St. Patrick’s Secondary School senior football team and management are currently celebrating capturing the title of Moynihan Cup Champions! The team took on St Michael’s Listowel in the Kerry Final at Kerins O’Rahillys GAA grounds on Wednesday, October 26th. During the enthralling encounter both sides acquitted themselves well with some fine flowing football. The score…
On Saturday night August 27th a wonderful occasion was held in the River Island Hotel for the Desmonds men of the 1971 North Kerry League winning team. Club PRO Eilish O’Leary sent the following report: The 50th anniversary, albeit one year late due to Covid, honored the team’s achievements from November 7th 1971 on a…
In this year of ten bank holidays there is, like in the run up to all such long weekends, a longing for fine weather to last over those few precious days. The group I met outside O’Connor’s Bar in Knocknagoshel on Wednesday evening were setting the scene for the weekend and ushering in many like…
I was wandering away in through file-land recently and some of the negatives from one of the first batches of photographs I took with a new 35mm camera suggested themselves to me. One evening during the summer of 1981 I was heading off up Pound Road on a camera testing mission when I heard voices…
John O’Connor, a second year student at St Patrick’s Secondary School, Castleisland has had another successful year in national colleges track and field competitions. Five Golds in 2018 Last year John, a mamber of An Ríocht AC won a total of five gold medals in the 60m and 100m junior boys grade as a first…
St. Patrick’s Secondary School Castleisland emerged victorious over Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí in the Kerry Post Primary Schools’ Brendan O’Shea Cup final played on Thursday in an immaculate Austin Stack Park. St. Patrick’s Castleisland 6-10 – Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí 3-8 Both schools entered this final with confidence after good victories in the previous rounds. Scoreboard Ticking It was St.…
The U-15 Soccer team from St. Patrick’s Secondary School, Castleisland has got off to a great start in the Munster Soccer Cup. The campaign kicked off last week with their first game against Gael Choláiste Luimnigh. Played in Ballyneety, Limerick, St. Patrick’s won this game on a 6 – 2 score line. Goal scorers were:…
U-16s Clinch East Kerry Title Kilcummin was the venue for the East Kerry Championship Division 3 final between Currow and Fossa on Sunday. By PRO, Con Enright Currow lead at half time on a score of Currow 2-9 to Fossa 2-3. In the second half, which could have gone either, way Currow got a last…
Last May, An Ríocht AC athlete and first year student at St. Patrick’s Boys’ Secondary School, John O’Connor had accumulated a haul of four prestigious gold medals. John had won gold in the minor boys 100m and 200m in the North Munster Athletics Track and Field Championships that month. Track and Field The Castleisland teenager…
Cara Credit Union has announced that it is replacing its €2 Saving Stamps and machines with an E Stamp Balance now available on every members account. “Our €2 Saving Stamps and machines are no longer compliant with Anti Money Laundering Regulation,” said Pa Laide, Cara Credit Union CEO. Anti Money Laundering “Guidance issued by the…
