Castleisland Day Care Centre and local primary schools have come up with an innovative but deeply traditional way of staying in touch during this pandemic and in particular in the lead up to Christmas. Primary school children from Scoil Mhuire gan Smal and Gaelscoil Aogáín have been busy over the past few weeks making Christmas…
Comhairle na dTuismitheoirí Gaelscoil Aogáin will hold a raffle for a mála mór of valuable prizes on December 8th and the members are busily promoting the event at present. The parents council and the school have decided that they would like to donate the proceeds from the raffle to Pieta House and to the Palliative…
This is a photograph which surely belongs in the ‘Ah Boys’ category for its apparent lack of consultation and planning. The raft of recent work on College Road’s water supply line here in Castleisland is a credit to those who carried it out not to mention the relief to those who waited for it to…
It is highly unlikely that Izaak Walton ever fished the Nuns’ Pool on the River Maine here in Castleisland. However, the great environmentalist and father figure of angling as we know it would have been proud to find that his teachings are still doing the rounds almost three-and-a-half centuries after his death in December 1683.…
The annual St Anne’s National School Basketball Blitz took place on Sunday in Farranfore. Castleisland Boys’ National School Senior team was drawn against St Anne’s Bulls in the first game. The whole team from Naomh Chárthaigh took to the floor and put in a great performance to beat ‘The Bulls’ on a score line of…
On this Wednesday night, November 15th Castleisland will feature on a new TG4 programme ‘Gléasta chun Féasta.’ The programme takes a look at a special day in the life of someone who lives their life through Gaeilge. Past Pupil Siobhán Ní Lioncháin is a past pupil of Gaelscoil Aogáin who was taught by her principal…
Ryan Dennehy on Kerry U-14 Primary School Team The honours continue for Cordal and Cordal GAA Club in 2017. Ryan Dennehy from Ardmona, Cordal pulled on the Kerry jersey for the first time, to represent his school, Gaelscoil Aogáin and Cordal GAA Club. Ryan played in the Kerry Primary Schools’ Game at half-time in Cusack…
Cllr. Bobby O’Connell believes that the school-time traffic crux at College Road can be solved by a greater presence of a traffic warden at crucial times; the demolition and moving back of the front wall of Gaelscoil Aogáin; the creation of a drop-off point for pupils and a strictly enforced no parking area at the…
Local history will show that the Sliabh Luachra Chess and Draughts Club was established at Gaelscoil Aogain on this Friday night, January 13th between 7pm and 8.45pm. Membership is open to all. Or, as organiser and chess player, Willie Reidy suggested: “We will welcome kings, queens and rook-ies you won’t have to pawn your castle…
“Bhain na páistí an-taitneamh as lucht TG4 agus na ceamaraí ag dul timpeall an scoil roimh an Nollaig seo caite. Ba mhór an ocáid don scoil féachaint agus canadh le ‘Seo Linn’. Is múinteóirí bunscoile triúr díobh agus is Gaeilge ar fad a bhí á labhairt ar fad acu,” – arsa priomh ide Gaelscoil Aogáin,…
