Minister of State for Diaspora Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan was on official duty in Castleisland on Friday at noon where he performed the official opening of Castleisland Garda Station. Minister Deenihan opened the station on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD. All the local top brass attended and guest of honour…
Three men, who have addresses in Castleisland and Tralee, have been detained at Killarney and Tralee Garda Stations following a number of burglaries in the Killarney area. Investigations are ongoing and gardaí are appealing for any information in relation to the suspicious movement of vehicles or persons in the Kilcummin and Scart Cross areas on…
Garda investigations are ongoing today into a break-in at the offices of Castleisland Co-Op Mart. The glass-strewn scene has been examined for evidence. Footage from two active, security cameras close to the breach is also being examined. Thieves broke through re-inforced glass to gain entry to the offices at around 1-30am this morning. The highly…
Gardai in Castleisland are appealing for help in their investigations with a couple of day-light attacks on cars in the locality during Easter week. The two incidents happened on Monday and Tuesday evenings of last week and in the Kilbannivane Cemetery area. In both cases cars were parked outside the cemetery walls on the popular…
Maher’s side of Kilbanivane Cemetery made national headlines last January as it was continuously under water during the unusually heavy rainfalls of that time. It has crept back on to the agenda locally over the past week or so after items of ‘grave furniture’ were either broken, misplaced within the walls or dumped out over…
Plant thieves, who knew exactly what they were looking for, have hit Castleisland Tidy Towns Committee hard last weekend. In a lowdown act of criminal and environmental vandalism and sheer selfishness, the thieves struck the recently planted project on the Garda Eugene Leonard Memorial Roundabout on the Killarney Road outside Castleisland and stole only the most…
A scam alert – the third in as many weeks in the general locality – has been sounded by gardaí after an unsuspecting member of the public was duped by a conman this Monday afternoon. Gardaí say the nasty incident occurred in the Scartaglin area between 5pm and 6pm this evening. The thief posed as a local…
You’ll see, further down this page, a couple of photographs of an abandoned and vandalised car in the yard of Garvey’s SuperValu car park from last week. You can read that it was under investigation at the local Garda station. This week, another damaged vehicle has ‘appeared’ and this time in the car-park of the local…
Gardaí in the Castleisland area are still looking for information on the car which appeared in Garvey’s SuperValu Car Park earlier this week. It’s a Waterford registered, Silver coloured Volkswagen Passat and it has taken a severe beating – either in the car-park or just before it was dumped there. Hatchet Attack Its windscreen is…
