After breaking with its traditional Kilbanivane / Churchtown route last year, the annual Good Friday Hospice Walk is introducing a new starting point again this year. Off street, off road starting points for events like this are now all the go on health and safety grounds. Away from Passing Traffic Grounds where cars can be…
For the second, successive year, Jerome Stack has gone from the frying pan to the fire in terms of major local productions. He has just put the 31st Kerry Drama Festival behind him and now he’s into the production of Castleisland’s Good Friday Passion Play. Appeal for Volunteers On that note, Jerome is putting out…
Tuesday night’s Christmas Concert at the Church of Saints Stephen and John here in Castleisland proved one of the outstanding events of the year. Gathering support from this and its neighbouring parishes, that support packed the provided seating areas from the altar all the way down to the door and up to the ordinary day…
Castleisland’s once annual Hospice Ball will make a grand return to the local scene at the River Island Hotel on the Saturday night of November 25th. Tickets are going well but there are still some left and they can be got from any of the local branch members. For several years the local fund-raising branch…
Though they’re still counting the total from their big fundraising day, Castleisland Hospice fundraising branch members are thrilled with the response to this year’s annual coffee morning which was held on Thursday from 9am to 5pm. Huge crowds turned out at both Jack Shanahan’s coffee space in Garvey’s SuperValu and at the new town venue…
Lots of local people did lots of things – strange things too – at The Market House in the course of its several hundred years of trading at the bottom of the town. I bet you that no generation of Islanders ever gathered within its deeply historic walls – there since 1747 – to drink…
A Castleisland woman who advises some of the world’s leading health organisations has been chosen as the 2017 Person of the Year by the Kerry Association London. Report: The Irish Post Newspaper Liz Shanahan – like so many other Irish emigrants – arrived in Britain in the mid-eighties on the Slattery’s Bus. The Castleisland native,…
‘Mark Saturday, November 25th into your Diary.’ That’s the message coming from the Castleisland fundraising branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation. They have just announced the return of the popular Castleisland Hospice Dinner Dance. Taking a Break For several years the local group organised a Black & White Ball before taking a break for a…
Today, Friday, June 9th. is the annual Hospice Sunflower Day in Castleisland and volunteers will be collecting in the area. All of the funds collected go directly to the Kerry Hospice Foundation. The Suimhneas Centre, located at Kerry University Hospital, is described as ‘a fantastic facility’ and the in-patients unit which is currently under construction…
A huge attendance from this and neighbouring parishes provided Monsignor Dan O’Riordan, director, Jerome Stack, the Castleisland Parish Choir and the actors with the kind of endorsement their well rehearsed efforts deserved. The Passion and Death of Christ was staged around the altar area of the Church of Saints Stephen and John with an 8pm…
