News from The Fountain Just Keeps on Flowing

News from The Fountain Just Keeps on Flowing

Some time in the early morning of Sunday, November 24th last a car mounted the low concrete plinth surrounding The Fountain here in Castleisland and shattered the furniture and shook the cut limestone structure itself. Bits and pieces of a broken car grill and, more tragically, the shattered cast iron works of the fountain lay…

St. Patrick Smiles as Parade Spirit Couldn’t be Dampened

St. Patrick Smiles as Parade Spirit Couldn’t be Dampened

There was fake hair, fake tan, fake mustachios but the wind and the driving rain were real. So too was the colour and excitement and the sense of participation and community spirit in spite of everything thrown at it by the elements. A huge portion of the spectators at yesterday’s Castleisland St. Patrick’s Day Parade…