. It was their first outing… Read more…

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Category Archives: Gneeveguilla

A Collection of Newsy Bits from Around The Maine Valley

A Collection of Newsy Bits from Around The Maine Valley

St. Bridget’s U-12s  are County League Champions St. Bridget’s U-12 Basketball team from Currow, winners of the Kerry Division 3 County League title. They were presented with their medals at the Kerry Basketball Board Awards night at the Kingdom Greyhound Stadium. Front from left: Julia Curtin, Clodagh Coffey, Ciara Casey, Cara Fleming, Mia Key and… Read more…

Rural Post Offices Under New Threat Following ‘Social Protection Letter’ – Healy Rae

Rural Post Offices Under New Threat Following ‘Social Protection Letter’ – Healy Rae

A new attack on the future of the community Post Office in rural areas may be the catalyst in Deputy Michael Healy Rae’s decision to support any new government formation. Deputy Healy-Rae, while issuing a statement on his own behalf,  may withhold support for any new government unless Electronic Fund Transfer letter is withdrawn. We… Read more…

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros Invite Votes for Local Sports Stars

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros Invite Votes for Local Sports Stars

Radio Kerry and Randles Bros have just issued invitations to listeners to vote for their Kerry Sports Star of the Month. Radio Kerry launched the Kerry Sports Awards in 2014 with the support of sponsor Randles Bros, main Nissan dealers for Kerry located at Manor West, Tralee and Muckross Road, Killarney. A New Departure Up… Read more…

Kerry Joint Policing Committee agrees Six-Year-Strategy

Kerry Joint Policing Committee agrees Six-Year-Strategy

The Kerry Joint Policing Committee met this week to agree its Annual Plan for 2016 as well as a Six Year Strategy for the committee for the years ahead. The JPC is a forum for consultations, recommendations and discussions on matters affecting policing of the Kerry Division of An Garda Síochána. The meeting this week… Read more…

The Longest Day is on Saturday June 18th

The Longest Day is on Saturday June 18th

Great local events which are having a ripple effect on the wider charity communities don’t just happen. They are planned meticulously and for months in advance. The Longest Day Committee has been doing just that since the last one finished in June 2015. On Monday evening they launched their fully hatched plans with the date… Read more…

The Ivy Leaf Bell is Returned in Five Pieces – More Still Missing

The Ivy Leaf Bell is Returned in Five Pieces – More Still Missing

The Ivy Leaf Bell in five pieces. That might sound like the title of a musical composition. It is, in fact, the brutal reality and remainder of the bell stolen at the end of July 2012 from the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland. The remains of the bell, which dates back to the… Read more…

John’s Characters of Castleisland from the Early 1980s

John’s Characters of Castleisland from the Early 1980s

I have been asked, enough times to make me curious, about photographs of people in various situations around the town from the early 1980s. I explained to people that I didn’t start taking photographs like that until well into 1982. Then it was explained to me that people were hearing that there were photographs of… Read more…

Local GAA Clubs Preparing for June and Féile Peile na nÓg

Local GAA Clubs Preparing for June and Féile Peile na nÓg

Féile na nÓg is a GAA club festival for Gaelic football and Ladies Gaelic football at Under 14 level and it involves teams from across the world-wide reach of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The Féile na nGael National tournaments will be held in Kerry, West Limerick and West Cork on the weekend of 24th –… Read more…

Kerry U-16A Ladies Cruise Past Cork with Polished Display

Kerry U-16A Ladies Cruise Past Cork with Polished Display

All-Ireland champions Kerry remain on course to make it two-in-a-row following an emphatic 12-points victory over rivals Cork in the first round of the Munster Under 16 A Ladies Championship played in Castleisland today. The final score was 3-10 to 0-7 in Kerry’s favour but, really, it could have been more as this Kerry side… Read more…

Milltown Castlemaine GAA Club News

Milltown Castlemaine GAA Club News

Compiled by Deirdre O’Sullivan U-16 : Our U16 team went down to Churchill by a single point, in Churchill, on Thursday evening last- on a score line of 2-10 to 2-11. It was a difficult loss to take, as a last minute goal by the opposition was the difference in the end. It was their first outing… Read more…

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