Tour de Ballyfinnane 2024 Organisers Announce Saturday April 13th as Event Date

Tour de Ballyfinnane 2024 Organisers Announce Saturday April 13th as Event Date

Our neighbours back along the River Maine held the official launch of their Tour de Ballyfinnane community fundraiser between showers on Saturday morning. The ever obliging Brendan Griffin TD was on hand again to help with the launch of the cycle which will hit the roads of the area on Saturday, April 13th . This…

Carry Camán Team Wins Junior Title in Student Enterprise for The Pres

Carry Camán Team Wins Junior Title in Student Enterprise for The Pres

The Carry Camán team, made up of first year students from Presentation Secondary School in Castleisland, won first place in the Junior Category of the Student Enterprise programme at the county final held in the MTU on 15 March 15th. The team of Marguerite Herlihy, Clodagh Buckley, Lucy Matassa and Seána Walsh have set up…

River Island Hotel and Cordal Community Resource Centre Cards Results

River Island Hotel and Cordal Community Resource Centre Cards Results

River Island Hotel Cards Results The following are the results from the card games at the River Island Hotel on Sunday night. First: Jerry O’Connell and Charlie Farrelly, Con O’Sullivan and Willie Woulfe. Second: Margaret Downeyand Gabe O’Sullivan. Ladies: Tess Brosnan and Rita McCarthy. Gents. Dan and Con Donovan. Mixed: Margaret O’Connor and John O”Connell.…

Greetings to Brosna Citizens and Connections Across the Globe

Greetings to Brosna Citizens and Connections Across the Globe

Easter Greetings Sending warmest wishes to all our Brosna citizens and connections across the globe. Easter has arrived hot on the heels of our St Patrick’s Day celebrations, gifting even more bank holidays and school breaks. The weather might be going through a bit of an identity crisis at present with hail, rain and sunshine…

International Cycling Coming to Currow, Castleisland, Brosna and Knocknagoshel on Good Friday

International Cycling Coming to Currow, Castleisland, Brosna and Knocknagoshel on Good Friday

The Dornan RÁS Mumhan Cycle Race and its cyclists, teams, officials and spectators are all on their way to Kerry for the annual prestigious event which will again take place at Easter time this year. The action begins on Good Friday where it will be based in the greater Castleisland area for the day. For…

Castleisland Parish Holy Week Ceremonies 2024

Castleisland Parish Holy Week Ceremonies 2024

The following is the programme of ceremonies for Holy Week in the Castleisland area provided by the parish office. Holy Thursday On Holy Thursday, March 28th. 2024 at Castleisland Parish Church at 8pm the Mass of the Last Supper. As a parish we commemorate the Last Supper at which Jesus celebrated the First Mass and…

Currow’s Michael Cahill Collects Second Split Winnings as €725 Goes to Brosna

Currow’s Michael Cahill Collects Second Split Winnings as €725 Goes to Brosna

Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket winner, Michael Cahill from Currow collected his winnings of €718 from Tom McCarthy at The Central Bar. It was Michael’s second time winning the Split the Bucket draw and he won in its early days. As host, Tom McCarthy, did the honours and picked out this week’s winner …

Bóthar Launches Easter 2024 Fundraising Campaign for Palestine

Bóthar Launches Easter 2024 Fundraising Campaign for Palestine

The Irish charity Bóthar CLG has launched its Easter 2024 fundraising campaign for Palestine and Shane McAuliffe makes us aware of the initiative. Speaking at the launch, Ailish O’Reilly, CEO of Bóthar, said that it’s almost beyond our understanding that four-fifths of all starving people the world are in Gaza, in an area the size…

Comfy Clothes Day in Scart Raises €500 for Hospice Foundation

Comfy Clothes Day in Scart Raises €500 for Hospice Foundation

Scartaglen National School Student Council organised a Comfy Clothes Day in aid of Kerry Hospice Foundation. There was a fantastic response with €500 being collected by the students and there was great excitement on the day with the students wearing a wide selection of their comfy clothes. From crocs to slippers and robes to hats…

