Councillor Bobby O’Connell announced with pleasure that the full ‘Christmas Bonus’ will be paid to social welfare recipients in Kerry on the week beginning December 7th. “This year, due to the challenges of COVID-19, the Christmas bonus will also be paid to recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. Confirmed by Minister Humphreys “This was confirmed…
Cllr. Bobby O’Connell dropped a note and a photograph to let us know that the bad section of footpath at Castle View on the Cordal Road is being repaired. “I have been campaigning for this since 2017 submitting notices of motion during that time,” said Cllr. O’Connell. “It is one of the most frequently used…
The next meeting of the members of the Municipal District of Castleisland / Corca Dhuibhne will be held today Thursday, November 19th at 10am via MS Teams to consider the under mentioned items. Ceantar Bardas Oileán Chiarraí – Corca Dhuibhne / Municipal District of Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Notices of Motion 1. Cllr. Michael O’Shea: To ask…
The Community Enhancement Programme (CEP) Round 2, which is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development, has provided €155,358 for projects in Kerry in 2020. The grants have been welcomed in messages to The Maine Valley Post by Cllr. Fionnán Fitzgerald, Cllr. Jackie Healy Rae and Cllr. Bobby O’Connell in that order. Grant applications were…
Even if the town of Castleisland itself has slipped off its ‘Gateway to Kerry’ status in recent years, its roundabouts have taken the associated caseload and volumes of traffic. The late Garda Eugene Leonard and rugby players and Currow natives Moss Keane, RIP and Mick Galwey are all honoured at a junction each from Killarney…
The next meeting of the members of the Municipal District of Castleisland/Corca Dhuibhne will be held in the Carnegie Building, Castleisland on this Wednesday, September 16th at 10am to consider the under mentioned items. The confirmation of the following minutes from the ordinary meeting of the members of the Municipal District of Castleisland & Corca…
There has been a broad welcome here in Castleisland for the announcement that €40,000 – yes that’s forty thousand Euro – has been made available in the first costly blow to provide a safe pedestrian passage inside the old Barrack Street Bridge. The €40,000 is for a feasibility study and design only of the pedestrian…
The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD has just announced the first towns and villages to benefit from the new July Stimulus Package of COVID-19 supports. The fact that Castleisland got €25,000 and is among those included the first tranche of the support scheme has been welcomed locally by: Cllr. Bobby O’Connell,…
The next meeting of the members of the Municipal District of Castleisland/Corca Dhuibhne will be held in the Pobalscoil Corca Dhuibhne today July 15th. at 10am The notices of motion under several different headings include the following relevant to the general Castleisland area. Among his busy list of submissions, Cllr. Fionnán Fitzgerald asks if Kerry…
Cllr. Seamus Cosaí Fitzgerald has been elected cathaoirleach of the Castleisland-Corca Dhuibhne Municipal District. The annual meeting of the municipal district was held today at Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne in Dingle. Cllr Fitzgerald (Fine Gael) is a former Mayor of Kerry and was first elected to Kerry County Council in 1999. One Fitz to Another He…
