The AGM of the Castleisland Branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation, earlier this year, heard that a total of €20,126.00 had been raised locally over the course 2016. This figure was transferred to the foundation and, as with all money collected for the foundation in Kerry, it is spent on services within the county. Importance…
It’s an enduringly sad and sorrowful story of the betrayal of a good man. It’s one that darkened the whole of Holy Week ever since the first, or certainly most celebrated, crucifixion over 2,000 years ago. Its dramatic story line and turns and twists in the telling is what grips us and draws us back…
The local branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation is preparing for the annual Good Friday Hospice Walk. Committee members have made a change to the route this year. It has been decided to go the popular route of heading out the Cordal road towards Tullig and around the Black Road. Branch Left at Garvey’s Walkers…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many…
Representatives of Castleisland Parish recently handed over €25,014.37 to Brosna Parish to ease the debt due to the renovation works done on their Parish Church some years ago. The money was raised by a collection taken up on the three churches of the parish: Castleisland, Cordal and Scartaglin. There was also a charity concert on…
At the recent AGM of the Castleisland Branch of Kerry Hospice Foundation members heard that a total of €20,126.00 had been raised locally over 2016. This figure was transferred to the foundation. Chairman, Jack Shanahan highlighted the importance of fundraising in the area. He encouraged members to get the word out that the branch would…
As the Operation Transformation programme keeps moving in on our health awareness levels and local editions of the television versions abound, businesses are putting shoulders to the proverbial wheel and are adding extra aspects this year. Jack Shanahan’s Haven Pharmacy door is right beside where the Garvey’s SuperValu, Saturday morning, weekly Walk and Talk starts…
A special Fund- raising weekend will take place on December 3rd to 5th 2016 in Castleisland parish to help reduce the debt in neighbouring Brosna Parish Church. The substantial debt arises from the renovations works done on the church in the 2008 /09 period. Monsignor Dan O’Riordan P.P. Castleisland said that the fundraising effort was…
For people who missed this year’s Hospice Coffee Morning, there is one last chance to attend and contribute on this Friday, September 23rd. Eileen O’Shea, in Dromroe, Currow will hold an event in her own house from 10am to 5pm. “This is Eileen’s first outing and we hope that she will have a very successful…
Members of Castleisland Graveyard Committee are organising a clean up on Tuesday evening, at 7pm at Maher’s side of Kilbannivane Cemetery. Everybody welcome. Anybody with a grave that needs tending and, for any reason, needs help, please contact Jack on 087 81 22 668. “We will do our best to assist. We are hoping to…