Enquiry on Abbeyfeale Family Reunion from Dallas, Texas Based Hartnetts

Enquiry on Abbeyfeale Family Reunion from Dallas, Texas Based Hartnetts

A letter from America. If there’s anyone out who can provide the Dallas, Texas based Mr. Hartnett with a bit of certainty on his question it would be great – or awesome – as he said in his note which goes as follows: My family came across a posting on the Hartnett Family Reunion from…

Deputy Danny Brings All that Ails Us to the Floor of Dáil Éireann

Deputy Danny Brings All that Ails Us to the Floor of Dáil Éireann

In Dáil Éireann this week, Deputy Danny Healy Rae raised the issue of spiralling, commercial rate increases with the coming on stream of the new valuation figures since the beginning of the year. Commercial properties in Kerry have become exposed to a massive increase in rates in many instances. “The demands received in recent days…

An Ríocht AC 50/50 Draw €500 Win for Jamie at Browne’s

An Ríocht AC 50/50 Draw €500 Win for Jamie at Browne’s

An Ríocht Athletic Club’s 50/50 fundraising draw took place at Browne’s Agri, Home and Builders Merchants on Friday. Last weeks winner of €510 Jerry Lenihan wasn’t available to collect his cheque. Barbara Browne from Brosna representing Browne’s Hardware drew out the winning ticket and Jamie Maunsell from Castleisland won €500. This week’s draw will be…

Walking Back to Happiness with Desmonds LGFA and JIGSAW on Saturday

Walking Back to Happiness with Desmonds LGFA and JIGSAW on Saturday

Castleisland Desmonds LGFA and JIGSAW Kerry are joining their considerable forces here in on this Saturday, March 23rd. at 12.30 with a walk from the Desmonds club-house preceded by a talk on well-being by Dr Ailish Brosnan. Anyone who would like to take part is welcome and there will be refreshments afterwards. “This is because…

Kerry and West Limerick Credit Unions sponsor Kerry LGFA Donal Curtin Cup

Kerry and West Limerick Credit Unions sponsor Kerry LGFA Donal Curtin Cup

Kerry LGFA are delighted to announce that Kerry and West Limerick Credit Unions have come on board as sponsors of the Donal Curtin Cup. The Credit Union Donal Curtin Cup will see 33 clubs from across the county compete in over 200games over five divisions commencing on Sunday March 24th. Nora Fealy, Chairperson of Kerry…

Creating Photobooks with Day Care Centre Clients – A Heartwarming Journey

Creating Photobooks with Day Care Centre Clients – A Heartwarming Journey

A project which has been described as ‘a heartwarming journey’ reached its ultimate destination at St. John Hall, Presentation Secondary School, Castleisland recently. There, the school’s transition year class of 2023 and the clients of the local day care centre gathered to celebrate the culmination of a very worthwhile project called This is My Life.…

Moloney’s Cake Shop a Lucky Split The Bucket Venue for O’Connells of Scart

Moloney’s Cake Shop a Lucky Split The Bucket Venue for O’Connells of Scart

Last week’s Castleisland RFC Split the Bucket winner, Aisling O’Connell collected her €705 winnings from Margaret at Moloney’s Cake Shop. Aisling’s mom Maura is a previous winner and she also collected her winnings at a draw in Moloney’s. After the presentation, Margaret picked out this week’s, on-line winner Michael Cahill from Currow for €718. The…

Cordal Community Resource Centre and River Island Hotel Cards Results

Cordal Community Resource Centre and River Island Hotel Cards Results

Cordal Community Resource Centre Cards Results The following are the results from the card game at Cordal Community Resource Centre on Wednesday night. First: Patrick O’Donoghue and Mike Leahy, Andy O’Connor and James Dignan, Mike and Jimmy Kearney. Ladies: Noreen Reidy and Helen O’Callaghan. Gents: Jerry O’Donoghue and Tom Brennan. Mixed: Maria O’Connor and Dan…

Three Kerry Enterprise Awards for Castleisland Community College Students

Three Kerry Enterprise Awards for Castleisland Community College Students

The county finals of the Kerry Student Enterprise Awards took place in MTU, Tralee on Friday and students from Castleisland Community College brought three prestigious awards. Ellie Horgan, Rachel Horgan and Bláithín Rahilly won the intermediate category and Duais na Gaeilge. They were interviewed as Gaeilge to receive the Duais na Gaeilge Award. The three…

