Tidy Towns Delighted with Island Strip Paving Revamp

Tidy Towns Delighted with Island Strip Paving Revamp

Castleisland Tidy Tidy Towns Committee members brought the increasingly dangerous state of the paving bricks on Main Street’s centre islands to the attention of Kerry County Council recently. The surface had become uneven and dangerously slippery in places. Remedial Work Needed Local Kerry County Council engineer, Brendan Mulhern was approached and asked if the council…

Exhibition On Centenary of First Dáil Opened at County Library

Exhibition On Centenary of First Dáil Opened at County Library

Relatives of the four Kerry men who were elected MPs a century ago this week and who went on to sit as members of the First Dáil recounted the stories of their ancestors at the official opening, on Saturday at Tralee Library, of a new exhibition to mark the centenary of the 1918 general election…

Still In The Dreaming Launched at Muckross House

Still In The Dreaming Launched at Muckross House

Muckross House was the beautiful venue for the recent launch of a stunning new book Still In The Dreaming. Leas-Cathaoirleach Cllr. John Joe Culloty launched the book while praising the quality of the poems and the dedication of the writers to their craft. Writer in Residence Last June a call-out for submissions to Kerry County…

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

Graveyard Flooding on the Agenda for Killarney MD Meeting

There are people in Castleisland keeping a hawk like watch on this Wednesday’s meeting of councillors and officials of Killarney Municipal District in Rathmore. There are many motions and questions down for discussion but only two matter to the watchers here. Motions number 13 and 20 have been lodged by Cllr. Bobby O’Connell and numbers…

Castleisland Questions at Today’s Municipal Meeting

Castleisland Questions at Today’s Municipal Meeting

A meeting of members of the Municipal District of Killarney will take place at 10am this Wednesday morning, June 7th. 2017 in Killarney Town Hall. There is a list of councillors’ questions from here to Tuesday week so I’ve selected the ones with the most relevance to the area here and its neighbourhood. The councillors…

Local Issues Seeking Answers at Killarney M.D. Meeting

Local Issues Seeking Answers at Killarney M.D. Meeting

The next meeting of the members of the Killarney Municipal District will be held in the Town Hall in Killarney on Wednesday, April 5th 2017 at 10am. Among the items which will come under consideration are these questions concerning issues in Castleisland, Currow and Scartaglin among other areas. List of Concerns High on the list…

Michael Mulcahy Returns to Kerry with Schools Drama Classes

Michael Mulcahy Returns to Kerry with Schools Drama Classes

Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, a Dublin based playwright and actor from Kerry, has been travelling to Kerry every week since September to facilitate drama classes with second level schools in the East Kerry area. He has worked with students in Castleisland Community College, St Patrick’s and Presentation Secondary Schools in Castleisland as well as in Rathmore…

Walkers’ Popular Path Getting a Makeover

Walkers’ Popular Path Getting a Makeover

You can Google it ’til the cows come home but you’ll find no scientific analysis as to why people who live in the top of the town, here in Castleisland, walk the Black Road clockwise and people from the bottom do so anti-clockwise. There will be exceptions of course – but they are very odd…

Christmas Cheer to Abound in Farranfore on Sunday, December 4th

Christmas Cheer to Abound in Farranfore on Sunday, December 4th

Farranfore will be full of Christmas cheer on Sunday, December 4th. The Farranfore Development Association is hosting its annual Family Christmas Fun Day in the GAA hall in Farranfore from 2pm. This will be preceded by the formal dedication ceremony of the Farranfore 1916 Memorial at 1pm. Richard Sherwood, Chairman of the Farranfore Development Association,…

The Brawl in the Hall – My God it was aptly Titled

The Brawl in the Hall – My God it was aptly Titled

By God was it aptly named – or what? The CastleIsland Desmonds GAA Club promoted Brawl in the Hall was all that and more. It will probably stand as the greatest and most memorable, single night event in Castleisland’s long and chequered history of such occasions. It had everything one could ask for. It promised…