The Late Kenneth Brunt, London and Coom, Cordal, Co. Kerry

The Late Kenneth Brunt, London and Coom, Cordal, Co. Kerry

The death has occurred of Kenneth Brunt, Coom, Cordal, Castleisland, Co. Kerry and formerly of London U.K. Peacefully at University Hospital Kerry on March 12th 2024 in his 91st year. Predeceased by his wife Margaret, nee Reidy. Sadly missed by his loving daughter Jackie, son David, son-in-law Neil, daughter-in-law Carol, his adored grandchildren and cherished…

Ballymac Drama Group Back on the Ivy Leaf Boards this Weekend

Ballymac Drama Group Back on the Ivy Leaf Boards this Weekend

Ballymacelligott Drama Group is returning to the Ivy Leaf Art Centre with a performance of Cupid Wore Skirts – a three-act comedy by Sam Cree. After a very successful run last year at the same venue, rehearsals are in the final stages for this year’s performance. This year sees the return of previous members along…

St. Patrick’s Day Crowds Up There with the Best of Them

St. Patrick’s Day Crowds Up There with the Best of Them

A general consensus took on a definable form as soon as the crowds began to gather on St. Patrick’s Day in Castleisland and it hardened into the indisputable fact that we were witnessing one of the biggest days for years and one of the great days for the town. Yes and No voters mixed with…

Hospice Branch Preparing for annual Good Friday Morning Charity Walk

Hospice Branch Preparing for annual Good Friday Morning Charity Walk

The Castleisland branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation is preparing for its annual Good Friday walk. The walk will, as it has in recent years, commence and finish at the library car park b eside the entrance to the library and civic offices. Walkers are asked to gather in the library car park near the…

Sadness and Shock in Castleisland as Nana Bea’s Announces Closure

Sadness and Shock in Castleisland as Nana Bea’s Announces Closure

After the euphoria of yesterday’s record-breaking St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Castleisland comes the saddening and shocking news that one of the town’s leading, pioneering and respected family businesses, Nana Bea’s Restaurant is to close its doors permanently today. The alarming announcement that yet another local business is to close its doors in the town…

Caring for Well-being Course on Offer at Castleisland Family Resource Centre

Caring for Well-being Course on Offer at Castleisland Family Resource Centre

The Social and Health Education Project (SHEP) Caring for our Well-being course is being offered at Castleisland Family Resource Centre (FRC) starting on Wednesday, April 10th. from 7pm to 9:30pm and will run for eight weeks. This is a short course run over eight weeks, which uses an experiential group work approach and will take…

A Celebration of Spring in Music and Song for Castleisland Day Care Centre

A Celebration of Spring in Music and Song for Castleisland Day Care Centre

Kerry Choral Union will present a Celebration of Spring concert with guests: the German Plucked String Orchestra Differter Saitenspielkreis and Ailish Walsh and the choirs of Presentation Castleisland Secondary School and the Castleisland community. The concert will be held in the Church of Saints Stephen and John on Wednesday, April 3rd at 8pm. Tickets are…

Over €3.9m for Kerry Projects Under 2024 Community Recognition Fund 

Over €3.9m for Kerry Projects Under 2024 Community Recognition Fund 

Minister for Education and Kerry T.D, Norma Foley, has welcomed €3,946,095 in funding for Kerry County Council under the Community Recognition Fund 2024. The Community Recognition Fund was first introduced last year to recognise the huge efforts made by communities in welcoming and supporting people coming to Ireland. Through the 2023 allocation, funding of €50…

Registration Open Now for Kerry’s Annual County Clean Up

Registration Open Now for Kerry’s Annual County Clean Up

The 12th annual County Clean Up will take place across the county on Saturday, April 6th and voluntary organisations and individuals across Kerry are invited to get involved in one of the biggest community events of the year in the county. The County Clean-Up takes place with the support of KWD Recycling and Kerry County…

Spring Darts League Ready to Launch on March 22nd.

Spring Darts League Ready to Launch on March 22nd.

Dart players from this and neighbouring parishes will be delighted to know that they will have the opportunity to play their sport in a competitive environment in the Castleisland area from next week on. Run in a league format it will be played over 12 weeks starting on March 22nd in Browne’s Bar. “For this…